The Horrors of Online Dating

God I regret this so much.

It makes me angry now just.. writing about this. The fact I could almost have been taken from my family, will haunt me for the rest of my days. I was about 12 when I joined Animal Jam. It was a rather fun game where you could be your favorite animals, dress them up, and enslave smaller animals as your 'pets'. Most people on the site are greedy brats, but there were some people that were somewhat nice. I made a couple friends on the site, and some of them are still my friends to this day. But this particular incident.. I will never, ever forget this.

I recently became 13 and decided to 'celebrate' my birthday on the game, typing in 'BIRTHDAY PARTY AT MY DEN! DON'T FORGET TO BRING UR GIFTS' over and over again until a fair amount of people had come into my den. I clicked the den button, smiling giddily. I was disappointed due to the fact that most people in there were nonmembers, since back then I used to think so highly of myself because I was a member.

All of them were dancing to the music I had put in my den, which was Winter's Dance (which is still my overall favorite track from the game). As I was about to type in something which I didn't remember, a person had sent me a trade request. It was a black long, which was my dream item at the time, for my useless diamond necklace. I let out a small squeal as I clicked the accept button (this was back when the old trading system was still in place).

The guy who traded me the long was a member with the stereotypical 'oh im so rare haha look at my solid black top hat and spikes' look, which I thought was 'hot' at the time. After I typed in 'ty', he started doing the lovey heart cat emoji thing, and did the sleep action. I smiled and clicked on the blushing emoji, giving him the message that I 'liked' him back. The nonmembers started fangirling and typing stupid messages on the chat like, "OMG I SHIP IT!" or "OTP!!!".

I was blushing like crazy when that nonsense happened but looking back on it, it was rather stupid. So after that, we hit it off and became a couple.

((WIP))