After Lip and Fiona, you were the next person Ian told about his sexual orientation.

Perhaps most others' reactions would have been supportive, and that's what you tried to pretend. But the problem was that you had liked Ian for several years. That's why you got the great idea of being his fake girlfriend, so that others who didn't know much about him wouldn't know that he was gay.

Ian, for days, acted slightly nervous when your brother, Mickey, passed by him, or when you went to visit him where he worked, whenever Mickey came to steal snacks he would put on a sly smile when he left there. Apparently he had had little encounters with Mickey for a long time...

You and him went for a walk, sitting on a bench full of snow, while you smoked, and then you asked him: "Ian, are you okay? You've been a little weird these days..." He didn't give you any answer, he was just trying not to make eye contact with you, hoping that would be an answer for you.