As Elizabeth arrived home, her email folder blinked with a number 4 on it. The first three emails were from friends, two from online, one from her town. The last email was from him; the man she played cribbage with each morning. The man she'd gotten to know so much and yet so little about. Her heart raced. She clicked him open, but all the email said was "jkl;".
"JKLsemi-colon?" she messaged him.
"I'm sorry. I had typed something out twice to you, but decided not to send it. Instead, I thought you should know my right hand upon this keyboard. It's the clearest thought I could think at the time. JKL; is like playing a happy batch of notes on a piano. It's the rising of ideas, and I guess of feelings."
Elizabeth pondered his words for a minute. "Are you high?" she asked.
"Yep, I am, and it's been a while, so I'm really feeling it here," he replied.
"LOL" Elizabeth replied.
"So, I am going to try again at some point to write and actually send you what I wrote today, twice," Mitch typed.
"Ok. Whenever you want to tell me anything, I promise I won't think you are weird or anything," Elizabeth replied.
"Oh, you will, you will, I'm sure of it. But, I think you should know this more than anything else I almost wrote to you today. I am going to grant you a wish. I have been working on and succeeded in getting something set up for something you wanted but could not get to happen. I'll be telling you only an hour before it happens, though. I'll message you at work."
Mitch almost wished he hadn't said anything, but part of him knew it was safe to tell Elizabeth these things.
"!!!" Elizabeth typed out, in a larger font than the rest of her previous words.
"I've always wondered how I would feel if I said something that caused you to use a gigantic font for three exclamation marks. This is amazing."
"HAHAHA!" Elizabeth typed. "Now you can't leave me all curious like this. What is going on? Tell me now!"
"I can't, it will put it at risk."
"Please, please, please!" Elizabeth begged.
"Really, I can't. But, it's only a short time frame from now, that I promise you. And you will be very happy and maybe stunned, but mostly you will just be as amazed as I am about things. Ok, you might also be sort of freaked out. But hopefully in a good way. I only hope you'll keep it our secret."
Elizabeth's mind sounded to her inside her ears like her computer in scan disc.
Posted by nft at December 22, 2004 09:40 AM