This is absolutely, definitely, 100% NOT the beginning of a bizarrely elaborate romantic fantasy starring Ben Schwartz. Are you kidding me? That would be so fucking weird. Who does that? I'm 31 years old. I am not the kind of unhinged person that would spend my free time writing creepy fanfiction about a celebrity (whose work I happen to very much enjoy, and I absolutely do NOT have an unhealthy, obsessive infatuation with). Look, if YOU happen to imagine the main character, whose name just happens to COINCIDENTALLY be Ben, as Ben Schwartz, that is on you, you fucking freak. Don't project your creepy fixation onto me. I am a normal adult human woman writing normal adult human fiction that isn't weird. This isn't weird AT ALL. Seriously, guys. Shut the fuck up.

"Smoking is bad, you know." The placid voice speaks up from the distant dark corner, nothing to see but a tall silhouette and an orange glow of a cigarette cherry. "It's the least of my problems," I murmur with my own between my lips, proceeding to feel the stagnant debris valley my throat when I suck delicately. He exhales a chuckle of cynical amusement, his footsteps getting every step clearer to my eardrums until I eventually sense body heat burning my back. "And why is that?" He whispers over my shoulder, hands inviting themselves to grip the railing in front of me so I become a prisoner between his inked arms. I swallow. "Because you'll be the one to kill me first." // Aven Brooks is hired to take pictures for the world-renown punk rock band known today as Duplicity; hoping the experience gets her into her most elite-dreamed university. However, when her lenses accidentally capture more than just cheeky sound checks and performances, she comes to a horrifying discovery that Duplicity is anything but a band. Appalled and frightened, she's trapped. *HIGHEST RANKINGS* #1 IN HARRYSTYLES #1 IN ONEDIRECTION ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO @happydays1d NOT ALLOWING TRANSLATIONS! CONTAINS VULGAR LANGUAGE / DRUG ABUSE / SEXUAL CONTENT / DESCRIPTIVE VIOLENCE / MENTAL HEALTH READ AT OWN RISK!