simon cowell secret daughter •one direction•

Chapter 7-

Julie's POV:

The room was silent. Nobody knew what to do or say. I could tell my father was due to explode any minute now.

"What is this?" He asked, trying to keep calm, but I knew it wouldn't last long.

"I-I um... u-u-uh..." I didn't know what to say. I was panicking too much on the inside. "How did you get that...?" Words finally came to me.

"It was an anonymous message. But I'm glad that this person sent it to me. Did you really think I wouldn't have found out about this?" He asked with a scoff. "And exactly why are you still wearing glasses inside, Jules?" He stood up and walked over to all of us.

"It's because I, um...-" before I could try and make up an excuse, he took the shades off of me, and I looked down.

"It's because you're hungover. Aren't you?" He crossed his arms, and I nodded my head silently. "And I suppose you wanted to take advantage of her while she was drunk?" He turned to Niall, and showed him the picture.

"WHAT!?" I nearly screamed. "Daddy, Niall is the one who took me home last night. He took care of me, he didn't try to get me in bed with me!" I yelled, and scoffed. Ew, that's disgusting.

"Simon, I-I swear I would never try to do that with Julie. Or anyone for that matter. I respect her and I took her home with the help of Sophie." He motioned towards Sophie, who's face showed worry like everyone else's face.

"Right, Sophie." He then walked over to Sophie and faced her. "I'm very disappointed in you, Sophie." He shook his head and made his way back to his desk.

"Dad, I'm sorry..." I mumbled, feeling tears forming in my eyes.

"Really? Sorry you went 'clubbing' last night, or sorry you got caught?" He said, shaking his head. "Jiall is trending all over Twitter. Do you see what you've caused? You'll get mobbed by paparazzi!" He yelled this time, making us all jump a little.

"I can handle-" I was cut off.

"No, you can't! This has never happened to you before, I doubt you can handle this!" He ran his hand through his hair and looked back up at me. "I am so disappointed. I'm sure your mother would be too..." He trailed off. That was my breaking point. I turned around and ran out of the door, and the tears ran freely down my cheeks.

Niall's POV:

I saw Julie run out of the room, and my heart broke. I felt really bad for her, and I feel like it's all my fault. Instead of begging her to come sit back with us, we just let her stay at the bar. She and Sophie shouldn't have been able to even come in. They're underage, and I'm sure that's one of the reasons Simon is upset.

"I'm upset at each and every one of you." he spoke, not making eye contact with us. He just waved his hand, dissmissing us from his office. We all walked out with our heads hanging low, not sure what to say.

Liam's POV:

I'm sure we all felt bad for Julie. She was hungover, and being yelled at by Simon. All I can think of is who would send that picture? It's like somebody knew Julie would be in trouble, so they sent it on purpose.

*~FLASHBACK~*

I could see Harry's eyes filled with jealousy. He looked, down and went on his phone. I couldn't tell what he was doing but I saw some sort of picture with Julie and Niall last night at the club. It was a picture of Julie cupping Niall's face when she told him he was sweet, and Sophie stood behind them

*~END FLASHBACK~*

No, it couldn't be. I looked towards Harry who was just looking down at the ground. Harry would never do that to a person. Why would I even think that? I'm such a horrible person for thinking things like that.