numb | fillie

he clenched his fists

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in which ~ we discover that she's not dead
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sadie's p.o.v.

finn rushes to the washroom, millie in tow.

i'm not sure about that millie girl yet, there's something odd about her. i can never tell that to finn 'cause even though they only just met, i can tell finn would take a bullet for this girl. wolfhard's got a heart the size of a lion and when he loves someone, he gives them his biggest roar but when someone breaks his heart, it really takes a while to put it back together and i'm sick of seeing him hurt.

caleb snaps me out of my thoughts by pulling on my ponytail.

i yelp.

i can feel my ears get hot with anger.

"what are you, 12?" i yell, turning towards him.

"yeah, on a scale of one to ten." caleb replies.

i giggle.
i can never stay mad at him, he's too cute.

"what are we gonna do today?" i ask him, placing my hands on his shoulder and looking up at his face.

"well i was going to ask finn if he wanted to go see a movie but i guess he's a little occupied." caled says, glancing over to the now closed bathroom door.

"we can always-" i'm cutoff when the apartment door bursts open. gaten and grace come tumbling in, laughing about some joke.

gaten grabs grace's hand.

"hey guys." he says walking over to caleb and i, not letting go of grace's hand.

"hey." we reply.

gaten glances up at the clock on the wall.

"where's finn, shouldn't he be home by now?" he says.

"oh right." caleb says sighing. "finn brought home some girl."

"her name's millie, they just got here but they rushed into the washroom and that's where they are now." i say.

grace let's go of gaten's hand, giving him a quick kiss on the cheek then states that she's going to find maddie, taking off down the hallway.

i've never been as close to the other girls as i'd like to be. gaten met grace a while back, i'd already been living with the boys 'cause i went to school with them all and we became close especially noah and i, he's my best friend.

i tried to get to know grace but we just never really hit it off. caleb and i started dating a year later. at one point grace came to us saying her friend maddie needed a place to stay. grace never moved in with us so we had extra room. obviously we couldn't refuse and so that's how i met maddie. i've always been slightly closer to maddie since she can take my sarcasm. grace is such a gentle soul, she, really, can't take it.

gaten and caleb get talking about some tv show so i kiss caleb goodbye and walk over to the fridge to get something to eat. i'm not really hungry, i'm just bored and looking for something to do. i end up deciding against eating and go off down the hall to find noah.

i go to the first door, it's unlocked. i open it, stepping into the room.

"um hey sads." i hear grace say.

i look around the room. it's just maddie and grace, no noah.

"oh hey grace." i say dispointedly.

"why don't you come hang with us?" maddie asks.

"i'll have to pass this time, sorry madds. do you guys know where noah is?"

"no sorry." they say in unison.

i turn away from them stepping out of the room and i hear them restart their conversation.

then, i continue down the hall, on my search for noah.

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finn's p.o.v.

millie falls into my arms, her body going limp and her eyes closing.
damn it finn, she's lost a lot of blood.

i set her down on the floor gently.

shit, finn think. what do i do, what do i do, what do i do? i can't wash her off 'cause i'd have to take off her shirt and we've only just met, but i can't just leave her here till she wakes up because she's already lost so much blood.

i open the bathroom door.

"maddie?! are you home?" i call down the hall.

maddie pokes her head out of a room.

"yeah, why?" she asks, a puzzled look on her face.

"madds i really need your help. please." i say, practically begging her.

she looks inside her room, then back at me.

"finn, grace is here and i'm kinda busy right now so could you go ask caleb or someone instead." she says in a hushed voice, seeming annoyed.

"oh, grace is here...that's great, she can help too, i guess. please, i'm begging you madds, this is serious."

she sighs.

"fine finn but you owe me one."

maddie turns back into her room and a minute later, comes back out with grace.

hurriedly, i usher them into the bathroom closing the door behind us.

grace nearly trips over millie's body on the floor.

"shit, finn." grace curses.

"how'd you get yourself into this mess wolfhard?" madds asks.

"it's not what it looks like-" i start.

"well fuck finn, explain to me what i'm missing 'cause from what i know, you brought a girl home and now she's dead." maddie exclaims.

"well first of all, she's not dead. that's why i need your help." i answer.

"you want us to finish the job for you?! what kind of sick person have you become!?" grace yells.

i clench my fists.

"shhhhhhhh." madds shushes grace. "let finn try and explain."

"no i don't want you to kill millie, i need you guys to clean up her wound." i say, looking down. "i would do it myself but we've only just met and i'd have to take her clothes off."

"you should've just said that in the first place!" grace says.

i let out a gasp of air i didn't know i was holding in.

"sorry." i reply my voice barely a whisper.

"now out, out, out, finnie." madds says pushing me out've the bathroom and shutting the door.

"we'll take good care of her." grace yells through the wall of the bathroom.

i stand there, outside the door, for a while, just until i hear the shower running and the soft whispers of the girls. i hear them introduce themselves to millie and millie responds. i guess that's a good sign, meaning she's awake.

i wander back to the living room and slump down on the couch next to bailey, my dog.
gently he licks my arm, looking up at me with his big eyes.
i pat his head and scratch behind his ears.

"i've sure gotten myself in a mess, huh boy?" i whisper.

what have you gotten yourself into, wolfhard?

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a/n :
not my best chapter.
ignore the mistakes, i'm not perfect.

~georgia