in love- Ian Gallagher ❤️

Summer.

Jesus, you really don't know what happened last year. Pay some fucking attention.

Its now summertime and me and Ian are officially together. Eddie Jackson is missing, Frank and Karen fucked when she was emo. She's now dating some guy named Jody from sex addicts anonymous.

Now me, Mandy, Lip and Ian are at a fight club. Lip had to go in because his client backed out, i can understand why.
Ian: Get your guard up, Lip! Kick him back. Your punching like a fag.
Then Lip gets thrown the floor, still getting battered. Then the metal clangs.
Ref: First round. Go to your corners.
Ian: You know your supposed to hit him back.
Lip: That kid hits hard.
Mandy: What did you think this was?
Lip: I didn't think he could punch me with his foot. He kicked me at the top of my goddam head.
Ian: Listen, look at me. You wanna throw in the towel?
Lip: I would if i was smart.
Then he goes back in and continues to get battered. I hate seeing this sort of stuff, I grab hold of Ian's hand and he looks down at me giving me a comforting smile. Then it finishes and we walk out.
Mandy: How the hell did that little guy kick Kurt fucking Landis' ass?
Lip: We make anything on my fight?
Ian: Nah, nobody wanted the odds.
Lip: What'd you put down?
Ian: What on the fight you lost? Nada. After nap loyalty doesn't extend to stupidity, bud.
Then they start fake fighting, i laugh and then i feel a little light headed. The heat is driving me crazy.
Lip: So Mickey's out soon?
Mandy: In about a week or so, if he doesn't stab anybody else. Pls stick fork, barely broke the kid's skin, but it bought him 30 days.
Lip: You gotta be looking forward to having Mickey home again.
Mandy: I guess.
Lip: Hey, i wanna stage another fight next week. Go around to the dojos, round up some more scrappers.
Taylor: I won't be there.
Lip: Why?
Taylor: I just don't like it.
Ian: Sure, where you going?
Lip: Karen's.
Ian: I thought you gave up on that.
Lip: See you.
Mandy: Karen Jackson? After that thing with your dad?
Ian: I'm sneaking antibiotics into his toothpaste, just in case.
I smile and then hold his hand, we go back home and go up to the room.
Taylor: Ian, i feel so sick.
Ian: Come here.
I move over to him, he puts his hand on my forehead to feel my temperature.
Ian: Your burning up. Go get in a cool shower.
Taylor: Okay, I love you.
Ian: I love you too, i'll go get you a drink and some medicine.
I nod, i get in a cool shower and then walk back into the room and sit next to Ian on the bed.
Taylor: I don't like taking medicine.
Ian: You have to take it. Your sick Tay.
Taylor: Please Ian, i don't want to.
Ian: Fine, but drink plenty of water. Keep cool. We'll go in the pool tomorrow.
I nod my head, i just sleep in my underwear and vest.

The next day, me and Ian walk into Kash and Grab.
Linda: It's about time. Did either of youse see Kash last night?
Taylor & Ian: No.
Linda: He didn't come home again last night. Had to open the shop by myself. Homeless winos 10-deep at the door trying to trade stolen recycling for 40s and Mad Dog. Can youse handle the store by yourselves? I gotta get upstairs. The twins are gonna be late for the swim team at the mosque.
Then Linda goes upstairs, Kash walks in when she's gone.
Kash: Linda gone.
Taylor: Mhm.
Kash: I had to wait across the street for an hour.
Taylor go restock the cooler.
I walk over, it gets too hot and i sit down on the floor.
Taylor: I-Ian. Do you have a fan in here?
Then he rushes over to me, puts his hand on my head. I can barely keep my eyes open, I'm heavy breathing.
Ian: You need to go home. Kash, I'm taking her home.
Kash: Okay.
Then he carries me home and puts me on the couch. He brings me a drink and a pill.
Taylor: I'm not having medicine Ian, especially not pills i don't like them. I never will.

Later on that day, me and Ian are in the room whilst he gets undressed. Then Lip walks in and sits next to me on Ian's bed.
Lip: Yo.
Ian: Hey. Get the truck running?
Lip: Yep. We are back in the ice cream business.
How was work?
Ian: Weird. Don't ask.
Then he walks out the room and into the bathroom to get in the shower.
Lip: Hey, don't jerk off in there.
Then Lip looks into Ian's bag and pulls out something. I don't see what it is, then he storms into the bathroom, i follow him. He pulls open the shower curtain, i see a naked Ian. I can't lie he turns me on.
Lip: What the hell is this?
Ian: Fuck, Lip. It's an admissions packet.
Lip: For west point?
Ian: Going through my stuff now?
Lip: You just graduated 10th grade.
Ian: I wanted to see what it takes to get in.
Lip: To west point? Your kidding. Your serious about this shit?
Ian: Well, I was in ROTC for two years. What do you think?
Lip: I don't know, i thought it was some kind of stupid fucked-up adolescent phase. I mean you really wanna get your ass shot off in some 'stan somewhere?
Ian: "Stan"?
Lip: Yeah, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraqistan.
Ian: I guess i'm a patriot.
Lip: Fuck.
Ian: Don't worry, it was really discouraging. I need like four-point-two GPA, a massive SAT score and a recommendation from the president or some shit. Only thing i know i can pass is the fitness test.
Lip: So what, the army requires straight A's now to get your leg blown off in Kabul? You really want this shit?
Ian: Yes.
I feel my eyes burn up, i walk back into the room and slam the door. He really wants to fucking leave me. I bury my head into the pillow. He comes back in and gets changed then Fiona shouts us down.

We barge into Shelia Jackson's house looking for Frank. We run upstairs to find him in bed.
Fiona: Where's Liam?
Frank: Hey.
Fiona: Where is Liam?
Frank: He's at his first sleepover.
Fiona: He's 2!
Frank: They sleep a lot at that age.
Then Frank tells us where he is, we practically run there. We bang on the door. A man opens it pointing a shot gun at us. Ian pulls me back, i slightly shrug his hands off me.
Guy: Who the hell are you?
Fiona: We want Liam back.
Guy: Liam stays. He's collateral.
Fiona: Then you better start shooting.
We barge in and start getting all the money from our pockets and putting it on the table to get Liam.
Guy: How much is that?
Fiona: I don't know, but we're good for it. Gallaghers pay their debts. Now where the hell is my brother?
Then we get Liam and go back home, Fiona puts him in bed. We all go and get in bed. Ian pulls me around to face him, he whispers to me.
Ian: What did i do?
Taylor: You want to go in the army?
Ian: Oh, this is about that. I'm not even old enough.
Taylor: You wanna fucking leave me Ian.
Ian: Of course i don't. I won't even get in. Let's just forget about it. I love you, i'd never want to leave you.
Taylor: I love you too.
Then we fall asleep cuddling.