Slipping off the Edge

Gary spent Sunday afternoon staring into space.

He’d discovered his wife had a Facebook Page. She used her maiden name, and did not admit she was married.This had knocked him across the room. And he had pondered how to deal with it.

He hadn’t mentioned the finding of her Page. If she was having an affair his ‘ignorance ’ would quicker uncover it then his probing.

He checked each of her friends but none of their comments or bios were the least questionable. What continued to bother him was why didn’t she tell him?

Gary had considered how he would bring up the Page until he logged on and found she’d erased all history. There was no way of knowing if she had logged on today and where she had gone. That had stabbed him in the heart, but before he lost it realised that killing all history killed his links as well. Hence he certainly could confront her, referring to a Suduku site she'd erased.

He gauged the right time and place and she had replied that having loaded a new Virus detector it had erased history and though she could tweak it, she felt the protection more valuable.

He had accepted her explanation because he needed to believe. He needed to think that her creating a Page in her maiden name was in no way sinister, and erasing history was nothing to be upset about.

So he sat at the computer, looking over her page, going ‘friend’ by ‘friend’, post by post, image by image, finding nothing which could be labeled suspicious. And that did not fully satisfy him.

It was only on Monday, when there was a lull in work he thought to log on to Facebook to see if anything was going on.

He couldn’t find his wife’s page. That was strange.

He did a search and it came back with Zero results. This was impossible. He had just been on the page yesterday...was he misspelling his wife’s name?

Fortunately, there was another emergency at work and he got off the ‘Net, and it wasn’t until late that night, when he was playing Chess with a friend that he remembered the page. He tried to connect, and there was no page.

No matter how he tried, linking to someone he recalled had been her ‘friend’ and trying to use that page to get to her’s, doing aGoogle and every other trick he knew, he couldn't find her page because there was no page.

His wife had deleted her Facebook account.