It Was A Mistake, But I am Unbroken Now - Demi Lovato - Book 1

Chapter 8: Two Worlds Collide - Edited

Demi Lovato Fan Fiction

Book 1: It Was A Mistake But I am Unbroken Now

Book 2: Here We Go Again When Two Worlds Collide

Book 3: Love is Loud Enough to Stop Hate

Book 4: That's How You Know to Believe in Me

Chapter 8: Two Worlds Collide

This was the most nervous I have ever been in my life. I stood looking out at all of my classmates; I didn't even notice anything else. David bumped me and I brought my paper up to my eyes. I looked at what had taken me so long to write and I began to read it out loud to the class:

"First, when we were asked to write this paper, I wasn't going to do it. While I was gone this week, I started a journal. My paper is made up of journal entries.

Today I was chained to chair and saw everyone I love staring at me. I recognized the disappointment in their eyes, but my inner demons wouldn't let me care. I rattled the chains, trying to get loose. It was an intervention. Everything inside was screaming at me to lose control, a little part of me, hidden deep down inside, told me to listen. It didn't matter who I was going to listen to because I couldn't move. My dad spoke up first, and I had to answer honestly. That's when I learned that the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. I don't know what the second one is, so I'm going to create my own by mentioning where this all began.

My brother is David Stanley, the famous singer and actor but nobody knows that. The family secret was created and we were never the same, my troubles began. I started giving myself the name 'disappointment child' because the expectations had become so high. I started eating out of depression. School was never easy either. I was never popular but my classmates took it to a new extreme. My new-found 'eating habits' caused me to gain weight and I was the new student to pick on.

Years of bullying and high-expectations is what led me to start cutting myself and stop eating. I dropped lots of weight until I looked like a toothpick. My school days were spent avoiding as many people as possible and as soon as I got home, I ran to the bathroom to let out all of my frustrations. My parents always thoughts I was doing my homework. Mom brought up dinner and I threw it out the window, pretending I was too busy multi-tasking. I had no self-esteem or confidence of any kind and I was always in a bad mood.

The day the teacher gave us this assignment, he told us Demi Lovato was coming to our class. Out of curiosity and boredom, I looked her up and downloaded her latest album.  I was immediately drawn to her music, and couldn't stop listening to it. Even more, the first time I tried to cut after that, I couldn't do it. I was disappointed in myself for giving up and not being strong enough to handle it, but the truth is it was the music. It confused me so I googled her. That's when I found out about her problems."

I continued talking about everything I had learned about Demi and how it was affecting me while Demi slowly entered the classroom. I never realized it though, until after. She was at the side of the classroom out of my view.

"My intervention really helped me. David has become my best friend and helped me realize I'm not the 'disappointment child' and I never will be. I may not have pleased any of you, but that shouldn't matter. Living life is all about being happy with yourself. I'm not the same person I was before. When we were asked to do this assignment, I never considered it. Now, I'm happy to share my story because I'm letting all of you know what you missed out on. What you spent years putting down and insulting. Thanks to you, I'm stronger than everyone else in here and I'm proud, but you, you are only going to feel guilty. Guilty for bullying me and anyone else you may have bullied in the process.