Racing and the Ruins

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Author's note: So after rereading last chapter I decided to change what Braylon said to fit her character more. So now it says "fuck off" instead of "fuck me" because Braylon is a bad bitch 

"I-I want you to fuck off!" I yell the last part at him and push him off of him, Ryker has a hard glare on his face as I laugh at him. 

"Oh my god, that was so perfect" I say calming down, Ryker stands up and towers over me making me quiet. He looks mad, madder than I have ever seen. I guess the blue balls were getting to his head.

"I'm about done with your games" He grounds out through his teeth, anger dripping off his words.

"Well that sucks doesn't it? Because I tried to leave, but you stopped me" I retort, his eyes become darker with anger and his jaw clenches tighter than I have ever seen.

"Because it's my fucking job to keep you safe." He almost shouts, I remain in spot even though I want to get away from the ticking time bomb that is Ryker.

"Get over yourself then" I fake smile at him, a growl sounds deep from in his throat as he stares at me. My 'innocent' face stays on as I watch him carefully.

He pushes past me and out the door, making sure to loudly slam it. 

What a man child

A small pit formed in my stomach, but the joy of what was in my hand overpowered it. I smile and look down at my car keys I slipped out of Ryker's pocket while he was kissing my neck. With a big smile on my face I hide them in my nightstand, under a couple of books. He will never look there. I look around the empty apartment and decide to watch a movie while I wait for Ryker get over himself.

I get myself a couple of snacks, the covers off the bed, and put on a random movie. 

***

My eyes slowly open to a dark apartment, the only light from the TV. I look over at the bed and see Ryker laying across it, taking up the whole thing. With a grunt I get up and drag the blankets with me to the bed. I toss them on top of him and crawl under them.

His eyes flutter open and look at me with confusion.

"I'm sorry, I crossed the line" I whisper, he nods and moves his arm off my pillow, then turns away from me. 

I rolled onto my back and look at the ceiling. What I did was kinda cruel, but it was funny. And now I have my keys, so that's nice.

The rest of the night I couldn't sleep, did I take it too far this time? Normally after I piss off Ryker he is fine within an hour, but I don't think I'm going to get off that easy this time.

I watch the sun raise through the window as I pick at my nails and occasional look over at Ryker sleeping. Finally he wakes up and just stares at me, I try to keep look anywhere but at him but fail.

"You didn't sleep" He states in a raspy morning voice, I nod my head and look back at nails. Ryker sits up and runs a hand through his messy hair.

"Be ready in 10 minutes, we're going somewhere" He says getting up and walking into the bathroom, I hear the shower turn on and go to the closet. After he walks out in a towel I go into the bathroom to brush my teeth and attempt to fix my hair which ends up in a messy bun.

I walk out and Ryker goes over to my nightstand, grabbing my books and taking out the car keys. My jaw drops to the floor as I watch him, he gives me a knowing smirk and walks to the door. I follow him with my jaw still on the floor. We get to the car and he acts like what just happened, didn't happen.

"But... how did you know they were there?" I ask in disbelief.

"When I left I realized the keys magically left my pocket, I was too pissed to go back and I had a feeling you would hide them there" He says pulling onto the road. For fucks sake, this man can't tell when I'm kidding or not, but has the full ability to know where I hide things without even needing a hint. 

***

Ryker pulls in an overgrown parking lot surrounded by the forest.

"Ok, I know I went to far yesterday, but I don't think its 'murder in the woods' worthy" I say getting out of the car. Ryker laughs and rounds the car.

"I did contemplate your murder, but that is not why we are here, Come on" He turns around and starts walking into the woods, I sigh and run after him.

We walk for about 10 minutes through the dense forest until we get to a clearing, in the middle sits a big house that looks as if it had been burned. I give Ryker a weird look and he just continues walking closer to it.

He walks into the house and reappears on the second level where there is no roof and probably has a clear view of everything. I walked into the house and see almost everything is rotted and destroyed, I go up the questionable stairs and met Ryker at the top.

The view is beautiful, even in the late morning.

"How did you find this place?" I ask looking around, Ryker sighs and puts his hands in his shorts.

"When I was about 13, me and couple friends were exploring the woods when we found it" He answers, I nod and walk into what seems used to be a bedroom. 

We both stay quiet and explore the house for awhile, but Ryker complained about being hungry so we went back to the car to go get food. The silence starts to become awkward as Ryker keeps the radio off for some ungodly reason.

"I miss racing" I blurt out, Ryker looks over at me and sighs. "Me too"

"Why don't we race here? There has to be some street racing that happens here" I say looking out onto the empty roads.

"I'll look into it, but no promises" He says with a small smile, I return the smile and watch the world pass as we drive down the road.

Ryker finds a small sketchy diner before we go back to the apartment. Once I enter the studio I flop onto the couch and put on a movie, Ryker sits next to me doing something on his computer. After much adjusting I find myself laying my head on Ryker's lap, he softly chuckles and sets the computer down then draws random shapes onto my back.

It was strange not fighting with him, after yesterday I think there was I silent agreement to just try and get along platonically.

We both know with the situation at hand, us crossing the sex line will mean Ryker not being on full alert when needed. And my dad losing his shit if something does happen due to it, maybe when this is all over we can go there. But I don't it will after all the shit I have pulled. Because if we are being honest, I'm an absolute asshole.

"What do you want for dinner?" Ryker asks

"Well I know I would rather suck on Mike Pence's toe than eat another salad. So get chinese food delivered" I answer rolling onto my back to look at him. 

He smiles and shakes his head before calling to order the food.

The rest of the night we eat our food and predict what will happen in the movies we watch.

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This chapter was kinda shit, but whatever next chapter will be better. Thanks for reading!