The first time they saw each other face to face was at the airport in the busy city where he lived. They had actually met one night while on line in a chat room six months before that, and had become lovers through their computers.
After meeting each other in an ICQ chat room, they started talking every night on line. It did not take long for them to start anticipating their nightly chats. He sent her some very beautiful poetry. At first she thought he was just sending her somebody else's work. However, she soon realized that he was indeed a real poet and had written many other poems as well. The poems that he composed especially for her, made her heart melt. Between the personalized poems and the most romantic loving letters she had ever know, she was in heaven.
She knew she was falling deeply in love with him but could not stop herself.
She came to know him very well as they chatted away each day and night. He showed her all his artistic work, more poems, paintings, drawings, and sketches and told her all about his life. He was also an actor and had been an extra in many movies. He said he had his own little theatre company, where he would do plays in elementary schools for young children. The more that she learned about this man, the more thrilled she became.
She was overwhelmed by his romantic words of love and chivalry. It was like an old romantic novel with Knights of old, and Castles with dungeons and dragons. Together, they created a world built around themselves on the net.
One day John said that he wanted to call and hear her voice. Catherine quickly agreed. At that moment, their world grew to include the phone lines. They would spend hour upon hour just talking and speaking of their love. Ignoring everything else in their immediate lives, they lived for the moments when they could be together in their world.
After they had been talking for two