Calvin sighed as he opened his emails. There had been no way out; Melody was lost to him. "Why did they have to meet online?" he wondered to himself. "Why couldn't they have met in the normal way?" He had been so happy with his wonderful new discovery. This woman who typed such intriguing letters had been everything to him. She was all he had ever hoped and wished for in a companion for life.

When his job brought him close to her location, Cal suggested they meet for dinner. Melody was happy to oblige. It was an hour's drive to her hometown from his temporary place of business but with the thought of finally seeing her face-to-face, it was really no big deal. And so they met. Beautiful beyond compare, at least in his opinion, he couldn't keep his eyes off her as they fell into a conversation as deep as the ones they shared online. When he left her, he immediately started to make plans to see her again.

Alas, his temporary job being just that, Calvin's next assignment took him overseas. He couldn't see Melody again before he left but he was anxious to continue the conversation. The first thing he did as soon as he reached his next location was to send out another email. Even though they couldn't be together in a physical way, they were together mentally and intellectually therefore their relationship grew even stronger than normal.