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my iPod. Smiling down at my screen I noticed I had received a message from every one of the guys I was talking to the night before plus a few more. I made up a series of replies about different stuff I was doing, and where I was from and messaged them back with false details before I logged onto the game where I knew Kai would be waiting. As the game finished loading, I brought up my wall to find the message.
    Kai: Where you from? Posted: 5mins ago
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    As I stared at my screen I considered lying and creating a new identity to hide behind, like I had with the rest of the guys I had spoken to, but it was only a fleeting thought. For some reason something felt different about this guy so I told him the truth.
    Darcie <3: Rinth. How about you?
    I added another emotion showing a kiss before sending it. The reply was almost instant, telling me he was living in Marevia while also adding a kiss. I laughed at the stupidity of the situation. I was sat in my room messaging some guy I’d probably never meet.
    Before I could reply and ask Kai another question another notification came up on my screen.
    Kai: I’d like to bring you out on a date over here sometime. How old are you?
    I couldn’t stop laughing at his forwardness, the line was also incredibly cheesy but Kai was managing to do what I hoped going on this game would do. I had forgotten about Ian and I was smiling once more, even if most of it was down to my imagination.
    Darcie<3: you tell me first...
    I replied as I moved over towards my desk. Resting my iPod on the top I sat in my swivel chair and waited for my laptop to load.
    I leaned on my hand as I waited for Kai to reply while drumming my hands on the desk, sometime I really hated technology, it could be so slow at times. Just as I turned back to my laptop screen and was about to load the images off my camera, a quiet bleep signalled to me that I had received a new message.
    Kai: I’m 19 so how about you?
    I was unsure as to whether I believed him or not but thinking that I wasn’t ever going to see him or get into anything serious, I replied back.
    Darcie <3: Really? I’m 17
    Kai: Yep :) so how about that date here?
    I shook my head at the comment, giggling to myself while turning back to my laptop screen to go through the photos I recently took, not having an answer for his last message. I was never very good in those types of situations, as I was never one of the girls at school or college who casually flirted or dated guys, in fact I found it very hard to talk to them. Normally I was the one who sat at the front of a class and went unnoticed by the guys, well except Ian. Which is probably why online was so much easier; I could be whoever I wanted.
    I flicked through the photos I took in the forest, deleting the ones that were blurred, not in focus or just generally not what I was after. When I got to the last image I felt my heart rate increase and I could feel the blood pounding through my head. Staring I just sat frozen in position. I had forgotten about the picture that contained the weird man on fire up until now and it was even more shocking the second time around, especially as a full scale image. The bleep of my iPod interrupted my thoughts about what it could possibly be and I hadn’t realised I was holding my breath until I looked down at the screen and exhaled loudly.
    Kai: Hey are you there? What you doing if you are?
    The message momentarily made me forget what I was seeing on the computer screen. That was until I came to reply.
    Darcie <3: Yeah I’m here, sorry I was looking through some pictures I took yesterday for a project.
    The words just tumbled out and I don’t know why I said them as it was all true. However I didn’t mention the burning man, he’d probably think I was crazy.
    My hand hovered over the delete key on my keyboard as I waited for a reply but I couldn’t bring myself to delete it. Instead I shut all of my windows on the screen, huffing loudly, as I was no longer in the mood to