She's Not Afraid

Chapter 1- Alex&Liam

Alex's POV

"Well hurry! I can't wait to see my little Jamesy again." Gran says into the phone.

"Is that Lee?" I ask jumping up on the counter. I reach my hands out and wiggle my fingers indicating I want the phone.

"Your cousin wants to talk to you." Gran says I can hear some excitement on the other end. "I love you baby. See you soon" she says

"Give me, give me, give me." I say as she hands me the phone.

"Hey Woody!" I say into the phone.

"Hey Jessie." he says

"What is this I hear about my baby cuz being in a band? What is the name of it again? ONE DIRECTION?!?!"

"You know it's just a little side job." He says and we both laugh a bit.

"I hope you're not going to forget all of us little people back home."

"Never."

"Well I mean you haven't been home in what ten years? Poor Gran is going mad."

"It's been two years, and you left before me!" he says laughing. "How is she?"

"She's good. But Lee, you should really think about coming down here. She's going down hill pretty fast."

"Are you there?"

"Yeah, just got back. Mark is here and said she was not doing too well so I came."

"How bad is it?"

"She thought I was Clare...." there is a long pause. "Listen Lee, I don't want you to worry. But I think you should really come and see her. Its going to be her 98th birthday soon. You should come down for that."

"Yeah I'll book the flight tonight. Do you mind if I bring the boys?"

"Nah, you know Gran. And she'll probably think they are the cousins."

"Yeah. I'll text you the details about the flight."

"Ok. See you soon."

"Bye Jess. I love you."

"Bye woody. Love you too."

Mark walks into the kitchen. "Tell him hi little Lee." I nod

"Mark says hi Little Lee." I say in my best Mark voice.

"Tell him hi. Love you guys" I hang up the phone and walk over to Mark .

"He's coming." I whisper. "Go and tell his mum and I'll make sure Gran knows."

"Ok." Mark says walking out. I walk into the other room and kneel down in front of Gran's rocking chair. She is sitting in it knitting what I think is a blanket .

"Gran can I talk to you ?" I aka her.

"Well of course dear." she says putting down her knitting stuff. She coughs a bit.

"Lee is coming for your birthday." I say "And he's bringing the band."

"That's great honey. I'm so glad you two worked things out. I want to see some more grand kids before I die." She says. One, ew!!!! Liam is my cousin. Two, crap!!!!! She thinks I'm talking about Ashton.

"Gran, Lee is your grandson." I tell her.

"What? You got married?"

"No Gran. I am not talking about Ashton, we are over. I'm talking about Liam. Gran. Liam Payne. My cousin. Your grandson. Gran you were just talking to him on the phone."