Cheyenne Samuels

Cheyenne Samuels is a character on the TV Generation drama series, Our Lives.

She is the wife of Brendan Samuels.

Cheyenne works as a 3rd grade teacher at Clarkson Elementary School in Oakridge, Illinois. She previously worked as a receptionist at the Blue Sky Hair Salon.

Season 16
Cheyenne is shown supporting Brendan as he testifies against Christian Kelley in court and is pleased to hear that Christian is guilty on all charges. The following day, Cheyenne is preparing her students for a field trip to the science museum along with another 3rd grade class when Christian (who escaped from a prison van and stole a police officer's gun) kidnaps her at gunpoint and forces her on one of the buses.

After that, Christian forces Paul, the bus driver to drive the bus over to the hospital where Brendan is working. The whole ride to the hospital, Cheyenne is still held at gunpoint. She tries to keep calm and expresses her condolences for Christian's wife. As they get to the hospital, Paul attempts to radio for help, but when Christian catches him, he pistol whips him unconscious, leaving Cheyenne shocked and tearful.

When Christian demands that he wants to see Brendan, Cheyenne calls Brendan on her cell phone, telling him she has an emergency and needs to see him right away. Christian warns Cheyenne not to do anything stupid and threatens to shoot her if she does.

As Brendan steps on the bus, he is also held hostage on the bus along with Cheyenne and Paul. The police are notified and surround the outside of the hospital as they try to get Christian to surrender. Christian allows medical assistance for Paul and 30 minutes later, he releases Cheyenne off the bus and she collapses on her knees in tears. She is escorted by a police officer and taken to the ER to be examined.

Meanwhile, Brendan is still held hostage on the bus until the evening hours when Christian decides to release him. Just as the police are about to arrest Christian, he commits suicide by shooting himself in the head. Afterwards, Brendan and Cheyenne reunite with each other in the ER along with Adrianna.

Season 17
In the season premiere, it is revealed that Cheyenne, Corey and Riley have been spending the summer in Wilcox, Illinois, staying with Jamie and Francesca. According to Adrianna, Cheyenne needed to get out of Oakridge following the hostage situation. Brendan reveals that she has been having virtual therapy sessions with a trauma counselor to cope with the incident.

Throughout the summer, Cheyenne's mental health has been declining. She has spending the majority of her time in bed sleeping during the day, having nightmares and flashbacks, and feeling depressed and edgy. Adrianna becomes concerned when Riley tells her via FaceTime that Cheyenne doesn't want to do anything fun with her and Corey anymore, and has been isolating herself from others. Brendan tries to contact Cheyenne, but she refuses to answer her cell phone.

Cheyenne gets into an argument with Jamie and Francesca after she tells them that she is stopping her virtual therapy sessions, claiming that it hasn't been helping her and doesn't see the point in continuing with them. When Jamie keeps persisting that Cheyenne should give the sessions more time and brings up how she's been behaving lately, Cheyenne storms out of the house, gets in her car and drives off. She is shown aimlessly driving all over town, looking dishelved, distraught and frantic.

Towards the end of the episode, Adrianna gets a frantic phone call from Corey, who says that Cheyenne is missing and left her cell phone behind. She and Brendan become concerned when Corey tells them about the argument Cheyenne had with Jamie and Francesca. Cheyenne is seen running outside in the dark, barefoot as a voice asks her if she's okay. She screams at the voice to leave her alone and is shown falling backwards on the ground.

After learning that Cheyenne is missing and reporting it to the police, Brendan and Adrianna drive all the way to Wilcox to help look for her. Meanwhile, the rest of the family helps out by posting about her disappearance on social media.

The next day, the police report that they found Cheyenne's car abandoned near a horse farm with her sandals, keys and wallet left inside which makes Brendan fear the worst about her. Two hours later, the police learn that Cheyenne was found wandering in the woods approximately eight miles away from the horse farm by two patrol officers and taken to the hospital.

Brendan, Adrianna, Jamie, Tiffany (who drove all the way from Ambrose Park) and Michelle (who also drove all the way from Oakridge) head over to the hospital where Cheyenne is shown to have broken her right arm. The treating physician, Dr. Keller explains to everyone that the patrol officers found Cheyenne wandering by herself in the woods. When the officers approached her, she became frightened and ran away from them.

When one of the officers asked her if she was okay, Cheyenne screamed at the officer to leave her alone. As she was running, she tripped over a tree branch, breaking her arm. The officers called for an ambulance to take her to the hospital. When Cheyenne was being examined, she became hysterical and had to be sedated. After her disappearance made social media, one of the nurses recognized Cheyenne and called the police.

As Cheyenne regains consciousness after being sedated, she is happy to see her family and apologizes to Jamie for arguing with him and Francesca. She admits that she hasn't been herself since the hostage situation and feels like everything is out of control.

After speaking with Dr. Keller alone, she tells Brendan that due to Cheyenne's behavior, they want to admit Cheyenne to the local psychiatric hospital for a 72-hour hold because they think she might've had a mental breakdown; however, when Adrianna discovers that it has limited resources and poor feedback, Brendan wants to transfer Cheyenne to Oakridge General Hospital to get a second opinion from one of the psychiatrists at Oakridge General Hospital.

Dr. Keller agrees to the transfer if Brendan can get a doctor from the hospital to approve the transfer. Brendan is able to talk to Royce, who talks to Dr. Thornton and he approves transferring Cheyenne to Oakridge General. Dr. Thornton also makes a call to one of the hospital's top psychiatrists for a consult.

When Cheyenne returns to Oakridge, she speaks with another psychiatrist, Dr. Suarez at the hospital, who says that Cheyenne's mental breakdown was caused by PTSD due to the trauma caused by the hostage situation.

She also recommends that instead of being hospitalized in the psych ward for a 72-hour hold, Cheyenne should attend a 90-day stay at a residental treatment facility in Mount Larkin that specializes in trauma and PTSD. After talking it over with Brendan, Adrianna and Michelle, Cheyenne agrees to go to the treatment facility to get help in order to get her life back to normal again.