When I stepped out of the car I was bombarded with questions being yelled in my ears and camera flashes leaving spots in my vision. It was frightening, I was surrounded before i could react. There were fans yelling hate from outside the paparazzi's cameras and microphones. I couldn't hear them, all i heard was ringing. I heard those two familiar accents calling my name above everything else, and that snapped me out of my haze. I blinked twice and shook my head thinking it would help me clear my thoughts. I felt a hand grab onto my arm and pull me into the direction of their apartments. I didn't stop to think until i found myself sitting on a sofa in the lobby. I looked around, not remembering the walk into the building, I saw a worried looking Louis on my left, Harry pacing in front of me and a boy I didn't recognize on my right. I then saw two other boys standing in a corner starting over at me with worried expressions.

"How're you feeling?" I turned to my right and recognized the boys face but couldn't place a name to his face. Why couldn't my directioner friends, Roz and Sarah, have told me all of their names?!

"Um, I uh," I stuttered not being able to form a sentence, I cleared my throat and tried again. "I'm fine, just a little flustered I suppose. But thanks," I looked over to him and and placed a fake smile on my face. He just nodded.

"I'm Liam Payn," He held out his hand for me to shake. I took it hesitantly, "I'm Lida Gannon." A smile grew on his face as recognition lit up his eyes.

"You're on youtube, aren't you? I used to love your videos!" He paused, "Why did you stop making them?"

"I well..." I paused and took a deep breath. "It's a long story,-" I was cut off by an irish accent from the corner.

"Yeah, I've seen your videos too! Didn't you used to do covers? I love your voice." I hesitated again as I looked at in the corner to where the voice came from. The blonde one, with pale blue eyes. I need to keep note of who these boys are. I'll have to call Roz and Sarah too they wouldn't believe this.

"Um, thanks. I haven't actually sang in a while. I don't know how my voice would sound if I tried to sing now," I mumbled.

The blonde one walked over, "How come?" I looked away. "My, uh, ex didn't appreciate my love for music." I mumbled. Louis seemed to sense how uncomfortable I was.

"Lida, this is Niall Horan," He pointed to the irish blonde who was speaking to me. His finger moved to the other one in the corner, "That's Zayn Malik." So this is one direction I though to myself. Louis then grabbed my hands and pulled me up from the sofa.

"I think Lida is a little tired," He said while leading to the elevator. I heard Harry make some smart comment, probably something inappropriate. I rolled my eyes and sent daggers in his direction.

"Thanks for the save back there," I muttered while staring at my toes.

"Yeah, about that, I think you owe me now," he said slowly. I shot him a questioning glance.

"I think I deserve to know some answers," he said finally as we walked to his door. I sighed, exasperated.

"I don't know Louis. You don't need to know my story, it's a long and boring one." He chuckled lightly, "Well I have time, and I'm very interested." We sat down on his sofa in the living room. I took a deep breath before I started speaking.

"It all started when I was thirteen. I loved to sing, my voice wasn't that great at first but I kept on trying. I also started to get into youtube and different people on youtube. So I decided at age fifteen to begin youtubing, I just talked, made random comedy videos, and made covers of songs I liked. It grew from there, i began to become more and more popular, it was what I loved to do so I continued it. I began to get requests for song covers so that's what I mostly did. But, a year ago today I met Ronald." Louis got very quiet and tense at his name. "He said he loved me at first. He didn't though, he just used me, he took everything that I loved away from me. My friends, my family and most of all my music. I still have the scars from when I tried to run."

I looked down at the last part and the draped his arm over my shoulder. I pulled my sleeve up to reveal several bruises both fading and appearing on my arm. His fingers traced the bruises lightly sending shivers up my arm and down my spine. I looked up at him, to find his eyes already glued to mine. We stayed like that for what felt like forever, but I didn't mind. It was silent but a comfortable one, nothing awkward. Not with Louis, he somehow made everything ok.

Notes

SO?! What do you think?!?!!! I'm pretty proud of this chapter. Also sarah and row are my friends and they WILL be joining this fanfic family soon. The Fanfic offer is still available, I have plenty of free time! I decided to update once a night but if i don't I'm just a little busy, especially on wednesdays. Give me your opinion guys! I still want to know if someone should be related to someone. Maybe Sarah can be Niall's childhood friend or something? Yes? No? PLEASE let me know!
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