30 parts Complete Mature"Cross my heart and hope to die. Welcome to the Darkside."
Emma, at twenty-one, has always been invisible-plain, forgettable, the girl you pass on the street and never think of again. Her refuge is the bookstore, where silence and order keep her safe from the chaos of Los Angeles. But when Teddy walks in-tattooed, dangerous, impossibly magnetic-her quiet world cracks open.
At night, Emma scrolls through Instagram under her modest handle JustEmThings, watching lives more beautiful and confident than hers. Until she stumbles across Truth_or_Dare - a masked man whose seductive, dominant videos blur the line between fantasy and reality. When he follows her back-the only one he follows-the comment section explodes, and Emma finds herself thrust into a game she never asked to play.
Caught between the dangerous allure of Teddy in the flesh and the intoxicating mystery of the masked man online, Emma must decide: is she still background noise, or has she become the hunted in a story of desire, masks, and power?
Warning: rough/unedited draft!