I tried a few more times, but I didn’t have the patience or the luck to make it work. It was only because of Reddit that I went back on. Someone had sent me a message after I posted a story, and we began talking. For a couple of weeks, we flirted but were careful about our privacy. I think we both liked getting an orange envelope in the morning and having someone and something outside of our regular lives. One night we were going back and forth, and she sent me a picture for the first time. It was artful, cropped so that I couldn’t tell her identity, and absolutely amazing. She wanted me to write her something based on the picture. I started to when she sent me another message, “Do you like?” Again, I didn’t finish my reply before she wrote, “I mean, is it the sort of thing you’re going to look at when you touch yourself?”
“I’m touching myself now.”
“I want to see.” At that point, I started to worry that I was being catfished.
“Can I see you too?”
“Put ‘clairesaysfuckme’ as your interest in Omegle.”