On the road with Ryder Crawford (Haylor Fanfic)

83 - See your face again

I half sprinted out of my dressing room in the hopes of catching Ryder but to my dismay it seems he took off right after my performance.

Selena walks to my side and looks up to me.

"Did you catch him?" She asks softly.

I bowed my head in defeat and shook my head to a no.

Then Karlie's jogging to where we are and as soon as she reach us she peers out to where Ryder was sat.

"Where is he?" She asks with furrowed eyebrows.

I look at her with a weak smile, probably unconvincing smile.

Her frown deepens and quickly dials from her phone. She lifts to phone to her ear tapping her foot impatiently.

"Where the hell are you?" She asks through her phone in an irritated tone.

She listens then subtly slides her eyes to me, while I stare at her expectantly.

Why do I feel like Ryder is avoiding me, and if he is why did he even show up?

"Whatever" Karlie says rolling her eyes then angrily ends the call.

She shifts her body to face me and Selena.

"He said he needed to catch his flight to prepare to get back on tour- he said his tour manager might kill him cause he already delayed his flight to attend." She says casually.

I sighed deep and nodded, Selena slings her arm around me comfortingly.

"It's okay- I'm happy I got to see him" I half whispered then Karlie pulls me into a hug.

The next few days felt worse, it's like I'm not excited for the tour anymore it doesn't help that every time I go out all they ask me about is Ryder.

It's not so hard to put pieces together that something definitely is up between us, or has.

Today Scoot and I are supposed to meet some Capita execs to discuss Red and the tour.

We're sat in a long conference room table waiting for the bosses to arrive.

It's like my shoulder weigh a hundred of ton, I feel like I don't have the energy to last one whole day.

Promos, interviews and performances after the other over the past week, I'm actually starting to be comfortable in all.

The door swings open and Scoot just shots up his seat with a shocked expression taking me by surprise, I slowly stood up and looked at the people who entered.

Four all black clad men wearing earpieces, Elise and a man I've never seen before.

"Mr. S good afternoon, I- I didn't know-" Scoot trailed.

My eyes widened and looked at the man again, he is Mr. S?! As in the founder and CEO of Capita?

"Sit down-" he cuts in then catches my eyes and for a split second I think he smirked.

Scoot and I sat down after Mr. S and Elise took their seats.

"And please relax a little Scott." He says in an amused tone.

Suddenly I feel my blood rushing through my veins. This can only go two ways- either it's going amazingly great or horribly wrong.

He probably hates me because Ryder will be leaving the label once he's done with the tour. I lost him his biggest act.

"I'm so glad to finally meet you Silver. I can call you Silver right?" He asks casually.

"I- uh- yeah. Nice to meet you too" I stuttered and I see an amused side smile creep up on Elise's face.