thief {f.w}

chapter 3

*millies pov*

"are you serious?"
finn is being incredibly difficult.
"yep. very"
i draw a sharp breath.
"well im not taking no for an answer now come on"
"no"
"finn!!"
i let out a sigh in frustration, sadie just raises an eyebrow at us.
"why can't you just come with us?"
he takes awhile to answer
"um, i have i thing that i have to do"
"yeah right, that thing is coming with us"
i roll my eyes at him, "look, i did not haul everyone's stuff and set all this up for you not to turn up. now come on finn"
"god mill stop nagging" he picks at the paint on the door as if he's bored.
"no yes nag. we did the same every time you've been nominated. sadie, when sadie first joined we did this for her, you are being so immature right now, im not asking you to kiss her, im asking you to join us. finn stop ignoring me-" he cuts me off and i realise i probably shouldn't had said anything about kissing, gosh darn my brain and it's unwise choice of words.
"i get it millie. but im not coming"

i walk home triumphantly, marching and humming, which annoys finn very much.
i got him to come with us, my intention obviously, i wasn't leaving until he agrees. it's only fair, it's tradition. he's sulking all right, he's kicking rocks.
"god finn you're like a five year old"
"millie do you ever shut up?" he hisses and i laugh at him.
"can you both shut up?" sadie snaps and we look at her shocked. so shocked, it shuts us both up.
he kicks an empty bottle into the road and huffs.
"why am i even coming to this stupid thing? i don't talk to her anymore" i hear him mumble under his breath.
"we don't talk that much anymore but i still thought to invite you because we're family, a team" i roll my eyes at him again. he's unbelievable.
he rolls his eyes too and i walk on, not saying another word to him.

gaten, caleb and Noah are already at mine when we get back. my dad is telling his dumb joke again.
"...tooth-hurty" and then the boys do the whole act of pretending to die from laughter and compliment him on his "good joke". his jokes are always very bad.
i usher them to the car as quickly as possible before he could tell us anymore of his bad jokes.
"wow mill now i know where you get your terrible jokes from" gaten laughs and runs off to the car laughing before i manage to hit him.
we all pile into the car, the boys greeting finn excitedly but he barely murmurs a response to them, he just huffs irritatedly and picks at his jacket. gaten calls the front seat so we make our way to the back.
to make matters worse, i end up sitting between caleb and finn. awkwardddd.

"so finn, how are things?" caleb asks, trying to make a conversation so it wasn't awkward, i was trying to talk to noah, who was sat next to sadie in the back.
"fine" finn says bluntly.
they don't talk after that and it's even more awkward.
someone messages me. the same guy that's been messaging me for the past WEEK.
"no i don't want to wear your sweatshirt" i mutter furiously under my breath. gross.

i decide to put on my headphones and hum along to my playlist. im struggling to contain my excitement, im so excited to see how rivers going to react.

*rivers pov*

we get home and throw our coats on the counters. i sigh happily, ive had a good day, not too bad.
"anyone want popcorn?" i call over to the others, and they all shake their heads.
"I'm still full off the ice cream" jaeden says and everyone agrees with him. i put the bowl back and join them on the chair.
"so, wanna watch a movie?" i ask them
"no" harper replies simply.
"ok? jaeden, jack?"
"sure, im down for that. what do you want to watch?" jack and jaeden exchange a glance.
"wyatts favourite movie, moana" and then they burst out laughing. I've only ever spoke to wyatt on a couple of occasions, ive never really got to know him. on a second thought, he seems like the type of guy to quote maui, i mean, didn't he do a youtube video about him?

i jump and make myself comfy on the chair before someone knocks on the door rapidly.
"ill get it" harper calls as she skids down the polished hallway in her socks.
"hi!" i hear millie call and i jump up quickly spotting a very annoyed but beautiful finn.

im squashed in a group hug, our faces incredibly close, my heart pounds. we awkwardly try to avoid eye contact but we fail miserably. once we were let go, we make our way to opposite ends of the room.
i spot him glance at jaeden, he walks past him and helps himself to one of the bags of chips on the side.
"excuse me those are mine" harper says and finn smiles sarcastically at her before eating another one. she snatches the bag from him and he huffs.
jaeden frowns and spins finn round by his shoulder, but steps back after realising how much finn towers above him. finn straightened up a little bit to make himself look taller.
"why are you being so moody finnward?" he asks him and finn looks at him confused.
"finnward?"
"yeah finnward, like squidward because your being so moody, like squidward" he says as if it's obvious.
finn screws up his face, "that doesn't even make sense, that's terrible"
jaeden thinks for a moment, "yeah? well your face is terrible"
finn goes to talk but sadie interrupts him
"right okay stop now" she says, rolling her eyes at their childish bickering
finn is still frowning and begins to walk off towards the sofa. i stand uncomfortably between sadie and millie.
"ha! so i win!" jaeden calls over and we all facepalm.
finn spins on his heels, his face confused, he almost laughs at him.
"no you didn't"
"STOP IT FOR CRYING OUT LOUD" millie yells so loudly she makes us all jump and even my mom stops what she's doing.
she brushes off her jeans, "anyway" she says casually, "hello river, we have something great to show you"
she switches on the tv and pats the chair beside her. it's the award show, we get to see whose nominated, harper jumps down beside me.
"this is so exciting" she whispers.

after about 5 minuets, we see who gets nominated for different categories. sure enough we see sadie and millie and Noah but then, me!!! everyone cheers and the girls squeal and hug me tight. i sit there grinning widely at my mum, who puts her thumbs up at me.
then it's our turn, and by ours I mean the whole stranger team, we were nominated!!!
when we get called and we see the snippets from the show, we all jump and hug and cheer.
"ahhh im so proud of you all" harper jumps and hugs us all.
i jump and finn jumps next to me, i turn and he turns to face me, we both have huge grins on our faces.

should i hug him?

*finns pov*
should i hug her? i want to.

*rivers pov*
i want to.

i decide not to and we kind of just stand awkwardly, smiling stupidly at each other. he shifts uncomfortably away from me and my smile fades.

that's ok, i didn't want to talk to him anyway.

~Word Count 1270~
no hate to jacob, i just don't like jillie🤷🏻‍♀️😂
also i don't know what happened in this chapter, tbh i don't know what's happening in any of them but hope you enjoy😂😂😂
over and out,
-L💛