dazed cafe | fillie

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Friday

I walked into 5th period, math. I was the absolute worse at math. I had good grades but math wasn't my specialty. I walked towards my desk and saw finn sitting at his desk covering his face with a book. "hey finn ." I say tilting the book. he grips onto the book not showing his face. "finn?" I ask softly. "hmph" is all finn says. I try pulling the book down harder and it finally falls to the ground, revealing his face. My jaw falls to the ground and I gasp. I cant help but cry a little. "finn, wh-who did this to you?" I ask cupping his cheek, I look at his face and see his purple puffy eye and busted lip and various cuts on his forehead.

"it's no-nothing mills, I'm okay." he says turning the other way so I couldn't see his face. "finn, who did this to you?" I ask in a serious tone, no longer soft or gentle.

"Jacob."

"He what?!" I shout standing up and everyone turns their heads towards me. "Mrs. Brown! Do you have something you'd like to share with the class." Mr. Keery asks me slamming both arms onto his desk, looking away from the chalkboard. I curl up my fists and sit back down. Every now and then I look at finn. I sit there minuet by minuet wondering why the hell Jacob would lay a finger on finn.

After the bell rings, Finn rushes out of the classroom before I could even get to him. I walk through the halls searching everywhere for Jacob.

I find Jacob about to walk into the boys bathroom but I pull his backpack back towards me before he could. "Damn babe, miss me much?" Jacob asks leaning in to kiss me. Before he could, I slap him straight across the face. everyone around us 'oohs' and Jacob puts a hand to his face and glares at me. "Why the fuck did you lay a finger on him." I shout into his face pushing him up against the wall. the thought of being scared of him was now gone and I didn't care if he hurt me, I cared about finn and I didn't want him hurt.

"oh babe, you know you cant be friends with him, you're mine." he says with a smirk. my face immediately turns red and I punch him again. He looks at me with fire in his eyes and before I knew it I fell to the ground and everything is black.

once reality is slowly coming back to me, I shake my head trying to make out what's happening. I see a boy on top on Jacob punching him numerous times. except that boy is finn . "finn!" I yell rushing towards him. I pull finn off of Jacob and cup his face with my small hands. Finn stands there in front of me glaring Jacob run out of the hall. "finn look at me!"

he looks down at me with his deep chocolate brown eyes and I don't know why, but I feel weird, like there are butterflies in my stomach. wait no, I can't like finn. I can't  that's insane, he's like my best friend.

All of a sudden I'm interrupted in my thoughts, "millie, are you okay?" he asks me cupping my face with both of his hands.  oh my god that just makes my situation worse. I try to swallow the lump in my throat.  "me? finn are you okay?" he nods and I let out a small smile, I look down and slowly grab his hand and we walk hand in hand towards the nurses office.

I walk past all of the kids with bloody noses, ice packs on their stomachs, or throwing up in a bucket and walk inside an empty room with finn.

he sits down on the flat blue seat and I sit next to him. I grab a tissue and look his red plump lips that are oh so kissable. oh millie stop. you can't fall for him, let alone you're best friend. I wipe his lip cleaning the mess that Jacob had left, and I can't help but wonder what real love is like. To be honest I don't think I believe in love. My parents never spend time together because they are too busy working and whenever they see each other, they always argue about the littlest dumbest things ever. and Jacob, I don't think that's love, Jacob has never cared about me and I think the only reason we started dating in the first place was because I was in desperate need of love, love that I thought wasn't possible. but Jacob showed anything but love. All he does is hurt me, physically and emotionally. I throw the tissue away and walk back towards finn.

"mills." finn calls, grabbing my hand that once sat on the seat that is now between his two hands, gently rubbing his thumb over the back of my hand. "yes finn?" I say placing my other hand on top of his. "Why are you dating Jacob, all he does is hurt you?" It's true what he said I nod and a tear escapes my eye, I sigh "I don't want to finn, but I have no choice."

"Yes, you do millie, if you don't love him and he doesn't love you, then you don't have to be with him." he tells me seriously .  "Finn, you don't understand, he threatened me, if I left him he would kill my mother." I whisper. Finn pulls me into his chest and I break. I was trapped, everything around me was falling apart, and the worse was that I put finn in danger. I sob into his chest and he just sits there comforting me. Why was finn so good to me? Why did he lie to me about why he moved here? Wait, was finn hurting?

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