They were online strangers, their voices the only connection bridging the digital void between them.
“Tell me something real,” he said during one of their late-night calls.
She hesitated, her breath catching in the silence before whispering, “I think I’m falling for you.”
A pause stretched between them, heavy with unspoken possibilities. Then—
“I think I already have.”
They had never seen each other’s faces, never shared a physical space, never touched. Yet somehow, in the darkness of their separate rooms, speaking into microphones, that didn’t matter.
The screen’s blue glow illuminated her smile, she wondered if love could truly exist in the spaces between pixels and sound waves.
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