This entire chapter is the article. It's supposed to be italicized, but my laptop is broken and I can't do it from my phone. I didn't want to wait to post it, so I'll edit that later.
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What is it exactly that makes someone either a good or bad person? I, myself, believe that everyone has both of those traits inside them, and it just depends what kind of temptations they give into. I've given into my share of bad temptations and some people may even say that I'm a horrible person for it. Maybe they're right, but there's two sides to every story, and this is mine.
I'm sure a lot of you already know me. You know me as a crew member of the This is Us filming team. You know me as the girl caught kissing Harry Styles outside of a pizzeria. Most recently you know me as half of Stouis and Louis Tomlinson's girlfriend.
I guess you could say I was all of those things, at one point or another. But what I actually am is a journalist. A journalist who was sent under cover.
So let's get to the juicy part and the main reason that you've flipped to this page. One Direction. Yes, I was sent under cover to get a story on them. I was supposed to find out secrets and expose some personal business. Yes, I agreed to do this for a paycheck.
I'm sure this is the part where you decide that I am, indeed a horrible person. I won't argue that with you. The facts don't fall into my favor.
I went in with a job to do. That job was to get close to Louis Tomlinson. Louis had just publicly gone through a break up, but the details were kept completely private. There were many conspiracy theories about why and what happened. My job was to get the details and put an end to it all. Simple enough, right?
That wasn't where my duties ended, however. I was then supposed to get him to fall for me and in the end break his heart. Again.
I'm sure if you've seen a picture of him lately you would be able to see that I've succeeded in this.
If you still weren't convinced before that I was a terrible human being, feel free to change your answer now. Believe me, I get it.
Louis did end up trusting and opening up to me. Ultimately I found out all of the things I was sent to discover. But those details are not something I'm going to share here. That isn't my story to tell.
My story is about how I ended up falling for him, too.
But you've bought this magazine and you've opened it to this page for a reason, right? Of course you have. You want me to be able to tell you something you don't know, or else you'll feel like you've been ripped off, right? I get it.
So let me expose you to the truth. The truth of Louis Tomlinson.
First of all, let me tell you how Louis and I first met. It wasn't a set up, he came into the office that I was working in for an interview. He was kind of like my night in shining armour, in a way. If you know anything about Louis you know he's a sassy little devil, but what you might not know is he uses that super power to stand up for people. I had made a coffee for my boss who complained that it was made wrong - despite my reassurance that I'd used Splenda like she asked. When she continued to chaste me for the 'mistake', Louis swooped in and saved me. He literally drank her coffee and then proceeded to tell her it was Splenda, certainly not sugar. This most definitely shut her up. For the day, at least.
By the next morning she had an agenda. She explained everything I had to do and I said no way. That was back when I valued my self respect, I suppose. But obviously I was swayed by those previously mentioned temptations. Money, of course. When you haven't got it, you'll do crazy things to get it. Trust me.
