Day 13 of 21
Forwarded by Milo Ford:
Instagram DM from Dr Andrew Gaines: Hey, Allie, this is my new profile!
Spoke to Iris last week and she said you lost your phone so thought I’d DM!
We also talked a lot about you ?? Mostly about the golden days of our first field trips and how you always had a backpack full of Cup a Soup.
Hehe. She said you’re having funding woes.
Maybe we could get together? Strategise? Pizza? Andrew x
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Milo via Allie’s phone: Morning, Allie!! ??
Milo: I’m sorry for the delay in messaging.
Night shoots have been kicking my ass!!!
I might need your help later. I’ve gotta log in to something to pay rent for my dad’s retirement place but it needs me to verify by putting a text code in?
It gives me like 60 seconds to enter it, so do you mind if I call later and you hand it over?
Milo: Last up, the screenshot from Instagram! It’s asking me if I want to accept his request? Do I keep Andrew in the holding pen or release the dude?
Allie via Milo’s phone: Hi. Sorry, I’ve been downstairs helping my sister erect a 5-foot-tall pink gnome statue for the dining room at the B&B. I feel rather haunted after the whole thing. And yes to calling. No worries.
Milo: Cool, thank you!! A giant pink gnome sounds awesome by the way!
Allie: It isn’t. I hate it. Keep thinking it’s an intruder. Dreadful for the amygdala.
Milo: Is it too early in the secretarial relationship to mention I have a 6-foot statue of a brown bear in a cowboy hat in my kitchen in NYC? That I love so much I crocheted him a scarf?
Allie: I believe it’s always too early to mention this. (Though I’m impressed with the crochet.)
Milo: You’re the only who is ??
Allie: As for the Instagram DM. You can ignore it and switch off the notifications.
Milo: Noted, Captain Lake. I’ll send him and his ‘hehe’ on his way to look for someone else to date.
Allie: Ha ha, I meant I can message him from here. I have access now. And he’s an old friend. We dated for five seconds once, but we were young and stupid. I don’t really ‘date’, as a rule.
Milo: Oh yeah?
Allie: Yes.
Milo: OK . . . ?
Milo: Gotta admit, sometimes I leave silences hoping you’ll fill them with stuff!! Media training trick. People generally fill silences if you give them the space to . . .
Allie: I see.
Milo: You don’t.
Allie: Ha. I suppose I tend not to talk for the sake of it.
Milo: I know. Find it kinda fascinating because I totally do.
Allie: Maybe the whole leaving silences thing doesn’t work via text.
Allie: I certainly had enough to say the other night, though, anyway. Two hours! Gosh.
Milo: On our call?? Yeah, I could’ve talked for much longer. Was genuinely pissed I had to sleep. By sleep I obviously mean stare at the ceiling playing poker with all my millions of thoughts like all good insomniacs do!!
Milo: But I had a really awesome time.
Allie: So did I ??
Milo: ??
Allie: Oh, also, you’ve just had more messages from Skylar speakeasy. More enquiries about where you and your hands are.
Milo: Damn, sorry about that, Allie!! ??
Allie: It’s fine. I just imagine you arriving at JFK wearing giant foam fingers.
Milo: Hahaha, is that right?
Allie: Could I also ask, what’s your ‘Word!’ app? It’s very insistent.
Milo: Ahhhh, yeah, it’s literally the only thing I ever keep up with. I’m a word nerd I guess? Collect the cool and interesting ones as I come across them or whatever. Feel free to take a look. I kinda miss it!! Keeps me grounded.
Allie: That sounds interesting. Maybe I could add some for you?
Milo: Sure!! Actually, if you head over to ‘new list’, you can shoot me a link and we can share a list? Only if that wouldn’t bore you to death of course.
Allie: Deal.
Milo: Better go. Needed in costume!! Still OK to jump on a call tonight for the credit card thing?
Allie: Sure.
Milo: You’ll have to swear you won’t take my code and go shopping though.
Allie: Well, I was going to buy a silly giant bear in a cowboy hat for my kitchen.
Milo: In that case, Allie, take all the money you want!! I’ll crochet it something.