Harry, Liam and I had decided to have a lazy day in, seeing how Carli and Niall were out on a date, again. When they got here, they had each brought a movie with them. Liam had Toy Story, and Harry had Love, Actually. Nana had left a few days ago, and we were all a little sad. The boys had really liked Nana and vice versa. To cheer Carli up, Niall had decided to take her on a date. I called, Liam, being bored out of my mind, and a few minutes later he and Harry had shown up with movies. We argued for a good fifteen minutes about what movie we should watch. I eventually just slipped up to my room and popped in Peter Pan. I curled up in my bed, mouthing every single word, which I knew by heart. When 'You Can Fly' came on I sat up, and belted out the lyrics, throwing my hands in the air. The boys ran into my room, and started to sing with me, all of us terribly off pitch. We all fell over laughing and then settled in to watch my movie. After a good half hour, the home phone rang.
I reluctantly climbed out of the bed and slumped into the living room. "Helloooooooo?" I sang into the phone.
"Hello Illiana." I flinched at the sound of my 'proper name' my mother made up instead of just Ily. "Have you spoken with your grandmother since she arrived Home, you know the place you should be?"
"No, not since she called and said she landed." I said suddenly feeling guilty, not only for not checking up on Nana, but for moving away.
"I'd have assumed she informed you. Your grandmother was sent to the hospital the day after she got home. She currently she is in the ICU. "
"Oh my god." I said stunned. "Is she okay?" I asked, dumbstruck, and feeling like I was going to faint.
"Of course not you idiot, she's in the ICU." my mother said coldly.
"What happened?"
"Her kidneys aren't working and she's back on dialysis. She's not taking to the treatments, and her heart patterns are erratic. You two better get your asses down here before she dies." and with that she hung up.
I sighed and sat there on the floor, wondering if my mother was over exaggerating, trying to scare me. I must have sat there deliberating for a while, because Liam came out to find me sitting there, curled up in a ball, lost in thought.
"Ily, babe, are you okay?" he asked, squatting down and rubbing my back.
"No, no I'm not." I said shaking my head. "Nana's in the hospital. I don't think that it's too serious, but I still wanna go and see her." Liam looked at my face, studying for a moment. "I'll go and call Paul, and have him arrange plane tickets for us."
"Liam, I I can't let you do that." He quickly started to protest, but I held up my hand. "You have the new album to work on, and the boys are depending on you. I can't take you away from that" I said, trying to hold in the tears, and failing miserably.
He reached his hand out, and carefully wiped a tear away from my cheek. Without another word, he stood up and called Paul. "Hey, Paul, I need five tickets to the states as soon as possible."
I sighed, knowing fighting it was pointless. Harry, Liam, Carli, Niall and I were all headed back to the states. I got out my duffel and started willy nilly throwing clothes into it. Harry gave me a curious look and I explained the situation to him.
He gave me a weak smile and then went to his room. He came back five minutes later with his own duffel full of clothes. I looked at him curiously. "I never even said you were coming." I said.
He gave me a sheepish smile "I just assumed that you'd want me to come." He picked up his duffel and started to walk out of the room, looking deflated.
I grabbed his hand, and snatched the duffel away from him. "I never said I didn't want you there." after all three of us were done packing the three of us sat on the couch in complete and utter silence. I think at one point I started to cry a little. Nobody noticed, and a few minutes later, Carli and Niall walked into our flat. I was still in partial shock, so Liam stood up and broke the news to her. She burst into tears and ran to her bedroom. I followed her in there and helped her pack her clothes, because she couldn't see anything through all the tears. After we were finished with her suitcase we sat there on the bed in silence. A while later, Liam came in and told us it was time to go. We walked out into the living room. I walked over to where I had left my duffel, and I saw it wasn't there. "Guys, where is my duffel." Liam lifted his hands, and in them was my duffel along with his, and Carli's. We both gave him the biggest smile that we could manage, and we headed down to the car. We hopped in and found Louis and Zayn with Perrie and Elenor. Harry drove us all towards he airport. We got there, and were practically mobbed by fans. Harry grabbed my hand and started to pull me through the crowd. I grabbed for Liam who grabbed for Niall, and on and on, until we had formed a chain. We all pushed through until we arrived at the terminal for the plane. We walked right onto the plane without having to wait for anyone else. When we walked onto the plane, I noticed it wasn't a regular plane, but it had benches and tables and a lot of stuff that even first class didn't have.
"Liam, what kind of a plane is this?" I asked, confused.
"It's well.. It's the jet that we use for when we are touring." Liam said almost sheepishly.
"Wow, this is..." I trailed off, not knowing the words for the plane. "Huge." and it was. I had never seen anything like it.
They all chuckled and shook their heads at me, even Carli. I flopped down onto one of the benches, soon followed by Harry and Liam. I gave them a small smile and laid my head on Liam's shoulder. After a few minutes I was drifting off to sleep, and I didn't want to bother him, so adjusted myself to lean against the back of the seat. He gave me a confused look and gently laid my head back on his shoulder.
"What are you doing?" I asked Liam, confused
"I like it when girls sleep on me. I think its adorable." Liam said and stroked my hair softly. Carli let out an 'awwww' simultaneously with Harry's 'I cant believe this is happening right now' snort. Carli and I shot him death glares and with that I drifted off to sleep.
I awoke to Liam gently shaking me awake. "Ily, we are in Cleveland. You need to wake up." I nodded and sat up. We got our luggage, and when I went to grab for mine, Liam slapped my hand away and gave me stern look. I raised an eyebrow at him and shrugged, knowing fighting was pointless. We had to take three cars. Liam Harry and I all piled into one. Carli Niall and Zayn were in another. And Louis, Eleanor, and Perrie were in the last car. It took us almost two hours to get to my house, but when we did, I saw Aunt Dani's car in the drive way. I pulled out my phone and called Carli. When she picked up, we both squealed. As soon as the cars stopped, we both sprinted for the door and tackled my aunt.
Aunt Dani had been the only other person besides Nana and Carli who had been there for me throughout my entire childhood. It had been hard, because she lived almost an hour away, but when I really needed her, she was always there.
"Hi girls... crushing... ribs" she coughed out. We both released her and stood there beaming up at her. Well, I literally beamed up at her. I was pretty short, around 5'5, and I was the shortest of my family. The rest of my family was pretty tall and so was Carli so I was always the midget. I was shorter than all of the boys too, when you thought about it.
I felt bad about leaving the boys with all of the luggage so I turned around to get my luggage out of the rental cars, running smack into Liam, again.
He dropped the luggage and quickly set me back on my feet. "You seem to have a bad habit of doing that." He chuckled. I felt my face get profusely hot and red. I reached for the bags, hurrying up the stairs to my old room. I collapsed on my bed, not realizing until that moment how much I had missed it. I felt the mattress shift underneath me, and I looked over to Liam glancing around the room. I sat up and took in my old room. I had deep purple walls, and a really light pink bed spread. There was a hammock in the corner of my room, and a desk was pushed in the other corner. The was a really fuzzy rug in the very middle covering the majority of the white carpet.
I was getting tired, probably from jet lag. I leaned my head on Liam's shoulder and closed my eyes. The last thing I remember is him laying me down on the bed, pulling up the covers and whispering goodnight.
The next day when I came downstairs, the boys, Eleanor and Perrie, Carli, and aunt Dani all around the table, eating french toast bacon and eggs. I grinned, and since nobody noticed me, I quietly slipped into the living room and plopped down on the couch. I sat, enjoying the dull roar of all the voices coming from the dining room.
It was a nice kind of white noise, it sounded happy, even though I couldn't hear what they were saying. I laid my head on the arm of the couch and I was almost asleep when I heard Aunt Dani's voice "You better not be falling asleep on me now." she said. I heard the smile in her voice. With no warning, I jumped on my aunt and wrapped her in a huge bear hug. "I missed you too monkey" we just sat on the couch for a few minutes until she nudged me. "One, I cant belvive you actually met them. Two they are even more polite than you descibed them! They helped Carli unpack and Liam, he put all of your clothes away for you and the cooked breakfast for everyone. It was delicious, by the way. Ily, what's going on with you and Liam?"
I gave her a small sideways glance and I could feel my face blushing. "We're friends." I said cautiously.
"Oh my god, Keegan all over again. He likes you so much. How could you not see it?" I opened my mouth to say something, anything, but nothing could come out. Did Liam really like me? No, no no no no. it couldn't be. He could have anyone he wants, why would he even want me? Why- my thought was cut off by my 'lovely' mother's voice.
"Well, well, well, you come home for your grandmother and you can't leave the heartthrobs at home?" my mother said. We had never had the best relationship, and even though I had grown up with these kind of comments, they still hurt me, and this one hurt really bad. She had insulted my friends... what if Liam had heard that... I couldn't stand the thought. I leapt off of the couch and dashed for my room. I heard the chairs scoot out from under the kitchen table. A few minutes later I heard a single knock on my door. "Come in." I muttered. I could tell the person on the other side of the door hesitated, because it took a few seconds before I could see who it was.