Silver Linings and Dark Waters — Episode 10

I still hadn't heard from him. I sent him message after message. Over the next few days, he still didn't reply. It was as if he'd suddenly disappeared from the world.

Had something actually happened to him? I left out Sayal's mental health issues and asked a coworker what he thought. If your online boyfriend really is that good looking,

then he's probably talking to other people too. Car accidents, getting sick, sudden emergencies. they're all excuses people use when they want to dump you and ghost you. You can find stories like that all over the internet.

Was that really it? So this whole time, was I the only one taking this seriously? I spent the next few days in a daze. Eventually, I accepted it. I'd been I'd spent all this time thinking he was a lonely guy with mental health issues and no But apparently, I was the idiot being played the whole time.

There was always a row of people fishing along the bank. That day seemed no different, until something unexpected happened. And as if it had locked onto my exact location, except for some reason, it was staring at me, almost affectionately. The fishermen beside me looked at me, then at their completely

fishing rods, then at their empty buckets. Some of them glared at me, like they genuinely wanted to kill me. A few others were still physically sitting there, but spiritually, they'd been gone on for a while. My love life might have been a disaster, but at least my luck was good today.