Lately most of my free time seemed to be spent on the internet. Chatting and surfing the web through the early hours of the morning. Working a second shift job provided me with the ability to stay up later than those on a regular 9am-5pm job. I also detested mornings, so I could easily sleep in later during the day, not needing to be at work till 4pm. I had grown increasingly tired of the club and bar scenes. Everyone there seemed to only be looking for the quick one night stands, and that was something I had never cared for. The net provided the realm I needed to have a way to meet people and not have to do it in the air of drunks and loud music at the popular night spots around town.
After a couple of years of being online and chatting with various people, I met John in one of the chat rooms I sometimes frequented. At first I wasn’t that impressed with him. He seemed the type that just got on the web for fun and never took the people on it seriously. I quickly wrote him off as someone who may be fun to talk to now and then but never thought anything would come of it. However after just a few weeks of talking to him my impression of him seemed to change. He still didn’t think very highly of anyone on the net. In fact, he had what would become an infamous saying between us, that people on the net were only “text” to him. This, of course, included me, so I was rather surprised when he seemed to start coming online more and more often to chat with me.
We would start “spending the night together”, staying up till 6am on our respected computers chatting the night away about anything and everything. I came to look forward to his being online. More so then I probably should have. After all, he had said himself that I was nothing more than text to him. Gradually as the weeks and months went by our relationship began to grow. We stopped putting up any pretense as being just net buddies and tried to take our relationship to the next level. At least as much as we could over a computer and hundreds of miles of land distance. John and I would take virtual trips together. Both of us logging onto our towns websites and pointing the sites out to the other. Places that we both saw every day but the other could only see in pictures. It brought a sense of closeness to our relationship to be able to share things like that together.
Our chats would more and more often turn to sex. Our personal likes and dislikes, preferences, etc. In all aspects, we seemed to really hit it off with one another and I found myself growing more and more attached to this man who I had never physical met but felt that I was growing to know and understand more about him than most people in my physical life. After a few months we exchanged phone numbers and heard each others voices for the first time. It was a shock to finally hear how he sounded. After months of having nothing but the written word from him, I finally had a voice that I could match up to his words. We hit it off as well on the phone as we did on the computer and pretty soon, as had happened on the computer, our conversations on the phone turned to sex.
We had never really engaged in cyber sex. Not technically anyway, but our chats on more than one occasion had gotten me so turned on that after I would log off for the night I would have to get myself off. The phone provided a more personal outlet for both of us. We would both get ourselves off on the phone for each other. The whole time fantasizing about being with the other. As a whole, our relationship was progressing very nicely, and I was finding myself feeling more and more for John as time wore on.