CHAT

I am a girl with the strictest Dad. I am 16. But I am still without internet of my own. I don't know cycling. I can't go out alone. I have a phone but am not allowed to contact anyone or take it with me. My Dad has all my friend's contacts, but he doesn't let me talk with them on my own. So, I sought my own freedom. I have my own Insta and Snap accounts where I chat and text with my friends. Insta is cool no one chats disrespectfully or cross boundaries there. In fact, none of my followers except for my friends even text. My account is private in Insta. In snap it's the opposite all the male accounts I accepted were either disrespectful or crossing boundaries. I have snap since some of my friends only have snap. So, I stopped accepting male requests altogether. Recently, a female snap account sent a friend request. Though snap showed that there were no mutual friends I accepted. Thinking what harm a female can do to another female. But I was wrong on accepting that person.

I asked " School? ".

Reply was " College ".

keeping the text, I replied " then a senior "

I asked " name? "

Reply was " Joel "

I grew suspicious but did not sound out,

then I was asked " Single? ".

I replied " Yes, why?

Reply was " for curiosity ". I was asked " interested in s** chatting? "

I texted " not interested ", then texted " I accepted u since u were a girl, I don't accept male accounts".

Reply was " I am a boy "

I did not comment. It was a good thing he came clean and confessed. He knew when to be honest that was a good thing or else I would have to expose him then the conversation was fairly genuine. Again, we faced a shortage of topic, and he went back to the same topic in another way.

He suggested " nudes, pics, s** chat "

I texted " Impossible ".

He started reassuring me texting that he won't save anything, take screenshots and that I am the only one he wants to text like this.

My mind voice was 'what the hell man? I don't even trust my own shadow. You, a stranger pop out of nowhere and ask me to trust you. What the hell is he thinking?'

then I replied "I don't trust even my own shadow let alone you a stranger. It takes years to trust, and a single lie would be enough to end it all"

he replied " He understood" then some genuine texts back and forth of which I slept midway since he always replied with a Mm/Hmm/ Oh/ Ohh, which totally shouted he was not interested in my texts.

The next day I saw his texts and replied, " I am sorry, I was tired, so I slept", which was pretty much the truth too.

Then I further added" Don't u think its a waste of time texting me", " At the end u may not get anything".

He replied, " Its ok ".

I further texted " It's your wish", " But don't come to me if you get angry or hurt at the end ".

He texted " Ok " that was all about it. Then we texted something genuine and soon we lacked topics. So, I texted " Bye then " and he ended with a "mm" typical of him.

I think this chat was empowering only because of him. He is not bad, but his actions were no way right either. The fact that he knew the meaning of 'No' was appreciable though he pushed limits he was reasonable. I am young, I have not seen the world are what my dad says every now and then. But I think I have enough insight to set boundaries and know what people are. Yes, he is a liar, but he came clean. Yes, he is a red flag but that is based on how you deal with him.

Finally, Snap is not bad but as the users we have to be self-aware and use it wisely so are all the social medias out there.

After all, everyone has the choices in their hands and to pick the right one is up to you and if you make the wrong choice to make it right then and there is also in your hands.

THANK YOU to all the READERS, I am no writer, but I like to read and write. So, if this story was worth reading and commenting on Thank you. If you felt angry due to some reason reading my work. Kindly, forgive me.

THANK YOU .