Animal

Chapter 12: Interview with a Girlfriend Part 2

"Ah and here they are. The lovely ladies of the One Direction boys. Ah Rosie, lovely to see you again. Brooke, looking as fabulous as usual." He greets them both with hugs and kisses. "And you my dear must be Lydia. It's my absolute pleasure to meet you."

"Trust me the pleasure is all mine." I say politely. I might as well play ball. He leads us over to the couch and we all take a seat with Rosie in the middle and me closest to Alan.

"So ladies, how are you all? Swell, I presume now that you're with your lover boys."

"Yeah it's great to be back with them. We've missed hanging out with them."

"And doing other stuff with them." He says with an obnoxious wink. That gets the crowd laughing.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Rosie answers with an obnoxious grin and the crowd laughs again.

"Of course you don't. So, social media outlets blew up earlier today when you girls went shopping. Is it still weird being thrown into the spotlight because of your less-famous-and-less-fabulous-than-me boyfriends?" We laughed a bit with the crowd.

"Yes. It's not as weird as when we first started because we're a bit more used to it. It's still weird in that one moment we're just normal people working and hanging out with friends, and then the next we're taking pictures with fans and going to award shows." Brooke answers gracefully and I shoot her a quick thumbs up.

"But imagine how much crazier it would be if we were dating you." says Rosie.

"Oh god. You're absolutely right. If only I liked girls." The crowd went mad. I was glad to see that he was receiving a warm welcome from the crowd. "But yeah it's a bit different from your regular 9am-5pm? Haha. Now Lydia how have the fans been treating you?"

"The fans have been really great. I still find it a little odd that they actually want to take pictures with me and are enthusiastic about it too. Like I'm just an assistant, well I guess now I'm a bit more but still like I don't do anything." I shrug my shoulders.

"Oh you and your lies! Well at least Zayn finally got with someone who can teach him how to be humble eh." Alan wiggles his eyebrows. "With all of your awards you can't say you don't do anything. What motivates you to do so much?" Rosie and Brooke shoot me curious glances. I look off to the side to see Harry smiling proudly. It's been a long time but he's still one of the only people who knows me completely.

"I think it's because I've been there. People see my wealth and automatically assume that I come from a wealthy family. That's simply not true. I came from an impoverished family so I know what it's like to shower in the dark because you can't pay your light bill or what's like to go to sleep hungry because there's no food in the house. I've been through many struggles in life and I just like to give back to good causes so personal experience motivates me."

"So how were you able to escape poverty?"

"Mother remarried." I say with a grin and the crowd laughs. "Actually I came into some wealth and decided to invest my money and educate myself in business. Since then, I've accumulated quite a fortune."

"Yes. When I looked you up, I saw that you make very generous donations to charities ranging from feeding the homeless to stem cell research. Between your work in business and in anthropology, how do you to balance it all?" Alan asks.

"Simple. I'm Wonderwoman." The crowd starts laughing as well as Alan. "No. I actually have the best personal assistant in the world and he is amazing at what he does. He keeps me on schedule and when he can't travel with me, he still keeps me posted on all business affairs. I'm pretty much on top of most of that stuff because my phone is like an arm extension haha and we communicate information and keep things running as smooth as possible." I state. This interview is going better than I expected. It feels just like any other business interview I've done.