Chapter 1
(17th February)
My phone vibrated.
I opened it to check my notifications.
There were 1000 friend requests on Facebook. Somehow my profile had gotten boosted.
The latest friend request was from Williams Adams. I noticed the extra ‘s’ in his first name Williams. It should have been just William excluding the ‘s’ in the end.
One by one I started accepting all 1000 friend requests. Williams’ being the first one. Half an hour later, I had already accepted around 700 friend requests. Only 300 left. I was clicking the accept button when William sent me a message.
“Hello,” he typed in.
“Hello,” I typed in.
“Hi, I’m William Adams,” he typed in.
I noticed that he used William and not with an extra ‘s’ in the end like his profile read.
What an uncanny mistake, I thought to myself.
“I’m Anima,” I typed in.
“How are you?” he typed in.
“I’m fine,” I replied.
“Where are you from?” he typed in.
“I’m from Bangladesh,” I typed in.
“Are you single?” he typed in.
“Dude, I don’t even know you,” I typed in.
“We can know each other very well. Give me your WhatsApp number,” he typed in.
I gave him my WhatsApp number.
Ten minutes later he knocked me on my WhatsApp number.
So he preferred WhatsApp over Facebook, I thought to myself.
“Hi Anima. How are you?” he typed in.
“Hi William. I’m fine,” I typed in.
“That’s good to hear Anima. Nice to meet you here,” he typed in.
I noticed that he inserted my name in the text like I did.
“Nice to meet you too,” I typed in.
“What is your work?” he typed in.
“Currently I’m working at a local newspaper,” I typed in.
“That’s good to hear. Keep it up, ok,” he typed in.
Then we both paused at typing for about five minutes.
I had my phone in my hand with half my concentration focused on my grandmother’s television.
My phone beeped.
He messaged me.
“Do you have kids?” he typed in.
“No,” I typed too quickly.
“Me too,” he typed in fast.
I noticed his ‘Me too’ but did not extend the conversation further.
So he would have been okay with me even if I had kids, I thought to myself.
He is quite amusing, so far, I thought to myself.
