Well, as is usually the case, when I post its because something has changed. Sara's still had been checking in somewhat regularly but continued to remain hidden. I guess I felt I needed to see if I could provoke her into surfacing, but still stay inside the realm of email. I left her an email telling her I mailed her a sex toy. I suggested she come up with a reason why she was getting an anal reaming tool from a plumbing company. I thought it was funny. I don't think she did.
She read that email (and another email that I had attached pictures from my family vacation) yesterday morning. Nothing. She re-opened the family picture email around noon. A half hour later, she then re-read all the emails that were sitting in the inbox. From oldest to newest - about 20 emails. By this time I knew something was stirring in her. Twenty minutes later I started getting hangup calls at work, and then on my cellphone. Ok, now I didn't think what I did was so funny anymore. I tried to call her, but discovered my phonecard had been used up. It used to have $10 on it. The phone calls stopped - obviously because she could not make anymore calls.
I then emailed her several emails, letting her know it was just a joke, and how I realized how not funny it was. The last one I sent was one promising that I'd lock things up for good. A couple hours later, she read those emails. Here's the strange part - she re-marked all of those emails as unread. As if she had never been there. WTF? After realizing she'd been had, did she not want me locking things up? Pretend yesterday never happened?
All is quiet today. So far.