What Does She Look Like?

I have a friend on Facebook whom I do not know. She invited me once and I accepted, thinking I had met her at a party or somewhere else. She is not annoying, she does not hurt me by posting convictions opposite to mine. The only thing about her is I do not know what she looks like.

She posts plenty of pictures, usually some funny ones from the Internet, or arty photos of meadows and cats and coffee cups. Sometimes there is a group of people in the photos, but I am almost positive she is not among them. Sometimes, there is a photo where I suspect it is her, but she takes it down quickly. I have started saving some of her photos to my drive and I have a pretty big folder of those, but I still cannot be sure.

”Hey,” I wrote one time.

”Hi,” she replied.

”Do we know each other in real life?”

I got a reply about an hour later. “I don’t think so."

"That’s cool. I was just wondering what you look like.”

She did not respond to that for a number of days. One evening, I was sitting in my kitchen eating some soup when my phone vibrated. It was her, she gave me an address. Not an email address but an actual street address in the real world.

”Should I come over?” I asked, but she did not reply, although I could see she read my message.

I walked around my house for a little bit, quite anxious. Finally, I picked up my car keys and rushed outside.

The address was a half hour drive away. I knew the area, it was some middle range houses for some middle range earners, nothing fancy, but not bad. I pulled up at the place. I knocked on the door, but there was no answer. I tried the door, it was not locked. I walked in slowly, like they do in the movies calling “Hello? The door was unlocked…”

There was silence.

Then there were footsteps upstairs. I climbed up. One of the doors shut. I opened it. The room was empty. The only place she might have gone was the closet. I approached and opened the doors slowly. In the dark, there she was. She stepped forward. I could finally see what she looked like.

She looked like me.

Posted by: Paweł Kowaluk