violet gallagher // shameless

37- kid fucker, next block

i was in school next day, walking down the hallway. i saw this guy called sanchez or something at his locker together.

"hey, yo, campus scurity is coming." i lied.

sanchez started turned around and then he ran away.

"the hell are you doing?" mickey asked me.

"didn't want you to get busted." i said while leaning at the lockers, looking at him.

"i can look after myself. thank you." he replied as he closed sanchez loocker. then i remebered what mandy told me. "does he get that look in his eye when he's with you?" i still didn't know what fucking look but i stared at his eyes. no clue what i was looking for but mandy said, i'll know when i see it.

mickey started walking and i still stared at him. "just got out of juvie, remeber?"

we walked next to each other for a few seconds in silence, until he looked at me.

"the fuck are you looking at?" he snapped.

oh shit. "nothing." i said and looked away as fast as i could. i did not see that look in his eyes. but maybe i didn't look close enough. or he just didn't liked me the way i liked him...

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later that night, fiona's club thing took place. lip had that idea to make some extra money with telling some rich kids from the north side that a dude called wilco was playing in the club tonight, but actually he wasn't. pretty smart idea. 

ian just got into one and drove off. lip waved at the next car.

"hey, is this the club where wilco's gonna play a secret concert?" the guy in the car asked. 

"uh, yeah, yeah. so it's, uh, 20 bucks self-park, 30 valent." i said.

"i'll park it myself." he haded me a $20 bill.

"cool." i took the money and pointed at a mandy waving with a red flag. "just pull it over down there. that lady there will show you to your spot. yeah, cool. have fun."

he drove off and i handed lip the money so that he could count it. then a guy lip knew drove his car up to us. they talked about that wilco guy for a second. then lip told him that he can get out of the car and we'll take car of it.

"cool. thanks, lip." he smiled and walked away. i held the door open, so carl could climb into the car. he sat down on the drivers seat and smiled as he drove away.

"how long we doing this for?" ian walked up to us.

"figure we park about 30 more cars, make enough money to cover the property tax. at which time people will start realize wilco's not playing at fiona's club." lip replied. 

"then we bold." lip added and ian started smiling.

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i walked out of the house to find veronica sitting on the frontstairs. she stood up and got inside.

i headed down to fiona as i took out a pack of smokes, lighting one up for me.

"how'd you do?" i asked after taking a long drag. fiona looked to the ground. something was wrong.

"it's just gonna take a while till i start making money." she said. then she handed me some bills. "almost all of it. i'll get the rest. i promise."

"no, keep it." i said taking another drag.

"what?"

"if you're gamble our money, you should hold on to it, right?"

she smiled sarcastically. "i was trying to better our situation, violet."