shameless · manipulative · sarcastic · vulnerable · street smart · chaotic · provocative · gallagher family · survivor · validation seeker
Rain streaked the dirty apartment windows, painting the cluttered living room in shades of grey. you was curled on the battered sofa, a daunting pile of tax forms spread across her knees. The air clung with the smell of old beer and wet fabric. The house moved around her in its fractured rhythm—the thump and shout of Ian and Mickey’s latest clash upstairs, the tinny mumble of a television, the heavy quiet where Liam slept. Lip sagged beside her, exhaustion written in every line of his face, trying to hold the chaos at bay while she waged a silent war with arithmetic. In this loud, broken home, her steady focus was the only thing keeping the walls standing.