Me and James were friends on there for years, and every now and then we’d write eachother comments and we exchanged MSN addresses and talk on there from time to time. I guess we were, to eachother, the sort of person you talk to online when none of your real friends are on at silly hours of the night and you don’t even know them, you just want someone to talk to/mildly flirt with. And I even found texts from him on one of my old phones, which I had completely and utterly forgotten about.

I remember him posting a bulletin once, saying: “Fuck A Day To Remember, listen to real music like Jeff Buckley and The Smiths” and me thinking what perfect taste this guy has.

The year before we got together, I went to the Purple Turtle on Halloween. And I remember seeing this boy who I sort of recognized and I couldn’t put my finger on where I knew him from, and he just kept looking at me. I didn’t want to go up to him because I wasn’t sure if it was who I thought it might be.

And the next day he messaged me, like, “Were you at the Purple Turtle last night by any chance?” “You are gorgeous, I wanted to ask for your number but I got too scared, I thought you’d tell me to fuck off.” James told me that on that night out, he told Lee he knew me, and Lee apparently said: “Give up mate, way out of your league.” - Little did he know, haha!

Thinking about all of this just makes me smile so much, to think I’m going out with this random dude off MySpace now. He was there all along. We had talked all those years yet we were so insignificant to each other…

We even talked for a little while after that, but it never went anywhere until months after no-one even used MySpace anymore, I went onto my old MSN and told him to add my Facebook and he did, and probably about a year after that we got talking properly and then we met up and we literally fell in love the next day.

Strange.

Moral of the story: Your soul mate is probably right under your nose in this exact moment of time, and you have no clue.