Sweet But Psycho | Milia

Chapter 1

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Nothing good ever happens in the town of Hawkins as far as Millie Harbour was concerned. She had known the same people, gone to the same school, and ate at the same cafe since birth. It was a constant rhythm of things she had to do everyday with nothing ever changing. 

She could count on old Mr. Johnson triggering his smoke detector every Tuesday during his weekly indoor barbecue cook off with anyone who would dare question his title; or Mrs. Hopper to pester her about boys every time she stepped foot in the Cash Saver after school for a coke. 

But today as she laced up her baby blue Converse, Millie couldn't help but hear all the commotion coming from downstairs. 

It was her father David banging around the kitchen as he tried to pull on everything in a millisecond. "Get down here, kid!" He practically screamed. "There's been a shooting down at the Cash Saver!" 

'A shooting? Nothing like that ever happened in Hawkins.' Millie thought, giving one last glance to her appearance. She looked okay she guessed in her light pink flowy sundress and converse. 

She raced downstairs. "What do you mean a shooting?" She questioned the man. "The worst thing to happen here was when Mrs. Miller thought she saw Pennywise, but it turned out to be an escaped clown from Mr. Hadley's circus."

Her father didn't look amused. "In the car, Millicent." He sounded stressed, which she could understand. 

"What's the big deal, Dad?" She pressed, slipping into the passenger seat of his station wagon. "I'm sure someone's gun just misfired." 

He gave her a saddened look. "The Dennison boy caught the stray bullet." 

Millie felt her stomach drop and her heart break at the same time. A million questioned ran through her mind to ask, but yet none would come out. He couldn't have been shot! It wasn't allowed. He was never allowed to leave her alone in this world. 

"Easy, kid, I'm sure it's just a flesh wound." David put a hand on his daughter's leg innocently. "Don't get sick in the squad car please." 

It took about five minutes for them to get from their house to the convenience store, three if her father would have turned on his sirens-which of course he didn't. 

The moment the station wagon pulled into the small parking lot, Millie was out and headed for the entrance, pushing her way through the crowd of people. 

One person called out that no one was allowed inside until the police chief arrived making her want to laugh. The nearest worker swatted the man on the head and scolded him for even daring to speak like that to the chief's daughter. That did make her laugh

Yep if you hadn't guessed it, her father David was the fine chief of this little town which meant she was continually watched by adults and judged by the teenagers at her school especially the stoners like Gaten Matarazzo gang.

"Where is he?" Millie hurriedly asked Mrs. Hopper. 

Mrs. Hopper gave her a pitiful look that made Millie's stomach turn. "Out the side door sitting in the ambulance." She answered after a moment. "Phyllis is out there with him." 

Millie thanked the woman and started for the side door, she could already hear her father getting to work behind her. 

"Jules!" She let out a sigh of relief when she saw her best friend sitting in the back of the ambulance with a cherry cola icie in his hand. "You scared the crap out of me." She hit his shoulder once she was close enough. 

Julian looked up at her, a grin forming as he laughed. "I just took a bullet to the calf and you're hitting me?" He shook his head. 

"It was a graze, drama queen, I thought you were dead." She hugged him tightly, taking in a deep breath. 

He held her close, breathing in everything that was his best friend. After a long he finally spoke again. "Icie?" 

Millie giggled softly then nodded. "Yeah give me." She took the drink and then sat beside him. 

"You know you could never lose me, Mills." He wrapped an arm around her shoulders and played with the edges of her light brown curls. 

He knew she had a thing about death because of that he wanted her to know he'd never leave her like Maddie had. 

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"What was that?!" Asher demanded, pushing Lilia into the nearest wall. "You shot that worker!"

"He was in the way." Lilia pushed off the wall, a smirk on her red lips. "Besides, you weren't exactly complaining, Ashy." She remarked, strolling over to the table and tossing the money down. 

"Yeah which is normally okay but that was the best friend of the Chief's daughter so not the brightest move to make is all." Asher told, sitting down on her couch. "We'll deal with it, I guess, Rosie."

Lilia didn't answer him. She didn't need to answer, her job was done, it was time to move on. 

"Lilia Shannon, get up here now!" Her mother Jane yelled from upstairs. "I've got work for you to do."

Asher gave Lilia a look. "Who today?"

The blonde shrugged. "I don't know they were pimping me out for drugs so who knows." With that she trudged upstairs to find her mother.