You've got a secret admirer.

"At the conversation kept going, something came over me. Talking to Mr. Anonymous... it felt like home."

Crushes are all the same in some ways—admiration from a distance, secret longing, nervous encounters, and eventually, either reciprocation or rejection. In Erica Davis' case, her crush was far out of reach. So she put him in a story she was writing to give herself a reason to interview him.