Louis' long lost sister

Chapter thirty

It is now almost two weeks since I came home and we still haven't adressed the song to the fans at all. Last week we shot a music video for the boys new album. The song was Story Of My Life and I was actually in it! The boys and I are gathering in a few minutes to watch the finished product. This video was Louis' idea of how to tell the fans the truth. He said that he wanted to do it in style and when he told me his idea, I actually applauded him. Just then I heard Liam call us all down to watch the video.

We all curled onto the couches together and Liam pressed play.

I started simple with one of the guys developing a picture. Then once the music really kicked in it cut to little scenes of all the guys developing pictures in one room but at different stations. Harry bagan singing while still hanging up his pictures. Then came Liam's part. Then they showed an old picture of Zayn and his sister. Soon, the photo morphed into them in that same backdrop but they grew into present day them. The zoomed out of the picture to all of the boys jumping arounf and singing in a room filled with probably over a thousand pictures. Back to Zayn and his siter, cute little clip of Harry. More Zayn.

(I think you all know how the music video goes so I'm going to skip ahead)

The screen was showing Niall singing wiht his brother in the background. Them it cut to a picture of Louis and I when we were younger. Louis and I were sat down on my bed. Louis was holding a book that he was reading to me and looking at the camera. I, on the otherhand, was looking straight at the book, huge smile, and pointing to the page, wrist fully exposed. I could tell that it was my room becasue 1, Louis told me and 2. The name DIANA was in wooden letters on the wall. The screen appeared to be frozen on that picture for a second then Louis morphed into present day Louis, I morphed into present day me, and then the background changed. The set was so spot on that I wouldn't have even noticed the change if it weren't for the letters of DIANA changing to FREYA. I looked back to current me and saw my wrists change. They wen't from clean to scarred.

Louis stood up and moved around my "bedroom". I was frozen though. They went back to other shots of the boys and their families and towards the end, we were all able to move again and the boys could intercat with us. Zayn hugged his sister, Harry was laughing with his mom, Liam was messing with his dad, they didn't show Niall, and Louis was kissing my wrists.

For dramamtic effect, they made some of the cuts look a little more fresh even though I hadn't cut in a few weeks which is a record for me.

After the video ended, we all started clapping, even though the people who put this togther couldn't hear us.

We called Simon, who also just finished watching the video, and told him that we all loved it. Simon gave us the option to wait and build up promos for it, or just drop it spontaniously. We chose the second one. Simon hung up and told the people in charge of that stuff to upload it to youtube. Within an hour our twitters were blowing up wih questions, that we still are not answeing. Wow, I'd eally hate to be a fan right now.

Two hours later and we have gotten three offers for interviews with me and the boys and we said yes to one of them. It was Averie from that first full day with the guys. We had it scheduled for tomorrow because she said she wanted to make sure she go the full story first.

In 24 hours we found ourselves in the same chairs were were in over four months ago. This time I was going in confident and short sleeves. The seating arrangement wasn't quite the same though. On the end of the couch, closest to Averie, was Louis, then me, then Harry, then Niall, Then Liam, then Zayn was on the arm rest. The camera man started counting down from five and slowly got quieter with each number. Soon Averie began her little intro and introduced us as One Direction and Freya Tomlinson.

"So, let's cut to the chase. Yesterday you surprised your fans with the premire of a music video for your upcoming album. It was very emotional, I think we can all agree on that, but what really got us were the scenes with Louis and Freya. Let's take a look." She gestured to the little screen in front of us which was playing the same thing as the bigger screen behind us. The clips ended with a pictureof Louis kissing my wrists. "So I have some of my own questions and some fan submitted questions mixed into these note cards here so feel free to pass any of these." We all nod. "First one is to Freya, are those things on your wrist real?"

" Y-yes. They aren't 'things'. The are scars." I look to my right and ask Louis a question with my eyes. He does a small nod so I uncross my arms and slowly expose my right wrist. Averie gaspa but the boys remain neutral. I keep them exposed for just a few more seconds before placing my arms back on my lap.

"Um, next question. Can you explain the scene where the name changes on the wall?"

Louis and I look to eachother and he points to me which means I am going to answer it. "Well, before I was kidnapped my name was Diana. My kidnappers had a daughter named Freya but they lost her due to a sickness of some sort. When they took me, they renamed me Freya. I grew up with that name for seventeen years and it grew on me. When I came home, my family wanted to call me Diana but I just couldn't do it. I asked them to call me Freya and they respected that. I'll tell you all of this now I guess, the video was meant to send a message. It was to basically say, yes that song Diana is about me and everything in that song is true. Louis purposly chose that picture because my name was on the wall and the viewer could see my wrists." I took a deep breath and Averie took a second to ask her next question.

"Why did you decide to do this now? This is my own question."

"That's simple. I didn't want to hide who I was anymore. I've kept it a secret for so long and I got a little tired of it. I remember when I told the boys how much weight was lifted off my chest when I said it."

Averie nodded and asked annother question. "Another personal question, When did all of you guys find out?"

"Well, I told the boys after two months of living with them but Louis found out like a month earlier on accident."

Instead of speaking, Averie made a gesture to Louis to tell him to tell his story. "Well we were doing a twitcam and all was well but then Freya dashed out of the room. I ran after her and found her, um, cutting herself in her bathroom. I didn't say a word and just grabbed her in a hug and held her while even I calmed down. Once I thought we were both a little better, i walked her to her bde and asked her to tell me everything. She's been bullied for years. It happened at her school and it continues with our fans. I helped her clean up and asked her to stop. She didn't obviously, but she told me that she cut back a little bit. Eventually I asked her to tell the boys. It took her two weeks, but she did it eventually. Since then she opened up to the whole house much better and I couldn't be more proud of her. That's why the boys and I wrote her 'Diana'. It was our little way of telling her how much we love her. We didn't mean to release it. We wanted to avoid the stormwe've found ourselves in but somebody leaked it and there is no taking that back." Louis finished. I grabbed his left hand with my right and held his hand.

"Any general statements you would like to say?"

"I would like to say something." i said and Averie nodded. "Just because I harm myself doesn't make it okay for everybody else. I'm trying to get help and I suggest anybody else who is going through this that they seek help as well. If you don't think anybody loves you, you're wrong. Just keep searching and you will find your way."

"That was beautiful, Freya. I have one last question then. If you could, would you rub it in your bullies faces and be like 'Ha, jokes on you. I'm basically famous now.' I know I would want to.

"I have actually thought about that question many times. I know I would love to do that, but I don't want to stoop to their level. I'm sure they are regretting this by now but I don't care. I want to leave my high school days behind. The only things I've taken from those days are my friends and my knowledge."

"What a beautiful way to end this interview." Averie did a small closing and a large man int he back yelled 'And we're out'

Averie hugged us all goodbye and we were off.