A Step Closer to Love

“Ryder, did Kieran come running to you?” Aurora asked with a taunting tone over the line.

“Aurora what you are doing is wrong and can give you jail time,” Ryder said calmly.

“Oh please, you think I haven’t thought of that before I decided to do this?” she scoffed and her tone told him that she thought he sounded stupid for asking her that question. “But now that you mention it I feel like I need to leave a scar on her, if I would be going to jail I should at least make it worth it” she added.

Ryder was glad that his phone was not on speakerphone, Kieran would lose it as he was the one driving them. “Aurora” Ryder let out breathlessly.

Aurora had never shown any of the tendencies she was displaying so it was hard to say how far she would go. “Doing this won’t make Kieran come to you” Ryder added. Threatening and screaming at her would not solve the problem at hand. It might even anger her more to do something she was not planning to do in the first place.

“Oh no problem, I do not mind him not coming to me” she said and immediately did not make sense to Ryder again. Was her goal not to get Kieran on her side? Was her reason for doing this so baseless? Was this fun for her?Nôvel/Dr(a)ma.Org - Content owner.

“Then why are you doing this?” Ryder asked ensuring that his confusion was evident in his tone.

“If I can not have him why does anyone deserve to have him?” she asked and she felt tears drop from her eyes. “I have spent the last few years trying to be with him, I have comforted him when he felt sad, I have drank with him and taken so much care of him” she continued.

The line fell silent as Ryder had no answer to what she was saying. She had poured her entire existence into the life of Kieran but he had continually told her how wrong it was it always felt like he was nagging and talking for no reason all the time.

“His mom approved of me so why is he doing this to me?” she screamed startling him.

“Arabella? I would have had no problem with her if she was not associated with him. She is such a sweet soul but she dared to go ahead and fall in love with him? Not on my watch” she finished and took a deep breath to steady herself.

“How is one supposed to control the heart?” Ryder muttered. “You were never able to control and stop your heart from loving him after all these years and you still expect someone else to change?”

“How could not even look at me once?” she sobbed.

“I understand, but you don’t want to do this” Ryder said trying to drive it to her telling them where she was. They needed to find her and rescue Arabella before it was too late.

“I would not be telling you where we are, if you are that curious find us yourself,” she said before Ryder could say anything. The line beeped dead causing him to sit there in confusion watching the road before them.

“What happened?” Kieran asked as he stopped at the exit with his light going on and off. it was already getting so late and now he was panicking so much he knew it was time to let everyone know what was going on. He had believed that he would have been able to take care of the situation without having to involve anybody else but Aurora seemed good at this kind of game it was hard to believe this was her first time.

“She cut off the call and I fear for the things she might do to Arabella” Ryder said before adding “I do not mean to create fear but she was saying so many crazy things it was difficult to ignore” he added.

“Where could she be?” Kieran asked slamming his fist on the steering wheel in annoyance. He wished Arabella had listened to him and stayed away from her, he could not even blame her when he wanted to because she was tricked into going there in the first place. “She needs to use her meds” Kieran whispered before lifting his head and meeting Ryder’s eyes which were constant on him.

“What do we do?” Kieran continued in a murmur before closing his eyes as though that would let him think better.

“Let me try calling Kim, maybe she knows something about this,” Ryder said tapping away on his phone. Kieran under normal circumstances would have asked why Ryder had her number but he was desperate all those worries went away in a heartbeat.

Rydrr explained the situation to Kim as soon as she picked and she promised to get back to them after trying her best to find something out. She had stayed friends with Aurora but she had only used her to get things for herself. She had lied at a point that she was in a relationship with Kieran and even though Kim did not know what to do with the information she was happy for her friend that she finally picked up her mess after a long time.

Kimberly had brutally broken up with Kieran when Aurota had constantly made it a habit to be all in their business. As much as she loved Kieran she could not stand Aurora. Not wanting to be that girl who abandons her friends because of a man she abandoned her relationship instead. Hearing what she was doing now and the situation she had forcefully put her it was obvious that Aurora had always been the problem.

“I have got her location but you have to let me come with you” Kim said after a long while. Ryder had convinced Kieran to let them wait it out and wait on Kim and she had been able to get the place.

They drove by her house even though they had to make a U-turn in the middle of the street. They picked her up and she began directing them to the place Aurora had told her.

“How did you get this information from her?” Ryder asked curious as to how she was able to get through to her.

“I just asked her to let us meet for dinner and she went on and on about her achievement. The information basically fell into my laps” Kim said in a bragging tone. She deserved to brag anyway.

“Thank you” Kieran said and those were his first words since she got into the car. He was looking at her from the mirror with a sad expression on her face.

“Buy me dinner to thank me when she is safe”

“I will”