In December of 1997, my good friend and I began looking for a good sports chat room where we could talk about our favorite team, the Kansas Jayhawks. She found the gold mine, at www.gobig12.com (recently changed to an austin 360 chat site, but that’s beside the point). For many months we both went there, making new friends and casual romantic interests, good simply for flirting and lighthearted conversations about our favorite things.
I met and had a serious relationship for a guy I thought was great, but then he cheated on me and got married just a few weeks afterwards. They later separated, but I was still crushed. I was heartbroken and didn’t think I’d ever recover. Meanwhile, I had made an archenemy in a Kansas State Wildcat fan, we loved to hate each other, always greeting with insults and battling for the last word. We argued about everything, all the time.
Then one day, in the middle of the summer of 1998, lo and behold, he was POLITE to me for once! I was so blown away, afterwards I e-mailed him for the very first time. nothing special, just a little message to let him know I noticed the change of attitude, however short-lived I thought it would be. A day or so later, I was in my favorite room once again, chatting away to my hearts content. Then he appeared, and almost at once began talking to me. He said he knew a man that lived on my street in my hometown, and I thought nothing of it, simply saying, “small world”. As he described his “friend” to me, I began to realize that he was describing my father. I was quite confused at this point, how did this guy living sixty miles away know my father? So we went to a private chat room, and he began telling me this outrageous story that he was my father’s love child, and we were brother and sister.
I, of course, saw right through it, but it made me laugh. I finally beat it out of him that he had used my full name from my e-mail and found out about my father on the net. It was all a hoax, but I was almost touched that he had actually spent the time, even if it was only to play a joke on me.
But then things eased between us, and one day he said, “Hey, the season’s over, let’s be friends”. As the weeks went by it escalated, until the week I was to go out of state on vacation. It was a horrible week, I couldn’t stand to not talk to him. I missed him terribly, and when I got back, was the happiest I’d ever been to see him. It was then that I realized how special he was to me, although I had never even seen his face. We had grown very close and decided we would go “steady”. We did all the silly little adolescents-in-love things, and we still do. It’s been over two months, not long, but already I tell him I love him every day, and each day it only gets better.
The net, however, has also been our enemy. An ex-boyfriend of mine has become insanely jealous of Brad, and the way I love him. So he sent a postcard, using my address and name, to Brad telling him to never talk to me again because it was over and I hated him. That really slowed us down for a night, all I had to say was that I loved him, though, and would never send a thing like that, and we only love each other more because of it. In a couple years I will be moving to his town to live near him, and I cannot wait. But a couple years never seemed so long!
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