The Ones Who Were Watched Series
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Calibrated Distance by shechoseherself
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[COMPLETE] CALIBRATED DISTANCE Book 1 of "The Ones Who Were Watched" series Calibrated Distance isn't a love story dressed up as dystopia. It's a surveillance log of the unseen. A memory file buried in silence. A slow, aching trace of what it means to be watched... and still choose to feel. Mira and Gael aren't chasing fate. They're carrying ghosts. They glitch through memory, speak in half-truths, and love like it's a crime - quiet, calculated, and devastatingly human. This isn't about enemies-to-lovers. There are no cliché rescues. No loud confessions or perfect endings. Just two people tethered by the data that tried to erase them... and the one decision that rewrote their future: To remember. Calibrated Distance rewires the trope: No hero. No happily-ever-after. Just resilience in the face of erasure. Grief that doesn't ask for permission. And love that survives even the worst kind of surveillance - the one we do to ourselves. This isn't about being seen. It's about seeing yourself again - after the system said you shouldn't exist.
Runtime Confessions by shechoseherself
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[COMPLETE] RUNTIME CONFESSIONS Book 2 of "The Ones Who Were Watched" series Runtime Confessions isn't your typical Wattpad love story. It doesn't rush. It doesn't scream for attention. It lingers - like a background process you didn't notice at first... until it crashes everything. Kara and Javi aren't perfect. It started as a one night stand. They break rules. They patch over pain. They log in, log out, and pretend it's all just code. This isn't a story about falling fast. It's about rebuilding trust line by line after the system fails. About loving in silence because emotions are firewalls. And learning that sometimes, the bravest thing you can do... is stay - even when your source code is full of bugs. Runtime Confessions subverts the tropes: No love triangles. No fantasy. No insta-romance. Just slow-burn longing, grief wrapped in sarcasm, and two people trying to out-code heartbreak. This isn't about being saved. It's about choosing to stay even after everything crashes. A slow-burn emotional suspense set in a post-PANOPTICON world. For fans of nerdy metaphors, glitchy love stories, and the danger of feeling too much.
Soft Reset by shechoseherself
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[COMPLETE] SOFT RESET Book 3 of the "The Ones Who Were Watched" series Soft Reset is not typical Wattpad love story. It subverts typical Wattpad tropes - trading fantasy for grief, quiet longing, emotional restraint, and the slow work of healing after trauma. Elisse and Milo are not perfect. They're messy. Flawed. Complicated. But true. Raw. Damaged but trying. This isn't a story about being chosen. It's about the pain of not being ready for love when it mattered the most and the cost of realizing it too late.
Unscripted Protocol by shechoseherself
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[UPLOADING SOON] UNSCRIPTED PROTOCOL Book 4 of The Ones Who Were Watched series. He remembers loving a girl named Summer. She remembers everything - except him. After the initial takedown of PANOPTICON, Chino Morales becomes a national icon. Viral. Charismatic. The survivor who made trauma sound funny. But Alexia Lucero isn't laughing. The primetime queen claims she's never met him - not knowing she once kissed him under Christmas lights, wearing a fake name, hiding her grief. Now working together in a docu-series about the shutdown, memory becomes a battlefield: secrets resurface, past lives collide, and the line between performance and truth begins to blur. In a world where everything is recorded, some stories are only real when no one's watching.