I went away on holiday with my mother last Christmas. It was a wonderful holiday, although sometimes I longed for someone to party with.

The meeting
We went to inflate the kites in the part of … but that had to be on the beach, half open kites we walked onto the beach with him, he was busy. He was running his lines and mom and I pumped up the first kite well I pumped it up. Mom wanted to help me with my kite, but she was allowed to walk her lines, so I helped her with her lines and then walked mine. We were ready but we still had to wait for a girl who helped her pump it up.

Finally he called my name and launched my kite and I went into the sea, which went anything but smoothly. Mom and that girl eventually came too. Mom went very slow and that girl went quite fast, she was very good. I stayed with Mom, then with that girl and then with Mom again, but finally with him. That girl kept moving forward because it took a very long time and the circumstances were quite intense. I just kited after him because I didn’t know where to go. We tried to communicate and the first thing I said was: ‘she is so slow’ I was really done with it, it was very tiring. He was sweet and calm and responded in a nice and relaxed manner. That immediately made my worries less. But it just kept happening and I kept kiting after him. I just wanted to know where to go, I tried to ask: ‘Do I need to stay at shore or more at sea’ he said ‘yes’, after several attempts I gave up.

Eventually my mother finally came close to us. We suddenly went downwind at a nice pace, he could jump really well. At one point you also did a really cool tooside jump. Once we were downwind we waited for my mother again, my feet were broken so I just lay down in the water with my kite at 12 o’clock. He came sailing by and said: ‘Is everything okay?, oo your just chilling’, I laughed and said ‘yes’ and then went sailing and chilling again.

But it took a really long time, so we went back over those huge waves together, hard upwind. Finally we saw Mom but without her board, so we started looking hard for her board. We couldn’t find him so we went to land, he landed Mom’s kite and mine while he was still attached to his kite, so handy. He first asked if I wanted to land my kite: ‘Your almost there’ but I had no idea, I was broken and my trapeze was annoying. Eventually someone came a lot further back with a board and came back after a long search on the open sea. He and Mom walked towards me and we took our things to the shade. One of the first things he said to me when I first got out of the water was ‘sunscreen’ I was so sunburnt. He said: ‘We can go to the shadows there and chill, drink something, get some sunscream and kite. He invited me to the Christmas party, I couldn’t hear him at first, we then walked towards the shade, he with your kite still in the air and I with my kite and board in my hand. I responded with: ‘sorry I didn’t understand what you just said.’ He repeated himself: ‘Tonight we are having a Christmas party you can come.’ I wanted so much and, like never before, I wanted to be with a girlfriend or something to go there but I knew I didn’t want/couldn’t do that with my mother. So I said ‘aa thanks for the invite’ and he responded with ‘yeah you should come’. Once I got to the shade, I put on some sunscreen and Mom went to the bar, we sat at separate tables and I didn’t dare make eye contact or mingle. He went kiting again, but I stayed in the shadows. F wanted to go but he didn’t want to come but eventually he did. We went to move the stuff to the buggy. Mom and I were busy talking and he said: ‘So you’re friends, I responded: ‘she is my mom’ and laughed, he said ‘how old are you then I: ;I am seventeen years old.’ He asked my mother the same thing, it was really too funny. Once we got the stuff in the buggy, we went in, he and my mother went in the back and I went in the front with F. I took a nice picture of my mother and him. You were busy chatting during the ride, it was nice to hear. I personally didn’t feel like talking to that F, I thought he was a strange bird ahahaha. When we arrived we got out and you said that our boards were very light and good for learning on and that we should bring some with us next time, he was funny. Finally we said goodbye with a kiss on the cheek and a ‘bye’. The first and last time I saw you that holiday, but hopefully not the last time ever.

Once in the evening I looked for the Indiana account on Instagram and looked for him in the following list and then I found him. After much hesitation I added him. He had a public account so it wasautomatically accepted after which he added me. In the evening he sent me a DM: he responded to my story with a ‘Yes, nice’, I didn’t dare so I just liked the message. He sent me at a quarter to eleven: ‘Happy Christmas’ and ‘Come to Indiana thennn’. A double text at that hour I couldn’t handle it again. I responded to the ‘Happy Christmas’ with ‘Ahahhah you too’ and to the ‘Come to Indiana then’ with ‘My mom is already ko from today ahahahah’ I did ahahahah the whole time to make it a bit lighter. He responded with ‘Jajaja’, so that’s their ahahahah, he also said ‘How are you’ and ‘You stay at d…?’ I said ‘ahahah yes’. I really couldn’t handle it if you haven’t noticed yet. He said again ‘Come to Indi’ and ‘We are celabratin’. I really wanted to come but I dared and not only that seemed too bad for me, my mother sleeps lightly and I didn’t dare walk across the street like that. So I responded with unfortunately: ‘Ahahahaha Sry really can’t my mom would kill me is she found out and she is a really light sleeper sadly’ I don’t know why it is so formal ahahaha. He responded with: ‘Jjajjaja’, ‘I understand’ and ‘So saddd’. Believe me, I thought it was too sadddd. But I stayed dry so I said: ‘ahahah’. The next morning he sent very sweetly: ‘Good morning’ and I responded really too sharply and dryly with: ‘gm’. Still, he persisted and said, “How are uuu?” I said, “Great ahahah, u?”. You said: ‘Greattt’ and ‘are you going to kite today’. I also respond formally with: ‘Unfortunately not, we are going to another place today’ and then I also said: ‘And I am really burned so I need to stay in the shadows today ahahhahhahahah’. He responded with ‘Jajajaj’, ‘Ohhh so sad’ and ‘You coming back here?’. I was already in the car and had no WiFi or 4G. He texted ‘No time to meet you’ with a smile. I responded again dryly with: ‘We don’t know yet it depends on how the other places are’ and he responded with: ‘But what hour you leave today?’ After which I said: ‘I am already at I G’. He gave me a thumbs up emoji. And said: ‘Enjoy’ and ‘Next time we can do anything. I responded with ‘Yeah we are maybe going back for our last day because something else is a really long drive’ and he said: ‘Let me know’ and ‘And we can do anything’. I gave a thumbs up to the ‘Let me know’.

I was in C again but there was little wind, I hoped he would send me a DM again so I posted a photo with the location C. He responded with a hands emoji after which I said: ‘Heyy’ and ‘Do you know if there will be any wind today or tomorrow?’ He responded with: ‘I’m at A’; ‘But the forecast was not good’ and ‘At Co…ooo’. I was devastated, I had completely arranged my own room so that I could sneak away to him, but he was gone, I persuaded my mother to go back to C to do another ‘downwinder’ there. Just so I could see him again, but he was gone?! I respond to his chat about you being in A with ‘sickkk’ and to the message that the wind was not looking good with ‘Thats too sad then’. He responded with a ‘Yep’ and with ‘Come to A’ and a smile emoji. I eventually responded with ‘ahhahah i wish’ and ‘We are sadly leaving in 2 days back to the cold’ after which he only responded with a tear emoji.

This was our contact. Since then I really like him but was he flirting or was he just being friendly???????

I have been completely in love with him since I got back, I really like him now, but unfortunately we have zero interactions anymore. Should I send him a DM again and if so, what kind of response to his story or something? But he lives so far away so it can’t work out, but I might go back to the country in the summer and I also want to find out if he will be there then.

Oh yeah and he’s 33 and I’m 17