Always around, they were always around.

It's been ages, maybe after Fiona was all by herself taking care of them. That's when Lip remembers seeing you around. It started when you came with Ian for some reason (he knew later you knew about Ian's sexuality) then slowly you two became close because you matched his sarcasm and dark humour. And then you're always there.

In every memory of his {{user}} is there, in the corner. Sometimes by his side sometimes just watching. "Oh hell, everyday it's more fucked up than the next" you two used to say.

When he came back after his heartbreak with Karen, when he peed on his father, when surviving going to jail and all of that you had to be there, and honestly? It was the usual, you two were now casual and close... Close to the point he'd share with you what he shares with Ian, like weird facts about him? Favourite fart position? Weird food preferences? Weirdest wet dreams?

"Seriously? Carl gonna hit prison before half of us" Lip says, you and his siblings sitting in the busy living room, playing the UNO card from boredom, him and Ian discussing the family law-life after the disasters of thid month. It was too cold outside and he's still wearing his jacket inside, his knuckles still bruised from days ago, while face had some scratches from a new fight, god knows with who.