Raegan Gallagher-Milkovich

33- Your condition

     "Hey Rae," Fiona greeted Raegan as she walked through the doors and into Patsys Pies. Fiona now owned the restaurant and it was doing super well.

     "Hey aunt Fi," she smiled back, "can you get me an Irish coffee?" Raegan ordered as she sat down on a stool at the counter to face her aunt.

     "You sure you want Irish? It's like 10am," Fiona questioned, raising her eyebrows at her. "Trust me, yeah I need it," Raegan sighed.

     Fiona looked suspiciously at her as she worked behind the counter, "you're not slipping back into old habits are you Rae?"

"No jesus no," Raegan lied. She didn't handle stress well, and her coping mechanism with every negative emotion was getting drunk or high A LOT.

"You been back on coke?" Fiona asked, worried for her niece. "No Fi! Jesus us this a fuckin interrogation? Can you just get my coffee pleeeasee," Raegan pleaded.

Fiona sighed, turning to make it, "Right, okay fine I'll make your coffee, but I have a suggestion for you my niece."

"What?" Raegan asked, throwing Fiona a look. "You probably need a helping hand lately, and I don't want to see you going to shit again like many times before, so why don't I get you a job here?"

Raegan took a sip of her coffee, widening her eyes at Fiona, "here?!"

"Why not? It pays good, you keep all the tips, you get extra perks since your aunts the boss and it keeps you outta trouble. What's not to like?" Fiona suggested. Raegan thought for a minute, looking at Fiona unsurely.

"Come on little Gallagher! It'll be good for you, I can give you longer lunches and it's really not a bad job working here. We do well," Fiona encouraged.

Raegan sighed, "Fine." Fiona grinned big, "so definite yes? You're taking the job?"

"I guess so Fi," Raegan smiled a little.

"That's great! Oh and one thing I forgot to mention before you took the job, you're gonna be taking drug tests once a month," she smiled, winking.

Raegans mouth dropped open, "did you really just fuckin do that?"

"Sure did," Fiona laughed. Well shit, she was clever.. and now Raegan couldn't even get fucking high, SHIT!

***

     "Rae!" Mickey called, nudging Raegan as she slept. She groaned.

     "Rae get the fuck up! You're working with Fi in that shitty diner place today," Mickey nagged at her.

     "Suck a dick," she snapped, barely being able to open her eyes.

     "I would but I did that already this morning," Mickey laughed.

     Raegan made a noise of disgust, "Ew! You're fucking disgusting," she groaned, half giggling.

     "Come on, up! This'll be good Rae, I'm not watching my little girl go back on coke and fuck up her life," Mickey said, ruffling her hair again.

     She sighed, sitting up and exposing her bed head and eye bags. "Attractive," Mickey teased sarcastically seeing her state.

     Raegan flung a pillow at him.

***

Raegan got dressed in the little outfits that the employees at Patsys Pies usually wore, then made it 10 minutes late to her shift.

     "Here's your food, hope you enjoy," Raegan fake smiled, placing two plates in front of a couple. Her smile dropped from her face as she walked away, her new job already exhausting her.

"How you finding it Rae?" Fiona asked from behind the counter when Raegan passed her to put plates in the sink.

"I'm tired, would rather be at home being so high I can't stand up but I guess this is what the call a healthy coping strategy," Raegan replied.

"Try enjoy it, by the end of the week you'll have pay to buy alcohol and cigarettes, no drugs though while you're working here," Fiona explained as Raegan threw her head back.

"What about pot?"

"Maybe pot after a while but not coke! Dumbass."

"Order up!" The chef called from the kitchen, Fiona looked at her. Raegan rolled her eyes before going to grab the next order.

***

     Raegan had been working at the diner for about a week, cleaning tables, serving food and collecting tips.

     For once her life seemed to calm down a bit again, not as much chaos and her brain could just chill for a bit. Plus her new job paid well and it was keeping her from losing her shit and go on another bender for her family to find her half dead.

  "Hey Fi," Raegan smiled as she pushed through the glass door of Patsys Pies for her shift.

     "Hey little Gallagher," she smiled, coming to face her. "Last day of your first week I'm proud of you."

     "Thanks Fi," she grinned back as Fiona put a hand on the side of her face.

     "So look, since you've been working here a week... there's a nurse in the back office here to do your drug test."

     Raegans mouth fell open, "it's been a goddamn week Fiona."

     "I know but it's the first one, after that it'll only be once a month. I already told her some will come back positive since you've used in the past month but just to make sure none are recent or you didn't add new blow to the mix."

     Raegan rolled her eyes, giving Fiona a look that said "are you fucking shitting me." Fiona sighed, "come on, it'll take 10 minutes."

     She put her hand on her nieces shoulder as Raegan hugged in frustration as Fiona guided her into the back room.

***

"Apart from what your aunt has previously explained to me, looks like you're all good," the nurse explained to Raegan as she sat facing her in Fionas office.

"Great, so.. can I go," Raegan asked.

     "Yes in just a moment," the nurse told her, jotting down a few extra notes, "just have to make a note of your condition."

     Raegan glared at her, not believing what she just said, "bipolar isn't a fucking condition lady, it's a mental illness it's got nothing to do with a piss test!"

     The nurse sighed smiling at her, "Not that sweetheart. Your pregnancy, it can affect the urine sample."

     ...What!

     "Pregnancy?" Raegan stuttered, "I'm not pregnant."

     "Well according to what I found in your urine sample you are.. wait, you didn't know you were pregnant."

     Reagan's heart dropped straight down to her stomach as she felt her mouth go dry. Shock and panic set in.

      "I uh.. I have to go," Raegan stuttered, getting up quickly  from where she sat and rushed out the door.

     "Rae? Where are you going?" Fiona called after her, but Raegan ignored it, bursting through the front door of the restaurant.

     How in the name of fuck..

                                      was she pregnant.

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