WHAT IF [L.S]

TWENTY

CHAPTER TWENTY

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Even though Gemma's spare bed wasn't as cozy as mine nor I had Louis to sleep by my side, I stayed at her house for the following nights until the event.
I figured to ultimate details and checked everything was in place.

That very morning I asked Gemma for a big favour. I didn't want to leave Liam or Niall out of this, so I asked her to talk to them since I couldn't.
She explained to them both what was going to happen later today. Niall wasn't very sure, he told her he was afraid, I can't blame him. I'm afraid too.
Liam, on the other hand, was quite excited, he always wanted to help when it came to Louis and I.

So that was one more person that would help.
And everything was on track.

The exposing day began with the girls of Fifth Harmony making an Instagram live, each one of them at the time. They exposed every cruelty the management has ever done to them during the past years. Those videos became viral minutes after.
That was when Ashton Irwin made a public confession on Twitter under the hashtag #exposingday about the times they shared tour with us, telling the world how many things they restricted about Louis and I, how they trained us to be robots, to not show anything to the eye of the public.

Before lunch, Jade Thirlwall and Perrie Edwards shared a YouTube live video, confirming every single thing about Simon Cowell and the rumors about him.
They also asked everyone to keep talking and exposing SYCO MUSIC. Now was the time to speak.

In the social media, every fandom started to complain, to send those assholes to prison for being misogynists and discriminators.
The trending topic continued as a lot of famous singers and actors, producers and ex partners of Simon Cowell started sharing their experiences as well.

Everything was turning as planned.
Even the fans had come up with another hashtag that was also trending topic: #cancelmodest2021, everyone was talking about it and I was proud to see it was all coming from my idea.

By noon, I was still at Gemma's house, waiting for my time to talk on James' show. I was ignoring Louis today, he kept calling though.

At seven PM, Zayn announced on his Twitter account he was going to talk as well.
The interview with Nick Grimshaw started minutes later.
It was his first time talking in public, and he was doing it for us. I couldn't be more grateful to him. He talked about everything, it lasted about an hour and a half, he even cried. I mean he suffered from racism during One Direction years, so it wasn't easy for him either.

After the interview ended I sent him a text, thanking him.

I was the only left now. My interview started at eleven pm and I was damn ready.

By the time eleven pm arrived, I was already at my dressing room, and Louis kept calling me. I hadn't talked to him since the night before, so I decided to send him a message before the show started, because he was probably freaking out.

"Sorry baby for ignoring you. It'd be worth it. Please tune the late late show :) X."

And with that I turned my cell phone off.

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The show had already started, music and lights on the lounge. The audience was crowded. And James was about to present me.
My letter in my hand and my heart beating as fast as it could.
I entered the lounge and the lights immediately pointed at me.
I stood in front of the mic in the middle of the stage and waited for the audience to stop clapping so I could start reading my letter.

"Goodnight everyone. I'm Harry Styles, and tonight I want to tell you all a few things. I'm pretty sure you all know what happened today with several artists around the world, all of them united to expose some really mean people in the industry.
Well, I can't keep my mouth shut about it either. I was involved in it. Those people hurt me a lot in my personal life. And now they are doing everything in their power to take my music too.
Last week they made me sign some papers to not speak about this, but I really can't. The world needs to know how awful they actually are, and how much money they make by hurting the artists that work under their labels.
So, I'm going to make all of this public, because I can't lose anything else.
These labels are taking my name, all my songs and the effort I put in them for the past years, they took my dignity and my rights, and besides all that they want to shut my voice by not letting me speak. All of this because of what? Because I love a man.
All of this started because I loved Louis, and they didn't want that. They tried to correct us, to make us break up, they forced us to keep silence.
I'm sorry, but I won't be silent anymore.
I'm not going to let they take my music, or Louis's, because our art is the way we express ourselves, it's the main reason we're here today.
So I'm exposing this because I want them to understand that I won't give up until I have all my rights back."

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Ok, I can't tell you how hard was to write this chapter. My heart hurts.
Hope everyone is fine! You know we can always talk if you feel like :)
Mag 🦋