3 Days Later
After the crushing defeat in the hands of Clara33xoxo’s reply letter, Flynn was still trying to get over the pain of rejection by boozing himself way too much and listening to ‘She’s Gone’ by Steelheart more times than any others streaming that song. Flynn took out his phone agonizingly and looked at Claro33xoxo’s message once more.
“Yewwww, creep!!”
Those two words stung him deeply again and Flynn promptly put the phone down, took another swig from his bottle draining its last drops, and clicked on Steelheart’s ‘She’s Gone’ track one more time.
As Miljenko Matijević crooned the words ‘She’s gone… out of my life..’ in the background, Flynn the Fantastic, the GOAT sighed and noted that it is hard being great. It has always been a challenge in his life. His style was crisp and he slayed too many times with his drip. It’s just that people did not understand his epicness.
“Only game recognizes game!” He muttered under his breath looking down at the stained carpet and slouching further down in his armchair.
Well, life goes on he thought and decided to return back to writing his bio. This time he will bare it all and will not hold back his greatness. But before that, he had to do something that will help with his healing process.
He had to remove Clara33xoxo’s account from his friend list.
He picked up his phone again and..
“NANNNNNIIIIIII?????” Flynn exclaimed in shock. Flynn often employs expressions from other cultures to convey his complex range of emotions.
‘YOU HAVE BEEN BLOCKED BY THE USER’
Clara33xoxo had already blocked him.
Someone was surely cutting onions nearby as tears streamed down Flynn’s face.
Flynn mustered some strength to change the track to Coldplay’s ‘Fix You’ as he was in need of some fixing. If only Chris Martin was in front of him with his guitar and singing those words of comfort. Waves of memories of Clara33xoxo washed onto his mental shore uninvited and invading it. Like sea turtles coming to shore at night, laying the eggs of regrets without permission or warning and letting them hatch into little crawlies that crawl all the sands of memories causing emotional turmoil and chaos within.
The most prominent invasion was the memory of how much Clara33xoxo said she had liked him in her first letter to him which read:
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Hey you,
I am new to Slowly and I am randomly reaching out to make some new friends. Write me back!
Clara33xoxo
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He could tell the adoration that Clara33xoxo had for him with such words. Really specific words like ‘Hey you’ and ‘write me back’. Words that Flynn finds hard to forget and move on from. As he had already finished the last bottle of booze, Flynn contemplated drinking some of the water from his aquarium in the hope that it may get him high enough to forget the pain…
*ding ding..
A message notification sounded from his phone. Flynn removed his hands from the aquarium tank, shaking off the water, and grabbed and looked at his phone.
“One letter arriving”
Someone had sent Flynn a Slowly letter!
Flynn perked up immediately and wiping away the tears and snot on his sleeves, he opened up the Slowly app and looked to see who had sent him a letter.
It was Odelia Wilson.
Flynn grinned as he recalled the famous quote that he had claimed to have coined, “when one door closes another one opens.” Yes, Flynn is quite the philosopher and has also come up with other great quotes like “Do unto others before others do unto you” and “Tsamina mina, eh, eh.. Waka waka, eh, eh”.
However, since this new writer lived some distance away from him it would take roughly 21 days to reach! Or 21 hours which is also equivalent to 21 days as every Slowly user knows.
Flynn paced up and down. His heart was racing and his imagination was running wild. What if this is the ‘one’? He needed to brush up on his Gen Z lingo! He had to slay it. He had to sheeeeessshhh it! He had to keep it lit and yeet his reply. There was much to prepare in the next 21 hours (or days) and Flynn the Excellent got down to work.