Back in 2008, I rather unexpectedly found myself with a boyfriend, which was odd. I was happily browsing the internet and chatting to my old friend Sarah Kryworuczka on MSN and on that particular day, we weren’t talking about anything especially exciting until she told me that she was having trouble with an old friend of her’s who she told me was being both annoying and somewhat sexually perverted and so she persuaded me to join the conversation.
A new chat box was opened and in it, I was chatting with both Sarah and her friend.
“Are you a girl?” he asked. I don’t want to insult his intelligence, but my screen name was ‘Adam’ and my display picture was me, so, that question did seem slightly dim-witted.
“Yes, I am,” I decided to say.
“Then how come your name is ‘Adam’?” he asked.
“It’s a nickname,” said Sarah. “She got it because she kisses like a man.” Okay, well, she didn’t actually say ‘kisses’ she said something a little more explicit which I don’t wish to repeat!
“Oh right,” he said, falling for the lies.
On Sarah’s suggestion I changed my display picture from a picture of me to a picture of one of my other female friends. For a while he asked general questions about what we did at school and things like that and it all seemed a bit of harmless fun.
“Tell him you’re in love with him,” said Sarah in our one on one conversation, eventually.
I was very hesitant to do this, at first, but I was eventually persuaded to do so.
“I love you, will you go out with me?” I wrote eventually.
“Really?” he asked.
“Yes,” I replied, regretting it more with each key I pressed.
“Then sure! You are FIT!” he said.
Sarah found this particularly hilarious.
A message from him popped up in a one on one conversation. “You sure you’re OK with a long distance relationship?”
“Yeah, it’s fine,” I replied, wondering how far Sarah was expecting me to go with this charade.
“I’ll come and visit all the time,” he assured me.
This is when I realised I had to put a stop to this. I didn’t want to hurt his feelings, and I knew that he knew where Sarah lived and she wasn’t too far away from me! Was he going to come and find me?
“I’m awfully sorry, but, the more I think about it, the more I don’t think this can work. I’m sorry to have gotten your hopes up.” I wrote quickly.
I then quickly blocked and deleted him. Thankfully, I never heard from him again, but I can’t help but feel a little guilty when I think back to him!
