The Rise Of Us

Chapter 62: I'm Sorry

"When was the last time you saw him?" Telpher questions while him and Max walk diligently through the halls side by side, the alarms going off in the facility.

"Before we went to sleep my daughter woke up and didn't see him we checked the bathrooms he isn't in there either." Max explains.

"Team give me something here!" Telpher exclaims over the radio.

"We don't know sir we don't see him!"

Amberlee looks up when Telpher and Max make their way inside of the room. "Did you all find him?!" She questions.

"Sir!" One of the officers say. "You might want to see this."

All of them follow Telpher to the conference room, all of them flooding inside of the room. "We saw this on cameras."

Amberlee's eyes widen when she sees Ryder stand in front of the two security guards, them all talking to each other and the guards looking at him for a moment before they scan the keycard to open the door, one of the security guards leaving out with him. "They helped him leave?!"

"That's Banker. His brother got injured during the mission." Telpher says. "I'm pretty sure Ryder used that for a ticket out."

"Then you have to find him!" Amberlee cries. "You have to if he goes there he dies you have to find him!"

"I'll do everything I can." Telpher mentions before he leaves out of the conference room.

Amberlee sobs out, her hugging herself tighter while shaking her head, Lucas pulling her in to hug her. She realizes all of the things he was saying to her, all of the promises all of the sayings all of it...even the gentleness he was giving her. All of it...

Was goodbye.

He was telling her goodbye and she realizes that now, she was just to blinded by his affection to notice it at the moment. That makes her knees give out, her crying out loudly while everyone huddle around her, everyone just trying to comfort her right now.

She just feels all of the memories of the car factory wash over in her head, how Ryder was laying limp on the ground severely beaten with two gunshots. She cannot go through that again, she cannot go through not knowing if he is dead or alive or if he will even make it in this situation. She cannot take it. She just feels her heart beginning to sink more and more. Her tears cloud her vision so heavily and her sobs are so hard to where she can barely even breathe.

All of the constant hugs and words of comfort do nothing, they do absolutely nothing for her. The only one that can make her feel better in this situation is Ryder himself. Him telling her that everything is okay and her actually able to see him alive, that is the only thing that can make her calm down. She needs to know if he is alive, and right now...

She doesn't know, just like last time.

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Ryder peeps his head over the graffitied wall, him being dressed in all black, a black hoodie and black sweatpants and his black combat boots. He puts on his hood over his head, him putting his hands in his pockets as he quickly walks through the ghost town it seems like, trash being littered all around the sidewalk area and it heavily graffitied more than he even remembers.

He stops in his tracks when he looks at the small little house he used to live in, the house he grew up in, it having yellow crime tape all around it. He swallows a little, him taking a deep little breath before he goes to walk away, him making his way to a dark AlleyWay.

From there he spots the ladder, him going to jump up to latch onto it, him beginning to climb it. After he does he makes his way to the door at the end of the rooftop, them slowly opening the door and closing it behind him.