She was overwhelmed by his romantic words of love and chivalry. It was like an old romantic world with Knights and Castles with dungeons and dragons. Together, they created a world built around them on the net.
One day John said that he wanted to call and hear her voice. Sandra quickly agreed. At that moment, their world grew to include the phone lines. They would spend hour upon hour just talking and speaking of their love. Ignoring everything else in their immediate lives, they lived for the moments when they could be together in their world.
After they had been talking for two months, John surprised her.
"I want to meet you in person Angel; online is no longer good enough. We have to meet, and soon!"
He asked if he could come to her or would she come to him. It was a big decision for Sandra. She was very excited, but scared at the same time. She had heard all kinds of terrible stories about men on the internet, some of them being perverts, murderers, and all kinds of scary things, but she knew in her heart that he was safe and was all that he perceived to be. She had given her heart and trust to him. Now she had to trust him with her very life. Yet it was the next step in their relationship. So she decided to go to him and finally meet this man that made her heart thaw.
She called him and said, "Darling, I am coming to be with you."
Her week was spent rushing around buying the silky lacy clothes that she wanted to wear for him. Soon the big day was here. Her heart was pounding like crazy for the whole trip. She kept thinking of what he would look like, even though she had seen his pictures online she kept on wondering how he would look in person. The trip took several hours. By the time she landed, she had changed her mind a dozen times and was feeling quite shaky. Walking into the area where the luggage was to arrive, her legs were like water. She prayed that she wouldn't faint when she saw him. Her heart was pounding so hard it felt as though it would burst out of her chest!
She leaned against the wall of the ladies washroom and waited. Searching the sea of faces, she hoped that she would know him when she saw him. Twenty minutes passed. There was no luggage, and no Jack. What if he doesn't come? What if it was all just a joke for him? Sandra thought maybe he had seen her and was so disappointed that he didn't want to meet her after all! Maybe for some reason, he was just observing her from across the room. She felt so alone and rejected at that moment that she felt like sitting down right there and crying. She was scared to death, not knowing what awaited her.
Her mind was screaming. She just wanted to run away. However, she had nowhere to go. Frantically, Sandra racked her brain to try and think of anyone else she might know that lived nearby in case he never showed up. She had to stay somewhere!
"Please God, make him come!" she prayed over and over.
Suddenly, a deep husky voice asked, "Sandra?"
She knew that wonderful voice. It was the voice that she had melted her heart for the last two months. She looked up with wide scared eyes.
"John?" she whispered. "Is it really you?"
He smiled and said, "So you really came after all. I thought you wouldn't show up, that you hadn't really meant it, and were just pretending you would come".
Nervous and scared, she told him that her luggage was not there yet. He took her hand.
"Come outside for a few minutes."
He led her to a bench where she guessed people would wait for their bus or taxi. Wrapping her in his arms, he kissed her. The long sweet kiss melted her heart with love and desire for him. At that moment she knew she would go anywhere with him that he asked her to, and that she only wanted him.
She felt like she'd died and gone to heaven. At that point she wouldn't have even cared if she did die, as long as it was in his arms.
"Surely this can't be real, I must be in heaven and you must be some god or angel" she told him.
"No Princess. I am quite real, but I am just a man" he whispered in her ear.
