2 or 3 days after Ann asked me for the picture of myself, she started to message me rather regularly. Talking to her, I realized that she and I had very similar personalities, and she could make me laugh! I had really never been with a girl that could make me laugh for real. Usually I had to fake laugh. Now, I'm not saying that girls aren't funny, just nome of the ones I have been with. Anyway, getting off track. We also had depression and anxiety In common. We both understood how the other felt, and why we felt that way. She would tell me that her husband, Gump, always told her that all that stuff was in her head. Or that she was only playing it as a sympathy card. He was a real asshole behind the scenes as it turned out. I would see that for myself in the coming days and weeks. Ann and I would talk all day while she was at work. She even got in trouble a few times for being on her phone at work. She told me that she just really enjoyed talking to me. That she wasn't allowed to have guy friends, so not to tell Gump about our correspondence. I told her that I wouldn't say a word to him about it. I enjoyed talking to her as well, it was actually kind of surreal considering that I was secretly in love with her for 12 years, or as close to in love as you can get without knowing someone super well. She was just so gorgeous. She had the sweetest little voice. The way she giggled was so endearing and cute. So the fact that she was paying any attention to me, was just aces to me. I was already on cloud 9. What would happen next would change my life for the next year. I should note that I was already very protective of her. I get that way about people that I care about.
A couple months later, New years was quickly approaching. I am normally a home body. I don't do much, if anything for...