To The Boy I Almost Met

"This is pathetic"

I stared at my glowing screen, tears swelling in my eyes. This has been going on for weeks now. I don't understand―I really don't. I let him pass every boundary that I had set up just so he would see me.

I thought he would like me if I had given him more time, that maybe he would love me the way I did if I tried harder, if I adhere to what he had wanted. But it turns out I was just....nothing to him, while he was becoming my everything. I knew that it was ephemeral―that he would disappear but I thought if I had given him the reason to stay he would.

Tears started to spill out as I realized that even if he did this to me, I would still answer his calls. I knew that he knew that, because he knew that even if he treated me badly I would always be his backburner. The Tinkerbell to his Peter before finding his Wendy.

This story follows the online situationship that Isabelle thought could be something more. This explores different topics and issues that women go through when they enter the online world. Because sometimes we confuse lust with love and manipulation as protection. And in the process we forget who we were and all we could do is ask ourselves "what did I do wrong?". However, Isabelle slowly realizes that the situation that she is in was not love but rather limerence.

As she tries to get her life back, he kept calling. Would there be a day that she won't answer the calls of the boy she almost met?

Mentions of manipulation, love bombing and intimate (sexual) messages would be found in this story. With that, viewers discretion is advised.