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TIFU by giving a girl my number and not realizing my mistake for 3 months

So there was this girl in my chemistry class. Sarah. Smart, funny, always had the best answers during discussions and somehow made titration sound interesting. Way out of my league but I've always been an idiot so I decided to shoot my shot anyway.

One day after class everyone was packing up and she was standing near the door. My brain said "now or never" so I walked up to her, cool as I could manage, and said "hey I think you're really cool, I'd like to get to know you better. Here's my number" and I slid her a piece of paper like I was in some 2005 romcom. She smiled, took it, said she'd text me.

I walked out of that classroom feeling like an absolute legend. Hands in pockets, slight nod to myself. Main character moment.

She never texted.

Or so I thought.

Day 1 I checked my phone every 20 minutes. Nothing.

Day 2 I told myself she's probably busy.

Day 3 I accepted my fate and ate a sad bowl of cereal for dinner.

I just assumed she wasn't interested and moved on with my life the way all men do — by pretending it never happened and never speaking of it again.

Fast forward exactly 3 months later. I'm procrastinating on a Sunday, cleaning out my old laptop that I hadn't touched since freshman year. For absolutely no reason I log into my old Apple ID out of curiosity. Just vibes. No plan.

I open iMessage.

47 unread texts from an unsaved number.

My stomach dropped.

I opened it.

"hey it's Sarah from chem 😊"

"omg I just realized I never introduced myself properly lol"

"helloooo?"

"okay maybe you're busy"

"hey just checking in haha"

Then a few days of silence.

Then she just started venting. Full paragraphs. About her roommate drama, about a professor she hated, about how she failed a quiz and cried in the bathroom. For two weeks straight she was basically texting a ghost her entire diary.

Then one day:

"okay I don't know who I've been texting for the past month but I genuinely hope you're doing well, whoever you are. this is the last time I'm doing something like this. lesson learned lol"

And then nothing. Forever.

I sat there in complete silence for a solid 5 minutes staring at my laptop screen.

I had accidentally given her my old number. The number I stopped using a year ago. She had been pouring her heart out to an empty inbox while I was out here thinking I got rejected.

I still think about Sarah. I hope she's doing okay. I hope she found someone who actually received her texts. I'm so sorry Sarah. I was rooting for us.

TL;DR: Gave a girl my number, accidentally gave her my old number I hadn't used in a year, spent 3 months thinking I got rejected while she was texting a ghost her entire life story. I'm sorry Sarah.

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