He Told Me If I Came Over He’d Sleep With Me. I Was Sixteen.
Sometimes it’s hard to remember people like this exist but we have to.
AOL was all the rage when I was in high school. They would send those CD-ROMs in the mail. My friend Melly and I loved to romp around in the chat rooms after school.
We were sixteen — it was innocent stuff. One time we both had online BFs at the same time for about three days before they ghosted us. As kids, you don’t expect people like him were lurking around, though your parents told you all about the strangers on the internet. But kids are sneaky. We found our ways.
To be honest, a large part of me thinks I suppressed the memory a bit, though it never left the back of my mind. I think bout it often, even if I never spoke of it. You just don’t think you’ll meet people like this. But we have to talk about it.
The way he spoke to me still sticks in my mind.
I’m not entirely sure why Melly and I were in that chatroom. We rarely went in during our sleepovers. We were so innocent still, our only boyfriends being online ones we met on Neopets that ghosted us after a few days. (Who could’ve been creeps, too, come to think of it.)
