The Story Of Us

Reach

It was the beginning of August in 2020. The year so far was nothing but a complete mess, with the global pandemic, Covid-19, taking the lives of many innocent people. People were stressed about jobs, students had to take online classes, I was surprised how quickly school adapted. I was born in New Zealand, a small country that is often forgotten by the rest of the world, we were lucky enough to come out of lockdown in  June, school continued as normal, and we slowly began going back to our normal ways of life.

The year seemed to fly by to today. August 2020. The story on how I met the love of my life.

August 2nd 2020. I was laying on my bed after school one day, I was scrolling through my phone, completely bored with nothing to do, I remembered this app I used to have downloaded, Reach, an internet best friend social place. It had been a while and I thought it wouldn’t hurt to download it again and chat to a few people. I’m not much of a social butterfly so talking to people online was the easiest way for me to talk to people without get bad anxiety attacks.

I download the app and create a new account. I post a few photos of myself asking people to hit me up. A few people started conversations with me but it was pretty quiet. I wasn’t online for a couple days.

August 4th, I decided to go back onto Reach. Nothing really happened, but later in the day when I checked again there was a new text from a guy. I didn’t think too much of it, I’ve already had a few guys try to get in my pants. I looked at the text, his name was Ethan, and at that point I wasn’t even going to try to pronounce his last name. We texted a little bit and he asked if I had snapchat, I gave him my snapcode and we began chatting more. He was a little older than me, born May 12, same year as me, 2003, and lived in America. He seemed nice, but I just thought that he was just another one of those guys trying to get into my pants.

August 5th. The day continued as normal, him and I texted each other, then he asked me if I wanted to be his girlfriend. This seemed way too soon, I didn’t even have feelings for the guy. With the distance between us, I thought that it wouldn’t last more than a week so I said yes.

We text more and more, and I find myself getting excited every time he texts me. ‘This isn’t so bad,’ I thought.

Well, I got a text from him a  couple days later, I opened to read it but it wasn’t from him, it was from his mum. She was telling me to never speak to her son again. I felt my heart sink in  my chest, thinking that I’d never be able to speak to him again. I cried later that night, we hadn’t known each other and I didn’t know why it hurt, but it did. But he didn’t listen to his mum, he found ways to contact me, even making other accounts so that he could keep in touch with me. It made me really happy that he would go through all that trouble just to talk to me.