Chapter 24: The Search for Frank
"Let Fiona find a stable job with a salary that meets the required standards, and then take our custody from Frank's hands, make Fiona our legal guardian, and take Frank's custody away!" Lip said.
"What? Let Fiona be your guardian? Liam is only two years old now, and by the time he reaches adulthood, Fiona will be forty years old!" said Jimmy.
"Don't worry! I'm not going to let Fiona tie us up for the rest of my life, I'm just going to let her help me for a few years before I reach adulthood, and when I graduate from college, I'll take custody of Liam! By that time, Debbie and Carl will be grown up, and Fiona won't need to worry about it anymore!" Lip said.
"Besides, I'm not asking for your opinion right now! I'm still saying the same thing I just said, if you can't accept Fiona like this, then please leave!"
"Besides, with what you know about Fiona, even if I don't mention this matter to her, will she give up her responsibility as a sister and go away with you? If she is such a person, she would have left this house a long time ago, and she would not wait for you to come!"
Jimmy's face was cloudy.
"Jimmy!" Lip exclaimed suddenly.
"What? uh...... What did you just say?" Jimmy's face showed a hint of panic.
"Jimmy, as I said earlier, with your current relationship with Fiona, you are not in a position to get involved in our family! You are very honest and tell Fiona what you are doing, but you are not honest enough, there are more things to hide from her!" said Lip.
"Fiona doesn't hide anything from you! she puts everything she has in front of you plainly, and it's up to you to decide whether to go or stay!"
"You...... Now that you've made this decision and want to manage this relationship with Fiona seriously, I hope you can be a man!"
"Deception is the most intolerable thing in a relationship, whether it is malicious or well-intentioned!"
"If you just want to play with Fiona, then I didn't say that! Fiona is already an adult, and even though I am her brother, I can't decide her life and interfere with her decisions!"
"When this matter is resolved, I will talk to Fiona about fighting for custody, and I hope that before that, you can seriously think about how to deal with this relationship with Fiona!"
With that, Lip nodded at Jimmy and returned to Fiona, leaving Jimmy alone to think calmly.
The Gallagher family's "Search for Frank Battle" naturally did not lead to anything, and there were two false alarms during the period - near the Gallagher House, two accidental deaths occurred, and the Gallagher family thought that it was Frank who died.
Until Tony brings the news that Frank is appearing in Toronto.
Tony also lives in this neighborhood and is friends with Fiona, who now works for the Chicago Police Department and has always had a crush on Fiona.
Because Lip disposed of the cigarette pack that Jimmy bought in Canada in advance, Fiona didn't notice that Frank was in Toronto, and Jimmy was the ghost.
In order to earn a performance in front of Fiona, Jimmy offered to take a trip to Toronto to pick up Frank himself - his too positive performance aroused Fiona's suspicions.
Fiona is a smart girl, and combined with Jimmy's various behaviors in the search for Frank this day, she concludes that this incident is inseparable from Jimmy.
Jimmy found an RV that was specially used for smuggling and smuggling along the U.S.-Canada border, and the enthusiastic Veronica asked Kevin to go with him all the way, and he could drive alternately on the way.
Lip also took the initiative to ask to follow, and the reason given was "This is a matter for the Gallagher family, of course, it can't be without the participation of the Gallagher family"!
His recent performance has made Fiona realize that her younger brother, who is about to become an adult, has grown up and can share some things for her.
In addition, this day happens to be Friday, and the next two days are weekends, so you don't have to go to school, and Lip will follow along, which will not make any difference.
Fiona saw that Lip had prepared the passport and couldn't even find an excuse to refuse, so she could only agree to his request.
Although Fiona did not fall out directly with Jimmy, she was a little annoyed with his self-righteous behavior of blindly interfering in the internal affairs of the Gallagher family, and was taken advantage of by Tony to accept Tony's invitation to go on a date.
Jimmy, Lip, Kevin, and Veronica, who had been with them to bring cheap medicine to the elderly people in the nursing home, spent the night getting Frank back to Chicago from Toronto.
Lip tried to drive for a while on the way.
Lip can drive, but he doesn't have the money to get a driver's license, and now he has money, and his age is not enough, and he doesn't have a car now, so the matter of taking a driver's license is included in his plan, but he is not in a hurry.
He did make a few fake driver's licenses, so he could deal with emergencies, but now he tried not to use these things that might leave him with a criminal record.
The previous criminal record was enough of a headache for him.
On the way back, Lip slept all the way on the bed in the RV, but Frank could only hide in the narrow mezzanine of the RV bathroom, unable to sit, unable to lie down, and came back from torture.
This was actually deliberate by Lip and the others, in fact, after crossing the border station, Frank was able to be released, and Lip, Jimmy, Kevin, and Veronica seemed to have forgotten about it.
This made Frank, who finally returned to Wallace North Street, in a very bad mood, and Debbie took the initiative to greet him, but did not get a response from him.
Frank enters the house and goes to the upstairs bathroom to take a shower to get rid of bad luck, but Debbie tells him that there is no hot water, which provokes him to curse again.
It wasn't until Fiona sent him a check for disability benefits that Frank's mood recovered.
Soon, however, the mood turned sour, as Lip stopped Frank, who was trying to exchange the check for cash before the bank closed for work.
"What?" said Frank, with a menacing expression.
"Oh, welcome home, dear daddy, you've worked hard all the way, now have a good rest at home, go to the bank to change checks and other little things, let my son and I do it for you!" replied with a grin.
"Fuck off!," Frank yelled.
"Excuse me?" Lip smiled and stared at Frank.
Frank and Lip looked at each other for a moment, then quickly lost their formation, raised their hands and said, "OK!