Niall's POV
Last week was tough. I never wanted to tell Luna about what happened to Rose, but I simply felt like I didn't have a choice. I never wanted to show her what Rose and I had, because I thought it would make her feel like I don't love her. But she reacted really caring and she didn't seem to mind that I was telling her what we had and that the only thing that kept us from spending our life together was Rose's death. Confessing all of this and talking about it with Luna has helped though. When I left Ireland 4 years ago, I had a plan of never coming back. I broke all contact with my brother and grandparents for only one reason: so I didn't have to go back there. Mullingar and basically it's whole surroundings hold to many memories of Rose and the 2 years I spend with her. I was going crazy there. Everywhere I looked, there was always something that reminded me of Rose. Right now I'm actually considering going back there. I want tot show Liz where she's from and why she is 'talking in a weird way' as she told me her friends always say. I want her to meet her brother, sister-in-law and nephew, who are -besides me and her grandma - the only family she has left.
She knows grandma Horan because she flew out to Manchester when I refused to come visit her. She is the only one who still cares about me probably. But my brother is a whole different story; when he found out I was on drugs he cut me off from his life. The last thing I heard from hij was that he became a father of a little boy which was just a small card and 4 months ago. I never saw a picture of my nephew though.
Should I ask Luna with me to Ireland? Would she want to come with me? Probably not. She isn't even off Uni until Christmas and she already told me she would be going to Cheshire then. I'm off next week... Maybe I should just call my grandmother and ask if I can come over. Is that a good idea? I mean she would probably drag my arse to my brother's and the only thing he will say is that he doesn't want me near his son. It's worth a try though. I think it's time to fix what I broke back then.
"Liz what are you doing?" I realize I haven't heard anyone walk around the house in about an hour. "In here!" Her small voice sounds from her bedroom. I sigh in relief and concentrate back on school work. Trying to keep my head from going back to my brother and his little happy family, the family I want to be a part in.
When I check time on my phone it's already 5pm I decide to let Liz decide what's for dinner tonight. I get up from my spot at the table and walk over to Liz' room and walk in on her sitting on the bed with a book on her lap, frowning down at it. "What is it, love?" I ask her, scooting her over further on the bed so I can sit down next to her. "I don't get it." She whines. "What are you reading?" I ask as I grab to book from her hands and check the back of it. I chuckle as I see the title. "Hun, that's a book for older people, no wonder you don't understand." I explain to her. She was reading To kill a Mockingbird, I don't even understand that book. Maybe that is because I never finished it, though.
"Let's go to the bookstore and you can pick some to buy and after you can choose what's for dinner okay?" I tell her, standing up and walking back to the living room to put the book back in its place. "I wanna eat at Nandos!" She yells running after me. "Well, let's go then." I smile as I pretend to be a superhero and run to the door with my hand sticking out in front of me. Liz runs after me and stops, almost doubling over in laughter.
We drive to a book store where she grabs a few books from Roald Dahl. She's ecstatic about her new books and thanks me with a big kiss on my cheek. I smile as I jokingly wipe my cheek. "Let's go to Nandos!" I exclaim as we climb into the car. She squeals as we walk in and order or food. We eat it all - I ended up eating half of hers as usual - and decide to go and have some ice cream. I'm spoiling her and I know it, but somehow I just felt like showing her what she means to me. Before Luna she was the only joy in my life, and now I have two. I can't help but smile while thinking about this. There are a lot of things I am unhappy about but Liz and Luna are lightening up my life.
"Liz, it's on your forehead!" I laugh as I grab a napkin and wipe the ice cream off her forehead. "How do you even do that?" I shake my head, still laughing. Liz just shrugs with a big grin on her face. "Thanks Niall!" She smiles widely as she runs around the table and jumps on my lap to give me a hug. "It's nothing, you deserve to be spoiled a few times. I love you, little sis." I kiss her forehead. She giggles as she jumps from my lap and takes my hand to drag me to the car, "I still want to watch Netlfix!" She exclaims, jumping in the backseat. "Okay, I'll hurry." I chuckle.
We walk through the front door together, she's on my shoulder and we're both laughing like idiots. As we walk inside I hand Liz her iPad and I grab the key to the mailbox that is downstairs. "Liz, I'm going to check the mail!" I shout to her. She mumbles and 'okay' and I walk down quickly. At first sight it looks like all the mail is just a stack of bills, but when I check each of them there is one from the Courts Service of Ireland. "What the hell." I mumble, walking upstairs while opening it.
I scan my eyes through the letter and curse. My brother is trying to take custody of Liz. No way in hell that I'm going to let that happen. I look through all the papers in my bedroom and finally find the birth card of Greg's son. Just as I was about to set things straight he fucking does this. I dial the number and press 'call'.
"Hi this is Denise Horan speaking." A woman speaks from the other side of the line. It must be his wife. "Hi, it's Niall. I would like to talk to Greg." I mumble angrily. The woman sounds a little intimidated as she quickly excuses herself to find my brother.
"What do you want?" Greg growls after a few minutes of silence on the other line. "You to drop the custody case." I mutter. "No. You can't take care of her." He says as if I'm a little 12-year-old. "Oh really?" I laugh sarcastically. "Why don't you tell me who took care of her ever since she was born."
"You're on drugs, Niall! Plus you're only 20, you don't know how to take care of a kid!" Greg shouts. "I've been taking care of her for 8 years almost 9. Don't tell me you know all about raising kids now just because you had a son 4 months ago. You wouldn't even look at Liz when she was born! You didn't want to acknowledge her existence and now you suddenly want to get custody over her?! That is low man. You know she's the only one I have and still you try to take it away from me. How are we even blood related? I may be on drugs but I never ever betrayed family like you do, and I would never treat Liz bad. I wonder how you still look at yourself in the mirror." I spit, ending the call after my rant.
I sit down on my bed and put my face in my hands. I can't believe he's doing this. I thought he was done after telling my family I killed my father to get money for drugs. I thought he was done torturing me but here we are 5 years later after the first incident and he's taking away the only family I have.
"Niall are you okay?" Liz is standing in the doorway as she looks at me with a little frown on her face. "Yeah, hun. I'm fine." I tell her as I look up. I stretch my arms out in front of me and she runs in them without a doubt. "Liz, I want you to know that whatever happens, I love you. Okay?" I tell her, looking in her bright blue eyes. The colour mine once were, that was before everything happened. She nods, not really understanding why I said that. "Can I sleep in your bed tonight?" She asks me. "Of course you can." I smile, kissing her head. I can't lose her. I can't. If I lose Liz I don't know what I would do to myself.
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Hii guys, this chapter is a little short I know. I promise you the next one will be longer and there will be happening a lot of things in it. Anyways... I hope you enjoy this one for now... <3
I HATE GREG IN THIS STORY OMG. In real life he's probably an amazing guy but I can't stand him. NO ONE TOUCHES LITTLE ELIZABETH LIKE SERIOUSLY. Okay I'm getting protective over my characters this is weird. I guess I'm just really tired.
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