Reddit Diaries: Angela

“ Just your usual 19 year old, with an unusual interest in traveling “, read Angela’s Tinder bio. It wasn’t smooth, but did it really matter? Angela knew that even if she’d put ‘Hippopotamus enthusiast’ as her bio, she’d still get matches. The toughest part about dating for Angela was the dates themselves. Growing up socially anxious, she didn’t dislike people, she disliked large number of people. As a result, she preferred having her dates at home than at a coffee-store. An innocent ploy, that unfortunately her dates always misread as booty calls. A situation, that in hindsight would be funny, but in the present day, Tinder had become a nuisance for Angela.

In fact, there were few things in the world that didn’t annoy Angela — right from her name to New York City to her dead sister, Sarah. With an age gap so wide, Sarah had always been a bit of a mystery to Angela. Perhaps, that was why she always wanted to be like her. Perhaps, that’s why Sarah never gave her too much attention.

In her sophomore year of college, Sarah went to Asia for her summer abroad program, and never returned. Whether she died or disappeared, no one knew. It was assumed that she’d been a victim of the purge, but Angela knew better. The night before the news broke off the deaths in Hong-Kong, Angela had received a call from Sarah.