[fourteen] explanations

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BILLIE walked to the Gallagher house. "Hello all." She said as she made her way to the kitchen table, taking a drumstick from the box.

"Where've you been?" Carl asked and took a bit out of his drumstick.

"i was just out." Billie said with a smirk. Just then Debbie walked through the door. "Wheres Fiona?" Billie and Debbie asked at the same time.

"Napping. hopefully dreaming of her unborn child." Frank said as he did some sort of paperwork.

"We need to convince her to keep it." Debbie said as she grabbed juice and a cup.

"Debbie, isn't that awfully hypocritical?" Billie asked as she took a bite from her drumstick.

"Well, as a feminist, i believe she has that right, but I want our children to grow up together. Their cousins!" Debbie said.

"Who's she?" Debbie asked Frank referencing to the woman with a baby in heir kitchen.

"That's Juanita. Juanita..." Frank said then started speaking some sort of Spanish.

Then, the woman started talking to Debbie in Spanish. As Debbie had no idea what she said, she said what she knew.

"Gracias!" Debbie said back to the woman.

"I'm pretty sure that's not the right reply to what she said." Billie spoke.

"Oh well. Ugh I'm starving. Baby needs to eat." Billie said as she grabbed 3 pieces of drumstick from the box.

"Time for you to lean the grand Gallagher art of living off the American government." Frank said making his way to the door to grab his jacket.

"Well, I have to pick up Liam, and I told V I'd babysit." Debbie said.

"Yeah, I'll get Liam." Carl said as he finished his drumstick. "Can i come?" Billie asked Carl. "If you want." He said with a slight attitude. Billie felt he didn't want her there. Feeling a little hurt, she still went because she wanted to see Liam.

"You will?" Debbie spun around and asked Carl.

"I need to introduce him to somebody." Carl said. "You got a problem with that, you can give me my drumstick back." He finished.

"I'm only letting you take him because Billies going." Debbi finished then rolled her eyes. Carl muttered a 'what the fuck' under his breath. Right then, Billie went to the bathroom.

"All right, we'll pick up little homie and pay Dominique a visit." Carl spoke. "She needs to understand the bloodlines around here." He finished.

Billie finished up and they headed off.

They got to Liams school and he ran up to Billie and hugged her. Billie threw Liam over her shoulders so he could sit there. "Let's go!" He exclaimed.

"I swear he likes you more than his own brother." Carl said with a laugh. "That's because I'm superior to you." Billie joked, Carl just rolled his eyes and they headed off to wherever they were going.

They eventually arrived at a house that Billie didn't know.

"Where are we?" Billie asked Carl.

"Dominiques house." He replied

"What?!?" Billie exclaimed as she rubbed her eyes. "I can't fucking be here." She said and started to walk down the stairs. But before she could get away, the door opened.

"Billie?" Dominiques dad, Luther, asked.

Billie stopped in her tracks and turned around. "Hi Luther." Billie said and walked back up the stairs shamefully.

"You two know each other?" Carl asked.

"Yep..." Billie said under her breath.

"How've you been? I haven't seen you in a while. You were my favourites of Dominiques friends." Luther said. And at that moment, Billie flopped her head down and scrunched up her face, knowing what was to come.

"Wait hold up, you and Dom, where friends?!" He asked with shock.

"Yeah..." Billie said.

"Billie we will talk about this later, but what I actually came here for was. Is Dom here?" Carl asked.

Luther looked at the boy, no emotion in his face.

"Nope." He replied turning back to see Dom standing right behind him. Billie laughed. Carl death glared her and looked back at Luther.

"What. She's right there." Carl exclaimed.

"No, she's not." Luther repeated. Billie started to laugh again.

"I want her to meet my brother. Dom this my brother. Say what up, Liam." Carl spoke.

"What up, Liam." Liam said as he stood there with him small hands in his jacket pockets.

"Your brother? Or your bro?" Luther asked.

"My blood, sir. Same mom, same pops. Dom be calling me white all day, so I had to make a make a point, sir." Billie rolled her eyes at Carl's statement and facepalmed. "Just cause his skin is a little darker than mine, ain't no reason to call a ***** white." He finished.

Billie eyes opened and she slapped him in the arm.

"Bro you can't say that you fucking idiot." She whisper yelled at him. Carl wasn't listening to her however.

Luther looked awful shocked. He then started to laugh, then he picked up something from beside the door. He pulled it up and it was a metal bat. He put it up to Carl's head.

"Im'a give you a 10-second head start. You better run, boy. And take Shaq with you." He spoke. "Go!" Luther finished.

Carl and Nick started sprinting away from the house, meanwhile Billie picked up Liam and slowly walked away.

"Nice seeing you, Luther!" She called out as she left the gate.

"I wont stop seeing you." Carl yelled. "Dom I wont stop seeing you!" He yelled for a second time.

Eventually the boys slowed down and Billie caught up.

"So, Billie." Carl started.

"You wont give this up will you?" Billie stated.

"No, because you wont tell me why you don't like her." He finished.

"Fuck sake." Billie muttered under her breath.
"Fine, when you were at juvie, I became really good friends with Dom. We were like at each others houses every night. It should've been a red flag but I didn't fucken see it. Uhm, long story short she started making fun of me, my height, weight, basically everything and then she ditched me and joined up with the popular girls who, also made fun of me and she didn't really do anything to stop it." She told Carl. "But Luther was always nice to me." She shrugged.

Neither Carl or Nick said anything. They just stayed quiet.

"Well, now that that's over, what do you wanna do?" Billie asked the two.

"I-I don't know." Carl said.

"Well, I'm going to go find Fiona cause I wanna talk to her." Billie said as she walked infront of them and turned around to face them. "See ya." She finished and walked down an alley way.

Eventually, after an hour, Billie still couldn't find Fiona. So she just went home.

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