They were all shouting questions at me, I felt so intimidated. "Did you kill that little boy?" I can't even drive, that's not fair. "No, he's alive and well. He's very smiley and I'm happy to say he'll be okay." I was joined by Katie and Louis.
"Wow this is mental!" Katie exclaimed.
"I know right?" Louis agreed.
"Are you worried about what the public think of you and that you might lose votes over this?" Katie and I looked at each other and then shook our heads.
"No, this isn't about the competition. We're just happy Sam will be okay and is recovering." We pushed our way past the paparazzi and got into Louis' car. "I wish none of that happened man," Katie sighed.
"I know, so do all of us."
Louis just looked at us, I don't think he knew what to say. "It must be hard for you guys, don't worry though. Us boys have always got your backs!" he winked. I smiled at him and looked out the car window; I couldn't really think straight, so many things were going through my mind.
"I'm very disappointed in you all." Simon shook his head at us while pacing in front of us. "I put all my faith in you girls by giving you a lifeline and this happens. Bloody brilliant," He sat down on the chair opposite us and put his head in his hands.
"I'd just like to apologize, it was none of them, it was me driving the car and I'm the one you should be blaming…" Caitlin explained.
"No, we were all in the car!" Gillian protested.
"I don't care who it was that was driving, the fact is you were all there when that little boy got hit and now you're paying for it. The press are nasty people and its going to affect the votes dramatically," Simon sighed, "We have to think of a plan to get around this. Really? I thought I was selfish for thinking about votes for a second but even Uncle Simon was too. Sam was still in hospital and we were having a meeting about getting votes, it seemed so unfair. I didn't say anything of course, Simon can be lovely but he is scary at times…well most of the time.
"I have it!" Simon was beaming from ear to ear.
"Gossip. Its what the public want to hear… if there's a couple within the competition then the fans might want to keep both acts in so they can stay together. Even better if both acts were mine," he winked and looked straight to Bex.
"Why are you looking at me?" Bex exclaimed.
"Well… we all know you and Harry have been flirting," Simon smirked. What the fuck?
"No way, One Direction fans are crazy! They'll hate us and vote us off!" Caitlin panicked.
"Not if we do this properly… I've spoken to Harry already and he said he was okay with it. It's just a couple of hugs and handholds for the paparazzi, no big deal. I can talk to people to get the rumours flowing… So Bex would you be okay with it?" I immediately looked at Katie after Simon said this, she looked blank. Well, I definitely knew one person who wasn't happy about it. Bex nodded slowly.
I'm not sure I liked this whole thing, it was all so fake. It seems great to be in the limelight when you're "normal", not that I wasn't normal now but I couldn't do much without getting noticed.
"Here at Xtra Factor we always try our best to give you the exclusives, right Olly?"
"Right Caroline!"
"And we have news for you, Olly and I are going out…" A gasp could be heard, obviously fake because us and the crew knew what was coming next.
"For drinks after the show… with two of our contestants," Olly looked dramatically at all of us, the contestants were all sitting in the seats beside them.
"Now, rumour has it two people in this room have been getting very cosy!" Caroline smirked.
"Yeah, you and Olly." Louis grinned, immediately followed by laughter by all of us, causing the two of them to go bright red. Cute.
"No… Harry, Bex… have you two got anything to say about this?" They ran a video clip of the two of them leaving the house holding hands, staged obviously.
"Just two friends looking out for eachother, having fun obviously!" Harry was pretty good at acting, I have to say.
"Because all "friends" hold hands like that…" Aiden piped in sarcastically. I couldn't help but laugh at that, this resulted in everyone staring at me like I was some sort of idiot. "Sorry!" I smiled innocently.
"You can believe what you want, that's all I'm saying." Bex spoke and the crew all ooooh'd. Everyone was fake laughing, I looked at Katie and I could tell she was so pissed off. Its all fake, I hate it.
After the show had finished, I got the car back to the house with the girls. "Well done girls, we're safe for another week!" Caitlin beamed. Sure, I was happy we were still here but if it was because of Bex and Harry and not the music then I don't think it was fair. "This calls for a PARTYYYYYYYYYYYY!" Bex yelled grinning, all of us cheered and then laughed at ourselves.
"Wow this is so cheesy, its something you'd see in a movie or on tv," I laughed.
"Helen, we are on television," Gillian giggled at me. Don't I know it… I shouldn't complain, I really shouldn't - I want to be known for music though and not because one of my bandmates was going out with this person or because our car was in an accident. I don't want this whole thing to be fake but maybe it is? Maybe everything we see on television, our idols, celebrities everywhere are all fake.