(http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i359/etinz/ahb.jpg)<br/>Ryan Hunter<br/><br/><br/>(http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i359/etinz/farm.jpg)<br/>Farm/working buildings<br/><br/>(http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i359/etinz/farmhouse.jpg)<br/>Farmhouse<br/><br/><br/>Ryan woke with a start, his eyes moved to his alarm clock which ticked over seconds later to show 4:49am, suppressing a yawn he closed his eyes and tried to pretend he had two hours to go before having to get out of bed rather than ten minutes. In many ways he'd been waiting for this day for four years, his sixteenth birthday , the day he had marked down as feeling more adult than kid and he'd had to grow up quickly since the disappearance.<br/><br/>His mind drifted back to when he'd met Ashley and Sara, it had been a three weeks after the disappearance and he was sitting down outside the guardhouse at Wright Patterson AFB , where his father commanded the fighter  training group, he'd waited days believing help was on its way that someone would show up and secure the base and tell him where his family was...but no one did and so he'd decided to head out in to the world and find someone ...anyone...and still it had been tough to leave.<br/><br/>When Ashley got out of the car that first time he'd run to her and started crying holding her tightly, begging her not to leave him and so they had taken him in, made sure he did a few hours a day study, encouraged him and taught him , till he now felt like a productive member of the family. In the years before the disappearance he'd spent hours with mechanics and electricians learning how they did what they did ,waiting for the time his father would allow him to learn to fly so he could join the airforce and become a fighter pilot.<br/><br/>Now that ultimate dream was dead but he was able to apply his learnt skills and kept the wind blades functional and the power supply to the farm stable, he could even keep the vehicles going, at least up to the point where engines needing replacing...and there wasn't exactly a lack of cars. In the last year he'd been taught to drive...automatics only ,but it meant when the group when exploring for more products at distribution centers they had three vehicles to fill.<br/><br/>Yeap ,he was contributing all right but now at sixteen he wanted his say to matter , to be a part of the decision making process rather than being told what to do to be the man of the house and in the house he grow up in his fathers word was final but he also knew his dad discussed everything with his mom, thats want he wanted and believed should happen as he'd grown into adulthood ...and more he wanted to be a man in every way...he wanted to have sex and he had massive crushes on both women. He knew they slept together , knew they 'did it' with each other he'd listened to the moans often enough, but he figured they were just waiting for him to get old enough...well today he was old enough.<br/><br/>Every year on his Birthday, Sarah and Ashley had given him a present, one year every transformer ever made, the next an entire mega store of comics, last year it had been an off road 250 and his own Harley which he had been told he wasn't to ride until they said so, in truth it was a massive beast and he could barely sit on it freestand for more than a few minutes...but one day...<br/><br/>He now wondered what today's present would be....he hoped that it involved them both walking into his room naked and joining him in bed followed by a rapid loss of his virginity and declarations of undying love and desire, his clock alarm went off and the women didn't appear.<br/><br/>"Damm " Ryan got up and put on jeans, cowboy boots a tshirt and a heavy jacket, it might be early spring but the winter cold would still be hanging about at least until the sun rose. Breakfast was two hours away and he had chores, feeding the cats, dogs, pigs and horses and Harvey the goat were just the start of his morning.,,,and all the while he keep his ears open for sounds coming from the highway not three miles away.....a month ago he'd heard a loud car drive by , he knew there were other people, but that didn't make them good people.<br/><br/>Just before seven he walked into the kitchen breakfast was already on the go "Morning" Ryan called out<br/>suddenly hungry as the smell of cooking assailed his nose...then again he was always hungry lately.<br/>