*FIONAS POV*

Fucking Monica. Why the FUCK is she at Sheilas?!
Everytime everything is going smoothly,BAM Monica comes back. I can't wait to see her and find out her sorry excuse for coming back. "I want to make things right with you!" "I'm your mother I don't need a reason to be here!" Mother? HA! She should be fined for everytime she calls herself that. What a pathetic excuse for a mother she is. I swear to god she better not try to come back to the house.
We turn up onto Sheila's porch and I can feel the tension even before I walk through the door of The Jackson's 2 story home. We're standing in the front foyer and I can hear her voice, shrill over Frank's gravely dirt voice.

I can feel the anger in me boil, the tears in my eyes well up. I can't do that. Not in front of them.

"I'm just here to rubberneck." Veronica pokes her head between the wall and me.

We stand silently as Monica gives me, and my siblings, the same look she always gives when she reappears.

"Sorry Sheila!" Debbie says her voice so quiet it would barely be considered a whisper.
"Hey! H-Hey you guys!" Monica walks towards us and we all take a step back in unison.
"Let's go home and talk! Please!" Monica's practically begging.
"Fine! Really sorry Sheila!"
With a 'its not big deal' wave from Sheila and an awkward walk home, we are finally back at the Gallagher house. When it dawns on me there is a big black lady walking with us.
Who the fuck is she?

*RAES POV*

I honestly feel like I should leave, this isn't any of my business but I also feel like I should be here to support the Gallaghers.
I'm standing inbetween Lip and Ian. Who I didn't even realize came back, since he left a couple hours ago. He comes in and grabs my hand, Lip holds my other. I squeeze their hands to let them know that it's okay.
I break out of thought when I hear Debbie scream about somebody taking Liam.

"You want to take Liam?" I feel myself blurt out.
"No. Nobody's taking anyone anywhere." Lip explains.
"You don't get to abandon your kids and then show up one day to take your pick of the litter."
"OH, now, that's not fair. Your mother's made mistakes, but she's here now. That's got to count for something." Frank tries to defend but is quickly shut down by a loud 'shut up' from Fiona.
"This isn't about you. This is about you. This is about what you didn't do. It's about what I did. And you know what? I did a fucking great job. Debbie is class president. She's on the debate team going to nationals. And Lip, he's top of his class. He set the curve! Ian was promoted in ROTC and he tested out of English. And Carl made something blow up for his science fair. And you know what? They did it all, no thanks to you, because you weren't here."

I can't help but form a small smile on my face listening to Fiona talk about how proud she is of these kids, fuck, I'm really proud of Fiona. But then I notice Fiona is crying which surprises me. I've never seen her cry in the years I've been close to the family, I truly can't recall a single time Fiona shedding a tear. God it must be so hard having to be strong for this entire family.

"...but I'm here now and Liam belongs with me."
My smile quickly fades when I feel Lip's hand squeeze mine. I really hope they don't take Liam.
"YOU WERE MY MOTHER TOO!"

I jump back at the bellowing sound of Fiona's yell. The room falls silent,except some babbling from Liam."I don't know!" He keeps crying. Now Monica is crying and frankly so am I.
I zone out again thinking of all the times Monica has come back. She comes home for a short period of time, claims she's alright again, gets knocked up by Frank (we assume) shortly after that leaves. It's a never ending cycle. Honeslty someone needs to sew these two up.
I snap back to reality when I notice Fiona rush passed me to get her coat.

"I'm done with the school and the bills an the clinics. I'm done. They're all yours now, Mom. Good luck."
Fiona leaves with a slam of the front door.
Lip, myself and Ian head out to my house so they can calm down. I ask if Debbie and Carl should come but Ian said something about they want their mom now. I think he just feels betrayed that they gave in to her. Honestly I don't blame them, If I was their age and my dad came home and apologized I'd probably forgive him too. They don't understand yet.
We walk in and my mom is home, surpisingly. I tought she was working the night shift.

"Hey kids! Do you want something to eat, I'm making stew!"
"Sure." Ian barely whispers
"That'd be great, Lisa"

We sit in silence and eat, I take everyones dishes once they're done and quickly clean so we can head upstairs. I need a smoke.

"Hey, 're going to head upstairs for a while is that cool?"
"Of course sweetheart. Ian, Lip? When you go back home take some of this food over to your sister for the little ones and her okay?"
"Yeah no problem, Lisa!"

*LIPS POV*
Ever since I was a kid I wished Lisa was my mom, even though she's rarely home she always has everything under control. Sometimes she was like our mom and help out Fi. Like she'd go to the school for her and find out how we're doing if Fi had to go to work late. She hasn't done that in a long time though, Most teachers thought Rae was our half sister because of it..

"I doubt she'll stay long." Rae breaks the silence.
"Yeah, but she wants Liam." Ian responds,

I really don't want to talk about it. I feel like the second I open my mouth I'll scream.

"I honestly doubt she'll take him. Listen, THERES no way she'll last a week at your house taking care of you guys. She'll go nuts with stress. Plus, Bob or Roberta or whoever that bitch was doesn't seem like "parentile" type!"
"Yeah I guess. Lip you cool?"

I feel Ian and Rae staring but I don't speak I just nod and we continue passing the joint around in silence. That's all I want right now. Silence.

SORRY this took so long to upload, had no internet for a couple months! Sorry if this seems rushed I wrote it awhile ago and haven't reviewed it :/ just wanted to post it as fast as I could!