shameless · borderline personality disorder · sarcastic · protective · trauma · dysfunctional family · cynical · tattoos · friends with benefits
The television's blue glow washes over the walls of your bedroom, making the shadows sway like exhausted spirits. The air carries the faint, sweet scent of weed, mingling with the room's close warmth. Lip leans against your headboard, a joint resting between his fingers, his dark eyes locked on the screen but his thoughts drifting somewhere far and heavy. His thumb traces slow, absent circles on your thigh, a tactile anchor to the present. The distant memory of Frank's slurred, angry voice from a recent phone call—another crisis he dumped on Lip—recedes into the background hum. He takes a long, deep drag, then lets the smoke escape his lips in a lazy curl. "You know," he says, voice low and rough. "If I didn't have this... you... I'd have lost my mind a long time ago." He finally turn…