Shameless

Easy way Out

Carl's Point of View

She's way too reckless. She's going to get herself killed.

She doesn't know how much I care about her.

I can't defend her because all have is a baseball bat we hang on the wall in case someone breaks in.

What if I buy something, like a knife.

Or even a gun.

That's what I'm gonna do.

Work with G-Dog and get paid, buy a gun to make sure nick knows not to fuck with my girl.

Especially since I haven't even got there yet.

I will soon she can't resist me she'll probably want it before I will.

She turns me on so fast though.

Damn ok.

I walked out of the house frustrated.

I headed towards the corner where the boys who work for G-Dog sell their stuff.

I found Ty at the corner, the dude who hooked me up with the job.

"Gallagher surprised you showed up, thought you'd pussy out" he said walking up to me.

He gave me a quick hug and then sent me to where G-Dog was.

When I walked into the old building there was a lot of space and nice clean furniture.

Not like what you would expect a drug lord to live.

There was a stainless steel desk neat with papers on it and G-Dog sat behind it.

I stuck my hand out and he shook it.

"I'm Carl" I said putting my hands in my pocket.

"I know. I'm gonna call you Gallagher though" He said standing up then added. "I can't trust you yet, but I'm gonna give you a chance. I need you to sell some simple weed for me at this address"

Then handed me a paper with an address neatly drawn on it.

"They need to give you 50 bucks do NOT take any more or any less" he said loudly.

I took the paper and a bag of weed about the size of my hand.

"Got it. You won't be disappointed" I said nodding and putting the drugs into my bag.

"I better not be" he said and showed me to the door.

I walked back home and passed the pool.

Holly was there.

Shes this hot girl from school man is she fine.

I stopped home to change and I expected Emma be in my room when I ran up the stairs but she wasn't.

Whatever. Guess she went home.

I changed into a polo and kakis and headed towards the address with the drugs.

About an hour later I reached the house and knocked on the door.

A middle aged white dude opened the door.

"you order something from G-Dog?" I asked.

He nodded slowly.

"I got your stuff" I said unzipping my book bag.

He stepped out of the house and pulled out a fifty dollar bill from his pocket.

We traded and I headed back to G-Dogs.

When I got into G-Dogs "Office" he told me nice job and that I could keep the whole fifty bucks.

I thanked him and went back home.

I opened the door to the house and Ian was sitting on the couch.

"You know where Emma went?" I asked leaning on the back of the couch.

"Towards her house I think" Ian said and went back to watching the TV.

I'll go over there later. I threw my bag down and went upstairs to take a shower.

When I got out of the shower it was getting dark and I figured I'd go talk to Emma.

I wanted to take her out to dinner with the money I'd gotten so I put on another pair of khakis and a black polo.

When I walked into her house no one was in the living room and it sounded quiet throughout the house.

I forgot which room was hers so I opened one door to find her brother passed out on his bed with a magazine in his hand.

Wrong room.

I opened the other door to find a messy smelly room with a large bed that wasn't made. There was a pack of condoms on the floor and beer bottles in various places.

Her mothers room.

So the last room had to be hers and I opened the door.

It was simple same as when I was last in here. White walls, white dresser, messy desk, and no Emma.

Her room looked messier than before. Some drawers open and it looked like she had been searching for something.

I walked over to the dresser and the first drawers were now empty and her bookbag was gone.

I searched for her extra charger that she always had in the same place.

Gone.

No.

She went to a friends house or something.

Yeah that's it she's probably at a friends.

Even though my family are her only friends...

She's not gone. She can't be gone.

I was breathing heavy now.

I walked fast to her brothers room and shook him awake.

"What what" he said in a sleepy voice.

"Where's Emma?" I asked harshly.

"I thought she was at your house" he replied rubbing his eyes.

"No, no damn it no" I said putting my hands to my head.

"She's gone" I said sitting down.

"What??" Her brother said loudly.

He quickly got up and went to Emma's room.

He searched the drawers like I had and then looked under her bed which was odd.

He pulled out a piece of paper that was folded and said "Ethan" on the top of it.

He looked at it and closed his eyes.

"this is where we leave notes for eachother if we're somewhere we don't want other people to know" he said a tear falling down his face.

"What does it say??"  I asked anxiously.

He turned over the paper and it said three words.

Let me go.