READY TO BE PLAYED SEASON 2 : CHAPTER 1 – THE END
Episode 9
💎Bailey Hadid💎
Katie sighed. “I just don’t want you to get in any more trouble, Bailey. You are my best friend and I’ll gladly choose you over Riley as well”.
I wanted to respond but realized Katie was staring at something behind me. I turned in shock to see Tyler standing there listening to us all this while.
“Huh?”. He let out a scoff. “You are Bailey?”.
I stepped backwards surprised to see him there. I glanced at Katie and she shrugs not knowing he was there too.
Tyler looks at me. “Bailey?”.
“What? No. I’m not Bailey”.
“But Katie just called you that”. He looks at Katie. “Babe, whats going on?”.
“Well this might not be a good time to say this but__”.
“No”. I say interrupting her.
“Isabella is Bailey”. She blurted out. “Thats the truth”.
“Seriously?”.
Tyler frowned at her. “She’s Bailey and I only find out now?”.
“Babe. Trust me, I could have told you but I only just found out days ago”.
“What the fuck!!”. I tapped my forehead frustratingly. “Way to go, Katie”.
“So you came back after all?”. Tyler asked me. “But why in a different identity?”.
“I wanted to surprise you guys”. I lied to him. “Now surprise!!”.
Katie sighed softly. “Bailey, just cut ut off”.
“Okay fine”. I breathed out. “I’m the same Bailey of high school four years ago and yeah, that nerd “.
“But how?”. Tyler glance at me. “I mean, no offense but you look hot now. Back in high school, you were just pretty but now you are gorgeous”.
I shrugged slightly. “I guess people do change”.
“But how?”. He continued. “So you were the one with this during this past week but we never caught a glimpse that it was you?”.
“Probably because the old Bailey would never dye her hair blond”. Katie spoke up.
“Or wear blue eyes contact”. I added. “Or flirt with guys shamelessly”.
“Well I almost fell for that flirting part tho”.
I chuckled at what Tyler said. “I know right, I was so damn good”.
“But why did you leave all Springfield all of a sudden? And why are you back all of a sudden?”.
“I missed you guy”.
“Bailey!!”. Katie glared at me. “Just stop it, tell him already. It won’t hurt”.
I sighed softly. “Well Tyler. I came back so I could make you guys lives so miserable”.
“What why?”.
I fiddled with my fingers. “What the five of you did back then sting me a lot. The idea of placing bets on girls as if they are toys is just so wrong”.
“Oh, that. Katie told me your scholarship was withdrawn because of that. I’m really sorry, if I had known__”.
“Its okay”. I say interrupting him. “You went out of the bet, didn’t you? Thats why you are not part of my revenge plan, you didn’t hurt me or try to hurt my feelings”.
He looked at me. “So you are here to make the four of them lives miserable?”.
“I might exclude Sean”. I shrugged. “I mean, yeah. He was kind of nice to me even if it was just for the bet”.
“Bailey, look, I know in one way or the other, my dumb friends and I hurt you. But don’t you think you should drop this?”.
“Thats what I’ve been trying to tell her”. Katie replied him exasperatedly.
I sighed. “Give me a reason why I should forget about all this”.
“Our lives are miserable already. I mean, look at Seven, he’s trying to forget the guilt that settles in his heart by going out with other girls”.
“Huh?”.
“He blamed himself for your disappearance four years ago”. Tyler added. “Seven went back to his lifestyle, always partying so to forget what he did”.
“And Sean buried himself in his studies and books”. Katie told me. “He felt that maybe they would be a better companion than his friends”.
I looked at them. “What about Ryder? What happened to him?”.
“He stopped talking to us”. Tyler replied. “I got to college one day and saw him as a different person. Well he was a bad boy in high school now its extreme”.
“He beat up Seven after you left”. Katie told me. “And then when we got in college, he got tattoos, started smoking and tinted his hair, he drifted away from us”.
I felt tears in my eyes. “What? He did all that because I left?”.
“He all that because you left without saying goodbye. You left when the both of you were in bad terms”.
“And what about you, Tyler?”. I asked. “I guess only you and Alvin didn’t change”.
He shrugged. “I just didn’t want to go into depression mode like Katie did, thats all”.
“Oh. And um, I need to go”.
“Wait”. Katie stopped me. “Where are you going to?”.
“To cry my eyes out probably because of the guilt that wants to eat me up right now”.
“Come on, bestie. Its not your fault”.
I glanced at Tyler. “Please promise me you won’t tell anyone one of them yet that its me”.
“Sure, yeah”.
“Thanks”.
I walked away from them and went back to the table at the food court. I grabbed my bag ignoring Riley and Alvin stares.
I slanged the bag over my shoulder and went off in the direction of my dorm. I got there and unlocked my door walking in.
I really need to see Ryder.
I closed the door and threw my bag on the bed taking off my clothes. I searched my bag for my glasses and a brown hair wig.
I sat on the bed as I wiped my moist eyes before taking off my contacts carefully, it all became blurry to me and I quickly put on my glasses.
I dropped my contacts in a safe place and then put on the wig covering my blonde hair.
I grabbed a hoodie out of my luggage and put it on wearing it. Then I wore some slack jeans as well with normal washed off dry sneakers.
I paused and looked at myself in the mirror seeing my old self, that Bailey. No more strawberry blonde hair, no icy blue eyes and I didn’t show off my flawless skin.
I tugged the hoodie over the jeans and sighed. Ryder won’t know its Isabella because she doesn’t wear these things, she wears things of couture.
I tucked the hoodie cap over my head and walked out of the dorm. I headed out to the parking lot wondering if I could see him.
I sighed and jogged along to the nearby aquarium. I stopped when I got there and saw him leaning on his motorcycle staring at the building.
I walked silently towards him and tapped him. He stiffened and looked back, then I removed the hoodie.
He paused staring at me, from my hair to my face to my feet. He looked surprised.
“Ryder”. I called tearfully in my real voice, not the Australia accented one.
He got off from his motorcycle. “Bailey?”.
“I’m sorry”. Tears ran down my cheeks and I attempt to wipe it off without removing my glasses.
He walked towards me slowly at first before pulling me into a tight hug. I smile hugging him back.
“I thought you would never come back”. He whispered hoarsely.
READY TO BE PLAYED SEASON 2 : CHAPTER 1 – THE END
Episode 10
💧Ryder Tatum💧
I got off from my motorcycle. “Bailey?”.
“I’m sorry”. Tears ran down her cheeks and she attempt to wipe it off without removing my glasses.
I paused staring at her. Bailey? I mean huh? How is she here? Back in Springfield?
I walked towards me slowly at first before pulling her into a tight hug. She hugged me back.
“I thought you would never come back”. I whispered hoarsely.
“I’m here now”.
I pull away staring at her. “You are here now? Are you not gonna leave like you did back then?”.
“I’m sorry”. She repeated. “I never had the intentions to hurt you”.
“Gosh!! Bailey”. I sighed. “I searched the whole town for you. I mean, I thought that you’ll__”.
“I’m sorry”. She cut me off as tears slides down her cheeks.
“Hey”. I wiped her tears with my thumbs. “I am the one who’s to say sorry, for not even telling you the whole truth”.
“Ryder, I … “. She paused. “I mean, you were only trying to look out for me but it was my choice not to listen to you”.
“Bailey, I didn’t want you to get hurt by him so thats why I tried to make you stay away from him”.
She nods silently picking on her fingers as I stare at her still surprised that she’s here.
“Are you back for real?”. I found myself asking her.
She looks up at me. “Ryder, I … “.
“Bailey, please don’t leave me again, I can’t bear the thought of you leaving”.
“Was it because of me that … ?”. She trails off staring at me. “That you changed?”.
“Don’t think of it that way. I just decided to try out a new thing”.
“By smoking? Having tattoos?”.
I arched my eyebrows looking surprised, I was totally befuddled by what she said.
“How did you know I smoke?”. I scoff. “You have been watching me, right?”.
“Ryder__”.
“I can’t believe you were here in this town all along spying on me and yet you didn’t care to bother to come meet me?”.
“I just__”.
“You what?”. I ran my hands through my hair nervously. “Bailey. I get that you still hate me a little but seriously? You’ve been in Springfield all this time and I didn’t know at all?”.
“Well now I’m telling you”.
I let out a light scoff. “Now you are telling me? Why now? So you liked watching me suffer all these years and yet you never had the time to show up?”.
“Ryder, I haven’t__”.
“Do you really hate me that much?”. I ask her feeling hurt.
“Ryder, I don’t hate you. I haven’t been in Springfield for four years. I just came back recently”. She breathes out. “I can’t hate you”.
I sigh and hug her again making sure to not let her go out of my sight. I made that one mistake once but never again.
“Ryder?”. She muttered after a while. ” … “.
“Yeah?”. I mumble still holding on to her.
“I, um, I need to go”. She tries to pull away from me. “I need to go back”.
I stepped backwards. “What the fuck are you saying?”.
“I really need to go”. She puts her hoodie back on whispering ‘sorry’.
“What the fuck!!”. I cussed angrily. “I just saw you after a long period of four years and you are just gonna go back? Just like that?”.
She sniffed back her tears. “I’m really sorry, Ryder. Even if I go now, I’m always around you, you don’t just know it yet”.
“Fuck all that shit!! Bailey, I want you to be around me right now”. I tell her holding her hand.
She tries to free herself from my grip. “But I need to go, Ryder, I promise I’ll come back to you”.
“I’m not believing any of that”. I pulled her close to me. “Bailey, just stay with me even if its just this once, just today, please”.
She paused not saying and I hugged her again sniffing in her scent. I really missed her so much all this while.
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READY TO BE PLAYED SEASON 2 : CHAPTER 1 – THE END
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💧Bailey Hadid💧
I wrapped my hands tight around him as I cry silently. I ran my hands through his hair feeling the need to.
Oh Gosh!! I missed him so much.
He pulled away and stared at me. “Wanna do anything me before you, um, leave?”.
“Ryder … “. I sighed softly. “Don’t make it sound that way”.
“There’s no nice way to put it, Bailey. I get it, you don’t wanna stay. You still haven’t yet forgiven the five of us for what we did”.
“Shhh”. I placed my fingers on his lips. “I don’t want to hear about that”.
“Like I said, lets do something fun. Like the both of us”.
I shrugged. “What do you want to do?”.
“Lets watch the sunset together. At least I’ll get to hold hands with you”.
“Ooh. Cheesy alert”.
I chuckled lightly but his face was void of emotions which made me wonder if I hurt him that bad.
He stretched his hand towards me silently and I placed my palm on his. He squeezed my palm softly and I smiled as he took me to his motorcycle.
I cringe a little. “Please don’t tell me we are riding on that”.
“Okay then, I won’t tell you”. He replied me amusedly.
“At least get me a helmet for safety so I won’t fall off”.
He stiffened immediately and I looked up at him surprised to find him looking stunned.
I arched my eyebrows. “Is something wrong?”.
“Do you have a twin?”. He blurts out.
“Huh? No, why?”.
“There is this new girl in college, Isabella Hadid”.
“Oh”. I mutter.
“She’s gorgeous and all that, she looks the opposite, I mean she’s not a nerd but she looks one of those bitch cheerleaders back in high school”.
Ouch!! Ryder, thanks for insulting me.
“And your point?”. I asked getting uneasy.
“Well she says the things that you rather say. I mean, like how am I going to put it? I see you in her, she’s just like you. She got your last name too”.
I shrugged. “Probably my lookalike”.
“No, I don’t__”.
“Ryder”. I said cutting him off. “Remember we have a sunset to go watch? I’d rather see it than hear you talk about a girl”.
A girl that is me. Weird, right?
He holds my hand. “Yeah sure. Lets go”.
I made to hop on his motorbike but he pulls me back sliding his hand around my waist as our lips lock in a kiss.
I gasped and he delved his tongue in mine immediately ravishing my lips. I relax and let him kiss me as I respond in anticipation.
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