(chapter 13) FRANK GALLAGHER: LOVING HUSBAND, DEVOTED FATHER
❝am i really a mini fiona?❞
"gotta love these half-days" ian says on their way to school.
"got thing public education is broke" mandy comments causing her and ian to have a hitting match. molly was out walking with ian, mandy, and lip. she enjoyed having mandy around she was nicer and way better than karen.
"yeah waste of time anyway. only thing those people are equipped to teach is how to live with crippling disappointment" lip tells them
"well someone's in a glorious mood today" molly mocks nudging him in the shoulder.
"hey wanna catch a movie later?" mandy turns to ian and asks "brandy can sneak us in"
"can't. gotta be at work by 3" ian replies
"nice jacket kash bought you by the way" lip compliments
"thanks"
"yeah. tell kash I'll take it in the ass if he gets me free stuff" mandy tells him
"same here. he can be like my sugar daddy" molly adds high fiving mandy as she smirks.
"hey" some guy shouts causing the teens to turn around "hey yeah i'm talking to you"
"yeah?"
"you got a phone?" the guy asks
"what your truck break down?" lip questions
"no, genius i like standing in a shitty neighborhood with my dick in my hands" the guy responds sarcastically "i'm already two hours late on this load. i try to take one shortcut, this is what i get. my goddam kid drained my phone playing doodle jump. my goddam wife took my charger."
"i don't think ranting to us is gonna help you borrow a phone" molly points out
the guy looks at her "listen I'll give you 5 bucks if you let me use your phone. just one call"
"oh we uh we don't have a phone" lip tells the man "our dad says not till we're 18. um but you know what? there's a bar i think about 10 blocks that way" he points down the street "what's it called? uh o'flahertys. tell them your family's from county cork"
"ten blocks?" the guy questions
"maybe five. straight shot" ian answers
the man sighs before taking 5 bucks out of his pocket "this is yours if you keep and eye on the truck"
"five bucks?"
"oh cool. thanks mister" ian fakely smiles
"five whole dollars what an honor" molly "sweetly" says making ian smack her arm
the starts walking away "hey hey make sure no one gets near it"
"will do"
once the guy is out of sight mandy hands lip her phone to call kev
"what kind of guy trusts three teens with his truck in the south side?" molly chuckles
"a fucking idiot that's who" mandy replies
"yo kev. forty third and halsted. bring a crowbar" lip tells kev over the phone.
...
once everyone arrived, kev opened the truck to reveal a bunch of meat.
"we are gonna be eating good tonight" molly cheers
lip offers his hand to molly so he can help her onto the truck to start getting the meats off. within the next 10 minutes at least half the neighborhood was there meaning the gallaghers and thropes had to hurry it up a little.
once they got back to the gallaghers and realized how much meat they grabbed vee asks "how the hell we gon fit all of that in there?"
"you could put half of it in my freezer" molly offers "it's not like there's much in it anyway"
"good idea molly" veronica then points to Kevin and tells him to go put the meats at the thropes house
"we could also hang it in the garage, hack off what we need" steve says
"the rats would get it" fiona argues
"rats won't be a problem" carl replies walking in the kitchen with a huge pair of pliers. gabby shrugs her shoulders as she walks behind him.
steve starts hacking the meat with an ax and that was mollys cue to leave. "all right i'm out. I'll go help kev bring the meats into my house" she announces walking out
"alright sweetie" veronica replies
...
"you know what all this meat reminds me of that one arbys commercial" molly admits making lip look at her confused
"the one that goes 'arbys we have the meats!'" she says
"never heard it" lip shrugs
"you are so uncultured it's sad" molly points out causing lip to chuckle at her
"I've heard it" carl chimes in
"see" molly points to carl "at least once gallagher is cultured"
"i'm cultured!" debbie defends
steve suddenly appears on the stairs "you think you guys can survive one night without fiona?" he asks
"no!" debbie yells and fiona gives steve a knowing look "heh. kidding. we have molly anyway, she's almost like a mini you. we'll be fine"
"sure"
"we'll be fine fi" molly answers
"yeah have a great time" lip tells them
"debs, go pick up liam from sheilas" fiona orders
"no wait. debs hold on" steve says running after fiona who ran back in the house.
"am i really a mini fiona?" she asks turning to look at everybody.
carl and gabby looked at each other before nodding.
"well you are when you scold me" lip smirks at her
"yea well sometimes you need scolding you prick" she replies smacking him across the head.
...
everyone was enjoying the amazing meats in the kitchen when frank barged in.
"what happened to you?" lip asks taking a bite out fo his food
"yeah you look like a mess" molly chuckles
"uh a huge guy jumped me. two eighty, 290, steroids... who knows?" frank tells them
"good for him"
"i need you help" frank states
"i got maybe two bucks" debbie says
"same here" gabby says
"no, no, no. show of hands. how many of you at one point or another, wanted to see me dead?" frank asks. everyone raises their hand
"yeah. here's your chance" he says. molly and lip give each other a look not knowing where frank was going with this.
apparently frank wanted to fake his own death and he wanted them to host a funeral for him so he sent all them out on mission to get stuff for it. carl was in charge of stealing the decorations. debbie and gabby were in charge of getting clothes. lip, kev, and molly were trying to steal a casket.
"got nothing" lip says "you?"
"empty" kev answers "hey i gotta leave in five minutes"
"i cant belive you guys are getting a foster kid" lip comments
"neither can i. i cant even imagine you guys as parents" molly admits
"bingo" lip stops at a car that actually has a casket in it
"looks like a good one too" kev says peering in the window of the car. he then starts to break into the car
"you know a lot of those foster kids are messed up," lip tells him
"exactly. that's why they need a positive influence" kevin exclaims
molly scoffs "a positive influence? you're the opposite of that"
"quiet molly i'm trying to focus" he shushes her