IrishTeen23
Fourteen-year-old Rory Gallagher has grown up fast.
As the fourth Gallagher sibling, she's learned how to stretch a dollar, break up fights, and keep going even when everything around her falls apart. On the South Side, survival isn't a choice - it's a lifestyle - and Rory wears it like armor.
She's sharp-tongued, stubborn, and fiercely loyal to the people she loves. She protects her family like it's her full-time job, even when it costs her pieces of herself. Between school, siblings, Frank's disasters, and keeping Connor Ball from driving her completely insane, Rory rarely has time to figure out who she is outside of being a Gallagher.
Connor, Rory's best friend and occasional friend-with-benefits, is equal parts a headache and a lifeline. He knows all her secrets - the ones she doesn't even tell her siblings - and somehow manages to make her laugh when life's pressure gets too heavy. They push each other's buttons, steal each other's fries, and disappear together when the chaos becomes too much, a messy but comforting constant in her life.
With chaos always at her doorstep and expectations weighing heavy on her shoulders, Rory must learn how to balance responsibility, loyalty, her own dreams... and whatever complicated, confusing thing she and Connor keep dancing around.
Because being born a Gallagher means one thing:
You don't quit.
You adapt.
You survive.