// Catfish; Exposed
In December 2014 I get this random message in Facebook from a girl. Simple yet unexpected. I message her back asking if I knew her from somewhere or if she knew me. She replied- “NO, just trying to make friends” .. Weird, because I look up our mutual friends and she had one of my family members. I go along with the conversation like nothing. We go back and forth for a few messages, only to find out SHE was a HE. Well he was using his “cousins” page. At first it really didn’t seem all that weird to me. The red flags didn’t start popping up till we started texting. So I ask him if he could send me a picture of himself because he has seen my pictures on Facebook and I have no idea how he looks, since it’s not his page. He sends me a picture and I tell him “you look totally different from your cousin”. I’m like makes sense then. So that was one minor red flag. He never wanted to talk on the phone. I asked him if I seen him before or if we met. He said no. We text for a couple days, then he just stops out of nowhere. Probably 3 days later he texts me. I question him as to why he just stopped. He didn’t reply at all, not even for the next week. A month later he texts me, and I about had it. I questioned him again and demanded some answers. All he can say was that his phone was off. I'm like for a month? So one morning I'm watching Catfish the TV show and I get the idea to just investigate. I didn’t really have much to go on. I only had one picture, his Snapchat, and his phone number. I did the whole dragging the picture into Google image search and nothing popped up. So all I have left is his Snapchat and his phone number. I decide to try his number. I end up on this one site and I put in his number. So you know that circle thing that goes around and around when something is loading? Well yeah, that was happening and once the page refreshed and all the information pops up, I tell you. It felt like my heart was going to drop down to my stomach and fall out my butt. Once I read all the information I was at a loss for words. I knew who this person is. I have met this person before. I know his dad. I have known this person since we were little. I'm thinking to myself - like damn if your were upfront with me from the beginning, something could have happened.
