"Liam is officially asleep" I sighed taking the smoke for Lip. Three pages from Debbie's boring romance novel and he was out like a light

"Either of you got any cash you can float me? Florence and the machine are playing and I wanna buy Karen tickets" Lip said, blowing smoke in my face. I flipped him off before pulling out some cash

"You are so lucky, your my brother and I love you" I said handing him the cash

Even though I hated that hoe ass blonde birch with a burning passion, she was still my brother's best friend and all so fuck buddy

"Not it!" Ian and I called as Liam wake up crying. I took the smoke back from Lip before watching him leave the room

"So, you ever gonna tell me who you've been sleeping with?" Ian joked. I blew out a puff of smoke, passing it over to him

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you" I said laughing. I could barely believe it myself. He gave me those pleading puppy dog eyes which always made me give in to him. "Fine but you can't get mad"

He seemed to study my face for a second before silently nodding his head

"Mickey Milkovich" I whispered. Within seconds, a pillow was being thrown at my face and I was being thrown off the bed

"Your joking, right?" Ian asked laughing but I didn't laugh with him letting him know I was not joking. "Holy shit, you're serious? You don't have like feelings for him, do you?" He asked

Honestly, I didn't know the answer to that but even if I did have feeling for him, I know the feelings would never be mutual

"God no, we're just screwed around" I muttered as I climbed up to bed. I wasn't tried but I didn't need Ian catching on to my lie

"Goodnight, Ian" I called and I heard his bed dip and the lights flick off before hearing him climb back into bed

~ ~ ~ ~

"Afternoon cheater" I said, taking a seat on the couch

Apparently, Debs had her suspicions that Steve was cheating on Fiona and even though I didn't know if that was true. I was still going to enjoy taunting him

"Hell hath no fury like popcorn burned" Fiona announced coming out of the bathroom. I moved to the spot next to Ian as Lip handed us a selection of movies

I handed Carl 'cosmos' as the door opened to reveal a very distraught Debbie

"Debs, what's happened?" I asked looking over at her. Lip then muttered something about Frank which appeared to only make things worse

"Why do you always assume it's dad?" She shouted. I mean who else could it be?

"Monica's over at Sheila's"

I repeat the sentence off in my head like a thousand time and I still could not believe it

There was no way mom was back in town......like that was crazy talk

"Lia, you okay?" I heard Ian whisper. I wiped the tears off my cheeks, not even realising I was crying until now

The relationship Debbie has with Frank is similar to the one that I have with Monica. Expect, lucky for my sister, Frank never left her to run off with his gay lover

Liam started crying out 'mommy' which only made the tears fall harder

No, there was no way she would come back after so long

We all practically raced over to the Jackson's house and sure enough she was there, I mean she was exactly there in the flesh

"Mom?" I asked making sure it was her and that I was not seeing things

She turned to face she turned to face the lot of us and whenI saw her face......I mean nothing had even changed. She still looked the exact same as last time I saw her

"Why didn't you take us with you?" Debbie asked as we sat down. I mean my siblings sat, I was still getting my head rapped around what was going on

"Oh- I knew you'd be fine with Fiona" She said smiling. God, could she be any more desperate?

"Look now that the reunion had happened. We need to talk to you about something" Bob announced

Bob was the secret lesbian lover, I had mentioned earlier

"Moni and I wanna take Liam to live with us, we want to start our own family" She went on

Nope! No fucking way......there was no way they were standing in front of us telling us this bullshit

"How about you finish this one first!" I hadn't realised I yelled until all eyes were on me. "You don't get to just abandon us and then show up one day to take your pick of the litter. You left us.......you left me. You who didn't Fiona, she basically raised us and she doing a better job then you could have ever done. Oh, wait we will never know because you ran out of town leaving us" The tears were now free falling as Lip tried to hold me back

"Okay but I'm here now" Monica said

"Not good enough. Your too late, you can't even look after us what tell you that you can look after Liam" I said

"But-" I cut Bob off. Like who the fuck was speaking to her this is a family issue

"Did you know Debbie's class president? She's going to nationals for her debate team. And Lip's top of his class, probably the only one of us who'll make it out of this hole. Ian was promoted in ROTC, and I tested out of English. And Carl made an awesome volcano explode for his science fair........but our didn't know that. Fiona did though because she was the only one that looked over us and was very there for us!" My tears had changed into full blown sobs as I raced out the house. I never even realised how much I wanted to say to her, maturing made me realise she was a horrible mother

"Lia!" Ian called grabbing me by the arm

"Don't. I'm done, Ian. With her and her bullshit. I can't do it anymore" I said

I broke eye contact with him before continuing my way down the street. I didn't even know where I was going, all I know is that I need to get out the house so I could clear my head

I somehow ended up on top of the L, one of my favourite places to get away. I noticed someone shooting a gun at the end of the building but before I could turn around they calling after me

"Come for another round, babygirl" Mickey smirked, walking over to me. I tired my best to wipe away my tears, not wanting him to see me like this for some reason. "The fuck did Frank do now?" He asked

"Not Frank" I sighed, taking the gun from his hand. "My mother"

I could have sworn I saw a bit of care in his eyes as I shot a few rounds at the pole. I hated guns so much but I needed to release some build up anger

"You got a smoke?" I asked, handing him back his gun

I took the cigarette from him, making my way to the ledge of the building. It was a chilly night, with the type of wind that flows through your hair

"You're not gonna fucking jump, are you?" He laughed, taking the spot next to me. I rolled my eyes, watching my feet hang over the ledge

"You might want to shut up, Milkovich, people might start to think you care" He grabbed back the cigarette, a small smile hinting on his face

"Fuck off" He snapped

It was weird to see this side of him. He was always so angsty and pretended like he ruled the world. It was kinda of......nice but I would never say that out loud

"I thought your mom was dead" He said after a few moments of silence

"Nope, not dead. Just crazy" I sighed, taking a long puff. "Like the girl version of Terry"

Okay, okay maybe she wasn't that bad, but I just like to see the smile on his face. God, what the fuck is wrong with me?

"Alright enough girl talk, we gonna bag or what?"

That was the thing I liked most about Mickey, he didn't care at all for romance

Not like I would ever want to be romantic with with him....y'know

"Well, since you asked so nicely" I said