A new chat box was opened and in it, I was chatting with both Sarah and her friend.
"Are you a girl?" he asked. I don't want to insult his intelligence, but my screen name was 'Adam' and my display picture was me, so, that question did seem slightly dim-witted.
"Yes, I am," I decided to say.
"Then how come your name is 'Adam'?" he asked.
"It's a nickname," said Sarah. "She got it because she kisses like a man." Okay, well, she didn't actually say 'kisses' she said something a little more explicit which I don't wish to repeat!
"Oh right," he said, falling for the lies.
On Sarah's suggestion I changed my display picture from a picture of me to a picture of one of my other female friends. For a while he asked general questions about what we did at school and things like that and it all seemed a bit of harmless fun.
"Tell him you're in love with him," said Sarah in our one on one conversation, eventually.
I was very hesitant to do this, at first, but I was eventually persuaded to do so.
"I love you, will you go out with me?" I wrote eventually.
"Really?" he asked.
"Yes," I replied, regretting it more with each key I pressed.
"Then sure! You are FIT!" he said.
Sarah found this particularly hilarious.
A message from him popped up in a one on one conversation. "You sure you're OK with a long distance relationship?"
"Yeah, it's fine," I replied, wondering how far Sarah was expecting me to go with this charade.
"I'll come and visit all the time," he assured me.
This is when I realised I had to put a stop to this. I didn't want to hurt his feelings, and I knew that he knew where Sarah lived and she wasn't too far away from me! Was he going to come and find me?
"I'm awfully sorry, but, the more I think about it, the more I don't think this can work. I'm sorry to have gotten your hopes up." I wrote quickly.
I then quickly blocked and deleted him. Thankfully, I never heard from him again, but I can't help but feel a little guilty when I think back to him!