It all started one fall night on a game called "Second Life". I had a character in the game that I had created out of boredom some time ago and I was playing to the to kill time. There was never any intention of my signing on and finding someone to talk to on Skype, let alone spend the rest of my nights talking to for a year. But there she was, quite possibly the cutest avatar I had seen in the entire game. It wasn't unnatural to find avatars in the game that were cute or sexually appealing since most of the avatars in the game are blemish free and perfectly symmetrical. I had always tried to throw aside such feelings since I knew that nobody looked like their avatar in game. Yet for some reason I found her avatar very appealing, she was cute and not whorie and gave me the sense that she wasn't in the game to have virtual sex with random players.
Our first interaction began with her curb stomping my face in followed by sitting on a box next to my broken face. Instantly disapproval, or so I thought. I signed off after chatting with some people in the Sim and logged on later in the night. There she was, standing around, I thought nothing of it at the time. After a few minutes of standing she sent me an IM. It turned out that she was friends with one of the people I was talking with. She was nervous about a presentation she had to give in class and needed help falling asleep. I tried to give her some advice and calm her down. To my surprise she asked me if I could talk to her on "Skype." I had never let anyone in the game hear my voice before, let alone have a private conversation with someone from the game. Yet for some reason, as if some strong force was pulling me towards something, I said I would.
"What did I just say?" my brain roared as I agreed. For some reason I felt nervous and I tried talking my way out of doing it, a thing I'm grateful I couldn't do. Finally after a half hour of messing around trying to get Skype to work we decided to use MSN.
Our conversation began with me hearing her attempt to say in a deep voice "Are you surprised I'm a man!?" I smiled happy that she had decided to start our conversation with a joke rather than attempting to engage in more perverse activities. I responded in my attempt at a female voice "Oh really, that's okay I'm a girl." At this point in time was the first time I had heard her amazing giggle. We began to talk about random things, what I was doing on SL, what I was in school for, what she was in school for, how we lived, how we grew up. Every 30 minutes or so our call would drop because MSN had a tendency to be crappy. Every break in the call had this feeling of tension like "Would she call back? Should I call back? I wanna keep talking"
I had made a comment about her curbstomping to which she denied doing at first. I didn't mind I played it off as though I had just returned from reconstructive surgery. The night was filled with jokes and laughter that filled my heart with a joy it had not felt in a while. The night was ended by her asking me if I could tell her a bedtime story to help her sleep. I told her the following story:
Three hungry mice lived in a hole in the kitchen. They saw the refrigerator off in the distance. The littlest mouse was really hungry so the mice ran across the floor. Suddenly a big kitten stopped them and said "You guys can't be here I have to eat you now." "WAIT" said the mice "Let's make a deal! We'll give you stuff from the refrigerator." The kitten agreed and said "I want some chicken!" So the mice climbed up and grabbed some chicken and lots of loaves of cheese. The kitten ate the chicken happily and the mice ate their cheese. They all went back into their hole and went to bed.
As I said "Loaves of Cheese" I suddenly heard her crack up and giggle snort. I was filled with embarrassment for a moment then a sense of joy that I had made her laugh. At this point the clock read 4:30 AM. We had both concluded it was late and we had to go to bed. At this point in Time had declared itself my sworn enemy, as every hour with her had felt like mere seconds.
The call hung up and my room suddenly filled with silence. I stared at the screen for a moment recalling the way the night had gone in my head over and over again. A smile felt permanently stuck on my face. I laid down in my bed and stared at the ceiling of my empty dorm. I questioned why I had decided to talk to her on MSN when I'd never done such a thing before. I had taken note of the force feeling but didn't think on it too much because my mind was flooding with different things we could have talked about. I couldn't wait to ask her to talk again, nothing excited me more.
It's been more than a year later now and I have to say I've never been happier, I decided to start a blog so I can write down unforgettable things. Since I've had so many with her already after a year I'll probably keep the story going from where I left off, then add a more recent memory.
Right now It's Valentines Day and since we can't be together we're going to watch movies. We miss each other a lot so it's nice to get to do things like that. The next trip I have planned is around my birthday (March 8th). She paid for the ticket because she's super awesome and amazing! My dad's going to give me a ride to the airport this time around so there's no stress in having to fill my sister's gas tank or have a friend do it. I'm excited to go to see her during my birthday and be there for her's [Our birthdays are 11 days apart!] . I also can't wait to give her my present, and since I know she's going to read this in a few minutes there's no way I'm going to put what it is here.
That's all I'm really going to put here! It's nice to write down how I remember the first night I met Nicole. My heart still beats just as hard as it did back then!
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