Prologue

　　13 months thats how long we lasted. We met online. I still remember the first time we talked. I remember thinking he was sweet and different from the other men I had talked to before him. He never brought up meetings or sex. Which made me happy. We talked for a month before he suggested that we meet for coffee one day after work. Little did I know that I was in for a rough 13 months...

　　Part one-

　　I sat on my sofa strolling through meetme.

once known as my yearbook. Where you could connect with old classmates. Now it's for dating.

All I could think about was how stupid this app had turned and blew the hair that had fallen in my eyes. Bored I logged out of it and went into Facebook. As always there was nothing on it. So I put on a movie. A few minutes later my phone rings. I open it and see

　　"You have one new message." Great another jerk who isn't going to be nice and will ask for one thing. I sighed and opened the app.

　　I saw his picture first. A well-dressed man with a scar across his right eye. Black hair and cleaned shaved. He's kinda cute I thought. I clicked on his message. It simply said, "Hello, I'm Mike."

　　It took me a minute to reply because it was simple. No dick pictures, no asking for sex.

　　I replied with "Good evening. How are you?"

　　Then turned back to my movie. I truly didn't think he would reply because I only had my right eye as my profile picture and it was set on private. A few minutes later I heard the ding.

　　"I'm good, thank you for asking. Do you have a name or should I just call you DM?"

　　I laughed a little bit at this. "I'm Lucy."

　　"It's nice to meet you, Lucy. So why just the eye? I mean it's a beautiful eye but why no face picture?"

　　Again, I laughed "Keeping the wolves at bay." I replied.

　　"May I have a picture?" He asks.

　　I sat there thinking about it for a bit and finally replied "Give me a moment." I ended up picking one of my favorite pictures of me. Hardly any makeup and bright red highlights with deep red.

　　I hit send before I could change my mind.

　　"Beautiful." Is all he said.

　　I simply replied with a thank you. It made me smile. "I'm going to head to bed. I have to be up at 4 am. Talk tomorrow?" I said after a bit. I didn't wait for him to reply as I got ready for bed. Once I laid down and set my alarm he texted back.

　　"Good night and yes."

　　I fell asleep feeling happy for the first time in a long time.