Consequences | Nillie

Chapter 11 Noah

Well I couldn't fucking sleep. Who would expect me to after everything that happened.

I laid silently on my back, not moving positions from fear of waking Millie. Not that she would hear me from across the room but for some reason I felt I needed to be silent. 

I just laid quietly waiting for sleep to come. Or for something to happen. 

After what felt like hours, I finally rolled over and grabbed my phone. I knew I was supposed to wait until morning but I couldn't wait. I had to know what the fans were saying.

I opened up instagram first and started scrolling through fan accounts, trying to find someone who was talking about our live or any indication that viewers heard our conversation. 

For a few hopefully seconds, there was nothing. Just old pictures of me at award shows and photoshoot. Then, I finally found something.

"Millie." I hissed into the darkness. there was no response.

"Millay!"

"Shh."

"Shh!"

"Why are you shushing me? You're the one that just woke me up."

"Right. Sorry, come look at this."

There was some scuffling and then I was blinded my the flashlight on Millie phone.

I showed her my phone. There was an instagram post from a few hours ago showing the black screen of our livestream. I turned up the volume and although it was muffled, you could clearly hear what we were saying. Finally, my face appeared confused and the frantic before the video finally ended.

"Fuck."

I put my head in my hands, refusing to read the comments like Millie was. I could imagine the fangirls all typing NILLIE! and other bullshit. Well I guess it's not bullshit anymore since #nillie is totally real now but still. Mind your own business.

"Oh my god. Noah look at this."

I looked at the comments and to my surprise, I did not find a flood of Nillie comments but instead... well let me just give you some examples

User1: Omg they are in so much trouble

User2: Yes!!! #WILEVEN

User3: It's probably a joke

User4: Wileven forever

User:69 Wileven is finally happening

User 5: Cant believe they spoiled this like what

Jamescharles: Noah you have some explaining to do buddy. We agreed that Will would go out with Mike not Eleven!

Ignoring the fact that James charles followed one of my fan accounts, I realized what this meant.

"Millie they think were talking about Will and Eleven. When we were talking we didn't specify what relationship we were talking about! This is good we can cover it up and no one will no were together!"

Millie stared back at me.

"This is NOT good. We just spoiled something confidential. We are both in so much trouble."

I let that sink in. The Duffers would be furious. Millie and I would go down as the actors who spoiled Wileven. 

The worst part is we didn't even spoil it. The fans are just confused. Unfortunately, theres no way to explain without giving away our real relationship.

As I madly thought about everything, Millie groaned in frustration. She got up from my bed and walked back to the couch.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm going back to sleep. I can't deal with this right now."

I agreed with her and climbed back into my bed. After a while, I finally fell asleep.

***

I woke up to the sound of yelling outside my trailer.

"Psst. Noah!" Millie hissed my name from across the room and I knew she was hearing the voices too. They sounded aggressive.

I got out of bed and went to sit with Millie on the couch. As if I could protect her from whoever was outside.

Without warning the door burst open.

"Hey!" Millie yelled when we realized that we not infect being mugged. 

"WHAT THE HELL?" Matt Duffers voice was angry like I had never heard before. He crossed the room in a split second, positioning himself so he was towering over us. I felt real fear and instinctively my arm wrapped around Millie, shielding her from the man staring daggers at us. Nerd or not, he was probably twice my size and clearly very angry. The figure of Ross and Shawn Levy appeared in the doorway behind him.

Shawn immediately stepped inside, grabbing Matt's shoulders and pulling him away.

"Easy Matt. Let me talk to them." His voice was angry as well but much calmer. Matt shook his head in disgust but backed up.

Shawn lowed himself down so he was level with our faces. His face showed sympathy and I was glad he was between us and Matt. Shawn was appearing much less threatening. At least thats what I thought until he spoke.

"What. The. Fuck. Is. Wrong. With. You. Did you seriously give away one of the biggest spoilers of the season on an Instagram livestream?"

"We can explain-"

"NO!" he yelled, his voice echoing through the trailer. "No explaining. Here is what is going to happen. I am going to talk and you are going to listen."

I nodded and Shawn reached into his pocket, producing few folded pieces of paper.

"Do you know what this is?"

I shook my head and I felt Millie do the same.

"Somehow that doesn't surprise me. It's the contract that YOU SIGNED a few months ago agreeing to COMPLETE CONFIDENTIALITY!"

Millie whimpered and I knew she was crying behind me. Ross spoke up from behind Shawn.

"You have ruined EVERYTHING we have worked so hard for."

Shawn continued,

"Your ignorance has left us with only one option. You are both fired. No more stranger things, no more Netflix jobs, and as far as your acting careers are concerned, I will making sure every casting agency in the fucking country knows what you both did. Do you understand Noah?"

I couldn't move.

"Noah!"

I was frozen as if-

"NOAH!"

I opened my eyes and found  Millie shaking my shoulder. I was on my back and she was on top of me, her expression worried.

"I'm awake I'm awake. Calm now. I was just having a bad dream."

"You think? You were screaming and you're sweating."

"a really bad dream I guess."

Millie gave me a suspicious look but didn't press me further. 

"It four in the morning go back to sleep Noah."

She sounded annoyed and it made me feel embarrassed. Not just because I had a nightmare but because of the whole situation. It no secret Millie was much more mature than me. She was older and had been in a few relationships. This was all new to me and I feel like I fucked it up. 

I didn't want to be a burden for her. What chance did I have with her if our relationship only made her life harder.

I finally fell back to sleep but not after questioning our entire relationship. Less that 24 hours after we officially start dating and I'm already wondering if it was the right choice.