❪ 🚬🍃🚃,, ❫ ⌦ PHILIP GALLAGHER !! 彡 ARE WE STILL FRIENDS ⚘⸃⸃. 𝙲𝙰𝙽 𝚆𝙴 𝙱𝙴 𝙵𝚁𝙸𝙴𝙽𝙳𝚂? ૰ ⠌૰ 𝙰𝚁𝙴 𝚆𝙴 𝚂𝚃𝙸𝙻 𝙵𝚁𝙸𝙴𝙽𝙳𝚂? ⋆˚₊ 𝙸'𝚅𝙴 𝙶𝙾𝚃 𝚃𝙾 𝙺𝙽𝙾𝚆 ⌦ MONROE FOSTER !!*°࿐ 𝚂𝙴𝙴 𝙴𝙰𝙲𝙷 𝙾𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚁

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𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐒?
shameless

000. Monroe Foster is what people like to call a perfectionist.

There was never a wrinkle on her clothing, a broken nail in sight, or even a hair out of place. She held herself to such a high standard since there was no one in her life to care for her, except herself. Monroe wouldn't dare to strive for anything but flawlessness. Some called her obsessive, others said it was insanity — Moe calls it the way of life, free from restraint's chain.

On the side of the town well recognized as South Chicago was where all of her problems lie. Her life wasn't the kind you see in cliché 90s teen rom-com. Sure, her family didn't have the reputation of the Gallaghers or the Milkovichs, but she liked the way the Fosters felt like a bubble in the Southside, shielding and protecting her from the dangers of their city.

The second the last name Foster would come up the only thing people could recall was the heart-aching and sudden death of loving family man Azeriah Foster — at least that's what the local news called him. It pained her that she couldn't recall enough of her younger years to even correctly characterize him. The last memories of her father, the brown-eyed girl blanked on. That's all he became to her. A memory. She yearned for the moments that time had tossed. It all felt like a unsolvable puzzle in which she had lost half of the pieces.

What didn't help was her practically absent mother. Angeline Foster was like her daughter, consumed. But not by the walls of high school or learning's call. Instead, in a ceaseless toil, she'd enthrall. A stage 5, grade-A, workaholic, she calls it. Her life, a never-ending cycle, day by day. No respite, no reprieve, from dawn to dusk, a relentless pursuit, an unyielding thrust. Monroe longed for her presence, so dear, to witness milestones, to hold her near.

Monroe's teenage years were irreplaceable. Did they really matter if her mom wasn't there to see them. The feeling of guilt ate away at her for wanting a pity good job or I'm proud of you — a pathetic pat on the back would even suffice. She just wanted a mom, it was all she wished for blowing out the candles of her birthday cake every year.

In her grasp, she held life's treasures rare, utterly stunning, a genius, beyond compare, an up-and-coming class president, bound to shine in the never-ending black hole the Southside was. There wasn't a signal flaw to her that people could trace ❪ at least on the surface level ❫. Yet she blended in, a face unknown, beauty hidden, seldom shown. She wasn't the kind of girl that would stand out in a crowd, Monroe was adaptable almost like a chameleon. She observed from a distance and master of sleight and ease, transforming herself into whatever helped her survive. That's just who she was.

Amid her somber life, one beacon shone bright,
Ian Gallagher, with hair of fiery light. Since she was eight, they were entwined. Ever since then the two were inseparable and spent ever waking moment together. They were each other's lifelines.

Everything was set in stone and she was living on autopilot until Lip Gallagher said those six venomous words to her.

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𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐑𝐎𝐄 ❛ 𝑴𝑶𝑬 ❜ 𝐅𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑
( played by lexi underwood )
THE    WITTY    SMART    GIRL
XV! 𝑷𝑰𝑺𝑪𝑬𝑺 ISTJ

❝ Everyday you two manage to show
me I'm surrounded by complete fucking morons! ❞

𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐏 ❛ 𝑳𝑰𝑷 ❜ 𝐆𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐀𝐇𝐄𝐑
( played by jeremy allen white )
THE       BLUNT      ASSHOLE
XVI!      𝐀𝐐𝐔𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐔𝐒     ENTP

❝ When you're poor, only way to make
money is to steal it or scam it. ❞

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✹ dedications!
solarfiIms _qallaghers fleurfuI pearIdiver FASHIONOVAS savioursrot nyghtlyghtt starhollowed
rizzhara you guys are all immensely hot and sexy and i hope you have as much fun reading this rollercoaster of a book as much as i had writing it. real bitches know this has been in my drafts since late 2021...

✹ warning!
this story will contain underage drug and alcohol use, as well as abuse, r@pe mentions, swearing, sexual content/innuendos, and references. basically if anything in shameless triggers you i would recommend not to move on.

✹ disclaimer!
i do not own shameless, all the credits go to paul abott and the rest of the other creators/writers of the show. however, i do own my oc, her storyline, and whatever alines to it.

✹ lastly!
please don't steal my writing or anyones matter of fact. me and other writers work quite hard to publish and put other our pieces of work so don't abuse the power you have as a reader and steal it.