I LOVE YOU

Chapter 11

STEFI'S P.O.V

The tour has just started.  We're leaving for New York now, because the boys will start the tour from there and go around the country.  I decided to come along.  Yes, Riley was so happy with the decision.  He can't stop giving me his full time caring.  I felt it.  Felt it both, the sweet and caring Riley, and the threat.

"Starbucks, shall we?"  Connor shouted.  We will leave for New York in 30 minutes, and we've been here in the airport for few minutes, along with Thomas and Chris.

"Heck yeah!"  We all said in unison and walked to the store.

"Guys?"  We heard a familiar voice from the table behind us.

"Braiden?!"  The boys screamed.  "Whoa bro,what a coincidence!  Where are you leaving for?"

"New York!"  Braiden answered.

"Didn't you once say that it supposed to be next week?"  Riley spoke as well as wrapped my waist.

"Right!  But I don't know, my manager said that we're leaving earlier.  So I guess I just gotta go."  He raised his shoulders.

"Yeah why not!"  Connor hugged his bud.  "Oh have you met Stefi?"

All of them just turned around and faced me by a single command.  I looked at Riley.  He hit his forehead with his hand, and shouted.  "Ouch Brai, sorry I didn't tell you!"

"Oh..."  Braiden raised an eyebrow and smirked.  "So that's the girl...  Haha oh gosh of course I know you Stefi!  Didn't we literally grow up together too?"

I hugged Braiden and he spin me.  "Pretty much, exactly!"

"Nice meeting you again!  Oh it's been so long, yeah?  How long?"

"I moved out to Canada 4 years ago."  I smiled widely.

"Now you're back?  Like will be staying here permanently again, right?"

"Right."  I nodded, pulling myself into Riley's hug.

"Yeah, right."  Braiden rolled his eyes and everybody laughed.  "So happy to see you guys together, bro.  Congratulations!"  And he hugged Riley.

"Thanks so much I appreciate it."  Riley replied.

"Oh well I guess we need to go now!  What about your flight, Brai?"  Toby asked.

"Leaving right behind you!  I got the other one later." 

"Sure.  See you in New York!"  Thomas hugged Braiden and the rest followed.

"See you soon Braiden, take care!"  I waved away.

The flight was actually awesome.  I sit together with Riley.  Well I just realized that this guy was pretty creative in handling his jealousy.   He made me sitting at the window seat, while he got the aisle one.  Riley and Chris were behind us, Connor and Thomas were in front of us.  The crew have been in New York for couple days now, because they need to start the tour right away tonight.  

I stared at the distance over the window and remained silent.  Riley was sleeping next to me, with his head on my shoulder.  He's lilke a giant sleeping baby.  Hah.  But I'm scared actually.  It's my first plane trip again after Dad's accident.  It's the first time again when I can easily laughed so loud and made some tiny jokes with the boys.  But well, New York will be like 45 minutes away from me.  And Richard's there.  I didn't say anything about this to RIley.  Jeez I can't breath.

"You okay, babe?"  Riley streched his neck and kissed my forehead.  "Good morning."

"Hey...  I'm okay and baby, it's 12.30 in the bright sunny day.  Good afternoon."  I pinched his nose.

"You lucky I love you."  He pouted.

"People say that I do, so yeah, I might be."

"Ouch."  He tickled me.

We finally arrived in New York.  Got our baggage, and soon headed to the hotel.  I became too clumsy as we got closer to the hotel.  I know Richard will be absolutely there.  He once called Riley earlier in the airport and when he did, I can't stop biting my nails.

"We'll be sharing rooms, babe.  You're okay with that?"

"We've done that all the time so why not."  I simply smiled.

"Right.  Because the boys got their partners too."  Riley nodded.

"Sure."

The door man accompanied us to our rooms.  It's in the same floor but different units.  I got the middle one with Riley, Connor and Chris' was in our right, Toby and Thomas' was in our left.  The rooms were pretty big.  And we got another room which Richard ordered to be our main room.  Because we'll be staying for 2 nights.  And the crew needs a room to lock their stuff.

"Hello boys!  How you doing?"  I heard Richard's voice from the main room.  I was still in my and Riley's room, changing.  But the boys spoke in the corridor so I practically can hear it.

"Hey R!  We're good, how you doing?"

"Cool.  How's the trip?"

"Pretty awesome."  Now I heard Riley's.

"Alright good, because we got plenty of works to do."

"Let's do it!"  Connor shouted.

"How do you share the rooms?"  Richard spoke to no one in particular, I guess.  No, it's not about to whom he talked.  But the question.

"Oh I'm with Chris."  Connor answered.

"With Thomas."  Toby mumbled.

"Me with Stefi."

I was shaking already.  I stood behind the door so I got the conversation clearly.  

"Stefi?  Who's Stefi?"  Richard pretended to ask.

"My girl, remember?  The one who's with us in the meeting?"  Riley cleared his throat.  Oh gosh.

"You brought her here?"  Richard raised his voice.

"You got a problem with that, bro?"

I peeked and saw Riley was kind of confronting Richard.  I don't know what would happen next.  It could be even worse.

"It's the tour.  We need to be discipline!"

"What's it with Stefi that you don't like?  What's it with Stefi with the disciplinary stuff?"  Riley shouted.

"You can't fall in love in the band!"  Richard shouted louder.

"Whoa whoa whoa.  Dude, you're a manager.  Take care of the business, we take care of personal stuff.  Are we good?"  Connor now involved.

"It's impossible!"  

"What?  Hey what's your solid serious problem with her actually?  With his relationship?  He got nothing personal on you!"  Toby faced Richard in the face.  

"Watch out.  I don't deal with the publicity."  Richard cleared his throat, stepping aback.

"Good.  Because we don't want you to handle that."  Thomas crossed his arms on his chest, waiting for the manager's reaction.

There was a silence among them for a single minute.  Everybody's been confronting each other.  I kept peeking until I decided to leave, because apparently Riley was about to go inside our room.  I ran to the bathroom, took a deep breath, started crying in silence.