She's Not Afraid/ Carl Gallagher

We'll Miss You

  I grab my bag and stand up as the bell rings ending the day. I walk towards the door with my bag over one shoulder and my quiz in my hand. I give the quiz to Mrs. Thomas.

"Will I be seeing you tomorrow Laci?", she asks hopefully as I hand her the quiz.

"Yep.", I say as I walk out the door.

I walk through the crowded hallway and out the door outside. I see Carl and Debbie and walk over.

"Hey." Carl says smirking at me.

"Hey. I didn't expect to see you here.", I say surprised he wasn't in detention.

"Well when you skip you don't have to go to detention.", Debbie informs me.

"Carl!" I say mad as I hit him on the arm.

"Oww!", he says acting like that hurt.

"We said we would go to our last two periods." I remind him as we start walking home.

"Sorry Laci.", he says giving me puppy eyes. "I had to help Fiona with something."

I roll my eyes as we approach our street.

"Sure you did.", Debbie chimes in.

"I did.", he says seriously. "She's throwing Laci a going away party."

Shit I never told Debs I think to myself.

"Where are you going Laci?" She says putting her hands on her hips.

"I was going to tell you I might be going to this German camp.", I say.

"What? Really?.", she says surprised.

I nod and tell her about it.

"Why is Fi throwing a going away party for me anyway? I don't even know if I'm going yet." I ask as I open the gate.

"I don't know. When things change she kinda goes bat shit crazy.", Carl states.

We walk up the steps and I notice Lip's jeep and another red beater car. I open the door and we walk in.

"SURPRISE!!", everyone yells.

I look around to see literally everyone has come, Fiona, Jimmy, Liam, Ian, Mickey, Lip, Kev, V, Gemma, Amy, that Russian lady and her baby, Shelia, Chuckie, Sammi, and even Frank. There's also I banner that reads "We'll Miss You." in big bubble letters.

"Thanks guys but it wasn't a surprise. Carl told me.", I tell them.

Everyone just looks at him. I go and hug everyone. People start talking and it gets really loud. Soon people have beer in their hands and it feels like a real Gallagher party.

"I'd like to make a toassst.", Frank slurs loudly getting everyone's attention. "To the Laci the second and last Gallagher to do anything useful with their livesss.", he announces clearly drunk. " She may not be a Gallagher yet but she will be when that one knocks her up.", he says pointing to Carl.

I'm not really surprised I mean its Frank were talking about but I know Fiona will be pissed.

"Get out Frank!", Fiona shouts.

"No one wants you here!!", Kev adds.

"I know Laciii does.", he slurs putting his hands on my shoulders making me uncomfortable.

I step out of his grasp.

"Don't fucking touch her!", Carl yells at him getting closer to Frank.

"What the hell are you gonna do about it?!", he yells stepping closer to Carl's face.

"Alright guys break it up!", Jimmy says forcefully.

Carl turns and looks at me then whips around and punches Frank right in the face. Holy shit, I think to myself. Carl turns around to walk away but Frank grabs a metal folding chair and hits across Carl's back causing Carl to collaspe on the ground and scream in pain.

"Call 911!", I hear someone yell.

I charge at Frank and tackle him. I pin him down and yell in his face.

"I WOULD PUNCH YOU BUT IF I STARTED I DON'T THINK I COULD STOP!!!",I scream at him.

He flips me over and now I'm pinned down. Kev and Jimmy rush over but before they can Frank punches me in the eye. I wince in pain. Kev and Jimmy rip him off me. I crawl towards Carl and grab his hand. I look up to see everyone with horrified looks on their faces. Ian has to hold back Mickey from killing Frank as they drag him towards the door. They stop and pin him against the wall. Lip walks up and slugs him in the gut.

"IF YOU EVER COME BACK I WILL PERSONALLY STRANGLE YOU!!!", he screams and kicks Franks shins and they drag him away.

Fiona and V rush over and try to help Carl onto the couch but he can't move. We hear sirens approaching.

"It'll be okay.", I whisper to Carl trying to stay calm.

He squeezes my hand. Paramedics rush in and load Carl on a stretcher. I follow them to an ambulance with Fiona and Debbie. We crowd in and they shut the door. I grab Carl's hand again and look into his eyes. We rush into the hospital.

"Male, age 13, possible spinal trauma.", says one of the doctors as they wheel Carl down the hall until we reach a set of double doors. "We'll need to take him for a CT scan and then possible surgery. We will notify you when we know anything else.", a female doctor tells Fiona.

"Ok thank you.", Fiona says now in tears.

I lean down and kiss Carl's forehead.

"Bye baby.", I tell him softly.

"Love you.", he says back weakly.

"Love you too.", we all say as he's wheeled into the room.

We all hug each other and start to cry. We stand like that for at least five minutes. We finally break away.

"Debs, go to the waiting room and see if everyone is here. I'm gonna take Laci to get her eye checked out. I call you in a little bit.", she tells Debbie.

Debbie nods and leaves. We head towards a nurses station to get help for my eye. A nurse leads us to a room and starts to check out my eye. The nurse puts bandages over my eye and gives me some pain killers to take. We leave and go to the waiting room to see everyone minus Shelia and Chuckie.

"Oh my god baby!", V says and pulls me into to her arms. "Are you okay?", she asks. I nod.

I go and sit by Debbie and reality sets in I start sobbing. She hold me and starts crying too. We stay like that for what seems like forever.

"Gallaghers?", a nurse says loudly.

We all run up and see what he has to say.

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Omg guys!!! The feels!!!!! Hope you enjoyed that very emotional chapter. There's more to come.....
This may be my second post today depending on what I decide to do. Anyway thanks for reading! We're almost to 40 reads on the book!!! Yay! Oh and did you notice I updated the cover and the description?
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