Roommates

Chapter 34

<<Ryder>>

"Stell you have to believe us-" Rancid and Charlie scrambled at my open apartment door.

"What happened in here?" Rancid asked. They entered the apartment apprehensively while taking in the trashed looking room.

Being barely able to speak. I just told them what the note Stell had left for me contained.

Charlie was listening intently while I spoke, boiling with anger, frustrated, sad, and annoyed.

"Sh*t" Rancid said.

"It's whatever"

"No it's not whatever! How can you say that!! It's Stell we're talking about here!" Charlie voiced out in annoyance.

"Any luck finding any- what happened in here?" Sage arrived as well, and Rancid updated him on the ordeal.

Two hours later:

The room was back as it was before my tantrum happened. Sage, Rancid, Charlie and I cleaned it up and disposed all the broken stuff. All in all it was in good shape.

I had grew calmer and less angry by the time we finished everything and I could actually think.

I was getting Stell back.

"Yeah I got nothing"

"Me neither"

"Yeah same"

"She obviously doesn't want to be found"

"It's not her call. I swear to god that when I see her I'm going to skin her alive" Rancid said.

"I mean come on where could she be? She doesn't have anywhere to go except for her dad's place right?"

That made sense. "Yeah. Yeah of course! She has to be there" I shot up and went to that envelope she left $1000 in.

I counted five hundred bills and gave them to Charlie. "Get the proof that the DNA test is fake. Maybe it'll cool her down"

"Sage, can you stick around in case Stell shows up?"

"Yeah of course"

"Sh*t wait. Check that dorm room she used to room in first. It's Block B room 208"

"On it" Sage said, rushing out of the room.

I decided to head out to his hometown anyway. I had no time to waste. And if Stell was actually in the dorm with that Gina Sage would call me and I'd head back.

I got a call from Sage right before I reached the highway of the interstate. I parked my car to the right and took the call.

He said that she wasn't there and her previous roommate hasn't seen her since she left.

I stepped down the ped as hard as I could, forgetting to check the mirrors if any cars were driving by.

Before I could take off up the highway, I felt my car shake as if it was hit by shock waves.

Time slowed down but at the same time it was only an instant.

You could hear the glass crashing and the airbag going off. My body shook and slammed and then it was nothing. I wasn't worried about Stell anymore.

<<Sage>>

We could do nothing but wait, and waiting was something I'm not good at.

Charlie was here with me, bawling her eyes out with weeping and silent crying. No matter how much Rancid tried to comfort her, she kept crying harder and harder. She had always been the sensitive friend.

The doctors were inside with him, and they didn't seem like they were coming out anytime soon.

We didn't know anything about his condition at all. No one told us anything. One nursed asked if his parents are here, which they weren't. If I knew Ryder's parents well, they'd be too shaken to even come here. They rather have him dead than pay hospital bills. So my guess: They weren't coming.

I called Stell over fifty times. I started to believe that she threw her phone in some ditch.

I tried Rouge's phone, but it goes straight to voicemail. I was craving any sign from hunter, a text, a call... anything. But I was unlucky.

I was shaking with panic. My best friend is missing and no one knows anything about him, while my other best friend is between life and death, that's if I was being optimistic.

Halfway through my voicemail to Rouge, I started crying. "I really need you right now, like I'm not a needy person but I don't know what to do at all. I can't get ahold of your sister and we don't know if Ryder is okay, and not even his parents are here and I just really need some help."

<<Lisa>>

"Good afternoon, Chantal. Is Dr. Grayson in the ER?" I asked the receptionist for my husband. He's usually at the neurology ward, but he wasn't so my guess was that something came up in the ER.

"Afternoon, Dr. Lisa. Yes he is. There was a car accident around Pendrive, Rivertown and they transfered the patient here." Chantal replied dryly, as if that sh*t happens everyday. Actually to think about it, it probably happens more often than I thought.

"Oh dear!" I ran as fast as my heels let me.

I asked a few nurses in the ER and they told me that the patient is called Ryder Rowan, and that he resides in Hilltown, which oddly sounded too familiar, but I couldn't put a finger on it. However, when I saw the people waiting outside for him, I realized I definitely know him from somewhere.

"Professor Lisa? What are you doing here?" the sad crying man recognized me.

"Hi, yes. I don't mean to sound rude but I know I've seen you before?"

"I'm Sage, Stell's friend. We went to-"

"Oh yes, yes I remember you. Wait!" it was then that I remembered that Ryder Rowan is Stell's love interest. "Is that her boyfriend there?" I asked and realized I shouldn't ask that because...

"Yes" Sage said and broke down to tears.

... that would happen.

I'm a psychiatrist, I know these things. Yet I say them anyway. YET I yell at my son for doing the same thing.

Not the point.

"I'll see what I can do" I patted Sage on his shoulder and clicked my heels towards the operation room.

The boy looked in bad shape. Liam was going over some brain scans and I had a small concise chat with him.

Sage and his friends were around me the moment I emerged from the OR.

I didn't know how to tell them.

So I lied.

I told them that they'll still don't know his situation yet. I didn't want to freak them out even more.

But deep down I hated it. I hated that I was lying to them. He wasn't okay in anyway or form and when my husband Liam, the most optimistic doctor, say's it's really bad, then it's really really bad.

I thought of Stell.

I didn't agree with her decision of leaving all her friends and life, but as her psychiatrist, I had to fake things easy and go along with her.

I had to do anything to make her keep taking her medication and checking in with me.

I didn't want that girl to go downhill and I didn't want her to take matters in her own hands because she was unstable. But I couldn't not tell her.

So back in my office, I dialed the number Stell gave me.

"Lisa? Is everything alright?"

More soon xxx...