Hi. I’m Demi Lovato. And this is where our story begins. I’m 20 years old, and I live with my parents still. I’ve struggled to get by after my ex boyfriend hurt me. I live in Los Angeles, California. I love it here. You meet new people and you see new places. I met a new person. He was an amazing boyfriend at first. But then, he got abusive. So abusive that some nights I wouldn’t sleep. I’m gonna tell you that story. They say that it takes a strong woman to stay with a boyfriend like that. But I still came out strong. And to this day, I am invincible.
It all started in the summer of ‘09. It was a hot july day and I wanted to go to an amusement park with my friends. I had stayed in the house for more than three days and I needed to get out. “C’mon. I’m lazy today”, Niall said sitting on the couch. I hit him in the ribs, and he’s automatically up. “Alright. Fine. We’ll go to Disney” he said getting his shoes on. Zayn and Liam came downstairs from my room and looked very confused. “Um. What’s Niall doing getting his stuff on?” Liam asked. Niall turned around to face Zayn and Liam. “Oh, Demi wanted to go to Disney today”, Niall said. Liam gave me a thumbs up. “Sure. OK by me”, he said. Zayn rolled his eyes in disgust. “Do we have to? The park is for little kids.” He said. I got my shoes and sat down. “Yes, it is”, Liam said. “But there are other things at Disney that we could see”, Zayn rolled his eyes again. I swear, he’s the master at eye rolling. “I just want to stay home and watch movies”. He said. Niall threw his hands up in the air. “Fine”, he said in his Irish accent. “You can stay here. We’ll go to Disney”. I pushed Niall out the way and approached Zayn’s tan face. “Um, no. You’re coming to Disney with us” I said. Again, another eye roll. “Fine. I’ll come with you. But I won’t like it”. He said finding his shoes. I gazed at him with a look of disgust. “Don’t make him more angry than he already is, Demi”. Liam said, pulling me away from him. Finally, we’re out to having a great time.
Please don’t ask me why I don’t like Zayn. I just don’t. We were friends for a very long time. Like, we were best friends. But you know drama. I said something about Zayn to one of his family members and he stopped talking to me since. Especially when I started dating the guy that abused me. But I’ll get that later. We parked in a decent spot. Not far away and not too close. Just right and we headed into the park. There was a cute guy standing in the window. He had brown curly hair and he looked really depressed. I wondered if he just wanted to go home or he hated his job. As we approached him more, he had what looked like a penis nose. I tried to hold in my laughter, but I couldn’t help it.”Good afternoon, my good sir. Four tickets for the lovely gentlemen and the lady”. Liam said. The guy looked right at me and I put my head down. “Sure”, he said getting the tickets ready. When he wasn’t looking, I took a look at his nametag. Harry. That was his name. Yeah, that was the guy that I dated who hurt me. He abused me. I didn’t know that this guy would completely shatter me like that. He seemed really nice in the beginning. “Here you guys are. That’ll be $87.00 please.” he said. I watched Liam hand Harry the money and open the gate. Harry gave us the tickets and stamped us, and we were off. Off to Civilization. I hadn’t noticed that Harry was following us, but when he did he came up to me and said "Hey, you look like you could use a date tonight". I stared at him while the boys laughed their asses off. "Seriously, can I take you out tonight? I'm not working". I just nodded my head like an idiot and said "Sure, that'd be great". I almost walked away. "Hey, I didn't get your name". He said. I turned around and said "Demi", and I walked away.
