A/N: I know people don't usually talk in full sentences and stuff on IM, but you know what? They do in this story. Ha! I don't know why I did it, just for the heck of it.

November 16th, 2015

4:23 p.m.

dgordon3- hello

ktheman- who is this?

dgordon3- i got your screen name at a chat site. you live around my hometown, and you are about as old as i am, so i wanted to talk.

ktheman- you're from hillridge?

dgordon3- yes, but i'm not there right now. i mean, i'm in college.

ktheman- neither am i. i'm in australia for a conference.

ktheman- what's your name?

dgordon3- david.

dgordon3- yours?

ktheman- kenan.

ktheman- what college?

dgordon3- harvard.

ktheman- wow. nice.

dgordon3- not really.

ktheman- why?

ktheman- what happened?

dgordon3- nothing.

ktheman- yeah.. right. i believe you.

dgordon3- fine.

dgordon3- i left my childhood sweetheart there.

ktheman- childhood sweetheart?

dgordon3- well, not exactly.

ktheman- what then?

ktheman- man, if you don't want to tell me, then don't. just don't confuse me.

dgordon3- lol

dgordon3- you see, there was this girl, lizzie. we knew each other since birth. we were best friends.... until i started to like her. a lot. but then i met jessica. she was everything lizzie wasn't- smart, intelluctual, serious... the whole story. i fell in love, forgetting all about lizzie. then, in the summer before college, lizzie confessed her love to me. i don't know what came over me. i said some pretty nasty things, things that weren't true, and she hated me... and then i ran off to harvard along with jessica, leaving her beinhd. she got accepted to a college in michigan, and we lost touch.

ktheman- impressive. just like the movies.

ktheman- i'm guessing that's not all.

dgordon3- you're psychic.

dgordon3- i found out soon after that jessica was two-timing me for some creep, and i dumped her right then. and that's when i started thinking about lizzie again. i thought about her more and more until i couldn't take it anymore, and now here i am, twenty-five, studying at harvard, alone, going crazy with love for her.

ktheman- awww how sweet.

dgordon3- wow, you're so sympathetic.

ktheman- honestly i think you should do something to get her back.

dgordon3- like what?

ktheman- i don't know. i'd let you talk to my wife, because she is good with these situations, but i can't. she's back in hillridge.

dgordon3- you're married?

kenana- yeah.

dgordon3- figures. everyone this age is married.

ktheman- not everyone.

ktheman- now back to you...

ktheman- wait. i have an idea.

ktheman- you do know her address, right?

dgordon3- yeah.

ktheman- send her a christmas card.

dgordon3- are you crazy? i can't do that.

ktheman- yes you can.

dgordon3- i'll try.

ktheman- man, i can tell she still loves you.

dgordon3- really?

ktheman- yeah.

ktheman- shoot, i got to go. e-mail me and tell me how it all works out, okay?

dgordon3- if it does.

ktheman- oh, it will.

ktheman has signed off.