Anna || HS

CHAPTER 40

~April 2014~
Anna- 19/20
Harry- 20

Anna POV:

The month following the interview was exactly as Jon warned me it would be. I'd taken the week off from work, just to allow things to die down, and give time for Jon to get the appropriate people in place before I tried to go back to my normal daily routine. I take that back. I knew, all too well, that things were never going back to the 'normal' I knew before.

Mom, Sofie, Gram, Oma and Papa knew that I was planning to go back to Anna Campbell, so I'd given them a heads up when we knew the pictures and interviews were going to go live. Luckily, not much happened with them, on the invasion of privacy front. It's still confusing to me that people haven't connected Sofie CAMPBELL at NYU back to me.

Harry and I continued to refuse to answer any further questions pertaining to our personal relationship outside of the two interviews we granted. There wasn't anything else that we wanted to say on the subject, and after a month, people started to give up and it finally started to died down a little bit.

At work, the owners were incredible, working with Jon and his security team to ensure that everyone could come and go from the office without paps getting too pushy. They even allowed for me to meet some clients away from the office, to keep everything running as smoothly as possible in those first weeks after the news broke.

Obviously, people at work had a lot of questions, and rather than field them individually, I decided to face them head on. First in L.A., and then in New York. In each case, I gathered the people I worked with (both people who knew my connection to Harry and those that didn't) in the conference room and allowed them to ask me questions, with one caveat- after today, they must keep the questions about Harry to a minimum. They were also asked to sign an NDA from Jon, preventing them from selling/divulging any private information they learn through having working relationship with me.

"So, you are Anna Campbell?" Tom asked.

"Yes, I am Anna Berg Campbell. Officially that is my name." I told him.

"And, your car service. Your apartment. Is that all his?" he added to his inquiry, feeling vindicated for his original suspicions being dead on.

I simply nod to that, then added, "and no I will not be hosting any parties there, or having anyone over, out of respect for his privacy, and I ask that you respect that, as well."

"Did you actually date him?" Nicole asked me.

"Yes."

"And the baby?"

"Yes, that is true, as well." Clearly they had all done a deep dive on the internet after the news broke.

"So are you together as a couple now?" another intern, Arden, asked.

"Currently, no- we are just friends."

"Can you get us into a 1-D concert?" Nicole asked, earning herself a hard hand smacked in the shoulder from Alli.

"Yeah, I can probably do that." I smirked towards her, because she already knew the answer to that question, but I do enjoy the fan girl aspect of her personality coming out to ply this morning.

The questions continued, and we cover pretty much everything that was splashed across the tabloids and clarify all that I feel comfortable clarifying. I don't answer any questions about Harry that don't have anything to do with me, because it's not my place, and on that subject they were all very understanding.

After the meetings, I finally felt like the chatter at work calmed down, as we were all on the same page about who I was, for once.

~April 12th, 2014: Morning~