So I re-arranged the pieces life had thrown my way. I started working on my webpage again (the one he kept telling me was just a waste of bandwidth) and began sending out job-applications. Just for freelance-work at first, since the whole Three-story had made me even more weary of people than I had ever been before.

Pretty soon I found a job reviewing websites and doing HTML-assigments for an ISP. I had only just begun.

Five years after first talking to Three, three years after being told by him that my way with words and webpages were just throwaway fads that would never get me anywhere, I'm now working fulltime as webmaster. Making a living designing webpages, maintaining IIS servers and copywriting. I've also started my own webdesign-business on the side. Not too bad for, and I quote "a cybernetic lifeform with no real world skills", really.

I've also built up a happy relationship and a few solid and healthy friendships since then, so you could say at least one of us has made progress.

As for Three.. I never heard from since that day in August 14.

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine did alert me to a message my beloved ex had posted on a bulletin board. Complaints about his provider. From that posting, it was very obvious that Three now spends his days sleeping and his nights playing online games from 10pm to 8 in the morning. His main concern seems to be whether or not he can get online.

If the above weren't so sad and pathetic, I'd probably laugh.

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