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In Real Life
Meeting some chat friends for the first time turns out to be a good thing.
It had been a long day, but I always liked coming home and getting online with my chat friends. It was always good to get things off my mind.
It started over two months ago, I needed a social output, and I stumbled on a chat page that catered to local chat rooms. I took to it like a fish to water.
Within the next two months, I got so used to being online with the people I had met online that I stopped hanging out with my real friends.
It was so much easier to get online and chat for hours on end with people I barely knew or met than talk to the people at work or who lived near me.
Tonight, was just like any other. We talked about what was happening worldwide, flirted, and told jokes.
‘Are you coming next week?’ a private message popped up.
It was from Kyle, or what he had said was his name. Besides his chat name, I didn’t know him personally. All I really knew was that he lived just over an hour from me. We talked purely online.
‘Don’t know if I will get the time off,’ I responded.
My work schedule was constantly changing as I worked in a large retail store as one of the managers. I had asked for…
