“You wish. I have a family dinner planned, unfortunately." I hit send. Hopefully, that was right up my fake persona's alley, and he didn't get suspicious.
This was the second time he had tried to get me to video chat. If he kept asking and I kept saying no, that might be the end of our fake social media rendezvous.
“You're playing hard to get," he responded. The perfect response came to me immediately, of which I was super proud.
“I am hard to get." That was it, and the response was perfect. I added the devil emoji to spice it up even more. It was thrilling how good at this I was becoming.
“I love that" was all he said. He started to type and then stopped.
“Don't you ever have family time too? Tell me about your parents." I replied, feeling more confident.
“Mom's a lawyer, Dad's in r
