We Met in a Video Game (Cover being drawn) [12+]

Alex wakes up to a bright and sunny Saturday. They can't wait to put on their VR headset, their friends want help with the Weekly challenge in Rec Room (If you don't know what it is, go search it up, I ain't explaining). Sunday is a blur. On Monday, they get ready for school early so they don't miss the bus. But when they walk into the kitchen to eat breakfast, nobody else is there. They look through the house, still nothing. When they go out into the street to a neighbor's house, nobody answers the knock. Alex is alone, with nobody else around them. In a panic they check Rec.Net, Rec Room's social media website. Their best friends are online, all five of them, but nobody else is. When they come online, Alex gets spam invited by their friends. "TIGRESS thank GOD" "We're the only ones here! In real life AND in Rec Room!" "The Rec Center is empty, even in a public lobby! I even broke into my neighbor's house, there was still warm coffee but no one!" "TIGREYTIGREYTIGREY IS THIS HAPPENING TO YOU TOO???"
Will they be able to find out where everyone went? And maybe meet each other in real life, too...

Story based off of real people, and real names. Well- online names.