Maybe

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Sadie | ﹖

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3:22 PM
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hi!

can i ask about who you are?

ok

um

well

i can't believe you actualy said ok!

doesn't mean i'll be truthful

you should always tell the truth

i do it even when i don't mean to

sounds like a you problem

i think you're actually enjoying
talking to me

i think you quite like me

fishing for compliments?

:]

you didn't deny it

denied

you hesitatid!

which is hard to tell over text,
but i'm probably right

|:(

ahahaha

what is that

it was a typo ok

right

can i ask you a question about
yourself?

you already asked me if you could

i said ok

ok :)

so

like

agh why is asking quesitons so hard

*questions

stop it

how old are you?

i'll even answer, i'm 17

17

at least now ik you're not

a creepy lady

who do you identify as?

i think this is going beyond the

question limit for today

come on, just go with it

who do you identify as?

who

yeah

guy/girl/both/none

or something else

i feel like that's overstepping
the boundaries we've created

we haven't created any boundaries

i identify as a girl

your turn

a guy

that wasn't so hard!
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        Sadie exited out of the messaging app on her phone as it started buzzing. Incoming video call.

        Ellie.

        Sadie clenched her eyes shut as she clicked the accept button and waited for the call to go through, tugging on her dark brown hair, curly and pixied, which she had liked until Ellie told her that it was cute in that voice people use when they don't really believe what they're saying.

        And then there she was, long caramel-colored hair and almond shaped eyes staring back at her. She was beautiful. Which, in a way, Sadie realized, was one of the main reasons for their fight.

        "Hi!" Ellie said. There was noise in the background, other girls talking and laughing and listening to music. She must have not made it to the woods yet, Sadie thought, because her phone is still functioning fine. She looked like she's in a hotel room.

      She was acting like nothing was wrong. Like she didn't hurt Sadie.

        "Hi!" Sadie chirped with the same amount of enthusiasm. Why was she pretending? She didn't care about Ellie anymore.

        "Hey, just making sure... we're good, right? Like, things are okay between us?" She seemed to ask the question sincerely, but her eyes were darting around and it was clear that she didn't really care about the person on the other end of the call.. namely, Sadie.

        "Um, sure," Sadie replied hastily, caught off guard by the question. Why did she say yes? Why were they both pretending? Or maybe it was just her pretending.

        She was overthinking this.

        "Great!" Ellie grinned at her. It seemed to light up her side of the screen."Meet everyone! Say hi to Sadie," her voice cut through the room and was met with a series of distracted 'hi's. Why did people do that anyway? It just made it clearer that no one cared about her.

        It was only around new Ellie that Sadie would get self-conscious. It was only around new Ellie that Sadie had to pretend.

        The phone dropped, or something, because suddenly Ellie's side of the screen was dark and the voices faded out.

        Sadie waited a few moments and then hung up.

        It seemed that the only person where she could truly be herself was around someone she didn't even know. It seemed as if she was creating two different versions of herself... the real one, which she kept hidden, and the fake one she used in real life.