Midlife lovelife

Chapter 2: second shot

That was June 2015.

Bumped into a man August of the same year.

Hello

Hi. Do i know you?

Well, no. But i happen to like your status on facebook.

Thank you but this is actually a second account i use only for games, so you must be a dragon city player.

Yes Maam, i am.

And from there a friendship blossomed.
With 12 hours time difference, and more than 8000 miles in between, communication was none stop.

He was a 6'2 gentle, American giant who happens to be a painter, an artist, a student, a friend, a divorcee, without a child and family around him, he's an avid gamer and an animal lover, a believer in the divine in all of us and how the universe conspires in all our favor.

He knew my story in detailed, and i knew his. Honesty has been the prevailing rule. My darkness didnt pushed him away, instead he tried to lead me to light. With his own dimmed lamp, he triumphantly dis just that. I slowly accepted my separada fate, and slowly learned to check my pain every now and then, and tone it down.

A gentleman to the core, he eagerly asked for the smallest of things from the early good morning greetings to long goodbyes. From how are the angels doing today to please enjoy the rest of your day. He knew what to say and when to say it. I wake up to several messages sent in different times of his day, and i will sleep to his messages as well. He would start his day messaging me, and end it the same way.

All his friends knew about me. He was never shy about that. "They all have seen you, they know you too much already." He tells them about me constantly they know me by heart, and he talks about them to me i know them by heart too.

Living in opposite side of the world, he would send me videos of squirrel running around, up and down trees because i havent seen a squirrel with my own eyes. He would send me videos and photos of falling snow because i havent experienced snow in my life ever. But the sweetest gesture was when he would send me audio and video clips of him singing. Sometimes, he would send me videos of him playing video games while explaining to me the mechanics and the story of the game. Even his everyday life, he was walking to this place and he found a bird, he was  grilling chicken, he was cooking beans or pasta.or whatever.

It was all good, until Thanksgiving celebration.

His ex girlfriend invited him for Thanksgiving dinner , he said it was all good and that i need to trust him. So he went there. Baby the bulldog recognized him, and so is his ex girlfriend's feelings for him.

He was offline the whole of December, sent a message after Christmas saying everything has been rough but that he is trying to mend things.

All is good until his friend's wife sent a message about him getting back and living in with his ex girlfriend, well not an ex by this time, again.

For the second time, the world crumbled. When you thought your life is having a new direction, the disappointment of learning otherwise is just too cruel for a heart that is only in the process of healing.

A confirmation, and positive assurance from another friend of him appeased the pain, well more of a disappointment , a little.

And then he has found a new girlfriend, Isabella.  A single mother from Malta, who is also an avid gamer like him. They clicked and she's now the new queen.

Though with the intention to keep the friendship, he still sends messages of how are you doing, how are the angels, and im praying for you and your angels.