Black Lungs || fillie

Ashes

(warning this story contains abuse, alcohol, and use of drugs. read at your own risk.)

Sitting down on the warm grass of his backyard, Finn was smoking a cigarette. Huffing the smoke into his lungs. He didn't care to notice that he's smoking his life away into ashes. He takes another huff, then breathes out, tapping the cigarette to take out the ashes.

He turns his head to see that his best friend is coming back outside. Millie. He loves Millie, as a friend. They've always been so close to one another. "Hey! Enough with the smoking." Millie shouts to Finn.

"Enough with the yapping! How about that!" Finn shouts back laughing. Millie chuckles as she sits down next to him. "How about this for a drawing?" Millie asks showing him what she drew. Millie loves to draw. It always let her express her feelings for when she was either sad, happy, or whatever.

Finn observes the drawing, Millie was always a good artist. "A girl holding a flower to her face." Finn says smiling. "Yeah she's smelling it. Flowers are amazing." Millie responds. Finn gives her drawing back, but as he does, he notices a bruise.

Millie has been in a toxic relationship for a while now. She was with Romeo. Romeo Beckham. You'd expect Romeo to be a cute name like Romeo and Juliet, but no. He's a devil. Millie tries to deny it but Finn knows what she goes through.

"Winnie!!!" Finn says in excitement as he sees Winnie, Millies pup running across the yard. Finn quickly gets up and chases after her. Millie just watched before she decided to join in with Finn and Winnie.

Later that day...

"So let me hear you baby You know I love to hear you call" Finn starts singing as he plays his piano. Finn had no hope in romance, he always stayed out of it. He wrote down the lyrics, everything that fit the song. He loves to write songs.

Finn sighs, looking at the cigarette box next to him. It's like they call out to him. He tries and he tries to resist, so he looks away and quickly gets up. Finn sighs at the lonely quiet house he lives in. He doesn't live with anyone, he always preferred living alone, so as soon as he turned 18, he moved out. He had the money to move out anyways.

But even though, he can have all this money. There's one thing you can never buy, and that's happiness.

Meanwhile Millie is at her boyfriends apartment. Romeo. And guess what's happening? Toxicity. Millie has been doing this relationship for over a year already, Finn has tried and tried to help her, but to her, there's no escape.

"You were with that fuckin Finn Wolfhard boy again, weren't you?" Romeo says in a snaky voice. "He's just a friend Romeo.." Millie says quietly. Millie can't raise her voice or Romeo will do something that Millie doesn't want.

The bruise Finn saw earlier, was because of Romeo. "Just a friend?" Romeo asks scoffing. "He is.." Millie responds. "No, not really, he doesn't see you're MINE." Romeo shouts at her. And, it's pretty obvious that Romeo is possessive and extremely jealous.

Millie still remembers the time when he was sweet.

"Hi there." Romeo says sitting down next to her in class. It was 12th grade, it was the final year of school and everything would be done.

She wouldn't have to worry anymore about people always talking to her about her show, stranger things. But Romeo? Romeo always treated her like she wanted to be treated. A normal kid. "Hi.." Millie says softly to Romeo. Millie was the shy type of kid, but always so popular.

"You okay?" Romeo asks her. "Yeah of course." Millie responds smiling. "I'm Romeo." Romeo tells Millie. "Millie." Millie responds. "Well duh. How could I not know your name eh? You're pretty amazing." Romeo says smiling.

Millie blushes at this. And that same week, Romeo took her out on a date. And to Millie, this was the best day of her life. She felt special. Not because of her fame, but because of her.

Flashback end

"I'm sorry." Millie says. Romeo just scoffs at this and leaves to his room. The only time Romeo was nice is when he wanted something. Like sex. That's all he wanted nowadays. And of course, Millie gives him these things because she's afraid.

She never expected this to happen to her. She just wanted a fun life, acting. And basically, her life is a whole acting gig. She has to pretend like she's happy when she's not. She doesn't know why she doesn't listen to Finn. She knows he's right.

And it's the same with Millie, as soon as she turned 18, she moved out of her parents house. Romeo told her to live with him, and that's how the toxicity started. It's something Millie doesn't understand, what did she do to deserve this?

Meanwhile, Finn was sitting on the swings. Not any swings, he calls the swings the weed swings. This is where he smoke weed, and he still does it to this day. Each time he tries to get away from reality, it kills him a little bit faster as it goes without him even realizing it.

Finn had just got his first weed cig, he decided to try it out. Finn was in the middle of filming Stranger Things, no one knew about this weed thing that he was doing. No one knew that he became addicted to the drugs.

And once he inhaled the damn thing, there was no going back. He became addicted and he tried other things. He swung on the swing as he was high off the marijuana.

Huffed and huffed until he took enough and threw it away. In this moment Finn felt happy. He forgot everything around him, his past and all. Forgot the fame, forgot stranger things, he let the drugs kick in.

Here is Finn again, at 19, smoking weed again to get away. "papa is hungry!" Finn says to himself as he giggles. This is the side effect from weed talking. Finn looks at the sky to see that the sun is blaring it's light at him and he covers his face. "Jesus! You didn't have to do that sunshine!" Finn says again to himself, giggling once again.

Finns heart starts to race fast and fast and he starts to panic. "aw shit-" Finn says and falls to the grown eating the mulch. "ugh." Finn mumbles and gets up.

"Where did you come from???" Finn asks the familiar figure who is Millie. Millie knew he'd be doing this. Snapchat gave his location and so she followed the location. "Come on Finn" Millie says trying to lead him to her car.

"I did not bring car?" Finn asks confused. "No you didn't now shut up, and let me get you out of here, before paparazzi gets here and finds out you're doing this." Millie says. "oh.. paparazzi." Finn quietly says.

"Yeah yeah paparazzi!" Finn mumbles gibberish.  Millie smiles but hes high and she needs to help him.

They both get in the car and she drives him home quickly without any paparazzi's seeing him or her.

And as soon as they arrived to his house Millie walked Finn over to his apartment without any paparazzi's noticing.

It was still day time and a lot of people were out, once someone noticed them there would be a whole group of paparazzi.

They got into his apartment and Millie laid Finn down
"Jeez I'm not a baby I can do it myself!" Finn whines. "Let's not forget when u fell and ate the mulch just a few minutes ago." Millie says chuckling and rolling her eyes.

Millie noticed the cigarette ash holder, he hadn't cleared them up yet.
So she did it for him, since he wont let the ashes disappear.

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