ALWAYS YOU - lip gallagher

005.

when ren woke up to the light that was peeking in through the gallagher's window, she let out a small groan. thankfully it was a friday, she opened her eyes slowly, letting them adjust to the light. carl was out of his bed already, lip barely awake, and ian alseep next to her.

she nudged ian gently. "ian," she mumbled, "get up, it's almost 7:30."

he groaned, before opening his eyes to look at her, "okay?"

"which means it's time to get up," she said, stretching once she sat up. he sighed, groaning once more. "alright fine," he said, "get up."

she did as she was told, and watched as ian three on a pair of jeans from his floor. ren grabbed a pair of her jeans from the night before and one of ian's shirts he'd let her borrow and made her way to to bathroom to change out of her pajamas.

ren met ian when she opened the door to the bathroom and they made their way down the stairs and into the kitchen. carl was sat at the table, liam in his high chair. v and fiona were stood in front of the sink, debs was rummaging through the fridge.

"morning guys," fiona smiled from her cup of coffee watching the pair also take seats at the table.

"morning," ren muttered tiredly.

"hey, conrad is out there with his dairy truck again," fiona said, "i need you two to go get some milk, cream, what-have-you."

they nodded. "okay, but how," ian said, raising an eyebrow.

fiona turned to v, "she'll help."

"yeah, i'll talk to him for a bit. he's got a thing for me," v laughed.

"and debs, go around and take the coupons from peoples papers," fiona said as debbie closed the fridge. debbie nodded and making her way towards the door in the kitchen.

veronica looked at ren and ian and grinned, "okay you two, let's get going before he leaves."

ian and ren followed veronica out the door, making their way down the stairs, and down the street to conrad's dairy truck. they made small conversation along the way, laughing.

they spotted the truck and v looked at the two of them before making her way to conrad. ian and ren quietly ran to the back of his truck, ian opening it at quietly as he could as v talked to conrad.

he successfully got it open and he started grabbing milk, butter, half and half creamer, sour cream, and eggs. he handed the milk and eggs to ren, and closed the door of the truck. they walked over from behind the truck and waved the stuff at v as she talked to conrad, noting to her they had gotten the stuff and she didn't have to talk to him anymore.

they walked off as v finished her conversation with him and made their way back to the house, giggling the entire way home. they walked into the door through the kitchen, carl and lip sat at the table, debbie also sitting at the table, cutting out coupons from the papers she had stolen. "special delivery!" ren said as they walked in, setting the milk on the table as lip reached for it. "alright, thank you," he said. ren grinned at him, and made her way to the fridge to put the butter and eggs in there.

"don't forget veronica's coupons," debbie said to ian before he left with the other things they had stolen.

ren grabbed a bowl and a mug from the cabinet, pouring a cup of coffee and pouring cereal into the bowl as fiona walked down the stairs in the living room, bringing in the mail and liam on her hip.

ren walked over to the table, taking a sear next carl. "morning, bud," lip said to his baby brother as he helped fiona into his high chair.

"morning, liam," ren smiled before pouring milk into her bowl.