ix. but at last came a knock

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Hannah let out a puff of her cigarette as she lay on Carl's bed, Ian drinking a can of beer on his as Lip came in.

"Liam is officially asleep." The eldest sibling told them.

"That was fast." Ian noted.

"Yeah, well, three pages from Deb's Eat, Pray, Love and he's out." Lip chuckled, placing the book on the dresser, sitting next to Ian and taking the lit spliff from his hand.

"Well, if James Franco wasn't in the movie, I would've nodded off, too." Ian smirked, sharing a high-five with his sister.

"Have either you got any cash you can float me?" Lip wondered, "Florence & the Machine are playing down at the Chicago Theatre. I really want to take Karen for her birthday." He said, making Hannah roll her eyes at the mention of the blonde girl.

"Pricey gift." Ian hummed, "You think it's getting serious?"

"Fuck off. She's my best friend," Lip denied, making Hannah roll her eyes once again, "Okay? You know I'd never spend that kind of cash on a girl, anyway."

"All right, well, I got a Hamilton, and it's yours." Ian nodded, taking a crumpled up bill out of his pocket and handing it over to his brother.

"Thanks, man."

Hannah sighed, reaching into her pocket and chucking a few notes over at Lip, "There's thirty. And that's all you're getting. And it's for your ticket by the way, not hers."

"Thanks, Han."

The sound of Liam crying made them all sigh, the boys looking over at their sister.

"I was on Liam duty all of last night." The girl shook her head.

The boys nodded, before having a game of rock, paper, scissors, "One, two, three."

"Have fun." Hannah smirked as Lip left the room.




Adam and Hannah sat at the computers in the school library, the boy showing Hannah different travel websites.

"And look, we can get super cheap tickets and spend the rest of the money on an average hotel and all the stuff that we wanna do." Adam said, flicking scrolling down the websites.

The girl looked over at him with a small smirk, "We?"

"Yeah," Adam nodded, turning to look at her, a blush spreading across his face, "You and me."

"You and me?"

"A-And Ellie, of course." Adam quickly added.

"Yeah, of course." Hannah nodded, turning her head away so he didn't see her face flushing red, the pair only just remembering the brunette girl who was at home sick today.

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