He stared at the empty white box on-screen.
Hesitated until his fingers, given momentary free rein, tapped five words and hit ‘ok’ before his brain caught up. “Why am I always sad?”
Argued back and forth with the ‘Edit’ button.
Paused as a tiny red flag appeared in the top right corner.
Flinched pre-emptively, opened the notification message. Rob, a guy from college: “lmao. this isn’t Google, man.” He was right, this wasn’t the place. (Was there a place?)
Sighed.
Responded, “lol, Jenny grabbed my phone when I wasn’t looking [smiling emoji]”
Waited for the amused, dismissive ‘like.’
Hit ‘Delete Post.’
Gena says
! So true.