Summary: You and Ryan have been bestfriends since your first year of highschool, but then something changed : Ryan stopped being your friends. You guys grew up, built your own way to the top, and eventually found eachother again.
A Ryan McMahon fanfiction.
You and Ryan basically grew up together: you were born 2 days apart, went to elementary school together, middle school, and high school as well! During high-school though, he saw some problems in your friendship... He thought that boys couldn't be friends with girls, and that girls were lame (typical stupid high-school boy comment), so you stopped being friends.
Ryan grew up, built his own career in music with his band Inhaler (that you adored) in which he was the drummer. You, on the other hand, decided to start your own music magazine, and interviewed Fontaines D.C., Beabadoobee, Lucy Dacus, etc... and decided it was time to finally try and interview Inhaler. You contacted their manager, which answered and agreed to an interview, that was postponed for tomorrow.
You were as excited as ever, and ready to interview them.
February 7th 2025 : the day of the interview.
You woke up filled with energy, got ready and headed down to Inhaler's studio.
When you arrived, you were greeted by the manager, which took you down to where the boys were. As soon as you saw them, you widened your eyes at the sight of Ryan, and his did too. You quickly snapped out of it, and approached the boys, shaking their hand one by one. Elijah, Bobby, Josh...And finally Ryan. Ryan looked at you with bored, annoyed eyes, holding his hand out to you. As you shook his hand, he squeezed it a bit too tight, pointing his deer brown eyes at you.
Y/N : "Alright, so...You guys released your new album, 'Open Wide' today. How are you feeling, what are the emotions, what's the vibe?"
RYAN : "Honestly, we're very hyped. This album means so much to us, and we hope it just means as much to the fans. It's a lot of pressure for us to have put this album out, because it's a totally different one, in which we explored a lot of different genres, pop rock, rock...So we know that people aren't gonna adore it. But we're all...pretty excited about it."
You smiled at Ryan while listening to his voice, finding it calming, reassuring.
Ryan noticed you smiling while he was speaking, and let out a little chuckle, reminding him of all the good times with you as wains.
Y/N: "Well, that's surely exciting! Today is also the first date of the Open Wide tour...Are you guys tense?"
BOBBY: "Well, not really truly. It's exciting to be starting the tour, but maybe I feel like we're all a bit tense to play the new songs. All the songs on this album are playable live, but since they're new we all are pretty much 'scared', you could say."
JOSH: "Well, I'm shitting meself, actually."
Everyone laughed. You noticed Ryan laughing but also looking at you, mesmerized...He probably missed your laugh after all those years.
Y/N: "That's great to know! A question for Eli, now...How does it feel to be singing those new songs, to a crowd of new fans and old fans, and to basically the whole world?"
ELI: "Well, I can say it feels exciting, but also makes me kinda nervous. Yes, I'm happy about giving these new songs to the world and letting our fans hear them, but it's pretty scary to know that this album won't be liked by someone who has followed us for a while, because this album's, as ryan said, a complete change of genres. We always feel excited to make new music, but always very doubtful for some songs. We, honestly, are doubtful about some songs that made it on the record, if we have to be honest." — He laughed.
RYAN: "Well, don't say 'we', I'm very confident about these songs and this album!"
You chuckled, seeing Ryan all excited.
The interview went on, and after a few laughs, a bit of tension between you and Ryan, and MANY cigarettes smoked, it was time to say goodbye.
Y/N: "Well, bye bye you guys! It was fun to meet you, hope I can interview you again!" — You smiled, waving at them.
You saw Eli and Bobby whispering something in Ryan's ear, and Ryan becoming all red.
ELI : "Come on, man, do it. It's a once in a lifetime occasion, you'll never get this occasion again!"
Ryan gave in, and as you opened the door to leave the studio, he grabbed your hand, making you flinch and turn to face him.
RYAN: "Listen, Y/N...Would you like to come to the first show of the tour tonight? You'll be backstage, with the lads' girlfriends."
You initially blinked twice, and widened your eyes, thinking this was a dream, but then gave in.
Y/N : "That'd be sweet...I'll...I'll be there!"
RYAN: "That's...That's awesome! S-see you tonight then!" — He smiled slightly, waving goodbye.
Ryan was internally cheering, happy to hear that you'd be coming. He basically was jumping around the studio, having the lads to laugh about his weird behavior.
You had gotten ready for the concert, makeup beautiful, hair perfect, and outfit flawless.
When you reached the venue, Ryan was waving at you from the entrance on the back, signaling for you to come towards him.
And so you did, you walked towards him, taking his hand as he lead you to the lads and their girlfriends.
You were greeted by Martha, Bobby's girlfriend, and Grace, Eli's girlfriend.
GRACE: "Hey girlie! You're Ryan's girlfriend?" — she smiled innocently.
RYAN: "N-No...She's just a friend, Grace." — he mumbled.
GRACE & MARTHA: "Ooooh? You sure? You're blushing!"
Ryan rolled his eyes at their remark, and just walked up to his armchair and started warming up for the show.
You stood beside him, looking at how he looked so focused...You decided to take a cute photo to post, so you called out his name and shot the photo...
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As soon as Ryan felt his phone buzzing, he lifted his eyebrow.
RYAN: "Why have you tagged me, Y/N?"
Y/N: "Just check it out! You won't regret it..." — you chuckled.
As soon as Ryan saw the post, he laughed at the description, and reposted it on his story.
RYAN: "Might be my favourite picture ever." — He chuckled as he reposted the photo
The lads walked out of the room, and to the stage, Bobby calling out for Ryan's name.
Y/N: "That's your queue to go, I fear."
RYAN: "Mhm. You'll be watching me, right?"
Y/N: "Of course I will...Now, go, they're waiting for you!!"
You kissed his cheek, and he ran off to the stage.
You observed his ever move, how the sweat dripped on the drumset, how his muscles flexed everytime he hit the drums, and the way he would eventually laugh or look at you.
GRACE: "You sure someone hasn't got a crush?" — She asked, smiley.
Y/N: "Well, I don't know we haven't spoken in a lot so-"
MARTHA: "Don't question it too much, if he likes you he'll show it...And he's pretty much showing it right now."
The lads waved bye to the crowd, threw their picks, drumsticks and setlists, and walked off of the stage.
Bobby kissed Martha, Eli kissed Grace, and Ryan...hugged you.
Grace and Martha were looking at you with a smirk on their face, knowing exactly that Ryan was in love with you.
Y/N, MARTHA & GRACE, in unison: "Nice show!!"
The lads thanked you and the girls, and walked backstage to their room, inviting you to join them.
So you walked inside the room, and noticed the photographer shooting a photo of you, Eli, Ryan and Grace...
You laughed at Ryan's face in the photo, and talked for the rest of the night.
Ryan asked you to go out with him for a smoke, and obviously you accepted.
You guys walked out, hand in hand, to the back of the venue.
Y/N: "Sorry, Ryan, do you have a ligh-"
Before you could even react, Ryan kissed you. You don't know why he did it, but you liked it, and went along. You guys kissed, a long, filled with love, kiss.
When Ryan pulled away, he could manage to get out some words.
RYAN: "I love you Y/N. I really couldn't hold it in for much longer...I-I've loved you for so long, probably since when I left you in highschool, but I was too much of a coward to tell you. I couldn't get over that. And-And at the interview, I know I looked annoyed, but really, I wasn't. I was so in love with you, I was listening to you like no one was." — He blushed, cupping your cheeks with his hands.
Y/N: "R-Ryan, I...I love you too, I..." — You bursted out crying in his arms, hugging him tightly as he caressed your hair, smiling.
RYAN: "I'm so glad I've got you back here, darling..."