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The handphone is on silent mode and is vibrating in the background while Imposter W is vacuuming the floor. W is asleep on the sofa.

Imposter W: “Hey your handphone is buzzing.”
W: [….zzz….]

Imposter W picks it up. There are two incoming messages on the handphone. She retrieves the messages. One of them is from LC. She has not seen the name ‘LC’ before. All the names listed on W’s handphone comes in full; completed with first names and family names. None of them is abbreviated. Nevertheless,

LC: [sms] I m cooking tomo b’fast.

Imposter W wonders what has another person’s breakfast tomorrow gotten to do with her husband. She asks W who LC is. W mumbles something and seems to fall asleep again.

Imposter W: [sms] Why?
LC: [sms] ?

Well, it’s a neutral reply. Imposter W takes a bath.
W comes to the bathroom and says that LC is just a colleague and she always prepares breakfast.
Imposter W finishes her bath while W begins his.
Imposter W picks up the handphone to see if LC has messaged anything else. She stumbles upon the message that W has just sent out a while ago to LC.

W: [sms] She’s monitoring. Talk to u tomorrow.

Imposter W checks the ‘outbox’ for other messages. W has deleted all other messages except for 5 remaining ones which dated today. This is really unusual for W, since he has never bothered to housekeep his ‘inbox’. It is usually flooded with hundred over messages. He has erased all his sent messages too except the last unfortunate one.

Hmmm, ‘monitoring’ is a strong word to use in this context if LC is a so-called neutral colleague who always prepares breakfast. On the other hand, W has been faithfully getting out of the house every morning at 5.30am to go to work. Very early working hours, in fact, for an office worker. Thinking back, W has been receiving a lot of messages at night, and they are way past dinner hours, in fact, close to bedtime before midnight.