Him // Lip Gallagher

chapter two

Published: 03-11-18

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"You love her, don't you?"

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"Fuck you", Lip mumbled on his way out, slamming the door behind him. 

I sat there for a moment, unable to move, shocked at the scene in front of me. "What the fuck, Lip?", Fiona yelled, following her brother outside. 

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Outside, Lip was sitting on the small front porch steps outside of the Gallagher house. Fiona sighed, pulling out a cigarette and lighting it before taking a long drag from it before sitting down next to her younger brother. "What the hell was that all about? What's goin' on with you, bub?", she asked, passing the cigarette over to Lip.

"I don't know, Fi", he lied, shrugging and deeply sighing as he took a drag from the cigarette Fiona had handed over to him. "You love her, don't you?", she asked, seeing right through her brother's bullshit lie. He handed the cigarette back over to her and put his head in his hands. 

"I'm so hopelessly fucking in love with her. She's constantly on my mind. I can't sleep, I can't breathe, hell, I can't even eat, knowing about what he's doing to her. He's fucking with her. Does she know how much shit he talks about her to his friends? She doesn't know that the whole fucking reason he's been with her this long and proposed and shit was because she was a bet. His friend's payin' him three grand to fucking leave her at the altar. He doesn't give two shits about her. He just wants the money so he can go and buy drugs. I love her so fucking much, Fiona", Lip said with so much anger in his voice, it scared the hell out of Fiona. 

Lip only got this angry when he truly cared about something or someone. 

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I decided to go outside after a few minutes after checking to see if Carl was alright. I quietly opened the door and stepped out on the porch, so I didn't interrupt Fiona and Lip; who were talking on the porch.

"-She doesn't know that the whole fucking reason he's been with her this long and proposed and shit was because she was a bet. His friend's payin' him three grand to fucking leave her at the altar. He doesn't give two shits about her. He just wants the money so he can go and buy drugs. I love her so fucking much, Fiona", I heard Lip say with so much anger in his voice. 

I gasped, feeling extremely humiliated. I couldn't believe that Carl would do something like this. But Lip had been my best friend ever since I could remember. He would never lie to me about something like this. I felt so heart-broken and angry and embarrassed, I wanted to hit something. 

Lip turned around, knowing that I'd heard the truth about what Carl had done to me. "Lexie-", and that was all he could get out because I had stomped back inside, ready to fucking tear into Carl. 

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The family was inside, just chatting away, shocked at what Lip had done to Carl. None of them knew what Carl was doing to you. Lip was the only one that knew. He had over-heard Carl talking about it with a group of his friends. But he didn't tell you because he knew it would shatter your heart into a million pieces. He didn't want to see your heart broken.