Falling for my kidnapper - Lexi

Chapter 5 : Milo

I close my eyes for a few seconds. “Damn girl, you are a Hella sight to look at!” A kind Californian accent comes from the direction of my feet. I open my eyes to see a very cute, super tanned guy, with blonde hair, icy-blue eyes, he has abbs, but he is more on the skinny side than muscular. He is obviously a surfer as it is obvious with a surfboard in his hand. “Oh goodness, I don’t know if that is a compliment or an insult. “I reply, laughing at him. His smile widens. His teeth are so white. He reaches out his hand to greet. I take his hand and shake it. He laughs at me, and says “No baby, you must come and surf with me, you look like a surfer.” I laughed so loud that a tear escapes the corner of my eye. “I am far from a surfer, and I can’t even swim.” I say looking up at him. He shrugs his shoulders and replies: “That’s ok, I can teach you.” “Thank you for the invite but I am actually here with my husband and our friends” I say, smiling at him. He gives me a calm and comfortable feeling. He is very attracted too, but he just seems like a good person. “My husband and his friends are all in the sea. I am sure some of them would like you to teach them if that is what you want to do.” He laughs and replies quickly “I want to teach you. But I get it, surfing is not for everyone. My name is Milo. And you are?” “Hi Milo, I am Lexi. So nice to meet you.” I say holding my hand out for him to shake. He takes my hand gently and plants a soft kiss on top of it. “Nice to meet you Lexi. Such a beautiful name. And your accent, is so different. Where are you from?” Milo asks with one of his eyebrows raised. “We are all from South Africa, just here for a quick holiday. And your accent proves you are from California.” I say with a lot of confidence. I don’t travel much, but I do watch a lot of TV. I can hear that accent from afar. He smiles wide. “You know you accents. You are spot on. I came here to visit some of my friends. And I love to come a few days before hand to visit the beaches. The waves here, just hit different.” He says, with a wink. Just as I wanted to reply, Ava returns. “Look at this hunk.” she says as Kimberly is also walking towards us. Kimberly quickly grabs Milo’s arm and puts it over her shoulders. “Sorry Milo, these are my friends. And watch out for Kimberly she doesn’t take no for an answer.” I say, grabbing my own cheeks as I blush. “Hi, my name is Kimberly, and I am single and ready to mingle.” Kimberly says while holding his hand tight keeping this arm around her shoulders. “H-Hi Kimberly, I’m Milo.” He replies with a stutter. He seems very uncomfortable. Much different than he was a few seconds ago. “Finally, a guy that is taller than me. You must be at least 6ft.” Kimberly states. Mile nods his head keeping eye contact with me. I can’t help but giggle. He looks so cute and innocent. Kimberly is a tall girl, so she always struggles to get a guy that is taller than her. They just seem to match perfectly. If she just wasn’t so pushy. But that’s her, and I love her, nonetheless. “For how long are you guys here? Maybe we should link up tonight?” Milo breaks the silence. “Oh boy, you have no idea. But I am going to blow your mind. What is your number?” Kimberly says ready to type on her phone. “Kimberly…” Ava says, “give the guy a break.” Milo tries to laugh it off but quickly give his number. “See you soon!” He says, walking away and gives a quick wave. “You are going to scare him off, you must just relax.” Ava says to Kimberly. “I will show him a good time, I just need him to know that.” Kimberly replies. Ava and I start to laugh, holding our stomachs. Kimberly rolls her eyes. Just then we see the guys and Nina walking towards us. “Now let’s go to the beach bar and get wasted!” Albert says, and everyone agrees. We go to the beach bar. Kimberly explains to everyone that we must go out. “I literally met the man of my dreams. I can’t miss this opportunity.” She explains, with puppy dog eyes as she pouts her bottom lip. “Fine let’s go! I know you guys will get along with Milo!” I say, play punching Justin and Albert. “You don’t have to ask me twice” Albert states. We have a couple more drinks and us 4 girls start to feel tipsy as we take on the dancefloor. I can’t even remember the last time I felt so happy. It just seems so surreal. After a couple of hours of drinking, dancing, and laughing the guys suggest we all go back to the hotel to relax before going out tonight. I look at my phone screen and it is 13pm. We make our way to our cabs and go to our hotel. As we arrive at the hotel Chris barely speaks to me. He is straight to the computer typing away. I let him be, take a shower and jump into bed. I have tanned quite a bit today. At least my skin isn’t the sensitive type, and I can handle a bit of UV. After, what felt like a couple of minutes, I wake up to Chris’ snoring. I rub my eyes and look at the clock. It’s 6pm. I send a message to the group chat. “So, are we going out tonight?” “Tony is too burned so he will stay in, so will I. I will be his nurse tonight!” Nina replies. “Oh yes, I have been chatting with Milo this entire afternoon. He will meet us there. Let’s go around 9pm.” Kimberly replies. “I am tired, but I need a drink. Albert is also not joining. He is as red as a tomato. But count me in!” Ava replies. “Me too, the guys are boring!” Justin adds. With that I start to prepare food for Chris. As soon as it is done, I wake him. He is also badly sunburned. He wakes up but mumbles that he wants to sleep. I let him be and watch some Netflix. After a move I see it is 8:30pm. I through on a long black silk dress that I have been wanting to wear for a while now. It has a high slit on the left that goes up till my thigh. I brush through my hair and put on some light make-up and then some silver high heels. I have been planning to wear this outfit but have never been to a fancy enough place to be able to wear it. But now we are going to be. At 9pm, I leave our suite. Chris is still fast asleep and snoring. I make my way down to the lobby and Ava, Kimberly and Justin are there waiting for me. Kimberly seems so excited. Justin also looks like he is up for another long night of drinking. But Ava seems off. We start to walk to the club. Justin and Kimberly are literally skipping in front of us. Ava and I stay behind, far enough so no one thinks we know them. Ava and I laugh at them, but she still seems off. “Hey, what’s wrong?” I ask her, wrapping my arm around her shoulder. “Well…I don’t really know where to start but I think Albert is having an affair.” She replies looking at me with tears in her eyes. I stop and grab her shoulders so she can look at me. “What why would you even think that? He loves you to bits!” I tell her. I can see she wanted to cry but try her best to keep her tears in her eyes. “You know what? Let’s not go out. Let’s go do anything else you want to. Just you and me. You say it, we do it!” I tell her, without even thinking twice about it. She nods her head, and I can see tears staring to run down her face as she turns around and walks the opposite direction of Kimberly and Justin. “Hey guys! Ava and I are going to get some food quickly. We will meet you at the club.” I lied. Hoping that Justin and Kimberly will just go off to the club without asking any questions. And that is exactly what happens. “Sure thing. Will see you later. I have a date so I must get there quickly.” Kimberly replies, blowing a kiss. “See you guys later.” Justin replies following Kimberly to the direction of ‘Elite’ club. I quickly swift myself towards Ava, she is clearly just holding on. I run towards her and wrap my arms around her. She starts to sob in my neck. I can feel her tears falling on my shoulder, but I let her have a moment just to let everything out. After a few minutes, she calms down and steps back to look at me, with sadness in her eyes. “Let’s go to a café and grab a coffee. There must be one nearby. I stop a couple that is walking past us, to get directions. They tell us there is one just around the corner and I grab Ava’s hand to lead her to the café. We get there in just a few minutes. I let her sit down and ask our waiter for 2 cappuccinos’. After a while the waiter brings us our cappuccinos’. “If you are ready, I am here to be your ear and shoulder.” I tell Ava, breaking the silence. She looks down like she is trying to avoid eye contact. I grab her hand and squeeze it. She looks up at me and gives a soft smile. “You are such a good friend Lexi. I love you so much. But I don’t want to have you and Chris fight.” She replies. “Chris and I? What do you mean? I don’t understand?” I ask with a frown on my face not knowing why this conversation even involves Chris. “So, I have been feeling like Albert was getting distant from me. For a couple of weeks now. But even worse on this trip. I waited for him to fall asleep after we came back from the beach to go through his phone. And so, I did.” She says. “And?” I ask feeling very worried how Chris is involved. “Well. I couldn’t find any girl chats, but his most recent private chat was with Chris.” She pauses. I nodded and hummed “Mmm-hmm” She continues. “Chris’ message to Albert said, ‘This will be our secret, it stays between us’.” She pauses for a few seconds. I frown at her, and my face probably looks confused and then she adds: “I know I might sound paranoid and might seem like I am overreacting, but something feels off in my marriage and I can’t shake it.” I take her other hand as well and hold both tight forcing her to face me. “I am here for you always, you know that. And I will get to the bottom of this and confront Chris about it. He won’t lie, you know that, and I will tell you immediately.” I stand up and lift her hands forcing her to stand up as well. I give her a tight hug and she whispers, “Thank you” While crying in my neck. We sit back down, and I change the subject taking about her kids, mother and just make some small talk to help her get her mind off everything. Soon we are on our way back to the hotel.

I enter our hotel room softly not wanting to disturb Chris if he is still asleep, and it is 11pm. I walk in, Chris is on his computer at the desk. As soon as he hears me, he closes his laptop quickly. Now, that is strange, but I sit on the end of the bed looking at him. I don’t even know how to ask. But he looks uncomfortable. “Hi baby, why are you back so soon?” Chris asks. “Well, I actually want to ask you a serious question.” I say with determination in my voice. I know I need to get answers for Ava. Chris looks at me very worried. “S-sure, what’s up?” He studders, looking like he has seen a ghost. “I don’t really know where to start. But what secret do you and Albert have?” I ask, with my stomach doing summersaults as the words leave my lips. Chris looks down, as if he is sad. But quickly recovers and frown. His gaze almost looking like he wants to attack me. “That is between me and Albert. It has nothing to do with you so just leave it.” He says, standing up and walking to the kitchen. I follow him and quickly ask: “Is that son of a b***h having an affair?” He turns around slowly, smiling and chuckles. His demeaner has changed as if he is so relieved and amused. I have never seen Chris like this. “You know what, I am not in the mood for this.” He says as he grabs his phone, laptop and walks towards the door. “Where are you going?” I ask, shocked at his reaction to such a simple conversation I wanted to have with him. He leaves our suite and slam the door shut without saying a word. I was standing there in awe, for about a minute. Suddenly there is a knock on my door. I run to the door and expect Chris to be on the other side but its Ava. And I can see she has been crying even more than she did since I saw her, her face is red, and her eyes is swollen from all the crying it is evident. I wave my hand for her to come in. “He doesn’t want to say anything. I got straight to the point and asked him if he was having an affair. But he started screaming and got really upset. He just started screaming for me to get out of our suite, and that he needs ‘alone’ time” Ava says, with tears running down her face. I wrap her in my arms. “You’ll stay with me tonight” I tell her. She nods and I lead her to the bedroom and open the duvet for her to get in and I get in on the other side. She sobbed for a few minutes. I rubbed her back and eventually I hear her calming down and fall into a deep sleep.

Theres a loud knock on the door. I open my eyes and it takes a while for my eyes to adjust to the sun shining in through the windows. I jump off the bed and make my way to the front door. I open the door and there is Kimberly, with a wide smile. She seems excited but she is still wearing the clothes she wore when we went out, so I knew she had a fun night. Before she could say anything, I put my index finger on my mouth to show her she should be quiet. Her face falls and she look worried. I wave my hand at her to come in quickly. We make our way to the bedroom and Ava is there sitting up against the headboard. She seems better than last night, puffy eyes but big smile on her face. Before Kimberly and I could say anything. Ava says: “Kimberly, I will fill you in on the details later.” But today I just want to relax with my girls. Let’s go to the spa or something?” Kimberly seems worried but quickly reply: “Yes girl! Of course, let me just message Nina to come with.” We all agree and soon later, the 4 of us are in a cab on our way to the spa.

The spa is stunning. So elegant. To be honest, I have never actually been at a spa. We don’t such a lavish spa in my hometown. I am excited to see if it is like they show on the movies. We enter and Ava opens-up to all of us, about Albert’s weird behaver for the last couple of weeks, the messages, what she thinks and just for advice. After about an hour we had to go into a massage room. They can only take two at a time in a room. Kimberly grabs my arm and pulls me into one of the rooms. Ava and Nina both go into the other room. The massage therapists come in and start to massage us. Kimberly looks at me with a big smile. Laying on her stomach. “What’s up?” I ask her quickly. “Well, I know that I might sound so selfish, but I just had the best night of my life and I need to share it with someone.” Kimberly says with her cheeks turning bright red. “Ok, now you have me intrigued. Tell me please!” I quickly add. She talks on and on about the club, meeting up with Milo, dancing, drinking, laughing, talking, and all the in-betweens. “He kept on saying he wants to come to our hotel which I told him all of us is staying. So, I knew he wanted to get down and dirty with me. I told him to come to my room, all of us is staying in my suite. Which was obviously a lie. So, I did what any rational person would do. I jumped him as soon as the door was closed. Totally caught him off guard so he did push me away quite a few times, but you know me I am persistent and always get exactly what I want. After a few moments he gave in and just... You know. Went all the way. Oh boy! And did I rock his world upside down.” Kimberly says giggling. I rolled my eyes at her. “You are going to scare man away.” I said to her. “I know and I think that is exactly what I did” she says with a hint of sadness in her voice. I look at her with a confused look. So, she adds: “Well when I woke up this morning he was gone, no note, no message. Just nothing. I tried to phone him, but he is ignoring my calls.” “Do not worry about it, Kimberly. You enjoyed your night and that is all that matters. We are never going to see him again anyways, so do not think about it too much.” I tell her, feeling a little bad for Milo. He is probably scared off because he has never met a pushy lady like Kimberly before.

After a few hours at the spa, the four of us makes our way back to the hotel. We all go into our own suites. “Where is all the men?” Nina sends on the group chat. “Just let us have a boys-day and night. You girls, do you today!” Albert replies. With that the girls, one by one came to my suite. We all decided to go to a local runway show that Nina saw advertised. It is open to the public, but it is only at 9pm tonight. I made us some popcorn and we all relaxed and watched some Netflix. Quickly I fell asleep on the couch.