techno-love

She sees his screen name appear in her Friends List.
Her heart skips a beat.
It leaps in excitement and hope.
It leaps in pain and despair.

She knows he won't IM her.
She knows he doesn't fight the compulsion to just say "Hi."
Not like she does.
Everytime.

She fights the urge.
And mostly she wins.
But sometimes she doesn't.
Sometimes she puts herself through the hell of not getting a reply.

-PW

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"All the privilege I claim for my own sex...is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone." - Jane Austen