“I’m M. I’m 19 and live in England. I have been playing World of Warcraft on and off since I was fourteen – thanks to my sister, who got me into the game.
I first met T. just over a year ago whilst being in a raid with another guild and a guy, who at the time, was my ‘in real’ boyfriend. T. and I didn’t really talk much, but I do remember him being there.

Between then and February I had stopped playing the game and ended my emotionally unhealthy relationship with my boyfriend. I was in a dark place and had foolishly quit my job. Having nothing to do all day, I decided to start playing again. One day I was doing the daily quest for the ironically event named ”Love is in the air”. To my luck I ended up in a group with T., but I didn’t quite recognize the name at first. We started talking and developed a friendship. A week later I joined his guild. We shared pictures of each other and carried on generally talking as friends for several months. When he and girlfriend broke up, I was there to comfort him.

I don’t remember a specific moment where I realized that I liked T. more than just as a friend. But I do remember a particular time where I was in a main city in the game when we were talking about my guy problems. He sent me a whisper saying ”You would be the perfect girlfriend if you’d live in Belgium!” My heart fluttered! I was excited and happy that he had said that, unsure if it was a joke, and at the same time sad as well, as I thought that this meant he would never want me in that way because of the distance.

In May we decided to exchange Skype and Facebook details. He wasn’t playing as much anymore due to exams, so we talked a lot outside of the game and went on web cam till late. Eventually in June we expressed our feelings towards each other. I had put ‘Life’s too short‘ as my Facebook status and he shortly replied by posting ‘… to not like you very very much‘. Just two weeks later I booked tickets to go Belgium for a week to attend a music festival with him in mid August. We counted down every single day whilst falling more and more in love with each other.

When we finally met, we felt slightly shy at first. But after a few hours it was as if we had known each other forever. I even ended up spending more money to stay a second week because I just couldn’t bring myself to leave. It didn’t go down well with my family though, who at the time only thought that we were friends – until the night before I was to leave. That’s when I finally told them.

I cherished every single moment with T. We were barley separated the whole two weeks and leaving him on the last day was the hardest thing I’ve had to do. It broke my heart not knowing when I would see him again and cried on the eight hour journey home. That’s when I definitely knew I was truly, madly in love with him.

It’s been a month since I left and he is planning to come over in a month’s time. We have even spoke about moving together in the future. Although it’s incredibly hard to be apart for what can sometimes feel like a lifetime, a particular quote has helped ease the pain:

”Distance never separates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad, because I miss you, I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss.”

Hopefully we will be able to update this some day with a happy ending.”

The following story gives me goosebumps. So romantic!

“My story starts over two years ago. I was nearly 22 years old, fresh out of college and back home from a nation-wide tour my theater group I had participated in. I had just fallen back into my routine of having a mediocre job, renting out a room for myself and listening to my mother telling me I needed a husband, a career, or both.

I wasn’t by any means socially awkward, I just wasn’t in the dating scene and didn’t plan on even trying for a date until I was completely settled.

One night, out of sheer boredom, I decided to hop back onto Ragnarok Online. I hadn’t played the game in a few months because I had maxed my character out. I got on and within minutes was bored. I went to the main city and just as the screen loaded, I noticed a guy named Malakai asking for assistance to hunt some rare drops. I waited a few minutes to see if he’d elaborate or to see if anyone else would offer to help him. Finally he said, “That’s it, I’m quitting.” I quickly messaged him and said that I’d help him for free, as long as he’d keep me company while I hunted for him.

While hunting I opened up to a complete stranger. I told him where I was in life, where I had come from and a lot of my personal stories just bubbled out. He didn’t judge me for any of them and even told me some of his deep dark secrets.

I was instantly hooked. Cautious of course, but still hooked. After talking in-game every day for nearly three weeks, I finally gave him my MySpace page and phone number. He did the same and I finally got to see the face of the man who was giving me butterflies on a daily basis. I just remember staring at his pictures for hours, letting my heart sink in who he was outside of the game. It wasn’t like he was the world’s most handsome man, but I was so completely captivated by him regardless. As soon as I saw his picture I knew I wanted to see him, yet he lived all the way across the country.

Eventually we realized we were completely head-over-heels in love and a meeting was long overdue. He came out to visit me first, and during his visit he proposed to me. We were engaged on our very first physical date.

We continued to play RO when we were apart from each other, but we made sure to visit each other at least once a month. Finally, the distance was too much and we eloped on one of our visits.

I regret nothing. Our romance was a whirlwind – from the time we met to our marriage only about seven months had passed. I moved out to be with him the next month after we were married and we’ve been happy ever since. We’ve been married now for a little over two years and have a beautiful seven month old daughter, who seems to have inherited the nerd gene! We are still so in love; he still gives me butterflies! He’s easily my best friend and I owe it all to one chance happening on a MMO that I’ve been playing since I was 13.

Though it may be taboo to some, it is an awesome way to meet new people. I would advise anyone looking for a relationship over a game to always proceed with caution, but to let your heart guide you too. True love can find you anytime, and you don’t want to miss the opportunity.”

Thank you A., for sharing this great story!

Many of the love tales I have received so far, have been from people who have met in World of Warcraft. When it comes to romance, WoW obviously can’t be beaten!
This weekend though, I found a story in my mailbox from a woman who ran into someone in a game called La Tale.

“I’d never been much of a people person, so I did not really have any local friends. I played a lot of online games though. The friends I lacked in reality, I made there. Some I even considered true friends.

After having played FFXI, Maple Story and Luna Online, I found a game called La Tale. I had heard of the game before when it first came out, but was unable to play it due to having a crappy PC. As soon as I was able to try it, I jumped right to that game. I played it for about half a year, made some friends rather quickly and… met someone special as well.

On various occasions it seemed I had to run into him. No matter where I was in the game, he was there too. Like me, he was not much of a talker. On a random day I was in the Crystal Mines, an area in the game I went to to make money without doing quests. And there he was, with a guildie of his. I stopped what I was doing and said “hi”. Then his companion started talking to me and asking me questions like what did I think of him and such. I ended up lol-ing shyly, not knowing what to say. After that we continued running into each other as usual. We ended up talking and became riends.

Fan art image of Pyris and Esper Shot

After some time had passed, I realized I had started to like him very much. I told him I wanted to surprise him with something, but unfortunately he had the in-game couple request blocked – which would have been my way of letting him know how I felt.

A few months later I confessed my feelings to him and asked how he would feel about us getting to know each other a bit more. In the weeks that followed, we spent hours talking non-stop, sent each other cute little e-mails and exchanged phone numbers.

We have been in a long distance relationship – he lives in California, I in Arizona – for almost a year now. Neither one of us is playing La Tale any more. At first I was worried that after quitting the game we might become distant, but nope: things are still as awesome as they were in the beginning.”

Thank you for sharing your story with us, Pyris!

The mailbox of MMO Couples has been empty for months. A bit sad for me, but on the other hand, love stories cannot be forced. They come when they are ready to come. The consequence is a serious lack of activity on MMO Couples, though. But do not despair: I am working on a MMO Couples project. Patience, patience.

A few days ago, totally unexpected, I did find a new message in the mailbox. Not the shortest one, I might add, and filled with quite an amount of questions. Apparently, CCP Games – EVE Online – is wondering how they can attract a higher percentage of female players to the game. CCP Games threw this burning question into the community, hoping for ideas. And that’s how Arrhidaeus came to me.

Not ever having played EVE Online, I felt I was not quite the right person to come to for suggestions. Still, I could not leave Arrhidaeus drifting helplessly and alone in this unknown, hostile territory, and decided to give it a shot. My contemplations can be read further down his article. It is quite a read, but worth your time if you are interested in the topic ‘games and gender’.

There is a good article about women and games by Hannah Crosby, called ‘Putting Women in Games’, in Filament Magazine issue nr. four, which is an erotic magazine for women who do not only like male nudity, but fancy a smart read as well. And I can warmly recommend a blog of a dear friend of mine, Bezerk Raccoon, for related gamer girl topics – and gamer girl pictures…

I like Arrhidaeus’ solution
I can foresee a growing demand for female co-pilots in World of Warcraft too… Sokaris would certainly have enjoyed some company in his rolfcopter

“I started playing World of Warcraft on a semi-whim after a friend had suggested it. I was living with my (ex-) boyfriend. To distract myself, I played WoW.

Fast forward a year or so: I broke up with my (ex-) boyfriend, but due to a financial situation, we continued living together and remained great friends.
I met a dashing paladin after joining the guild of a friend I made in ST. At the time, the guild would often convene on Ventrilo and we’d go get our asses kicked by the Horde in PvP. This is where I really met my pally. I thought his voice was sexy :X

We flirted for a bit, but nothing serious. Then things progressed and we started really talking. Unlike many other couples who meet online, neither of us are really socially inept or terribly awkward, however there is an anonymous nature about revealing yourself online to someone. We weren’t looking for this. I remember exactly when it started toward something more substantial. I whispered a friend saying “I actually like him, but I’d never tell him.” Instead of whispering it to the intended friend though, I sent it to him!

I don’t open up easily and he sensed this. His told me ridiculous and embarrassing stories about himself to prove that I could be open and trust him. We started talking on on the phone a lot and decided we’d meet soon. We were both half-way falling for each other, but would never give in to it without meeting. We wanted to make sure this was real and what we had online translated to the same IRL.

I was nervous about meeting and sat in the lobby, observing a man I was certain was him, but not enough to positively ID him. I ignored him. After watching him for a couple of minutes, I started wondering negative things. After surely thinking he thought I was ugly and getting ready to leave, I went over him in a moment of bravery and asked, “oh, are you waiting for someone?” That was it. We spent three wonderful days together. Our chemistry was amazing – just like online. It’s still amazing.

I wrote this in my journal after he left:

It’s been months. Things are solid. I guess it’s safe to share in semi-chronological order with huge gaps of time unexplained.

I was surprised the first time he kissed me – I remember feeling a jolt that ran down my spine when his tongue touched mine. My head was on his shoulder, tipped upward, lips parted. His lips were inches from mine, but they felt like miles. I breathed faintly on his mouth, trying to encourage him, extending a silent invitation. The anticipation aroused me and I was still too shy to initiate entirely on my own. I’m very sure he knew exactly what I wanted, but deliberately didn’t give in to make me want more.

I went outside on the balcony smoke. I felt extremely girlish, twirling my legs as I looked at the lights. He stood behind me, wrapping his arms around my robed body and burying his face in my shoulder. I turned around and looked at him, and he had the most boyish smile etched on his face. His eyes were so warm and alive, twinkling brighter than any star I’d seen in the sky. I loved the way freckles splattered under his eyes and over his nose like a Pollock painting. My skin tingled where his hand had been on my face, a phantom handprint on my cheek.

I knew I loved him in a couple days. The first time I told him I loved him, I choked on my words. My eyes filled with tears and my throat swelled up. My chest tightened and burned every time I inhaled. I hesitated once, burying my face in his neck so I could breathe, then pulled back and told him. He wiped my tears away and told me I didn’t even have to tell him, because he already knew. My eyes said it every time I looked at him. He said he loved me, told me I was pretty when I cried, and kissed my lips. It’s hard to imagine then that I could ever say it with such relative ease as I do now.

It’s been over a year since then. We live two hours apart now (we lived 1,300 miles apart when we first met IRL) and are planning on moving in together. We see each other regularly. He’s met my family, I’ve met his. We look forward to starting our life together instead of always talking about it.

We still play WoW together: I send him dirty whispers while he tanks hard instances that I’m healing. ^_^”

Thanks for sharing your story, Dee! I wish you both lots of luck and love, and hope moving together will work out soon!

Gabi

“If you would have told me about two years ago that the man of my dreams lived in Florida, I probably would have laughed at you. If you had told me I would meet this man in World of Warcraft, I would have been in hysterics. See, I thought World of Warcraft was for über nerds – until I met the guy who introduced it to me, a guy who I was dating.

After the first time I played it, I was instantly hooked. It was so much fun, and I was meeting such funny people to talk to and quest with, kill zombies and what not. Life was good: I’d go to work, then come home and play WoW. I didn’t know anyone in real life who played this game – my friends all called me a geek- but I didn’t care.

I played on the server Bleeding Hollow. About a year into playing I started a new job, and found some people there who played WoW aswell. So I thought to myself: these guys are cool . They invited me to come join their guild on a different server so we could raid, run instances and stuff together, so I agreed. I made the switch over to that server and immediately got invited to their guild. I was shy for the first month and didn’t really talk to anyone in the guild, except for my two real life buddies. Eventually I started doing stuff with other members of the guild as well, and finally got invited to a few raids.

There was this Priest named Pd. He gave me a Savory Delight and started /blame-ing my pet. I found that amusing. We ended up talking just about the game and silly things. He made me laugh.
I also cannot pinpoint the exact moment our relationship took a turn towards the more personal side. I do know I had been intrigued by him since the very first time we ever talked. And then, when I started having romantic-ish feelings for this guy I had never met before, I came across mmocouples.wordpress.com.

I was still in a relationship, but by that point in time it was falling down around my ears – it was a very rocky relationship right from the get go. I decided to break up with him. I lived in the same house with my ex for a couple weeks, figuring out where to go and what I was going to do, all the while talking to my priest. I asked him one night: “if I couldn’t play WoW for while, would you still talk to me?” He said “of course!”. So when I finally moved out, we kept in contact via E-mail and very lengthy phone calls. They never seemed that long to us. “I swear we’ve only been talking for a hour.”

After breaking up with my ex-boyfriend things became a lot clearer to me, and I am very happy to have not wasted too much of my life on someone like him. I just find it very funny that there are so many things that could have prevented my priest and I from meeting, but we did. I consider myself blessed. Anyways, he is one of the most amazing people I have ever met, and I am so lucky to have found him. He is coming down to see me right after Christmas. We are going to spend New Years Eve together.
I know that there is going to be a lot of big decisions to make, seeing as I live in Canada and he is in America, but I’m not worried at all. In fact, I’ve never been more excited in my life. We will make it work “

Thank you for sharing your story – and the funny pic, S.! Enjoy your first being-together to the fullest!

Gabi

S., a woman in her early twenties, writes to me that she is in a relationship, but that she is unhappy. She had started playing a MMO some time ago, and has met a male player with whom she connects. She feels confused and does not know what to do.

A. has been chatting online with a woman, who lives in another country, for months. He is not much into going out. He is more the introvert type – online connecting to people is easier for him though.
Their friendship means a lot to him. At some point she started to flirt, make suggestive remarks, but also shared details about encounters with other men. From time to time she is not online for days, and does not respond to his e-mails. When she comes back, she acts as friendly as usual. He feels hurt and jealous. Why is she doing this? What does she want? Insecurty and confusion eat him up inside. A. thinks she does not value the friendship – value him – as much as he would like her to.

T. and M. met in a MMO and fell in love. She went to his hometown to visit him, and they had a great time together. After she had left, T. realized that without her he would not be happy, and made plans to move to her country, find a job and live together. When they talked online, he noticed that she was getting distant. At some point she told him she thinks it is not going to work. T. suspects there are still unresolved issues between her and her ex-partner. Maybe her family is trying to influence her into ending this thing with him as well. What can he do?

Stories like the ones above are more common than the happy endings. Eventhough this blog is meant for the love stories that are successful, I feel the other side of online encounters should get the attention it deserves as well.

When I first published my own love story, the reactions varied from “amazing love story” to “you are a cheating bitch”. At the time I did not respond to the negative responses, for what do they know about me and my former relationship. I deliberately had not written much about it; in the end it was also not the point of my story.

The situation that S. describes to me in her e-mail, is actually quite similar to mine back then. When you are at this critical point in the relationship and then meet someone else, if it is in an online environment or in real life, the awareness of being unhappy with what you have, grows even more. Meeting another person is an alarm bell. When it starts ringing, it is time to seperate the new fascination from the unsatisfying existing relationship, and have a good and clear look at it: what is wrong between my partner and me? Can it be solved? Do I want it to be solved?
Once you have answered those questions for yourself, and acted accordingly, you will know what to do with the virtual reality. Either you can work it out with your partner, and the online flirt is over. Or the relationship is doomed, you end it and you decide to explore the online flirt further – or not.

There are many people like A. who are shy or insecure in real life, who find it difficult to meet and connect with strange people. For them the internet is a much safer and secure playground to be social. This is one of the positive possibilities of the internet, and at the same time one of the most dangerous.
Online you can present yourself differently. Nothing can happen to you, for you are at a safe distance. When you meet someone online though, you have even less control over the situation than when you do in the real world.

As I have written before, you lack lots of useful information, information you need to read the other person and understand what he or she wants. No facial expressions or other types of behaviour, no sounds. Unless you have a webcam, you don’t know what this guy or girl is doing during chatting. Maybe this person is totally commited to chatting with you. Or maybe he or she has ten chat windows open. Maybe this person is not taking you seriously at all and laughs his or her ass off. Maybe he or she is not a he or she at all… Lots of maybe’s!

Since I am a girl myself, I know a bit about our more devilish side. There are women who – for the fun of it, or for their own little ego’s – like to tease around on the internet. Here again it is easy to flirt and fool around without serious or dangerous consequences. It is cool for us ladies to be openly sexy and naughty. By acting this out online, you get all the testosteron attention you desire. It can be fun for both sides, but it can also be a deadly trap, especially for a shy man like A. If you bump into the type that likes to feed the affection of a man, but has no serious intentions with him at all, heartache is the only endresult.

So guys, how do you avoid this? Communicate! If you feel safe enough to flirt online, you can also ask what her intentions are, make clear rules and set boundaries:

Why is she telling me she is all naked right now?
Ask her!

Why does she share certain information with me about her sex life with other people?
Ask her!

What does she mean with this remark, is she being suggestive here?
Ask her!

What does she mean with “I like you”?
Ask her!

I am really starting to have feelings for her…; Where is this all going…; I want to take things a step further; I want to meet her in real life; I only want to have cyber sex with her; … What should I do? Tell her, be open about your intentions, set the rules. Communicate, be honest and keep things transparent. Sure, she can still tell lies and keep you dangling in the dark, but if you have any doubts, try to investigate further. If it does not bring you anything, let her go.
If she is honest and tells you it is just a game, it can hurt as well. But that kind of pain will resolve quicker than months of torture by not knowing what is going on. After a “no, I am not interested”, you can move on!

Sorry girls who may have experienced this the other way around! Of course there are also men playing these kind of games, but let’s be honest here: it is more a girl’s thing.

The situation of T. also shows how little control or insight you can have when you are in a long distance relationship. His MMO love came to visit him, and things seemed to be going very well… Still he has ended up being seperated from her, without knowing what is going on with her now that she is back home again.

You have no control over the influence of family and friends. In my case, every one was very supportive and enthusiastic about my relationship with my Hunter. But consider this: they had never met him before. They could also have told me I would be a fool to pursue it. Who knows how I would have acted if every one would have told me it would be stupid to get involved with a – for them – complete stranger…

You also can’t control other (ex-)lovers in his or her surroundings. All you can do, is sit and wait and hope that he or she chooses you over them. It is something you need to take into account when you start taking a long distance relationship seriously.

And last but not least: someone can also change his or her mind. Feelings were being built up over months. Then people finally meet. And maybe, afterwards, one of them realizes it was not what he or she’d expected it to be. Or maybe it is simply too hard to be in a long distance relationship, or he/she doesn’t want to move in so fast just because otherwise they can’t be together. Maybe he or she does not dare to say anything about this, because they don’t want to hurt the other person’s feelings.

Here too, many maybe’s and possibilities. All I can say, is talk. Avoiding pain and disappointment by not communicating will hurt more – and leave a deeper scar – than honesty.

/smile, /cuddle, /hug, /kiss, /love,…
Or for the naughty ones among us gamers: /kneel followed with a /lick,…

Those are the possibilities a character in World of Warcraft has to show his or her love and affection for another player. The character does make the fitting animation and blows a kiss at you, but other than that a line in the chat saying that “Tofu cuddles up against you”, is all you get. The character does not grab the other char and holds him or her, there is no cuddling, no real kiss on the cheek.

When my Hunter and I were still living miles apart, the virtual environment of the game was the only place to interact with each other. We went to a secret location in the forest of Duskwood to be “alone”. We swam along the shores of Stranglethorn Vale and “cuddled” on the beach. When we logged out of the game, we put our chars in the same bed in the local inn – of course we struggled putting them in the right romantic sleeping position . Making romantic screenshots is a pain in the ass to say the least.

Perfect World screenshot

This all might seem pretty silly for adult players to concern themselves with, but if you have no other means to be together, the options you have in World of Warcraft feel rather limited.
There are other online games in which the chars can have intercourse. I certainly do not want to plead for the possibility for chars to have sex in fantasy MMOs, but if it is technically possible to have chars touching each other, why not have these animations in games like WoW? In my opinion, it would make the game and its social aspects so much richer. I admit I have little to no experience with similar games, but Perfect World for example seems to have more romantic animations (see picture)…

According to my own humble research World of Warcraft is the number 1 game worldwide in which most love affairs unfold. So how about it, Blizzard?

Not many words by me this time, but a link to an interesting read about positive social aspects of MMOs.

More and more of us are finding ways to stay in touch with family and loved ones via online game worlds or ‘MMOs’, says Nick Ryan.
Read more.

The following story had been waiting in my mailbox for quite a while. It tells about a young American girl, who at the age of 14 fell in love with a 15 year old boy. At the time they had agreed to wait with meeting one another until he’d be 18. If all went as planned, they must have met recently. I wonder how it went and hope Lenori will give us an update!

“When I was around fourteen years of age, my sister and I had started playing on an Role Playing realm in World of Warcraft. Our characters were two male Night Elves named Tahlvin and Pinto. We’d made friends with a group of people. With one of them, F., a Human Rogue, I clicked immediately. We were like twins, or long lost siblings, ha ha!
I abandoned my first char and created a new character, Lenori, a female Night Elf Druid, who I leveled to around twenty three. One day me and F. were hanging out in Goldshire – the RP chill spot – when he introduced me to his friend K., a Draenei Shaman. I didn’t really think anything of him when I first met him – he was just another random WoW-player. But then he started whispering me, and we started to get along really well. We became friends and leveled our char’s together everyday. I found out he was a year older then me and lived in Washington, all the way across the country…

As the months passed by, me and K. got closer and closer. I wouldn’t have called us “boyfriend and girlfriend” or any of that, because at the time I wasn’t really into online dating. But I did reaaallly like him…
We’d talk every day on the phone and I’d text him non-stop during school. At night we’d play WoW together. Be it leveling, or just sitting together by the lake in Elwynn watching the virtual sunset… Just being with him was good enough for me.

After a while, I started to fall in love with him. I didn’t want to feel this way, for it didn’t seem realistic to me – the whole relationship in WoW, it didn’t seem right. I lived in New York and he lived thousands of miles away in Washington.
One night he told me that he loved me and that he wanted to be with me. He told me that when he turned eighteen he’d come to New York to see me, but that would be a year and a half of waiting! Over a span of that much time, who knows, he or I could find someone else.
I still wasn’t so fond of the whole online dating thing, so I told him that we could be together, but in an open relationship. That way we could live our real life as though we didn’t really exist, until we’d come online and be together again… Big mistake on my part.

Of course I knew he was going to date other people, and so was I. But I guess I didn’t handle it as well as he did. It had been about a year since our relationship started when F. told me K. had gotten a RL girlfriend. I was upset, so F. tried to console me by telling me that it was not serious, just a physical thing, and that he didn’t love her like he loved me… It still kind of threw me on edge, for I didn’t like the idea of him being physical with other people, but that was our agreement so I lived with it.

After a while though our relationship hit a bumpy patch. K. and I started arguing and fighting all the time. My other online friends compared us to an old married couple. I remember one day I’d gotten pissed at him for whatever reason, and I told him that it would be better for me and him to be “just friends”. We stopped talking for about a month. My sister told me that he had started talking to her, telling her that he loved me but he didn’t think that I loved him back. That one day I’d like him and the next I wouldn’t. It was true, now that I look back at the situation. I was being stubborn and selfish…

After that month I couldn’t stand not talking to him anymore. I missed him so much, so I went online and sent him a letter over the World of Warcraft mailing system, saying how sorry I was and how much I missed him, and how no matter what, deep down I would never stop loving him. The next time he came online he didn’t seem interested in me. On the phone he’d just give me the attitude and acted like he didn’t care about anything… Before I broke the connection, I told him again that I loved him. Usually he’d say it back, but this time he didn’t. I asked him why he didn’t say it back, and he told me he didn’t think he loved me anymore…

I was pretty much heartbroken after that. I tried to make myself believe that I shouldn’t care because it was just an online relationship, but deep down I did care. My friend F. told me that even though I was looking at a virtual character, behind that character was a human, flesh and blood, one that truly loved me, that love was real. And I’d thrown it all away.

I quit wow for about six months. I still kept in contact with my other WoW friends though. I asked F. about K. one day, and he told me he’d quit WoW not too long ago as well. I remembered I still had his account information, so I hopped on WoW and went onto his account out of curiosity. His character had no gear or money, there was nothing in his inventory, besides one thing: it was a letter from my character, the one I had sent him half a year before, the one that read “No matter what, deep down I will never stop loving you.”
He had kept it.

I called him immediately after, told him I had logged onto his account, and asked him why he’d kept my letter. He told me he’d never been able to delete it, that he’d read it every single day. He said he realized after I left that he loved me, and would never stop loving me.

I’m seventeen and he’s eighteen now. We are continuing our plans to meet: he’s coming in a month. I don’t care what anyone says: love can be found anywhere and in anyone, no matter where they live or how old they are.”