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Pilot

Most family's idea of having a "good time" is going out for dinner at a nice restaurant, going to some fun place like a theme park or the movies, or even going on a nice vacation to a small island. But for my family it's a completely different story.

The whole Gallagher clan, plus a couple of random people and drunken friends of my dad, were standing around a old stolen car that was engulfed in bright flames. We all stood their with grins, talking to each other and laughing.

It's pretty uncommon to see all of us together and happy, because usually were in a fight with our dad or something, but right now all that matters is were together as a family.

Family is all you need, as long as you have your family, or at least most of your family, then you can do anything.

Cherish your family and all the good moments you have with them, no matter how small they maybe.

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I looked around the fire at all the happy, laughing faces and took a small sip from my beer bottle. I'm only 14 but my family doesn't really give 2 shits anymore about me drinking. The heat from the fire burned my face a little but felt good at the same time. Well the weather down here on the south side is bitter and freezing so the fire really balances it out.

My eyes travel around the crowd of faces, I look right across from me to see my oldest sister, Fiona (21). She's our rock, she's pretty much our mom, I love her so much I don't know what I would do without her. She keeps us in line and puts her family before her, witch I truly admire.

I look beside her to see my alcoholic father, Frank. Well theirs not many positive things to say about Frank, other then he made the best kids. But yeah other then creating us, he screws everything up and only comes to see us when he needs help with a problem, doesn't have a place to stay, or needs money.

Beside him stands a bunch of his drunken friends, laughing and joking about something, probably about something stupid. Beside them stood three of my brothers. Two of them older then me, and the other one younger then me.

My two older brothers names are lip (18) and Ian (16).Lip is super smart, like theirs nothing he can't figure out, other then why our dad is such a drunken prick. I don't know we're lip gets his intelligence because my mom and dad sure as hell aren't smart, and none of us are geniuses either.

Then you have Ian. Ian is a super hard worker, he's definitely not a slacker and he usually puts all his effort into what he does. Weather it's something he wants to do or doesn't, He never does a half ass job with it.

Then theirs my little brother, Carl (9). Theirs lots I can tell you about Carl, he's a pretty 'interesting' kid. I guess you could say he likes animals and destruction. Yeah that pretty much sums him up. But he's really sweet, to me at least. Me and him are kinda like partners in crime, I mean I don't do bad things with him because I don't want to rot his brain to much like how my family rotted mine at a young age. But I watch cartoons with him and destroy things with him, and when he has a bully at school or something then I'm their with him.

Next to them I see my younger sister, Debbie (10). She had a note book and a pencil, I don't know what for but she usually has it with her at all times. She was watching the flames and listing to the drunken conversations coming from my dad and his friends. Debs, as we like to call her, is a little angle. Well an angle that knows how to trick you out of all the money you have. Shes really sweet to everyone no matter who you are and she still has hope for dad and our whole family to come back together. Bless her heart.