i was sleeping at lips when all the sudden someone walked into lips room.

"lip?" the guy said making lip wake up.

"warren." lip said letting out a sigh.

"where's my paper?" warren asked.

"where's my money?" lip asked him as he got up.

"i got it." warren told him.

"okay. i wanna see it." lip said grabbing a pair of pants.

"thirty five right?" warren asked him.

"no, 50." lip told him as warren started speaking korean.

"stop speaking fake korean, warren. i never said 35. not for the paper i wrote you last month. not for the paper i wrote you last semester. not for this one. alright? it's 50." lip told him putting his pants on.

"can you do 36?" warren asked following lip around.

"no." lip told him.

"38?" warren asked.

"oh, warren, once again proving that koreans are the asian jews." lip said putting his socks on.

"that's racist." warren said.

"no, facts cannot be racist. many irish are drunks, many french smell, most chinese hate children. that's why they sell them to americans. now, the fact here is that you, the one korean i knew made a deal of 50 bucks for an original essay about the great goddamn gatsby yet, once again, you're trying to get me to lower my agreed upon price. okay? so i want you to give me 50 or gfy." lip said taking off his under shirt.

"gfy?" warren asked.

"go fuck yourself." lip said clearly as i laughed.

"who's that cutie." warren asked looking over at me.

"yeah, i agree with lip gfy." i said rolling my eyes as lip kicked warren out.

lip and i got ready and we walked downstairs, the rest of the family probably knew that we were dating by now since they saw us kiss at the wedding and we're always together.

"four hundred and thirty buck? lips flush this month." steve said.

"it's sat season." fiona told him.

"he's always flush during sat season." debbie said.

"sat?" steve asked.

"college tests." ian explained.

"he tutors?" steve asked.

"uh, no, he takes." lip told him with a small grin.

"okay, go play with your cars." fiona said to liam as she passed him to me.

"oh, hey, i got another lead for you." ian told lip.

"hey, bud." i said smiling at liam.

"well, set it up, douche. i'm taking it for someone else after school today, but, uh, there's another session in two weeks." lip said.

"alright." ian replied.

"don't take the phone today, okay, i need it." fiona said.

"i need it." debbie spoke up.

"for what?" ian asked her.

"cold calling for mine and emma's babysitting gigs. we sound more mature on the phone." debbie explained.

"i'm using the phone today, okay? everybody go. you're gonna be late." fiona said.

"i'll give you guys a ride." steve said.

i walked out with ian and we were going over to meet with lip. as i walked i put my hands in my pockets to warm them up.

it was currently the middle of winter in chicago. and if there's one thing i hate more than karen jackson it was the cold.

"so, are you and lip officially dating?" ian asked me.

"i guess so, i mean we say i love you to each so." i told him.

"wait, lip said i love you?" ian asked me.

"yeah, why?" i asked not sure why ian was fussing.

"it's just... i've never heard him say that to a girl before. he must really like you mel." ian said as we made our way over to lip to meet up with the kid that wanted ian set up a meeting with.

i walked over to lip and gave him a quick kiss and the kid walked over to us.

"alright, so it's a buck fifty up front. and after when you get your results back and see how great lip did it's another buck fifty." i explained.

"and we do this today?" the guy asked.

"no. today's session is booked for him. you'll have to wait three weeks." i told him.

"so i sit next to you while you take the test?" the guy asked.

"no. he's pretending to be you. you can't be there." ian told him.

"why would they think you're me?" he asked.

"i'll have an id that says that i am you." lip told him.

"but what if they ask for my id?" he asked yet another question.

"i'm going to make a fake id." lip explained.

"but i'm tall." he said.

"yeah, that's a chance we're just gonna have to take." lip said as the guys passed him the money.

"hey, saturday night there's a party. what time can i pick you up?" the guy asked me as i scoffed.

"how about never? fuck off." i said as we walked away.

"you know, that's two guys that hit on you today " lip said as he grabbed my hand as we walked.

"is lip gallagher jealous?" i asked teasing him.

"what if i am." lip said as i looked up at him.

"then i'm fine with it, cause i'm yours." i said kissing him.

"now go crush that SAT." i said as he smiled at me.

-

i decided to spend the rest of my day at the train tracks with mike, we were both passing around a joint while we talked.

"so, are you and lip like a thing?" he asked taking a hit at the joint.

"yeah, things are really good between us. it was kind of an unexpected thing but i'm not complaining one bit." i said as mike passed me the joint and i put it up to my lips.

"so, what about you, you have anyone special i don't know about?" i asked him as he shrugged.

"no, not really." is all mike replied with.

"oh, come on. you think i don't see the way you look at fiona." i said with a laugh passing him the joint back after i blew out the smoke.

"yeah well she's with steve now, she really likes him and i wouldn't wanna ruin that." mike replied.

i kinda felt bad for him, i mean fiona was an amazing girl and mike was an amazing guy. i know that mike would treat fiona with all the love and respect she deserves. but she's with steve.

-

all the gallaghers siblings excluding liam and all the wilson siblings and steve were all sitting and talking to carl.

apparently carl gave fiona a letter from his teacher saying that he was having behavioral issues and if they didn't meet with a parent carl was probably going to end up getting expelled.

lucky enough steve showed up and supposedly gave the principal a joint and they were more lenient with carl.

"carl we're serious. the stakes are really, really high. we love you and we need you in this family, in this house. you need to stop biting and punching and hurting people." fiona told him holding his hands gently.

"well, how else do i make them cry?" carl asked.

"gossip and slander." lip said as i smacked his arm.

"you know, when i get really angry, i usually just count to 10." steve said.

"hey, little man, tell you what we're gonna do. we're gonna get you some pads and skates, get you out on the ice. you can take your frustrations out with a hockey stick." lip told him.

"yeah, you can come to karate with me. remember when i broke kyles leg? took three pins to put it back together." ian said.

"you can't beat karate when it. ones to regulated, sanctioned violence for children." debbie said.

"wow, took the words right out of my mouth." emma said jokingly making everyone light chuckle.

after that everyone went over and did their own thing, i went to see that lip was calling people about their SAT scores and saying they were bad....

"hey, what's going on?" i asked kneeling beside him as he looked down at me.

"some guy from the education bureau caught me taking other people's scores and now everyone scores are not being counted." lip said as he let out a sigh and rubbed his temples.

"hey, it's gonna be okay." i said grabbed his hand as he looked down and kissed me.

we both pulled away when we heard banging on the door. debbie went over to answer it a basketball player named tire from the university walked in.

"hey, i'm here for lip to pay him the balance for the SAT test." he said as lip stood up.

"tire." lip said to him.

"lip, my man." he said going in to high five him but tried slapping him.

"they invalidated my score." he said angrily.

"i was gonna call you." lip told him.

"i'm gonna get like a six on this test." tire said.

"you'll get at least a couple hundred for spelling your name correctly." lip said as tire tried charging at him.

"shit. wait, wait, wait, i can fix this, alright?" lip said holding his hands out in front of him.

"i won't be able to play ball in college." tire said running towards lip but i stepped out in front of him.

"back off." i told tire.

"get out of my way." tire said.

"i said back off." i repeated.

"and i said get out of my way." tire said pushing me down and i fell and hit my head on the table.

"fuck." i said as i heard tire running after lip up the stairs.

i ran up after them and i saw tire slamming lips head into the wall. and dragging him into the room before slamming him against the wall.

tire went over to the window and hung lip out the window by his feet.

"no, no, no, please." lip said.

"you think you'll live if i drop you on your head? i don't." tire said.

"let him go, now. or i swear to fucking god you'll regret it." i said grabbing the baseball bat that the gallaghers kept.

"lip." debbie said running into the room with ian.

"shit." ian said grabbing tire.

"get back inside" ian said shaking his shoulders.

"back off or i'll throw you out too." tire said.

i saw carl run in and i made him stay back with debbie and emma.

"now tire you didn't listen so now you're gonna fucking pay." i said holding the bat up.

"get my brother back or the girl swings the bat." ian said.

"and you better watch out cause i played a lot of baseball as a kid." i said getting ready to swing.

"okay, okay." tire said.

"now!" ian and i yelled.

"keep your shit straight. i'll pull him in." tire said.

"come on, now." ian said.

"what the hell is going on?" fiona said running in with steve and mike behind her.

"mel's got it covered." ian told her as lip was pulled back in the room.

once lip was back in the room i pulled him behind me. if you had to know anything about me it was that i'd do anything for the people i love and once you mess with someone i love i wasn't gonna let them get off the hook.

"i was just joking. okay? okay?" tire said but i shrugged and hit him in the leg making tire fall down.

everyone patted my back and i grinned.