Chapter 48

Dedicated to @JenniferAmyDrennanX 

read authors note at the end please! :)

"Everyone up!" I heard someone shout. I peeled my eyes open and saw Paul standing in the doorway of the back room. 

I groaned sitting up and yawning. "We're at a rest stop. It's a little town. You've got two hours, and then be back here. We've got a long drive." Paul told me and I nodded nudging Niall awake.

"Not yet." Niall mumbled wrapping his arms around my waist.

"Yes, get up Ni." I whined wiggling out of his grip. I stood up stretching out my back. That couch wasn't all that comfy. I walked out of the back room over to my bunk peeking in to see Ryan still sleeping. "Ryan...." I whispered poking him.

He rolled over slowly opening his eyes and letting out a little yawn. "Kaylee!" He smiled. He was so happy, all the time! 

"Hey babe. C'mon let's go find something to do for a little bit." I smiled pulling him out of the bunk and placing him on his feet. He wobbled around still a little sleepy as Niall came out of the back. I looked at the time and it was about 7 o'clock. 

"We have to get the rest of the lads up." Niall told me turning to Zayn's bunk and shaking him awake. I looked down to see Ryan crawling into Louis bunk.

"Louis! Uppy!" He laughed before running out of the bunk. Louis poked his head out groaning. "Ah look at Louis' hair!" Ryan shrieked laughing. I laughed along with him as Louis tried to fix his messy hair.

I grabbed Ryan's hand and led him off the bus, helping him down the stairs. When we got outside the bands bus and the dressing departments bus' were parked behind us, everyone outside talking. 

I smiled as I saaw Lou walking over to us. "Hey guys!" She smiled waving. "I heard about your new little member." She laughed looking down at Ryan who was stood behind me looking around curiously.

"Mhm. For now." I laughed patting his head as he looked up at me. "Where's Lux?" 

"Ah she's over there playing with some of the guys." She smiled pointing over to where a few of the guys were kicking around a soccer ball. 

"I want you to meet someone Ryan." I picked him up and walked over to where they all were. Lux spotted me, a big smile growing on her face as she tried her best to toddle over to me and Ryan.

"Who that?" She squeaked pointing to Ryan. 

"This, is Ryan." I smiled crouching down and placing Ryan beside me. 

"Hi." He grinned walking up to Lux.

"Hello!" She cheered giggling. "Come!" She waved Ryan to follow her as she ran over by the extra soccer ball. She sat down on the ground holding the ball between her legs. He looked up at me as if to ask for my permission and I nodded.

Ryan sat a few feet away from her and she rolled the ball over to him, and then him back to her. They were so cute. 

I turned around to see where everyone else was and saw Niall jogging toward me. "Hi." He breathed trying to catch his breath. "We've got a couple hours and everyone's hungry so we were going to go out to dinner. You and Ryan coming?" 

"Uh yeah. Where are we going?" I questioned turning to look at Ryan.

"There's a little diner down the street so we were going to go there." I nodded and called Ryan over. He turned around to look at me and back at Lux. 

"Bye bye Lux!" He piped up waving to her.

"Bye Ryan!" She smiled standing up off the ground and running over to him giving him a hug. I heard Niall aw as I giggled looking over at him. Ryan came running over and I thought he was going to run to me but wrong, he ran straight to Niall wrapping his arms around Niall's legs.

"Argh!" Niall groaned walking with Ryan on his leg. I walked behind him to where all the boys were anxiously waiting clearly hungry. "Alright let's go." Niall bent down prying Ryan off his leg and holding him in his arms upside down.

"Niall!" He turned around and looked at me sighing. He flipped Ryan upside right before we made our way to the little diner. We got there and it was empty, literally. 

"Uh table for, 8." Liam told the guy as he walked us to a back room where there was a long table. We took our seats, as the guys pulled up a highchair in between Niall and I. 

We told the guy are drinks and he nodded leaving the room. We all started talking, mostly about the upcoming tour and how exciting it's going to be. 

"Harry Styles." We all turned around to see a woman dressed in a formal dress. She beckoned him over and Harry nodded standing up and walking over to her as the left the room.

"What's that all about?" Liam asked. I looked around the room and Zayn was biting his lip, he knew.

A few minutes later Harry came in followed by someone else... someone I never thought I'd meet ever. 

"Uh guys, this is Taylor." He mumbled pointing over at her.

"Hey!" She smiled waving at us all. "Nice to meet you all." 

We all looked around at each other confused as to why she was here. Harry walked back to his seat and Taylor walked up next to him looking at Riley. "Do you mind moving so I can sit next to Harry?" She asked Riley.

"Uh, I'm sitting here." Riley laughed looking at her oddly.

"I know you are, and I asked if you could move so I could sit next to him." Taylor smiled bitterly. 

"Please Riley." Harry pleaded looking over at her. Riley looked at him then at Taylor before getting up and rudely pushing the chair out to far before moving over to the next seat. "Thank you."

I looked over at Niall and he just shrugged. What the hell.

(A/N: NO hate towards Taylor. This is just for the story! I'm not saying any of this happened in real life and she acts like this! I actually kind of like her music. so no hate just for the story.)

We all went back to our conversations and I looked over at Harry and Taylor trying to think of what was going on with that whole situation. I glanced at Zayn and he was completely zoned out, he knew. I was going to get it out of him.

There was a shrill of laughter and we all looked to the source. Taylor. She threw her head back dramatically laughing at something Harry must've said as she clung to his arm.

I looked over at Riley as she had her jaw clenched, her eyes focused on the table. She was pissed. 

"I want smiley french fries!" Ryan spoke up looking up from his coloring page. I giggled at how poorly he colored the picture. "You like it?"

"Love it." I winked at him telling the waiter what I wanted and what Ryan wanted.

Since we were the only people in the diner our food came quick and there was minimum problems before we had all finished. 

As we were walking back to the bus, I watched as Ryan skipped around jumping over the cracks in the sidewalk. Niall being the show off he is leaped completely over Ryan. Ryan stopped, his mouth falling open.

"Woah!" He looked from Niall to me. "I want to do that." He grinned. "Kaylee let me jump over you." 

"Wh-"

"Yeah, Kaylee, let him." Niall winked at me. I got what he was saying and crouched down. Ryan walked back a bit as everyone stopped waiting. I heard Ryan's little feet hit against the sidewalk as he got closer. I closed my eyes expecting him to collide into my back but nope. 

"I did it!" He smiled as I opened my eyes to see him standing in front of me. I laughed as I saw Niall. Cheater.

"Good job, now come on we got to get on the bus." I smiled at him. I picked him up holding him under my arm as he giggled. 

I turned around and saw Taylor and Harry talking. My eyes widened as she leaned in kissing him quickly. Clearly Harry wasn't expecting that either.

"Uh yeah bye." Harry smiled waving as he ran onto the bus.

"What the-" Riley stopped looking from me to Taylor.

"Problem?" Taylor smiled sweetly.

"Uh, no." Riley spat storming onto the bus. I stood there a bit confused before closing the door. "What the hell was that?" Riley whispered to me as I put Ryan on the ground.

"I-I don't know!" I sighed looking up at Riley. She looked generally hurt.

"I thought he liked me." She looked away biting at her nails, something she did to stop herself from crying. "Was I just an inbetween? Maybe that's why he never asked me out..."

"Riley, don't jump to conclusions. You never know what's going on." I told her placing my hands on her shoulders.

"They... kissed though." Her lip quivered. She just shrugged turning around and walking back by the bunks. She slipped into hers closing the curtain. I hate seeing Riley like this. She was always so fun and lively but not when something like this happens. She really liked Harry.

I walked into the back room and all the talking between the boys stopped. They looked at me nervously. "What was that?!"

"I-I uh-" Harry stuttered looking around the room.

"You could have had the decency to at least tell Riley you were talking to another girl! You led her on Harry!" I shouted at him. Riley is my best friend, I'll do anything for her even if that ruining another friendship...

"Riley please-"

"You hurt her Harry!" I shouted at him standing still and waiting for his reaction. 

"Kaylee, babe, calm down. You don't know the full story." Niall told me calmly.

"Well is someone going to tell me it!?" I asked anxiously.

"I... I can't." Harry mumbled looking down at the ground.

"Assh-" I was cut off as I saw Ryan sitting on the couch next to Louis.... wait Ryan heard everything. Perfect. "Fine, whatever. Ryan let's go sit in the front." I walked over grabbing his hand and tugging him behind me. 

"Riley come here." I whipser yelled as I closed the back door opening her curtain. 

"No." She mumbled trying to close her curtain.

"I think I know what's going on." She perked up at this climbing out of her bunk. We sat at the front tables, Ryan on the other side of us. "Alright Ryan, what did the boys say?"

"What?" He looked at me confused.

"What were the boys talking about in there?" I asked again. 

"Oh! Harry says that the girl is getting money to date him. And he is too." He squinted his eyes trying to think of something. "Publipity?" He tried to sound out making me laugh.

"Publicity?" He nodded his head smiling.

"Yeah that word! That's what he says! But, he says he likes her." He pointed over at Riley, making her smile. "And he's sad." Ryan pouted crossing his arms. 

"It's a publicity stunt." I sighed looking over at Riley. "It means nothing to him. That's why he looked so miserable at dinner and didn't kiss her back!"

"This is.... good.... this is good!" Riley cheered clapping her hands together. She sprung up out of her seat and ran to the back room.

I got up quickly following behind her. "You should've just told me!" She smiled throwing her hands in the air. The boys looked around confused. 

"Uh what?" Harry questioned.

"That it's a publicity stunt!" She laughed walking over to Harry. 

"How did you-"

"Ryan." Niall narrowed his eyes at Ryan as he walked into the room. He shrugged innocently at Niall. "You're horrible at keeping secrets."

"I dunno what you're talking about." Ryan rolled his eyes placing his hands on his hips making us all laugh.

"You're not mad?" Harry asked Riley. She shook her head sitting down next to Harry. "Trust me, I'm looking for a way out of it." He chuckled kissing her cheek. 

I have her thumbs up making Harry chuckle. "Thanks Ryan!" Riley winked at him.

"Everyone off and onto the plane!" Paul shouted through the bus.

"Plane?" Ryan looked at me weird. I nodded picking him up as he linked his arms around my neck. 

"Don't worry, planes are fun." Niall told him as he grabbed my other hand intertwining our fingers. Niall picked up a bag I had packed of stuff for Ryan to do on the flight so he wouldn't be whining and complaining the entire time.

As soon as we stepped off the bus the dark sky was illuminated by the bright flashes of paps.

Now paps were worse as is, but make it night time and those bright flashes going off right in your face and it was ten times worse. I completely forgot about this.

I saw Niall searching through the bag pulling out a blanket and laying it over Ryan's head. I smiled thankfully at him as the few bodyguards pushed their way through.

"Kaylee." I heard Ryan whimper as we were bumped around by the massive amount of paps.

"Holy shit." I heard Zayn mutter from behind me. It was way to late for this stuff. I rubbed Ryan's back trying to make him feel a little better. Not only were bright flashes bad but they were constantly yelling and shouting stupid questions and accusations at us.

"Almost inside Ryan." I whispered to him. When we finally had gotten inside we all just stopped for a minute.

"That was the worst in a while!" Liam laughed breathlessly. We all agreed making our way toward the plane.

"Alright, now, I'm going to go through then you're going to go through when the man tells you." I told Ryan as we waited by security. He nodded holding his blanket in his arms. I walked through the little light going green telling me I was good.

"Are you a police officer?" I heard Ryan ask. I turned around to see him looking up at the guy, that curious look  on his face that told me he had a million questions for this guy.

"Uh kinda." The man chuckled. 

"That's cool. You ever put someone in jail?"

"Uh no but you can be the first one." The man joked chuckling. I guess Ryan didn't get the joke and screamed as he ran through the security machine right into my arms.  "I was kidding buddy!" The man laughed looking over at us.

"Oh, well bye bye!" Ryan waved as I picked him up joining the rest of the boys. "I'm so tired." He yawned.

"You can sleep on the plane." I told him letting out a yawn myself. He rested his head on my shoulder as I followed everyone on to the plane. We all took our seats just excited to get to sit and fall asleep for a couple of hours.

"The flights only 2 hours to Dallas but at least it's something." Niall sighed sitting in the seat next to me. I just shrugged buckling Ryan in and sitting back in my own seat. I rested my head back looking over at Niall.

"Niaaaaallll." I smiled as he looked over at me lazily. He cocked his eyebrow waiting for me to say something. I puckered y lips and made a kissy noise as he laughed leaning over and pecking my lips. "Love you."

"Mhm, love you too Kayls." He chuckled leaning back in his seat.

After a few minutes it was time to take off and I thanked my lucky stars that Ryan had fallen asleep. I leaned my head on Niall's shoulder closing my eyes as he grabbed my hand running his thumb over it. 

~

I woke up to the sound of crying. Great. I sat up and I was in.... a bed? How the.... I turned over to see Niall beside me before sitting up. I looked up and we seemed to be in a hotel room. I don't even remember waking up and getting here.

I snapped back out of my thoughts when I heard the crying. I looked around the room trying to find where it was coming from.

"Mommy!" The voice cried out and I sighed standing up and walking over to the little couch in the corner of the room. I crouched down turning on the little lamp and Ryan looked over at me with watery eyes. "I want mommy!"

"Ryan... shhh. Stop crying." I whispered rubbing his back.

"No! I want mommy!" He screamed even louder. I groaned picking him up as he kicked and screamed. "I want my mommy!"

"Ryan she's not here." I whispered rocking back and forth.

"I want her!" 

"What the hell is going on?" I heard Niall's groggy voice ask from the bed. "Oh." He hopped off the bed and walked over to me and Ryan standing beside me. "Ryan, don't cry." Niall pouted.

"I want mommy!" He screeched making Niall wince. "Get me mommy!"

"Ryan we can't!" I rose my voice a little making him quiet down. 

"S-s-sorry." He whispered turning his face away from me. "I just miss my mommy."

"It's okay. We're going to try.... try and find her." Niall smiled at him. "C'mon let's go back to bed, yeah?"

"No." He turned to face Niall.

"It's only 4 in the morning buddy." Niall chuckled looking over at me.

"I don't want to sleep on the couch it's lonely... I get scared." He mumbled sticking his thumb in his mouth. He stuck his other arm out toward Niall and Niall took him from me.

"Alright well come sleep in the bed then." Niall shrugged walking over to the bed. Ryan crawled in the middle snuggling into the blankets as Niall and I laid down on the other sides.

"Actually, I want to sleep over here." Ryan crawled over Niall sleeping on the other side, as far away from me.

Did I scare him when I yelled? I hope not.

"You're going to fall off over here." Niall laughed backing up a little bit.

"It's okay." Ryan whispered. I couldn't even see him over Niall's back.

"Don't you want to sleep next to Kaylee though?" Niall questioned.

"Nuh-uh. She yelled at me. She's.... she's mean." He said quietly to Niall. I sighed turning over. 

Great.

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