sucker | shameless

chapter five

𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗧𝗪𝗢

𝗘𝗣𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗗𝗘 𝗢𝗡𝗘

𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗧𝗪𝗢

Ian comes down the stairs with a gloomy look on his face, I watched him concerned. I was hoping he would look up and notice I was trying to get his attention, but he kept his head down. I wasn't about to ask him what was wrong with this stranger around, either.

"Plus Ian, Ellis and Ian are twins." Fiona points to Ian, who is still looking down and I can't help but wonder what's going through his head. I continue to look at him waiting for him to look at me so I can figure out what's wrong. If only that stupid twin telepathy shit wasn't a lie. "Hey." Steve says back. I catch Ian's glance and I raise my eyebrows, he shrugs and sits down on the stairs. I'll find out later, Ian tells me everything. Guilt washed over me as I stood there, wishing I had the guts to do the same.   

"Hey Debbie, why do they call him Lip?" I roll my eyes annoyed, who brings a rich man to the South side anyways? I realized I was angrily staring at Fiona and suddenly turned the other way. I brush my arms trying to make my goosebumps go away. I couldn't tell if they popped up because I was angry, or because we couldn't pay the heat bill last week.

"His real name is Philip." Fiona smiles at him, but not just a normal smile. The stupid expression that she makes when she wants to fuck a dude is glued to her face. If she's going to bring a guy home, she doesn't have to introduce him to the whole family. He'll just disappear when he finds out more about us anyway, everyone does... Everyone except Holly. I smile, thinking about the beautiful blonde girl. I suddenly remember that I'm supposed to be angry and wipe the smile of my face.

"Yo, Veronica. You got my keys?" Kev enters the house, but leaves the front door open causing a breeze to flow through. It's not like it wasn't already cold in here. He stops when he notices that V has a shirtless man in her sitting in between her legs." What's going on here?" He closes the door, that enters the living room. I turned around and walked back into the kitchen and sat on top of the counter. Heat rises, right?

"This is Steve." I glanced down at the coffee table smothered in old mail and papers. I noticed a wallet sitting on top of my painting of Holly. None of us owned a nice wallet like that. I watched Steve, who was distracted while introducing himself to Kevin.

I thought of ways I could grab the wallet. I could act like I stumbled on something and had to use the table to stabilize myself and grab the wallet... no, that would grab everyone's attention. Maybe I could quickly grab it while going and grabbing my painting?

"Decked the bouncer at Purgatory to defend my honor." Fiona snorts and looks up at Kev. I jump off the kitchen counter and walk into the living room, catching eyes. I grab the wallet off my painting and open it up, looking inside.

"Hey!" Steve looks at me, almost offended. "Ellis what are you doing?" Fiona asks. I brush through the bills, 50's and 100's were stacked in here. I almost choked, I've never seen that much money in my life. "My paintings aren't a coaster." Everyone looked down at the painting of Holly I made. "So this," I said, pulling out two 100 dollar bills, "This is a finders fee."

Fiona stands up, "What the hell, Ellis? Give it back." I throw the wallet back in his lap and grab my painting, turning to walk away. She grabs my arm, and turns me around. "Now," she demands. I yank my arm from her grasp, "You aren't my mother."

"No, seriously guys, it's okay." Steve says, we all turn to look at him. "It was my fault. Beautiful painting by the way." I tried not to smile, no one really commented on my paintings, other than my family. I smirked, said thanks, and stood behind Carl again.

From there, the conversation went back to normal. "He shit on some bouncer?" Kev asked. V nodded her head yes. "Oh yeah, which bouncer?" I cross my fingers hoping it was Jimmy Clifton, we all know what happened with Jimmy Clifton. Fiona lights up," Jimmy Clifton." A smile stretches across my face. Kev raises his eyebrows, surprised. "Jimmy C?" Kev puts out his hand to Steve," Well Jesus man, put it there. Respect." Kevin chuckled.

"Guy just stands there. Doesn't really do any," Steve starts but Kev cuts him off while sitting beside Lip, who tries to hold back his laughter," Yeah, you'll be his third conviction. Third or Fourth." I smile,"Fourth," I hold up four fingers. Kev nods over at me," Fourth, yeah."

"After that much practice," Fiona stands up and comes over to us, I look up at her confused at what she was doing until she rips the beer bottle out of Carls mouth, fuck. How couldn't I see that, I mouth a sorry to her while she continues into the kitchen, I immediately come back to conversation with Kev and Steve.

"  No more fuck-ups like last time like leaving his dad still breathing." I cover my smile behind my hand," His dad?" Steve asks worried as hell. He is such a sucker, I couldn't help but chuckle this time." Yeah. Five years over an '87 Monte Carlo with 200,000 miles on the odometer. A fucking Monte Carlo."

" Okay, time for bed. Up the wooden hill." Time for action, I sit fast causing Carl to fall forwards towards the coffee table, I catch him before he can even touch the table. I slam my hand on the coffee table as if to stabilize myself but I really grab the wallet. I pull both me and Carl up before anyone can make a big deal out of it.

I look around seeing if anyone noticed the quick grab, I see Kev smirking at me, I smile and bring my hand around my back, using my other hand to gently push Carl towards the stairs. Debbie and Carl continue to have grumbles about going to bed so early. I walk over to Kev as if to give him a goodbye hug," I'll come by the Alibi tomorrow." I whisper, he nods and I pull away and run up the stairs.

Once I came into our room, Carl looked up at me from his bed with a smile, Lip and Ian looked at me confused. I hold up Steve's wallet and It takes a moment for Ian and Lip to catch up," How much?" Lip asks, I shrug and move to sit on my bed. "How'd you get it, we all saw you put it back?" I smile, the door opens and I quickly hide it under my pillow, I look up and see Fiona looking at all of us.

"Goodnight. Love you." Fiona tells us, I give her a huge smile, we all say our I love you and goodnights before she heads over to Debbie and Liam's room. I quickly pull out the wallet and open it up, not caring for the ID's or credit cards, "Holy shit." I breathe out, all the boys head snap up as I pull out a couple hundred dollars. I know it before, but counting it? Holy shit.

"How much?" Carl eagerly asks, I look up at them with wide eyes, "750 dollars." Ian lets out a laugh," Good fucking job, El." All the things I could do with this, I look up at them again and catch Lips gaze, he doesn't trust me with the money, I mean I wouldn't either based on my past. Fuck, Maybe I should put the 200 I took earlier back... My leg starts to bounce up and down, anxiety tickling my rib cage.

so like im a horrible person, i could have put this on Monday but like I just didn't want to. It wasn't fully edited on Friday, im so sorry. im incredible lazy. i will be getting on a more stricter schudule so this friday, lets say 3pm, it will be put up.