Eddie did text me every now and again for the next couple of weeks, usually something like "Whats up?" or "Goin out tonite?", and I replied politely each time.
And even though I was still contemplating meeting up with him again, I just couldn't bring myself to it. Especially after I got distracted. By Henry.
Yes, one day, I received a message to my Inbox on Facebook. It was a reply from someone named Henry to a message I had sent him a year ago! At first I was really puzzled and thought that a) Facebook had gotten its wires crossed, b) someone had hacked my account, c) I was going crazy.
After a while though, I vaguely remembered how this correspondence had been initiated. About a year ago, I was at home, sick with the flu and it just went on an on and on so out of utter boredom one day, after having watched every YouTube video in the universe, I started scouting for new Facebook friends. I went through my friends' friend lists and the 'People You May Know' recommended by Facebook, usually people in the area.
I sent out a few friend requests and messages to people I thought I might know. Amongst them was Henry, who had only recently joined Facebook at that time, didn't have much information on display and no profile pic. Still, because of his last name I thought that perhaps he was this guy I knew at Uni. So I sent him a message with a private joke that only the real Henry would understand and know how to reply: 'Hey, is this Henry, 'my dead brother'? ;)'
Then I completely forgot about him. Until 12 months later I received an answer: 'Nope, still alive, are you my sister?' Which was the wrong reply so obviously he wasn't the Henry I thought he was. By now this guy had uploaded a profile pic but it was a blurry, fish-eye photo and all I could see was that the guy was blonde, unlike the other Henry.
I still replied to him, saying I had obviously mistaken him for somebody else '...but kudos for the quick response! :)'
It wasn't long till he replied again: 'Thank you, I didn't want to write something in a haste!'
Funny guy. So I wrote something witty back, and he instantly replied. And then I added him as a friend and he accepted. Only, he doesn't have any other photos of himself apart from the profile pic, so I still have no idea what he looks like. We kept exchanging short messages and Henry proved to be very witty and satiric. And good with words.
I was intrigued.
