Cigarettes; Lip Gallagher

"Whenever I'm with him, I'm at home."

I woke up on the Gallagher'a couch, seeing as I fell asleep watching law and order around 3 am. I make my way to the kitchen seeing Carl electrocuting dolls and Debbie helping make breakfast. The rest of the family was no where to be found.

All of a sudden the power goes out and we're left in the dark.

"Carl!!!!" Fiona yells down the stairs from where I assume to be her bed room.

"It wasn't me! They cut the power again!" All of a sudden Fiona came running down the stairs yelling to the power guy. She was only out there for 5 minutes until she came inside giving me a look that could mean one thing only, she was stressed.

There was suddenly a knock at the door and in came Warren Chung, some Korean kid that I went to school with.

"Where's Lip?" He questioned me.

"Um, upstairs. Why are you here?" I tell him and point towards the second level.

He nodded, treading up the stairs.

"Hey Fi do you need any money or anything you need me to help with. I hate just sitting around and not doing anything." I say standing next to her in the kitchen.

"Lauren. How many times do I have to tell you. You don't have to do anything." She ushered.

"A million and even then I'm still going to want to help you." I sigh, washing the pan Debbie used to make pancakes with.
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I've been in the pool with Liam for the last hour just floating around until I hear my phone ring over on the ladder. I swim over to the edge of the pool and seeing the one person I didn't expect to see.

"Mandy?" I haven't talked to her in years because Karen always hated her. I had no issues with the girl. It was one of those things. If your best friend hated her, you hated her.

"Hey, Lauren, are you dating Lip?" She asks me. I say yes, hearing shuffling in the background.

"Would you wanna hang out later today?" She asks me. The whole thing seemed sketchy but I went along with it. What was the worst that could happen? We'd get high and I tell her all my secrets.

"Yeah, I'll over in like an hour." I say. It will be nice to have friends that aren't like Karen.

Karen wanted one thing; to shock people. She would smoke weed, drink, fuck guys and it was all for the shock value. She hated smoking, said it made her anxious. She didn't mind drinking though. She just couldn't drink too much because then she told her secrets.

An hour later, I pull up to the house I was told to come to. I walk up and knock on the front door and Mickey opens the door huffing a hug puff of smoke towards my face. I put my fingers out to take a hit of what he was smoking and he scruches his face, putting the blunt in my hand.

"The Lauren Waldron at my house! Your magesity, how may I help you?" He asks me, as I inhale the smoke.

"I'm here to hang out with Mandy" I say pushing though the front door, exhaling in his face.

"Oh okay," he puts his hand against the door as I push my way in and towards what seemed like the closest bedroom. I turned and looked at mickey. I raised my eyebrows questuoning if this was the right room. He nodded telling me it was hers.

I knocked on the door and Mandy opened the door.

"Hey" I say walking into her bedroom. It wasn't big but it wasn't small either.

"Hey I wanna ask you a question,"I nod and tell her to continue.

"How did you get a boyfriend?" She asked. I didn't expect it. Mandy never seemed like the type to ask for help especially when I came to relationship advice. She never even seemed like the one for a real relationship with someone.

"What?" I ask shocked.

"A boyfriend. I want a fucking boyfriend alright." I look at her and smile.

"Okay so maybe let's start with the attitude. It's a little ya know... aggressive." I say sitting on her bed.

"I'm not fucking aggressive!" She yells, pushing me off her bed.

"Mandy!" I yell.

"Okay maybe a little bit." She mumbles.

"Does he make you happy?Like Lip." i nod

"Yes. He does. He's someone I could spend everyday with and no matter where we are whenever I'm with him, I'm at home." I smile looking at my thumbs.

"That's what I want. A home." She says.

"How about your look? Do you have anything you want to change?" I say

"I mean my hair is kind of dark." I nod

"Okay dye!" I grab my phone and text Lip to pick up some blonde hair dye and bring it over to Mandy's house along with my hair dyer and curling wand and makeup bag.

"Lip will be here soon." I smile. She nodded smiling as well.

"Why'd you call me? We were never exactly friends." I say, just being curious.

"But I know why we weren't friends. It was because of Karen and now you guys aren't really friends anymore and I figured you wouldn't have a stick up your ass anymore." I laugh at her comment.

"Yea. Karen never liked you because you sold. I'll never get her. It was always her goal to make others unhappy. So I left and became happy." I say. We were interrupted by the sound of my boyfriend walking in.

"Hey." Lip walked in the door kissing my lips.

"Hey babe. Oh! thank you!" I say taking the bag from him.

"So what are you two up to? Whose hair will be blonde in a matter of hours?" He seemed nervous.

"Mandy wants a boy so I'm helping her. She wants to change her hair so I'm gonna dye it." He nods stilling and pulling me on his lap.

"Okay Mandy let's go to your kitchen and do this." Lip follows us into the kitchen and sits on the counter.

"So whatcha doing today, babe?" I ask him.

"I have another SAT test today in like an hour, for Avery Davenport." He says.

"Baby, you're not serious. Avery Davenport is a girl. She was in my AP bio class." I turned around to face him.

"Avery is a unisex name though." He defenses.

"You're asking to get caught, Lip." Mandy said.

She wasn't wrong, he did cheat for literally everyone.

"Just be careful. Call me if anything happens." I sigh, looking at his fucking perfect face.

"I promise. Now come here." He smirks.

I smiled and hopped up from the bed, jumping into his arms kissing him as hard as I could.

"Okay, I'm gonna leave now. I love you." He smiles at me.

"Okay, I love you more" I wink. Lip turns to the door, his brown boots stomping against the floor.

"That's what I want." Mandy says.

"That'll be the hardest and best thing to get." I sigh, still smiling.