Author notes at the end of the chapter, PLEASE READ, sorry in advance this is my first fan fiction I’ve written.      Â
Year 2020, England.
It was a not surprisingly cold afternoon in England as Louis was walking with his bodyguard along the streets of Doncaster. He had recently gotten off tour in America and had decided to take a break and come back home to visit his family whom he had not seen in a good few months.
Of course, he knew as soon as his album had dropped last year he would be hit with amazing support from his fans and be thrown into a busy schedule that consisted of interviews, tour dates and PR work, but he still couldn’t get over the fact that he had to leave his family alone yet again for months on end while he travelled the world to perform.
He wasn’t complaining though.
He knew his sacrifices not only helped himself, but his family too. He wouldn’t change a thing he has done since 2010 (disregarding the one time he called a pap a fucking looser, oops).
He could only thank whatever god there was out there for giving him this life. To actually be placed into the biggest boy band in the world is insane to think about, and be able to join a stage with his amazingly talented band mates sometimes made Louis feel like he didn’t belong there, but grateful none the less.
Speaking of one direction, Louis pauses as he heard his ringer go off from the back pocket of his Ellesse sweat pants.
He took his phone into his hand and frowned at the display of his screen showing Simon was calling.
Louis was confused. Simon hadn’t called him since his time as an X factor judge ended, he was only hoping it wasn’t another call to inform him of a stupid PR stunt that was going to take place. Honestly, Simon needed to get a grip on what century he was currently living in and realise that sexuality doesn’t define a person, Louis thought.
He hesitated for a moment before answering the call, quick to hear Simons serious tone. Oh god.
“Hello Louis”
“Simon, what do I owe you the pleasure on this fine, sunny day in Doncaster” Louis sarcastically replied.
“Louis I’ve been in the UK for long enough now to know sun doesn’t exist here, stop playing around, I have something important to discuss with you”
Louis rolled his eyes at that. Of course Simon fucking Cowell had to ruin his mood in less than a minute.
“On a scale of one to ten how serious is this, I’m kind of busy right now”
He wasn’t. He just really, really didn’t want to deal with Simons bull shit.
“Ten, so you better drop whatever plans you’re doing and sit comfortably for this one”
“Yeh sure, I will just casually sit my ass on the freezing cold pavement and catch hypothermia while you blabber on about irrelevant shit, how about that for comfortable ey?”
“Does getting the band back together sound irrelevant to you?” Simon replies with a bored tone.
This made Louis stop walking all together, confusing his body guard enough for him to ask why he’s gone so pale.
This couldn’t be happening.
His initial thought was Harry.
The boy, or man now, who he hasn’t spoken to in a year or two, the man who he once loved with all his heart, was also in the band. The band that was apparently getting back together. Shit.
He can’t face him again. Not after what happened, not after Harry had clearly stated he wanted nothing to do with him ever again. This just couldn’t be happening.
“Hey, you still there, Louis?”
Louis took a deep breath.
“Yeah, yeah, I’m here. Could you maybe repeat that again?” He asked, as though his mind was surely just playing tricks on him, they wouldn’t be getting back together this soon, right?
“The band is getting back together, it’s been far too long, the hiatus was only meant to be 18 or so months, this reunion is way overdue. I’m surprised you guys even have a fandom anymore”
“Yeah, yeah, umm right. C-can I call you back maybe, in like 15 minutes?”
“I guess so, but you’d better Tomlinson, if not I’m calling you, you need to know the details, we haven’t exactly got long to sort all this out” Simon replies, clearly annoyed with Louis’ lack of communication.
“Yeh whatever, will do” Louis then hung up the phone and contemplated changing his identity and running off to join the circus instead, he thought he’d make a pretty good showman.
“You alright?” His bodyguard asked him, noticing his spaced out look.
“Yeah lets just go back home, I need to sit down for a bit” he replied while reaching out for his cigarette pack, needing something to calm his nerves.
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15 minutes later
Louis sat down on his sofa, glad that his family were out for the day so he could ring Simon back without hassle. He took his phone and dialled the number.
“Wow, you actually called back, good for you Tomlinson” Simon smugly answered.
Louis didn’t think his eyes could roll back this far into his head but apparently he was wrong. He could practically see his brain shutting down, it must be as done with Simons shit as he was.
“For once can you maybe not insult me after every single thing I do, now get on with it, I’d rather get this talk over with so I can drown my sorrows away with alcohol”
“Sorrows? You should be pleased with this news, I thought you enjoyed being in the band?” Simon questioned, clearly confused with Louis’ lack of enthusiasm.
“Of course I enjoyed being in the band, without it I would be no one, I just didn’t enjoy” Louis stopped before he could admit his worries to Simon about his and Harry’s past.
It seems he knew anyway.
“Didn’t enjoy the tragic ending of your love with Harry, or shall I say Hazza?”
Louis could practically hear the smirk on Simons face, how fucking dare he mess with his head about his past relationship. The only reason it ended badly was because of this man who was currently mocking their love for one another. If it weren’t for him he would probably still be with Harry, would probably be married by now too if it hadn’t been ruined.
“I’m warning you Simon, I swear to god-
“What?” Simon chuckled. “What are you honestly going to do Tomlinson, I could ruin your career with a snap of my fingers so it wouldn’t be wise to threaten me now would it?”
Louis was fuming by this point, if he could expose Simon for all the shit he put not only him and Harry through, but the rest of the boys too, he would. But sadly, Simon was right, he held the power over them and has since 2010, he could ruin them if any one of them stepped out of line, it’s as if they’re all puppets tied to his string, he can make them do and say what he wants. If only he could cut that string.
“Just get on with it already” Louis bit his tongue in order to restrain himself from saying anything and everything on his mind.
“As I said earlier, there isn’t much time to get things sorted as this is on such short notice, I’d say we have about a month or so-
“A MONTH!?” Louis exclaimed, short bloody notice? How is he ever going to get his shit together in just a month to be ready for what’s coming? He had to be joking.
“Yes Louis, nice to know you have ears. Now if you would kindly not interrupt me I can tell you what’s going to happen and why” Simon pauses before continuing.
“The fans have waited long enough for the reunion and with the rumours of you getting back together in 2020, we thought why not make this “rumour” a reality. Of course you all might have important plans ahead revolving around your solo careers, however, management and I believe this is more important if you want to stay relevant in the industry.”
“Hold on a sec. You’re basically telling me right now that we didn’t make it big enough as solo artists? Sorry si but in my opinion we all did pretty good for ourselves, taking into account all the awards we’ve been wining on our own, and not to mention the success I had after the X factor last year, Jesus, I was a better judge than you” Louis slyly replies, if Simon is going to talk shit about his career then he may as well do the same to him.
“Not better than David Walliams though, I believe he got the title of best judge?”
“Oh what, your lover boy? Not surprised you would stick up for him, hows that going ey Simon?” Sorry but, he walked right into that one.
“There’s only one fag between me and you Tomlinson and I think we will find you’re the one who likes it up the ass”
By this point louis seriously needed this call to end before he insults Simon and throws his phone against the nearest wall. This man needed a brain to mouth filter.
“Don’t ever use that word towards me or anyone again, do you even realise how offensive that is? You’re taking the piss out of a persons sexuality, a thing they can’t exactly change in case you didn’t notice. People of this community are braver than you’ll ever be just for being themselves, I would to if management actually let me come out for god sake”
“It’s for your own good, if you came out your reputation would be ruined, do you honestly think people would listen to your music if they knew every love song you’ve ever written were for a man? You’d be a joke to the industry”
“No Simon I don’t believe that, that’s just you and your old fashioned ways. We’re in 2020, grow the fuck up already” Louis says, slowly loosing his temper. This man was intolerable.
“I don’t need to listen to your immature comments when I could be telling you the rest of the details. Now where was I, oh yeh, we think it’s best for you to have the reunion as soon as possible to stay relevant, if we don’t do this now you’ll have no fans to come back to in the future.” He paused before continuing.
“First of all we are going to give a few hints on social media to slowly get the fans excited, this way they will be ready for the date that the tickets will drop for your made in the A.M tour which will be worldwide and the first concert will be streamed live on television.”
Louis nodded along even though Simon couldn’t see him, giving him a few “mhms” in between.
“While on tour obviously you will be singing your albums songs, however you will also each individually be singing your solo songs one at a time, you can pick any song you’d like to perform while the rest of the boys sit at the back of the stage, they could also sing one of your songs with you and vice versa”
“Secondly, all of you will be starring in a second carpool karaoke with James Corden where he will pick you all up individually, while in the car he will be asking questions about the upcoming tour and again you will sing each other’s songs as well as your own. This will take place before your tour and will be your first ever appearance as a band together for the fans, we actually got this idea from them on social media begging management and James himself to set it up, genius really”
“Oh how original” Louis sarcastically cuts in.
Simon rolled his eyes and chose to ignore the comment.
“You will be doing promo and interviews before the tour as well with people such as Allan Carr and jimmy Fallon, probably play a few of them silly games here and there while on their shows as per usual” Simon scoffed.
“This is all we know so far, you will need to get in touch with management so they can let you know specific dates and when you and the boys will be meeting up for the first time, apart from that do you have any questions?”
“Did they all agree to this” Louis quickly asks, he’s been dying to find out if they had, dying to find out if one of the boys had in particular.
“Yes they have, you’re actually the last person I’ve spoken to about the matter. I knew you’d be the most problematic so I saved you till the end to prepare myself for your snarky comments”
Louis was honestly about to crush his phone with how tightly he was holding it, he just wanted to know one more thing before he could end this fucking call.
“Did- did he agree?” he didn’t even need to say his name for Simon to know who he was talking about. What with their past and all.
“Yes surprisingly he did, quite a different man now though, sure he puts on his act while on tour but jeez you must have messed him up big time” Simon replies dramatically.
Louis was confused, yes he messed up, yes Harry has every right to be angry with him, but messed him up? What does that even mean?
“W-what do you mean by that?”
“Sounded so cold, like, no emotion whatsoever, the call only lasted about 5 minutes, he just said ok and then hung up, quite different from the bubbly lad I used to know”
This made Louis’ heart break. If what he was hearing was true it was all his fault. He knew he should have tried contacting him. But he also respected his wishes to not speak to him ever again. He couldn’t blame him for hating him so much, but he didn’t want to have this much of an effect on the tall lad with curly hair and green eyes, although he wouldn’t even know if he looked that way anymore as he stayed far away from any news or pictures of him, he couldn’t bare to look at the person who he had caused so much pain.
“Is he okay?” Louis timidly asked.
“Far from it, he doesn’t even speak to any of the other lads any more, or so I’ve heard, anyway if that’s everything then I’m going to end this call, it’s gone on far too long for my liking, goodbye Tomlinson and don’t forget to contact management”
With that he ended the call and left Louis to stare at his living room wall for the next 20 minutes, guilt flooding his mind.
Author notes:
I’m honestly not sure how to feel about this first chapter as it’s my first time writing a fan fiction. I’ve been wanting to write this plot for ages but was too scared I would get hate or wouldn’t stay committed to it. I’m sorry if there are any grammar or spelling mistakes and I’d also again just want to remind you that I do not support any of the foul language towards the LGBTQ+ community, it is just fictional and a trait of Simons character in this book. I’m not even sure if I’m going to post this but if your reading this then I guess I had enough courage to do it and I hope you enjoy reading as much as I enjoy writing this. Love you all xxx
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