Harry's POV

I used to hate silence. Sitting in a room with a group of people and yet no one makes a sound and you can hear when someone takes a deep breath and their fingers flying over their phones. Now I'm lucky, we're all lucky if we get a moment of peace and quiet especially while preparing for a tour and all I wanted was silence. I just needed a moment to think, to work things out in my head before Paul comes in and does a run through of today's travel plans. As far as I knew he was unaware of who Riley was to me and that the Riley who was joining us on tour was indeed the same girl I grew up with. It didn't matter that the boys hadn't figured it out because Simon had agreed to everything.

In fact he congratulated me on having a friend who seemed to grasp the "phenomenon" that was us. I guess she wowed Simon all on her own because when he called us for a meeting a couple weeks ago it seemed like we were more or less supposed to agree with the proposal. He had explained that a girl had spent over the last year going through every tweet we had ever sent, articles, and every single tumblr and tweet sent by fans in order to try and gain insight into our fandom. She wanted to get inside the minds of our fans and had an idea that would give them more of a voice and even maybe enable us to interact more.

Really all Simon had to say was that he wanted to give a girl a chance to follow us on tour and he would have had our attention instantly. A girl was different than the crew hanging around taping us for This Is Us. Honestly I quit listening after that and just nodded until he finished talking. It wasn't until he asked me to stick around after dismissing Niall, Louis, Liam and Zayn that I wished I had paid more attention. That's when he told me who the girl was and that's when I got pist wondering why she hadn't ever mentioned her "project" to me. We talked all the time, nearly every day and apparently she'd been keeping a very big secret.

Now I had to tell the boys who the girl was because we'd be seeing her later. Yes, I waited until the very last minute but she was my friend first. We grew up together, she moved in with me and my mum when she was twelve. Riley was…is my best friend but a part of me was still really nervous about seeing her again. Just two minutes of silence please, I'm begging. I just want to think.

"Guys pay attention. Our flight leaves at…"

I watched as his eyebrows knit together and now his mouth was moving but there wasn't any sound coming out. Liam just looked at Louis who slapped Niall upside the head spitting the water he was drinking all over Pauls paperwork.

Niall laughed shoving me out of the way before reaching for the box of tissues. "My bad mate."

"This says we have another person joining our crew at the airport…" Of course Paul finds his voice in time for us to hear him talk to himself about what he just read. "How…What? Did I miss an email."

I waved my hand in front of the wet paper trying to catch his attention. "I may have forgot to tell you about that."

Paul narrowed his eyes when he met mine. "Well please by all means tell me now, four hours before."

"Someone's in trouble." Louis mocked and shook Zayn awake. "This is somethin' you want to see."

"Look she's coming on tour with us to do a project for school." I tried to explain it but everyone was mumbling to each other.

"That's right we met with Simon and signed all that paperwork saying we wouldn't talk about her project and gave her permission to use any photos she takes that we approve." Niall joined in sending Louis into another rant.

"Well I said she had to let me…"

"Don't even finish that." I cut in eyeing them all. "It's Riley." As soon as I said her name all the guys faces changed and they each slipped into a smile. Except Paul. Paul just looked nervous and like he was hoping I'd say 'kidding' or something.

Within seconds they were all back on their phones except Zayn. "This changes everything Harry." He said with a laugh. "How long have you known it was her?"

"Since we went to sign those papers, all of you acted like I was in trouble with the teacher cause I had to stay and chat with Si."

"You do realize there's no way you woulda been able to keep that a secret right?" Liam joked trying to pretend his feelings were hurt.

"I didn't want to jinx it by telling you. Niall would have tweeted something and then who knows if she'd come."

"Actually I haven't said a word."

"Because you haven't had time."

"No, she mentioned it to me one of the last times she was here. While we were wrapping up our Up All Night Tour but I just answered a couple questions."

I squeezed my eyes shut, taking a deep breath, trying to remind myself I shouldn't be mad he knew. Especially when it didn't sound like he knew much. Fuck it. "Why wouldn't she tell me then?" I snapped.

Niall just held his hands up in mock surrender, as Louis and Liam just shook their hands 'no' at Niall and Zayn just smirked because he knew better. "Seriously though Harry, I don't think anything would have stopped her from coming even with a tweet. She stuck around when you made her come with you to X Factor and then stay with your Dad while we competed. School didn't stop her and neither did the idea of living with five guys who didn't even know each other…"

"Maybe she just didn't want to disappoint you if you liked her idea but she didn't win the grant or whatever it is exactly." Liam shrugged grinning at Niall. "He didn't even remember so she picked right. You'd never forget."

"Guys, guys get back on track. Time is ticking by, ask her later if it's really that important." Paul interrupted, taking back control. "So the mystery girl isn't a mystery, it's Riley. At least I know who we're looking for near the terminal."

"We all know what she looks like Paul. Plus any one of us could ring her if she's missing in action." Louis joked telling siri to pull up Riley's number.

"I'm going to need to check that and make sure I've still got the right one." Paul flipped through a stack of papers he'd pulled from the bag at his feet, clearly not finding whatever he was looking for.

"From experience girls don't like it when guys give out their numbers." Zayn rubbed his cheek like it was just slapped instead of by some girl ages ago.

I just sat there watching as they debated when and if it's ever okay to share a girl's number. "It's the same."

"Great. This should be interesting enough…the girl who can't actually get in any trouble and five guys who cause nothing but trouble."

"She's going to be with us for the entire tour?" Zayn asked looking from me to Paul and back.

I nodded with a smile thinking of how much crazier the whole tour sounded adding Riley into the mix. Paul was right about one thing. This was definitely going to be interesting.

"When I was in school I never came up with any ideas that would have let me tour with a band. I had to Google science project ideas." Liam noted with a laugh. "Think she can make me a real Batman suit?"

There was a slight break in the random conversations but really Louis was just waiting for Paul to speak so he could interrupt. "Moving-"

"Now Liam, there's no time scheduled for fighting crime. You'll just have to wait till holiday to test your skill." Louis blurted looking like he couldn't decide if he wanted to laugh or grin like a mad man.

"Always trying to ruin my fun Louis."

Hearing the sound of mad tweeting birds dragged me out of my thoughts and back into reality. One glance at my phone told me everything. Niall was on Twitter and tweeting me from less than a foot away. "I thought we covered this?" I asked after reading "Hey Mofos Harry_Styles just surprised me with the best gift ever"

Niall rolled his eyes laughing at my face. "Calm down, I sent her a snapchat for approval first. She said it was okay."

"I'm calm." I replied crossing my arms before standing up to leave. I heard someone move behind me right before being yanked backwards by my belt loop.

Paul released me as soon as he had eveyone's attention. "Guys just be ready to leave in two and a half hours."

"Didn't you say we we're meeting her in like four hours?" Zayn asked spreading out on the couch after everyone got up.

"Yes. But you guys will still manage to push it to the last minute." He pointed out, shutting the door behind him.

Louis just shrugged. "Eh, he's right about that mate."

**** Exactly Two and a Half Hours Later ****

I still wasn't sure I believed this was really happening. That I was going to be able to travel the world with Riley and my brothers. It wasn't all that long ago that we we're just pulling stunts that drove our parent's mad, making my mum rant to Riley and me about how we needed to learn impulse control. Dad wasn't as strict when we stayed with him and he was technically in charge of six teenagers. I can remember him telling mum that he had to let us boys run wild sometimes or how else were we going to become a team and it wouldn't of been fair to leave Riley out when I was the one who wanted her there in the first place. But I still think she heard my mom hollering in the background sometimes because she'd refuse to help us occasionally.

Niall came in a couple minutes after me, knocking Zayn's feet off the couch taking a seat. "Have you been sleeping this whole time?"

"I was until you just woke me up." Louis and Liam both shook their heads as they walked in the room in time to hear Zayn's response.

Liam smirked at me and Niall. "We all know sleeping beauty needs her beauty sleep."

"Zayn I didn't pack enough extra clothes to dress you for a year. I only covered you for like maybe a month." Louis said walking towards the mini fridge in the room grabbing a Corona.

Reading the text Riley just sent me made a smile because I realized she thought she was meeting us in the States and not flying with us.

Riles: So I'll just text you when I land and take a taxi to the hotel. I have no idea when I land, just that I have some ridiculous four hour layover.

I stopped myself from reminding her that her ticket, the same one telling her she had a layover also had the final landing time printed on it. "Guys she hasn't figured out that she's flying with us. She still has the ticket from before I changed it last week." I said brushing my shoulder off impressed with myself. From the looks on their faces I wasn't going to live that down anytime soon. I offered to send a driver to wait for her at the airport so she didn't have to take a taxi but she didn't respond.

"Your late. Weren't you supposed to be in this room like three minutes ago?" Louis asked as Paul strolled into the room wearing some large leather man purse over his shoulder, carrying a cup of coffee in his right hand.

He glanced down and checked his watch. "You're all here?" He asked scanning the room. "Where's Niall?"

"Who knows leprechauns can hide anywhere. It's the luck of the Irish and all."

"You got that right. It's a thing." Niall shouted jumping up from behind the couch.

"So you guys will push getting ready for shows and everything else to the last second but now that your girlfriend is involved you've actually been waiting on me? My how the table's have turned." He finished, swallowing too much coffee. "Damnit."

"Come on, you know you missed our antics we all pulled on the last tour." I pointed out. "Remember when she helped us line your hotel door with fake bricks and you were stuck for an hour?"

Paul nodded and just took another sip of his coffee. "Oh boy. Now all of you are older so let's stick to leaving me out of the prank wars…"

We all shook our heads no at the same time. "Crap."

"What?" Niall looked at me and then to the screen of my phone I was holding out. "Oh…that's never a good sign."

Liam grabbed my cell and read Rileys response. "K." "I don't speak girl but I'm still know that means she's either really mad or no, she's just mad."

I snatched my phone back and shoved it in my pocket. "I told her I'd send a driver if she wanted to pick her up when she lands in the States."

"Oh this just got so much better knowing she's already mad at you and we're about to be on a very long flight together." Louis laughed. "I don't want to sit in between those two.

"Shut up, she's going to be fine when she figures out what's going on." I threw one of the couch's pillows at Louis but missed and hit Liam which only made Louis laugh harder.

Niall and Zayn both looked skeptical and Paul's lips kept moving making me believe he was sending out a silent prayer already.

"I bet she's telling your mum all about that text right now." Liam joked patting me on the shoulder as we all made our way towards the door to leave.

"Let's get ready to have the time of our lives guys." I said following behind them towards the SUV parked out front.