On the road with Ryder Crawford (Haylor Fanfic)

XLVIII - Holiday for Two

(P.S. This is going to be a long chapter)

"So you want me to sell that you two are writing songs together alone in Whistler fucking Canada?" Scoot says throwing his hands up and lets out a disbelieving laugh.

Ryder rubs the back of his neck and lets out an exhausted breath.

"Just say something Scoot." he says flatly. "They'll only see us in the airport they won't know where we are exactly."

"Yeah and seeing you in the airport together isn't going to spur everyone's interest and confirm the rumors at all - yes Ryder they'll just simply let it go" Scoot says sarcastically.

A frown etches in my face, I figured this much. Ryder and I just can't escape to the sunset whenever we want. It was a good try though and it's sweet that he thought of a holiday for us.

Scoot looks at me, frowns then exhales loudly and shakes his head left and right.

"Fine. I'll give you two days tops then Abigail and I are flying there - invite as many friends as you can to tag along" Scoot dictates.

"I'll get Karlie and Nick-" Ryder replies then shifts his head to look at me "Do you wanna invite Crystal or other friends you might have?"

I lift my head to think "Umm- well my mom can't go for sure. Hmm there's the band of course, um- can we take someone who's in London?" I peered cringing and looking at Ryder.

His face looked confused and amused at the same time. "London? Who's in London?" he asks.

"Ethan - He's the guy that helped me in Nashville." I answered silently.

Ryder nods and looks at Scoot "We could do that yeah Scoot?"

"I'll have people contact him." Scoot says while typing on his phone.

"And- can we take... Andrew?" narrowing my eyes as soon as I finished my question.

Both their heads snap to me and I flash them an upside down grin.

"No absolutely not" Ryder says quickly.

Then Scoot looks at Ryder and the two of them share a stare down - another of that silent conversations. Then Scoot smirks then Ryder looks at him sharply and lightly shakes his head.

"That's actually brilliant. If we bring Andrew they won't think it's anything else but a fun holiday for everyone." Scoot says with an approving smile.

Ryder rolls his eyes and sinks his back to his swirling chair.

"Yeah great let's bring all our exes why don't we" he says through gritted teeth.

I narrow my eyes at him and sneered "There's no plane in the world that can fit all your exes"

Scoot chuckles and Ryder furrows his eyebrows deep.

"Whatever just make sure we got two days before  your crasher parade comes" Ryder said looking at Scoot in an annoyed tone and I flash him a grin, he looks at me with furrowed eyebrows but sighs and softens his face quickly.

***

Scoot carefully laid out our flight plans - this time he doesn't want us to sneak in as we go in the airport. He said "sneaking means hiding something" clearly, he's always one step ahead of the media when it comes to these things.

I'll come in first because Ryder for sure will draw a lot of people in if he comes first, leading me to greet all his fans afterwards.

"You've contacted airport security?" Ryder asked for the third time.