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She took in a shaky breath "Hoe ever get over this? Is it even possible?"
"Shhhh," I quieted her, placing a finger over her lips "Now isn’t the ti, her eyes widening slightly at the realization that I was brushing this aside Would she dissent fro since the e gap that had widened between us e hadn’t been looking?
"When will it be the ti her cheek again "When you are strong and healthy again Co day for you to ument, she only nodded and moved to stand up without my help I rose beside her and she slipped her s her toward the doorway She sighed and leaned against ht Please…can I sleep with you?"
I wanted to tell her no, encourage her back into her roo too close The safeguards around ness to hold on to past resent But she needed me And I needed her to need ed, lay on the bed and pressed her close against ainst her neck, i, like a scab that had been ripped off my soul, intensified
She was asleep in minutes, so still and frail in h all the possibilities that the future held for us--even to those unthinkable yet all too possible ones that I never allowed
But there was more way than one to lose her She would survive She had to But that didn’t mean that we as a couple, could I had to admit it…I had my doubts We were hue--a lot of hurtful things had happened between us It would be a long, hard road to iveness The love was there…oh God, it was there But obstacles like this required more than love to overcome
My eyes finally closed hours later and in what see in my ear and the space beside me where she had been was empty and cold
Chapter Seventeen
Mia
"Online Friendship: Is It the Real Deal?" –Posted on the blog of Girl Geek on March 3, 2014
What’s a "real" friend versus an online friend? Are those relationships the same or even similar? Should they be stuck with the same label? Recent studies on the online social media phenomenon have shown that a person usually has far more virtual friends than real-life ones These same studies, however, claim that the virtual friends can be no substitute for "face-to-face" friends because real-tih text chat and co, such is not the case
It can be argued that with our online friends, we have complete control over hoe present ourselves We have time to formulate responses to them We can be selective in the infore or weird tics or insecurities to hide These facts can lead to the belief that your gamer friends cannot possibly know you like your face-to-face friends do Theallows us to form a buffer for ourselves, erect a façade of the written word We can even provide an avatar as a visual in order to prevent exposing our real identity
But those same online friends we hold at such a distance are, in ether, spend long hours working on quests together We adventure together, virtually We sit for long hours waiting for the right spawn to shoith the items we need We joke We play around We make memories And they may be memories shared over bits and bytes rather than stories swapped over the campfire, but is there really a difference? These are our coether We coh disappointments
And sometimes…sometimes we meet in person And we find that that saa that bond based on geography, as you would with random classmates or roommates from school--you have shared epic experiences Events that, at some later time, you’ll still chuckle at and start your sentences with things like, "Reon in Ashenstorht hours to clear the place because we all kept dying over and over again?"