My Long Lost Sister

Chapter 6

-Liam-

I kept my head down, trying to fight the tears that were spurting out of my eyes, almost as fast as a melted icecream cone on a sunny day. The tears refused to stay inside, as they began to flow down my cold cheeks.

Then I heard my phone ring. I turned away, not wanting to answer it.

My sister was dead.

What the hell even mattered anymore?

I litterally met her a few days ago, and she was already gone. Just the thought of that made me weep harder.

Zayn stared at my phone and picked it up, he started to nudge me. I kept my head down, not wanting my bandmate to see me breaking down.

Usually, I was the strong one. When Harry was nervous on stage, I was the one to comfort him, when Niall had gotten hate on twitter, I had been the one to tell him everything was going to be alright. Now that I was breaking....................I could let anyone see me like that.

"LIAM ITS LEIA" Zayn screamed, excitement entering his voice.

Immedietly I jerked upwards and glared at Zayn, "is this a joke..........?".

"NO YOU IDIOT" Zayn said thrusting the phone in my direction, "ITS LEIA".

Without another word, I grabbed the phone and pressed it to my ear, my stomach bubbling with hope. Could it really be?

"L.......Leia?" I said, into the phone, praying that this was not a joke.......praying that she was actually on the other side of the phone.

"Liam?" she said, her voice sounded slightly uneasy, almost like she'd been crying for a while.

"YOUR ALIVE, Oh god, Leia.....I thought you died".

"Really?" Leia said, "I didn't think you'd really care...........let alone know, how did you know?".

"It was on the news! And of course I do..........your my..........." I stopped myself realizing  that she didn't exactly know I was her brother, this wasn't the right time or place to tell her.

"I'm your what....." she said, her voice, faltering slowly as she spoke every word. It was almost like she'd been crying as well.

"THAT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER YOURR ALIVE" I said, my body slowly, cooling down, my temprature returning to normal, "wait, I said..........where are you? Are you with the other kids, were their any deaths?" I said, speeding, not even pausing to take a breath. 

"That's kind of why I called, me and Katie need a place to stay............and is it too much to ask if we could stay with you? Only untill we find a pl.......".

I didn't even let her finish. "YES" I said screaming into the phone, not even trying to control the happiness of my sister being alive, bubbling in my stomach.

"Really? And it won't be too much trouble?" Leia said, a questioning tone playing in her voice.

"No, it won't, not at all......." I said, biting my lip to keep myself from screaming again.

"Wow" Leia said, sounding surprised, "thanks Liam.........I met you a few days ago and your already letting me stay with you?.........that's really nice, I don't know what I'd do without you".

"Don't worry about it" I said, smiling to myself.

Me and Leia talked for another 5 minutes. I gave her my address and she said her and her friend will be coming  today night. She told me that her and Katie were the only survivors in the fire, and if she hadn't come for her, Katie would have been dead. Her and Katie, were going to come, right after they bought a few pairs of clothes, and grab lunch. I told her I'd pay for her things but she refused, insisting that I'd already done enough for her.

There was just one more thing;

she STILL didn't know I was her brother.

After I hung up, Zayn smiled at me, "so everythings okay?".

"I guess" I replied, "Leia and Katie are okay, but the rest of the orphans are dead".

As I said it, Zayn's face began to droop, "seriously?".

I nodded, "I know, but there's nothing we can do about it now".

"Your right" Zayn said, "but........they were all so young, they all had full lives to live".

I nodded, trying to hold back fresh tears yet again starting in my eyes.

Zayn noticed at stared at me, "you know Liam, you don't have to be strong all the time right?".

I sighed, Zayn was right. I didn't. I was a person, a human being. And human beings had feelings.I was just way too hard on myself. I was too busy making sure everyone else was happy to realize I wasn't happy myself.

"Your right Zayn" I said, smiling at him, "so when Leia comes tonight, I'm going to tell her the truth, I'm going to tell her that she's my sister".

"Good" Zayn said, "now let's get home before the boys burn your house down".

And with that, I pressed the accelerator and we drove back to the house. 

Even if I said I was going to tell her out loud..........my brain still couldn't wrap it around.

I didn't know if I could do it..............

I didn't know if I could tell Leia the truth.

All I could do was wait.