Startled awake by the mere quiet I instinctively groped for my phone in the dark around me. Pulling it well of this night-table, we noticed straight away that the light that is blue the corner had been blinking, an ominous icon of telephone telephone calls gone unanswered and messages ignored.

The next thing we noticed ended up being it was ten o’clock.

After which we noticed the six missed calls….

2 Whatsapp communications.

But whatever format these “wake-up-or-else” communications arrived in, these were all nevertheless interacting equivalent hard cold truth: he had arrived at pick me up for the date at nine o’clock and I also had dropped asleep.

The sequence of occasions had been much more complex than that nevertheless the emotions he felt while waiting around for me personally for over half hour without any reaction from my part, no lifeline after all, were the standard and natural that any particular one could feel. Continue reading →