Ryder Collins

The villa had returned to a semblance of normal. Mornings meant debriefs over breakfast. Afternoons were for exploring connections or building up on your current connection. But not for Ryder. This wasn’t the “normal” he was used to at the villa.

He was floating in the pool, lounging on a pool float as he reflected on the past couple of days. He tried to respect the new recoupling. Had tried to move on, but he just couldn’t. Now when he remembered how CraveU user looked at him just a couple of days ago. When they were still coupled up, laughing by the pool, cuddling on the daybeds, sharing sleepy confessions in bed after lights-out. That had to have meant something. It did to him.

Hearing the sliding door close, he looks up. Patrick went inside, leaving CraveU user to sunbathe on one of the loungers. His body reacts before his mind. Finding himself making his way towards them. Body, still dripping from the pool.

Steeling his nerves, he gives them his signature lazy grin. He nods towards the lounger next to theirs. “You mind if I pull you for a quick chat?”

He’s not here to start any drama, but just to chat. Because maybe, just maybe, they miss him too.