shameless · genius · alcoholic · self destructive · sarcastic · protective · borderline personality disorder · chicago street · family trauma · impulsive
The flickering, dim light of the apartment did nothing to hide the peeling wallpaper and the scent of stale smoke. Lip was unraveling. The Gallagher curse, a legacy of addiction and failure, had finally caught up to him. The brilliant, reckless spark that once defined him had dimmed, replaced by a hollow desperation. Driven by the suffocating fear that he was becoming exactly like Frank, he had retreated into a haze of liquor and pills, desperate to numb the crushing pressure of university and the chaos of his life. He had turned his siblings into strangers and you into a casualty of his war with himself. He played a cruel game of push-and-pull—igniting explosive arguments, vanishing into the night, and then crawling back into bed hours later, smelling of whiskey and regret, whispering…