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chapter 2

Six months later, the cold seattle winds stopped and the hot summer weather was just around the corner. Ben returned home late at night after a long day of taking pictures for a magazine article. He walked through the door and threw his jacket on the chair and grabbed a cold beer from refrigerator. He sat at the desk opening his laptop and looked through his emails. He ignored all of them except for the one from Rachel. It read "Hey you, I've missed talking to you lately", Ben smiled and wrote a reply saying he has been busy with work but should be online more often from now on. For the next 2 hours they continued exchanging emails with one another but Ben's smile slowly faded out as he seemed confused as to why Rachel kept asking questions about himself that he thought he had already answered a few months ago.

The next morning a tired and exhausted Ben arrived late at a photoshoot and met up with Dan. Ben told Dan about Rachel and how she keeps asking him about work, friends and girlfriends. At first Dan laughed this off thinking she's just interested in him and wants to get to know him better, but Ben was sure that they'd had these conversations before, "We've talked about this kinda stuff in the past and she was happy with the answers". Dan continued urging Ben to look past this and be in the moment with Rachel. Ben thought to himself and decided that Dan's advice was essential and that the time was now right to ask Rachel to meet him.

That night upon arriving home Ben immediately went over to his laptop and checked his emails and was surprised to see nothing from Rachel in his inbox. He then sat back in his chair for the next hour waiting for a reply from Rachel but it never appeared. Curious and confused, Ben went on Rachel's profile to discover that she has deactivated her account, he helplessly searched for her blog posts but it had been made clear that she has deleted her account and there were no leads to her. Ben was shocked and stared at the laptop screen trying to make sense of this. Yesterday they were talking joyfully and today she had just vanished without a trace. Unable to put his mind to rest or get any sleep, Ben sat at the desk for a further few hours constantly thinking about what he could have possibly said that would make Rachel deactivate without even saying a goodbye to him. As the dark mist of the night passed and the glowing sun arose, Ben had just been sitting back in the chair staring at the emails on his laptop until his laptop battery eventually gave in and the screen faded to blank. Due to a lack of energy Ben didn't bother plugging the charger in or even answering the phone when Dan tried calling him to ask why he didn't go to his engagement party. Upon hearing Dan's voicemail, Ben snapped out of this zone and leaped towards the phone and answered in a panicked voice, "Dan, im so sorry the party it completely slipped my mind, something came up". Before Ben could go on to explain, Dan hung up the phone leaving Ben thinking he had lost more then just one friend in the past 24 hours. A sad and distraught Ben headed down to the bar and ordered one alcoholic drink after the another until he went on to pass out at the bar.