My entire plan had been to return that very day back to New York but Ryder had other plans and , since he was the birthday boy , I went along with it . Ryder had booked the penthouse suite at a central hotel in Vermont . We spent our nights there and Sunday frolicking about Vermont . We ate far too much and even went through a tour of the Ben and Jerry's factory .
Ryder had been entirely free . A whole different person almost like he was honouring his inner kid . He acted out his every childlike whim from the sugar rush he thought to dance out on the vast lounging room of the magnificent penthouse suite to dragging me out and in to the heavy rainfall that fell on Sunday afternoon until we were soakingly drenched .
The recollection of it a had never failed to make me smile despite my su
