Loving someone is never easy, especially when the one you love is from a dysfunctional family full of chaos. Lip Gallagher, is the love of my life. We may be young and dumb but we're gonna make it in this cruel world.... all three of us.... ( I do n...
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It was close to six thirty when everyone gathered around Brayden. Who was sitting in his high chair with his birthday cake placed in front of him. His eyes gleamed from the reflection of the lit candle that sat in front of him as everyone around him sang happy birthday while Clarissa tried to distract him from sticking his hands on the open flame in front of him. When everyone let out the finale few words of the happy birthday song and started clapping and giving him hugs and kisses around him. "Go ahead big guy blow em' out" I said gently blowing air in the direction of his candle softly until it was out. "Yay" I said clapping his hands together when the phone rang across the room. "I'll get it" I said to Fiona who was getting a cake icing facial from her own nephew as he played in the cake.
"Gallagher's" I said as I placed the home phone against my ear and cheek. When I heard a familiar voice on the other end of the phone repeat my name back to me. "Lip?" It said in a groggy tone, "yeah who wants to know?" I asked abruptly as I was getting annoyed that I was missing even more of the party then I had intended to due to the ignorance that seemed to have been on the other end of the line. "No ones gonna say anything else OKAY IM HANGING UP NOW!?" I said in a louder tone before I took the phone off of my ear. When I heard something else faintly "hello? Look I got shit to do so Ethier you talk or you listen to a dial tone when I hang up on your ass."
"Son", a voice said on the other end finally after being rude enough. It was fucking frank..... of all people he was not a person I wanted to speak to right now and most definitely not someone I wanted to ruin anymore time I had with my son. "What the fuck do you want?" I shouted angrily as I felt my blood start to heat up inside my body as my blood pressure rised. I guess I caught more than just Frank's attention cause the house became quiet and Fiona and Ian moved closer to see what was going on. "Everything okay Lip?" Fiona asked but I ignored the question cause I was to focused on the piece of shit I was being interrupted by on the other end of the line. "I.... I just wanted to wish my grandson a happy birthday it is today isn't it?" He said groggily in my ear. I was not only angry but completely dumbfounded by the fact he had the nerve to call me after everything that had happened I was numb from all of the anger flooding through my veins. When I heard Brayden playing with a toy truck with lights and sounds on the kitchen floor in the room over from me and I just let go of all the anger I had cause no matter how angry and upset i was today was a celebration for my son and i wasn't going to let Frank ruin any aspect of my life anymore. So i calmed myself down enough to speak normally before hanging up on him. Frank, I said sternly as I mustered up the strength to fight my emotions the best I could and said what I needed to say "you don't have a family anymore Frank.. stay away from my son, my brothers and my sisters and my girlfriend and as for a grandson you dont have one I hope you rot in jail" I said feeling my voice become shakey as I slammed the phone down on the hook as hard as I could. While everyone stood quietly behind me not sure what to say or how to react to how I acted or the things I said on the phone. "I.. I'm sorry everyone, I didn't mean to cause a scene or upset anyone, let's get back to the party".
"You sure you're okay? Fiona asked before returning to the kitchen to enjoy the rest of Brayden's party. I just shook my head I didn't want anyone to make s fuss over me not today it was my son's birthday and I would be damned before I let Frank ruin another thing having to do with my son. In the faint of the distance I could hear Brayden trying to say another word but not fully getting it out "Uck Daaaa dy Uck!" He kept saying pointing at his truck while Carl pressed the buttons making it light up and make sounds he would just laugh and kick his legs and clap his hands together with excitement.
"Are you okay?" Clarissa asked me as she moved over closer to me wrapping her arms around my neck and looking me in the eyes with a sincere look on her face. All I could do was shake my head yes at her and kiss her on the lips. "Can we talk about it after Brayden goes to bed? I just really want to focus on him right now?" I asked stealing a kiss from her and heading back into the kitchen to play in the floor with Brayden and enjoy the rest of his birthday with him.
