"Return of his soul"

Chapter 7

After 4 days:

 Miller Schwarz pov:

Even though she hates me, I can't hate her. When Morgan gave me her phone, she was looking at the photos of her bird, Leo. She was in a bathrobe while her bird was sitting on her shoulder. 

It gave me sudden flashbacks. I realized that if I would have given her phone to someone else, they might post her photo online again, so I dropped her phone. I knew what I was doing at that moment would save her from more trauma.

(Flashback)

I said bye to the gang and hid behind a locker, and noticed Sezal as she was picking up her old, broken phone. I felt bad and saw her picking up a book from her locker as she left a page from that book fell.

 I quickly managed to find her locker; she had left it half-open, but as I got closer to it, the poor girl's locker might have been broken by those bullies. Oh, Sezal, you really need someone to protect you, I thought. I left $3,000 in an envelope for her.

I am sitting in the math class. She will be here anytime. "Miller," she called my name. "Here you go," I mumbled. 

She threw the envelope at my face. "What is this?" Sezal's arms were crossed with no hint of a smile. "Go get yourself a new phone, I owe you an apology," I adjusted my posture. 

"Everyone look, first Miller destroyed my phone and now he is giving me 3000 usd to buy new one. how Nice of him?" she pressed her lips together. I kept silent

"That phone holds the memory of my best friend. All of my data is gone," her voice cracked, but she didn't cry this time. "I don't need your money, can you restore my data back?", she pulled her hairs back.

"I know someone who is a software engineer. He can solve your problem," I stood up from seat and snatched her broken phone. She frowned. "Tonight, you will have your old phone repaired with all its lost data, fine? Now, go back to your seat, my head already hurts," I sat back in my chair. She left the class.

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10:00 PM :

"Agh, I'm exhausted. I'm glad my friend repaired her phone . Well, it's my mistake. I shouldn't have thrown her phone. Now, let's see what she was keeping secret."

 I went through all the pictures, and indeed, she adores her animals so much, literally. In all the photos, one thing was common, which was her bird. How can a human love an animal so much?

While I was scrolling, I found two weird clips. The first was Sezal taking a shower with her bird. "Leo here, come here, my boy loves taking showers," Sezal looked so happy with her bird.

 I never saw her laughing this much before. She was filming her video while there was no makeup on her face. Damn, God made her actually pretty. I don't know why she looks down on herself.

Okay, the second clip I saw made me uncomfortable. A really good-looking Nerd guy was filming her. They were running in the park, and apparently, the camera had shaken many times, so anyone can guess that. 

Sezal wrapped her arms around that guy. I guess this must be her ex-boyfriend or who knows, her current boyfriend. Okay, I thought she might have never dated a guy before, but I forgot she is human too and must have fallen love before.

I went into a folder which was locked. Luckily, my engineer friend taught me some hacking tricks. I opened my MacBook and cracked those files named "last moments." Okay, well, it's creepy. As I watched those clips, my soul left my body. She tried to attempt suicide. "Holy crap"

I felt remorse from head to toe. She is already living in hell, and I increased her misery. I must take care of her. What should I do? I panicked. I called our family psychologist and explained everything to her. She gave me some really good advice.

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Sezal pov: 

"Miller, took my phone. I better not have given it to him. It had my personal things. I hope he won't go through my private things," I bit my nails as my blood pressure was going down.

 I dressed up myself nicely with a good amount of perfume and deodorant. He meets classic high-value women all the time, and I didn't want to come up as ugly. 

"Why do you care what he thinks?" my brain asked. "No, I don't," I said to myself. Then my heart replied. "Girl, you do stop lying."

He was at the door before he knocked. I came out. "Hey," I smiled. "Were you waiting for me?" he asked in a concerned look. "No, I wasn't," I lied as usual.

 "Come with me, we're leaving," he held my hand and took me to his car. "Wait, where? Miller," I pulled his arm. "Don't try, I'm so heavy you can't stop me. Go inside," I sat and rolled my eyes.

"We have to settle some things," he said with a concerned look. "But my phone," I gasped. "Here you go," Miller handed me a bag and drove with speed.

 "What's in this?" I asked. "See for yourself," Miller replied. While I was checking the bag, I found my old phone with a brand-new iPhone. "Is it for me?" my eyes got widened. "Yup," he nodded.

While he was driving, I don't know why, I kept staring at him. He was wearing a black, full-sleeved shirt with a Royal Oak watch and blue jeans. "Are you checking me out?" he raised an eyebrow with a flirtatious smile and looked at me.

 "No ofc! but, is everything fine", he shook his head. "hmm, all good".

 I turned my head to the car window. "I can open the side windows if you want," he looked at me. I nodded in approval, and he rolled down the window.

"Hazel," he said. "yes?" I looked at him. "You are beautiful, you know that, right?" he grinned. "Are you flirting again?" I raised my eyebrow and positioned my body towards his angle. "You must stop criticizing your looks and stop comparing yourself with the girls in our school."

"Who said I compare myself to others?" I crossed my arms. "Ever since we met, whenever I compliment you, you ignore my words in disbelief," he bit his lip.

"No one ever told me I am beautiful before," I looked outside the window. "They are all unlucky except me," he chuckled. "Why you?" I asked. "I'm getting a chance to know a beautiful Person," I pouted to hid my smile.

"has anything happened to you? I mean mood swings or something. because in past 2 week, you barely tried to look at me, and now you're being nice again", I bit my lip with confusion.

"I was mad at you, now I'm not, that's it", he shrugged his shoulders.  Honestly, after the last fight we had, I missed him, but of course, I can't say this to him. "Can I say something?" I asked playfully. "Sure!" he replied.

"Can you teach me how to drive?" I said, playing with a strand of my hair. "Haha, where that came from spontaneously?" he chuckled. "I always wanted my dad to teach me but", I signed

 "anyways, I just like guys who drive with one hand. It's just..." Miller looked into my eyes. "Just? just what?" he smirked.

"It's just sexy," I smiled nervously. "I also drive with one hand, does that mean, I am sexy?", He chuckled. "I think so", I smiled nervously.

 "Haha, so that means after one month of fighting and cursing, Miss Sezal is complimenting me? The pervert, idiot, nasty  billionaire? Miller Schwarz," he laughed, while I was embarrassed. 

"So, here we are," he parked the car at the corner of a zebra crossing.

To be continued...