6: Fake funeral

"Gotta love these half days" Ian said while we were walking across the street with Lip and Mandy. Somehow Mandys actually cool and now we're all friends I guess. The iconic four.

"Good thing public education is broke" She added to Ians statement.

"Yeah waste of time anyway the only thing those people are equipped to teach is how to live with crippling disappointment." Mandy and I looked at each other while Lip was giving his little speech, we were definitely both thinking the same thing. Quickly we put our feet in front of the boys and watched them trip.

"What the fuck guys?!" Lip snarled at us.

"Seriously?! C'mon dude." Ian said as he pushed himself off the ground. Meanwhile me and Mandy were clinging onto each other laughing hysterically. I will never know why watching people in get hurt is funny but it is.

"It's not fucking funny" Lip shoved both of us, he was smiling though.

"Hey!" We heard a guy from behind us so we turned around to face him. "Hey yeah, I'm talking to you. You got a phone?" I have a small feeling this is gonna be fun.

"What, your truck break down?" Lip asked this middle aged man.

"No, genius I like standing in a shitty neighbourhood with my dick in my hands" This guy is definitely an asshole. "Listen I'll give you 5 bucks if you let me use your phone" Wow, and he thinks we're dumb. We may be broke but we are not homeless.

"Oh we don't have a phone, our dad says not till we're 18" Lip is playing dumb which shows why he's the smartest, ironic I know. "Um, but you know what there's a bar, I think about 10 blocks that way. What's it called? Uh, O'Flahertys! ". There's no bar.

"Ten blocks?!" He response.

"Maybe five, straight shot" Ian tells this man while putting his arm around my shoulder.

"This is yours if you keep an eye on the truck" He says while holding up a five fucking dollar bill.

"Five bucks!" Lip exclaims.

"Cool thanks mister" Ian adds going along with the act. As he walks away we all eye him waiting until we can't see him anymore. Then we call Kev and told him to bring a crowbar so we can get the shit from inside the truck.

Kevin ended up bringing the whole gang and when we opened it there was a shit ton of meat hanging from ropes. On the southside surprisingly we are pretty nice and know everyone in this shithole is poor so being the humble people we let all neighbours the neighbours know to come to stock up on meat.

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"Hey! Look what we found in the back of a truck" Ian exclaimed as we walked into work excited to show Kash. When we looked up at Kash he had a bruise on his face, Shit.

"Mickey? again" The gingered boy panted out expressing his anger but this time I couldn't give two shits. Kash needs to learn to stand up for himself. I didn't engage in the conversation they had at all.

"Bella! Are you even listening?" Ian asked me while walking over.

"No Ian! I don't care about what Mickey did when Kash can't even fucking stand up for himself, now if you'll excuse me I'm leaving" You should have seen the shocked look on Ians face, we rarely ever fight.

"You can't just leave you have a shift" Kash yelled out to me.

"Kash you can shove my shift up your ass!" And with that I walked out of the store. Now I'm starting to overthink, oh god why did I do that?! Ian just asked me a question and I yelled at him just because I feel bad for possibly cheating on him with the guy that keeps robbing our store. I'm such an asshole.

I decided I need to have a good cry so I went to this spot near my house. It's a grass hill with a willow tree that I like to sit under when I just want to be alone. I sat there for about forty-five minutes crying my eyes out about everything.

After that I went to my house which was a two minute walk away and went straight to sleep since I was so tired and had a massive headache from crying so much.

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In the morning I woke up by my phone ringing, It was Lip. I debated answering but if a Gallagher calls I honestly feel like I have to answer, you never know what they're gonna say.

"Yo Bella"

"Hey, what's up"

"Fake funeral for Frank, it's kinda hard to explain but you in?" Wow I would say I didn't expect that, but that would probably be a lie.

"Frank dying? Count me in"

"Sweet, wear black and be over here in twenty, also Ian was a little upset last night do you know what happened?"

"I yelled at him yesterday and we haven't spoke since, I feel really bad he did nothing wrong" I can trust Lip with everything, his always been like a brother to me.

"Shit Bella, well after the fake funeral I'm sure you can apologise to him" His right.

"Alright well I'll be over in twenty, love you bye" I hang up and then got dressed into a bodycon mini skirt and a black jumper with leggings underneath because might as well be stylish right? I topped it of with some black boots and walked over to the Gallaghers.

"I was met with Fiona, Steve and Liam as we both approached the house.

"Hey Bella, going to a funeral or something?" Fiona asked sarcastically, obviously no one filled her in with what was happening.

"Actually yeah"

"Wait what?" she asked surprised as we both opened the door and then asked Debbie what was going on.

About ten minutes later we were all standing there around the casket waiting for Frank to pass out.

" stuff the ice in his shirt" Fiona said to Carl as Debbie was putting makeup on frank to make him look more dead.

"Stop enough!'" Frank was telling Carl because the baby couldn't handle the ice in his shirt.

"Your body needs to be cold"

"More morphine"

"It's horse tranquilizer" Veronica scolded Frank.

"Just get in the coffin before you pass out Frank" Lip told his dad clearly sick of his bullshit. "I don't even know why we do this for you".

"You think it's easy? Being a parent, letting Fiona be the good cop." This bitch.

"Is he serious right now, oh Jesus fucking Christ" I blurt out because I know Fiona works her ass of while he gets to do whatever the hell he wants and rarely has consequences.

"The important thing is you kids. Carl, I remember when the nurse in the hospital handed you to me" What the actual fuck.

"Carl was born in the back of a van, you weren't there" Lip spat at his dad, good for him.

"I slapped his little ass myself-" Lip obviously was running out of patience so being the great son he is he punched Frank in the face so he would be knocked out by the time these people show up.

Once he was in the coffin Veronica examined him to make sure our plan works.

"Looks dead, shallow breathing okay Carl more ice" And now we wait I guess. No one knows where Ian is and I feel like it's my fault. He is probably upset and doesn't want to see me right now.

Finally these two guys walk through the door, Debbie is fake crying but the rest of us are not as pro as her so we just pretend to be sad. Oh and Ian finally showed up but we haven't spoken.

"Sorry for your loss" One of them says to us. Fiona speaks on behalf of everyone.

"It was a shock"

"Accident, was it?"

" suicide" As soon as Lip says that Fiona starts fake crying to, I guess the Gallagher girls also double as actresses. Suddenly this dumbass guy runs up and half picks up Frank, fucking idiot scared Debbie making her squeal.

"I know your faking it, come on open your eyes" This DUMBASS then literally slaps him, not like Frank doesn't deserve it. His partner pulls him back and hopefully can snap some reality into this guy. He pulls out his phone to call this so called boss. We gave Carl a signal to sneak away to smash the car as a distraction.

"Yeah there's nothing here worth taking unless you wantt one of the little girls, one 11 maybe 12 she's cute but not really a looker the other looks around 15, definitely could reel us in a lot of business" Overhearing the conversation Ian instinctively stands in front of me even though we are in a fight. I can't handle how cute he is sometimes.

"Bosses orders is stay with the scumbag until he's buried" Well shit.

"Suddenly a car alarm goes of which we know was Carl, the two men rush outside to take a look at what happened to their precious little car.

"They're gonna bury him?" Ian questioned.

"If we keep our mouth shut" Lip answered as Fiona came around behind Lip to tell him that we need to put something heavy in the coffin. We had the idea to put the rotting meat we found from the back of the van, it was the perfect thing because it was heavy and smelt like a dead person.

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We buried the coffin and now we're at the alibi for the fake wake.

"Can I get your attention please. Uh Frank Gallagher, loving husband, devoted father truly respected and cherished member of this community. He was a good friend and a good neighbour, and he will be sorely missed. I just hope that in the afterlife they treat him as kindly as he treated all of us, to frank"

"TO FRANK" Well that was such a bullshit speech that was really good on Kevins part. The two assholes walked out and we locked the door.

"GOING TAKE MORE THAN THAT TO PUT THE LIGHTS OUT ON FRANK GALLAGHER!" We all cheered, I mean I have no idea why but it just felt right. A little while later Ian finally walked in, I think he has been avoiding me all day.

I saw him and Lip have a short conversation but after they finished talking I walked over and sat down next to Ian.

"Hey" That was literally the only thing my brain could think of saying.

"Hey" I guess the same goes for him.

"Listen I'm really sorry for getting mad at you the other day, you did nothing wrong I was just confused about my emotions and I shouldn't have yelled at you"

"Next time don't keep it all in then explode on me, talk to me otherwise I'll think I did something wrong" He is literally the sweetest his not even mad.

"I know, I'm really sorry I'm a jerk"

"Yes you are, now stand up" We both stood up to hug each other, even though it was only one day I really missed my bestfriend.

"What caused you to be so frustrated anyway?" Shit what the fuck do I do, think Bella.

"Oh doesn't matter now it's in the past" Ian just nodded, I know not knowing is killing him on the inside but I can't tell him the truth, not yet.

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I am so sorry for not uploading for ages I have been super busy recently but I'm going to start posting consistently again, meaning a few times a month. I hope you guys liked the cute little make up after the fight because I thought it was really sweet. Also this episode was when Ian fucked Mickey so that's started now and its a secret from everyone.