“Come with me! Let me show you something!” Christopher tugged me out of the exhibition hall and we left. Back at our home, he turned on his laptop and turned the screen to me. He pointed at an icon and asked, “Look in here! Do you know what this is?”
I glanced at him suspiciously and clicked at the icon that Christopher was pointing at. My eyes widened at the contents. I flipped through the pages on the screen. It was a chat history between Christopher and a girl.
The conversations were not flirtatious in nature; it was just two people sharing stories of their lives and sending encouragement and support to each other. The very last message was a message that I had sent to Key when I was living in a small seaside town.
The message read, Even though I had suffered a shipwreck at sea before, I can still appreciate the beauty of the ocean now as I stand on the beach of Summerbank. Tell me, Key, what should I do with my dying days so that these last three months will not be in vain?
There was no reply to that message, but on the very next day after that, Christopher had appeared in front of me.
“So, did you manage to locate me through this little nugget of information?” I was still holding the laptop in my hands. My mind was still digesting this new revelation. No wonder Christopher had found me so fast and was so sure that I was alive; I had been messaging him all day every day unknowingly. It was as good as confessing the truth to him.
I stared at Christopher incredulously. “You are Key? The Key that I had been chatting with online all these years?”
“Yes, I am Key!” Christopher nodded, then said in a somber tone, “I told you we’ve known each other for many years. Throughout all those years, you have shared with me all your thoughts and confessed to me your love for painting. Eve, we met much earlier than you can remember, and I know all your stories. For example, I knew that you would seek revenge by secretly adding salt into Crystal’s water bottle whenever she teased you so that she would not dare to drink any water all day… I also know-”
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