You're Still Perfect

Chapter 8 - Success?

We stepped back into the studio after the couple weeks of break we took. We were trying to make our new album 'Take Me Home'. Of course like usual Niall is standing at the mic recording in just his underwear. He says it helps him sing better, but I think it is just his excuse for everyone to check out his butt. Sadly that's not shocking. I walked into the studio and Simon handed me the new song that they were writing. We were working on our second album so we were trying to help write it. We weren't very good at it, but they did use some of the ideas that we put out there. We were also still learning. Writing music was tough. We didn't really know what we were doing. Even though we already wrote one album doesn't mean we actually wrote it. We had producers and writers for us. We just sang it. With this one it was kinda the same, but if we didn't like something we could put in ideas. It seems like every week we were gaining more and more fans. Leaving to go anywhere was scary as hell. They were everywhere, you couldn't go 5 minutes without a body guard next to you. It's not like they were trying to hurt us, they just really wanted to meet us.

With this new album came more meetings with Simon and Modest. They were as annoying as ever. It was "oh you guys need to do this, and you guys need to do that". Interviews were the hardest and it causes some tension between us. But, when we got home we worked out all of that tension from interviews and lying all day. I would go home and hop on twitter and see what our fans were up to and my twitter timeline would be filled with the 'Top 20 Larry Stylinson Proofs'. You watch and read them and it's like "how do they pick up on that, or how did they see that?". It's crazy what the fans can see and what they can pick up on. It doesn't really bother me and Harry. The sucky part is when the anti's think that 'Larries' are ruining our friendship, we can't tell them that they aren't. The only people ruining a relationship are Simon and Modest. They really didn't understand that keeping us apart just made it all the more obvious. We could've at least been able to interact on stage, but NO! that would have made it obvious. Simon was just being annoying at that point.

Hiding ourselves was what gave us all this "success". The truth was I would have given it all up to have people knowing who I'm really in love with. Simon had us all sign a contract for 2 years with him and he made us sign it again because we were his biggest income right now. If we screwed up it would fall back on him. Sometimes I would do certain things that weren't that bad, but he would get told off for them and he couldn't yell at me. Small little things to get under his skin. Like the quiet dirty jokes that they can still hear, or things that would just press his buttons. Just small things, nothing too catastrophic.