Milo sat it silence as he watched Paige head into the building, she left his coat even though he knew she was cold, the gravity of the evening was starting to set in, everything that he should have been thinking about was now flooding to mind, the most pressing of which being that he wasn't sure how he felt about Paige. The evening had transpired differently than he had expected, back in Delta he always thought that the two of them were like rivals, but this... he wished that they had been this way then.
SSSSCCCRRRREEEETTTCCHHHH!!! The glare of the taillights in front of him and the driver now leaning out his window, shouting obscenities at him, Milo just shook his head and flipped him the bird, it wasn't like he had hit him, but he was definitely not paying attention, and to be fair, he was a bit drunk. Milo tried to think more on the night, he had had quite a time, but was it enough for him? The strange emotions he felt about it all started to mix with some deeper ones, anger, pain, things he had tried to leave behind in Delta, Paige was part of the reason that Ana shut him out, but could he blame her? He had done more damage to his own life than she could have, was it even fair to keep blaming her? She had gotten him out of one hell of a mess, someone that still hated you wouldn't do that would they? Then it came up, if Paige was able to speak to him again, why hadn't Ana? Was what he had done too much? Had she already moved on? It was likely he would never know, Paige would probably not tell him, part of him didn't want to know.
As Milo walked into his house the first thing he did was head for his safe, he took out the photo and his cell phone, he let the phone connect, and looked at the photo, maybe he really should just let it all go. Ana wasn't going to call him, even if she did, what would he even do? He at least knew that here, he could be what he wanted, and above all things he wanted to be free, free of those mobsters, free of his depression, and free of the pain. Milo sighed, Sol had given him more chance at freedom than he deserved, as well as a measure of redemption, time would tell if he deserved it, he opened the old flip phone and took it in both hands and snapped it in two, dropping the pieces and the photo in the garbage. Milo sighed giving up his hope that Ana would come back into his life was only weighing him down, he wondered as well, if maybe Ana was what made Paige act so strangely, the thought of how they all were making her regret having a fun evening? Milo laid in bed and just stared at the ceiling, maybe he would do this again anyway.
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Ana was spending her sunday at home, she had a few projects that she had been working on for a while that needed to be done in time for a customer from her online store, she had been getting a influx of orders for doll clothing, and while she never minded making it, she was hoping for something to just end the monotony. It didn't take horribly long before she was finished with the little blue and white dress and she took a couple photos to send the buyer. Ana went to the fridge in her little apartment and grabbed a bottle of water, her apartment was pretty plain, other than the stacks of fabric and dress mannequins, her fencing sabre sat in one corner with all her gear and she just laid on her couch to watch television.
Ana heard the buzzing of her cellphone as she sat around, she took it out and looked at the ID, it was a friend she had made at a tournament, they usually hung out when one of them was near the other but there wasn't anything going on that she could think of.
"Hey Britt, what's going on?" she asked as she answered the phone. On the other side there was a lot of music and the shouting from another voice came through,
"Not much, was wondering if you wanted to come hang out, get some drinks?" Ana sat up that sounded like a lot of fun, the girl on the phone continued,
"What hotel are you at by the way, I didn't get a chance to ask Milo, I only saw him for a minute before he left." Ana perked up, she hadn't seen Britt since before everything with Milo, she didn't know they weren't together now,
"Britt, I'm not with Milo, where are you?" There wasn't an answer for a minute,
"That's weird, I'm in Sol, he was hanging around at the gym we all practice at, gave one of the guys a bit of a bruising. Are you guys ok, seems weird you didn't come too." Ana tried to explain nicely before hanging up with the girl.
This was the first of Milo she had heard of since he left, he had just disappeared after a while, she asked around for him but nobody knew where he had gone off to, she had tried to call him after a couple weeks of him being gone, but every time she did, his phone was out of service, but now she had an idea of where he was and even better, she had someone there that could find him. Ana took out her phone and looked at it, the time wasn't too late, but knowing Paige she was probably already asleep, time zone difference and all, she chose just wait, she would try to get Paige to find him, get him to call her, but not til the morning, he wouldn't disappear in an evening she hoped, after all this time, he probably has forgotten all about her, but she still can't help but want to set everything straight with him.
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