Chapter 7

TEXTING MILO

NARRATOR'S POV

"How in the world did we swap phones?"

Lindy exclaims over the line sounding like it was the end of the world when she does not even have any single idea how many girls would want to be in her shoes right now. Firstly, Milo Beckett called her. Secondly, she is talking to Milo Beckett. Thirdly, she swapped phones with Milo Beckett. And most importantly, she is still going to be talking more often with Milo freaking Beckett.

She pulled herself out from her bed rapidly and begins to walk to and fro across her bedroom with her palm pressed against her forehead. She kept on thinking of ways on how the hell they swapped phones but she could only think about Nando’s.

“Nando’s is the root of all evil.” She says over the phone making Milo laugh. “This is seriously not a funny thing to laugh about!”

Milo presses his lips together as he push his hair off his forehead, “I’m sorry. It’s just that you sound...” He trailed off.

“I sound what?” Lindy quickly asked snappily.

“You sound really adorable when you’re panicking.” Milo answers with a smile on his face as he begins to board the plane on his way back to England.

Lindy gapes as she didn’t like what she heard from him. “Adorable? Is this some kind of a joke to you? We swapped phones and that is totally not okay.”

He groans as he sits over plane seat waiting for the other lads to arrive. “I don’t know how often this situation happens to someone, maybe you just got lucky.”

Lindy laughs humorlessly as she placed her hands over her hips, “Just got lucky? Are you being utterly serious right now? What’s the luck in having your phone swapped with some stranger?”

Milo pauses while rubbing his chin with his finger, “You’re right.”

“Where are you now anyways?” Lindy asks, hoping the man she is talking to is still in Canada.

Milo sees Jasper entering the plane looking like he just rolled out from his bed. He chuckles at Jasper, “No sleep Jas?” he asked as he covers the phone with his huge hand.

Lindy’s brows creasing, “Hello?” She calls out and hear all muffled words from the man;s background. “Hello???” She calls out again but no answer.

Jasper groans as he takes his seat, “I stayed up late because I got busy playing videos games with Silas since we got back the hotel. I just fell asleep an hour ago when Lucius came to my room waking the hell outta me.” Milo chuckles as he glances at Silas who just arrived and looked much more worst than Jasper. “The guy’s dead.” Jasper adds.

“Hello! Is anyone still there? Am I still talking to someone?” Lindy keeps calling out but she only hears covered laughter and voices from the other line.

Milo pulled the phone back to his ear as he hear the female voice from the phone, “Hey, I’m sorry I was talking to someone.” He said politely as he walks to the lavatory while looking over his shoulders back at Silas and Jasper who are now trying to sleep on their chairs. “Where were we babe?” Milo asks as he enters the lavatory since he didn’t want the others to know what he got himself into.

Lindy groans, “You have to be serious with this. I need to get my phone back from you! And will you please? Stop. Calling. Me. Babe!”

Milo feels the woman getting annoyed but still can’t help teasing her since she does not know who he really was. “I apologize.” He was quick to say. “I am serious too. I do need to get my phone back as well. What did you ask earlier?”

“I asked you where you are. Maybe we can meet up tomorrow and exchange our phones back.”

Milo scratches the back of his neck, “Aw geez. I… I don’t think I can tomorrow.”

Lindy’s face winced, “What?”

“Well babe I am at the airport now heading back to London.”

Her mouth forms into a big O, “You’re on a what heading to where?”

Milo stops himself from laughing again by pressing his forefinger over the line of his pressed lips. He lowered his head as he stares at his boots. “Yup.” He answers while popping the p. Another annoying thing he’s doing that Lindy’s beginning to hate, “London.” Milo adds.

“You can't leave with my phone with you!" She exclaims as she falls to her bed.

"Well I hate to leave my phone with you too but I have no choice." He answers as a matter-of-fact but a part of him kind of liked what he got himself into.

She sighed deeply as she scratched her hair repeatedly on the same spot. Lindy thinks thoroughly on how to get her phone from the man he has no idea who yet she knows heading to London would be too expensive and she does not have a penny for it. She remained silent and covered her face with her fist over her eyes.

"How come I just noticed this now that this isn't even my phone?” She moans sounding like she was about to cry which worries the softhearted Milo Beckett.

“Are you crying?” He asks concernedly. “Don’t worry. I will give your phone back.”

Lindy did not answer and so Milo decided to call out, “Have you fallen asleep on me?”

“No.” Lindy answers. “I’m just really sad how I didn’t even check the phone as soon as I got it from Nando’s. I would have the time to return it.”

Milo nods because he didn’t check the phone too and went to sleep the moment he got back to the hotel. “I thought the lads changed the wallpaper or Lou was pulling some pranks on me but when I saw the contacts, it really wasn't my mine."

She didn’t listen to what he was saying and was thinking and worrying about what she’s involved in right now. She’s worried this might be some prank or some trick to get her kidnapped even though it made no sense how she came up with that conclusion.

"When are you coming back?" she asked without minding what he was saying to her.

"I'll be back a week or two."

"A what?!" She exclaimed.

"I said about a week or--"

"A week is too long enough, you need to be back. ASAP." She instructed him.

“Or a few months.”

Lindy leans over her knees with her left hand holding her head. “I think I’m getting a headache thinking about that.” She says to him.