Betrayal or Love

Eleven months ago, Gabriella King joined a trending dating site. She honestly had no idea what made her do so when she would rather spend her time in her room, reading one hell of romantic novels and imaging herself being one of the characters and falling in love with the Hero who was every Girl's dream.

Gabby was almost logging out on the website when a message came in from someone with the name 'Sam.'

Angry was not enough to describe how Gabby felt upon reading his message. She couldn't believe the sender had the nerve to ask such a question.

Gabby typed a couple of abusive and sassy responses but for some reason unknown, she didn't have the mind to hit the send button so she ended up logging out with Sam's question unanswered.

Twenty-four hours later, Gabriella found herself in front of her laptop, logging into the site with the intention of deleting her account. But before doing that, she clicked on Sam's profile. Just like Gabby, Sam didn't put up his profile picture. But she was impressed by what was on his Bio. That alone, made her finally reply to his question politely.

Fortunately, Sam was also online, one thing led to another and they ended up chatting for a little over two hours with Gabriella ending the chat because she had assignments to catch up on.

From their first conversation, they both realized they had a lot in common and for some cheesy reasons, they both had smiles on their faces while replying to each other's messages.

Chatting two hours or more every night later became a habit for Sam and Gabby. They became addicted and looked forward to their chats all the time.

Whatever was going on between the duo was put on hold when they revealed their ages to themselves. It was a total shock to the two of them. They had so much in common that they both thought they were around the same age.

The dating site does not reveal the exact age of its users. Instead, every user falls under three categories: teenagers, adults and older adults.

It was Gabby who had asked for Sam's age on that fateful day and he replied immediately with "35"

Gabriela's eyes almost popped out of its socket when she read his reply on her phone. She was beyond shocked. She couldn't believe the Sam she had grown fond of was way older than her and that made her start thinking if whatever was going on between them was appropriate or not.

Just when it was starting to occur to her that she might have found the perfect guy because she had started growing some feelings for him, their age gap was already screaming NO at them.

Sam, on the other hand, could tell something was wrong when he received no immediate response from Gabby.

"Gab?"

"You okay?"

"You know you can talk to me about anything?"

Gabriella did not reply to Sam's message immediately but when she finally did, a shock and devastating expression overtook him.

"You're 35 and I'll be 20 soon. I don't know how to feel about this." was Gabby's reply.

Sam and Gabby didn't communicate for a while after this but that didn't mean they stopped thinking about each other. They both missed their night chats, most especially Sam who looked forward to telling Gabby about his day.

Gabriella was really pained and confused. If only wishes were horses and Sam carter was her age! Though they've not seen each other's picture, they've perfectly described how they look to one another.

Gabby had no doubt that Sam was incredibly sexy but she had pictured him at a much younger age.

Since she came to know about Sam's real age, she had been doing research about age gap relationships to know if there was any chance that they could work.

Gabriella also had a series of thoughts going through her head and a series of questions she would love to ask Sam.

'What if he was married or has a girlfriend and was only looking for a fling?"