POV
Millie
I hear X call after me.
I pick up my pace running for the staircase, I don't want to hear a single word he has to say, I don't want to see his face right now or ever again in my fucking life.
I accelerate down the steps to the point that I'm practically flying.
I'm numb, I'm so numb that I can't even cry. I feel as though I'm having an out-of-body experience with my mind gliding on autopilot.
I need to get out of here.
I finally make it to the first floor and somehow I'm not dying for breaths, painful adrenaline courses through me.
I walk through the kitchen where Steph is sitting on the counter and Julian between her legs as they fiercely make out.
I don't pay them any mind, I have a destination I need to get to and that's my only focus, to leave.
"Millie?! Millie wait! What's wrong?" I hear Steph call out to me but I ignore her.
I hear from a distance behind Steph speak again, "What did you do?! What the fuck did you do X?"
Oh no, he's too close, I see the front door, I'm so close to escaping hell.
I run for the handle, taking it in my hand and turning it.
"Millie!" X is begging from behind.
I'm outside, I'm finally outside.
My eyes immediately go to the once beautiful fountain that I loved, now it's nothing more than an excruciating reminder of the man I wish I never knew.
I dash down the front entryway steps making it to the bottom but feel his hand on my bicep preventing me from my desperate attempts to escape.
"Millie, please, I beg you, please don't go," X says to me breathlessly.
I look up and see Steph and Julian have now joined the show as they stand at the top of the steps.
I don't say anything to X.
"Please, you promised me you wouldn't run again." He holds onto my hand and kneels down in a begging position in front of me.
"And you promised you wouldn't do anything stupid, but here we are both breaking our promises." I spit out.
He inches forward, holding onto my leg the same way Isabella did the day I left apartment 307, "Baby please," he begs.
I push him off me with force.
I look into his hurt eyes, "don't ever call me that again. I am not your baby, I am not your girl, I am nothing to you." I say outraged.
"You're everything to me, remember that day you asked me if I've ever been in love and I said no? Well my answer has changed, I love you Emily Hill and I know you love me too." He says pouring his heart out to me.
I slap him so hard across the face that I actually leave a red mark on his once, beautiful to me, cheek.
I poke him right in the chest with my finger, "You have no idea what love is. This isn't love."
I say breaking his heart just as he broke mine moments ago.
He kneels even further down on all fours and then wraps his arms around my legs again praying for my forgiveness that he'll never receive.
"Get off of me!" I scream at him but he doesn't budge.
Before I even have any recollection of what I'm doing, I'm pointing the barrel of the gun at the man I love.
He's startled and gets back on his knees but doesn't seem to even care if i pull the trigger or not at this point.
"Do not touch me," I spit out.
"Millie…" Julian says.
I point the gun to Julian now and Steph's eyes grow wide with worry, "Shut the fuck up Julian, you are just as much in the wrong as he is, you knew about this." I say with fury.
I lower my arms and take the clip out of the gun. I toss the gun and magazine, safely to the side.
"Millie, baby, please don't do this, please I'm begging you don't go. I really do love you, I love you so fucking much." X begs.
I don't pay him any mind.
"I'm done here," I say and turn my back.
He once again holds onto my hand for dear life. I rip it away as if I had just been burned by a hot flame.
"That's enough X! I'm leaving!"
"Fuck this house, fuck the people in it.."
I take out my phone from the pocket of X's black hoodie, I hastily remove the cover tossing it to the ground.
"Fuck this phone I know you've been tracking,"
I pull back my right arm and smash my phone with excessive force, causing the phone to break into a million shards of glass in front of X.
"But above all else, fuck you Xavier." I say those last harsh words with eerie calmness.
I turn my back to the man I once loved and walk away to my car.
"No, Millie! No! Don't do this!" I hear him smashing his firsts against the pavement as I ignore his pathetic pleas.
I rip open the driver's side door to my car and get in slamming the door. I made it with 14 days left of the 37 to spare. I knew in my heart that 37 days wasn't achievable.
I pull out of my usual spot for the last time, hearing begs from the outside, I hastily speed off, never looking back once in the rearview mirror.