It began with a simple 'hey'. We started talking one night, for me it was that hour in which the world is silenced, everybody is deep in their dreams and you feel like the only soul still roaming. We texted for hours that first night, feeling time slip away until my only reminder was the sun filtering through the thin curtains and the birds greeting the morning with their gentle song. She has that effect.
We began just talking. About crap, about TV shows, about life. We talked for endless hours, just watching the sunset and then rise again together. We were an ocean apart but it didn't feel like it. She understood things my friends in real life (of which I didn't have many, partly why I found myself on this damn site anyway) never did. Timezones never presented any difficulty for us, simply another thing which attempted to part us yet never did.
Through hours of conversation, I learnt many things about Dina. They ranged from her favourite ice cream flavour to the thing she fears most. But it never felt uncomfortable to share stuff with her. Through all of this, it felt like there was something more.
