Short Story - Nothing But The Truth

S was new to the world of blogging. Gradually she made some friends in Bloggerville, among them one A got very close to her. They used to chat day and night, all the girly talk and she confided a lot in her new friend. Day and night S would be awake cause she felt A really needed her after the recent emotional trauma they had undergone. One day a dispute occurred between them cause she expected her friend to comment on her posts ( which A usually did but had been too busy of late). There ensued an exchange of words and they called it quits. Next day she finds a hate post on A's blog. She was rattled and shocked. She bore it somehow and did not react, thanks to her real friends, whom she had been too busy to talk to of late cause of that new person in her life.

In a few days, S started getting requests from A to patch up and put the fight behind them. Emotionally vulnerable as she was, she was moved and made up after demanding answers for that person's behavior. However, that initial warmth was gone now. Again after a few weeks, another fight ensued over the same issue and this time it was worse. A actually mentioned S's name on their blog, just cause she visited to check for more hate posts about herself. There followed one hate post after the other, S was quiet. But she continued to visit. Everybody advised her not to visit there and hurt herself but she would not listen. Her friend L who could not bear to see her unhappy decided to take that person off her own blogroll and then A started hounding her and there ensued a bigger fight on their respective blogs. S was grateful to L and would always be for standing up in times when many just chose to ignore in spite of knowing the truth. Some people even turned traitor and started passing on information to A.

L finally put up a post with A's name on her blog and A ran to S pleading to ask L to take off that post or at least their name from it. She did it in spite of all that happened and L obliged just cause she loves S and warning A not to repeat what they were doing, like commenting on their comments on other people's blogs, who were even worse given the fact that they did not stop such comments nor reacted to them and just pretended as if nothing had happened. For a while, things were quiet and S and A even started commenting on each other's blogs again out of mutual understanding after the peace talk. Then one day, S visited A's blog and did not want to comment on their latest post and she found her ip address put up on that blog the next day. From that day she vowed never to visit A's blog again. But then in a few days, A came and commented on S's blog and she published the comment and replied politely and even went and commented on A's current post for courtesy sake.

A few days later, S again saw A's comments about her comment on another blog and then decided to ignore this person totally, no matter what. But then, A came to her blog yet again and left a comment and this time S was firm about not allowing it cause she did not want to have anything to do with A hereon. She knew they would retaliate with a post about it and she was right, A did exactly just that. What A did not understand is that the comment was not approved not because it was not in agreement with the post, but because they or their comments were unwanted in S's blog. Anyways, it was not the first time that A had manipulated the truth for their own convenience and S ignored it but L did not let it go and wrote a post about all these issues, and A at once responded to it and threatened to close down L's and S's blogs. Why should L or S close their blogs? They do not thrive in Bloggerville on the basis of making friendship by mail or chat, nor by going and asking people to blogroll or visit their blogs and also not by threatening those who do not comment on their blog by putting up the ip addresses. L and S thrive on the basis of the art of good writing, something that A would never understand.

Neither S's nor her friend L's lives would be affected in any way, they have a life out of Bloggerville and much more to do than only ranting and waging wars with every single person who disagrees with them, be it in posts or comments or on chat, and they do not bring their day-to-day personal problems and dump them on their blogs. Also is a question about who this person A really is. No one knows where they really are and how they look like or for that matter, even their real name. Just because they write using a girl's name does not mean they have to be one. In fact, after seeing some proofs about A's identity, S was shocked cause this person seems to actually be someone else. It is not S's problem if they are a guy or girl or maybe more than one person, but the question is, is it right to fool so many people by dishing out so much lies? Cause on Judgement Day, God will only ask for nothing but the truth...

Images :

*The Conflict by hakanphotography
*Truth Is At The Bottom by gally-black