The Endless Lobby || Book 1: No Exit, Only Trust (REWRITTEN)

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17-year-old teenager Andrew was never the most popular boy in his school.

Having a family of seventeen, a mom who's a lawyer (as well as a stay-at-home parent) and a dad who's a sheriff, older siblings who have their lives figured out, and a social (though slightly ignorant of her own twin) butterfly of a twin sister, his family always thrived on social interaction. Imagine their shock whenever their youngest son has social anxiety. This means Andrew was often overlooked, outcasted, and/or underestimated due to being the "quiet oddball."

He never expected to be thrown into an endless stimulation. Like most, Andrew thought it was a normal game with jellybean-like avatars. He was wrong. Like he'd been thrown into a VR headset, Andrew was suddenly no more; he joined a lobby where players can't leave. There are some who have been there for years, and others who had only just barely gotten used to the lobby by the time he joined.

As he spends more time with the crewmates, Andrew (now Red) battles against his own anxiety, fighting to get a grip on his humanity and against the Impostor, an otherworldly parasitic entity that kills and sabotages the lobby, which tries to consume him using its manipulation. Gaining patient mentors in Blue, Yellow, and Purple and antagonistic rivalries with the analytical Green and the seemingly arrogant Black, Red starts to think that he might actually belong here unlike in the real world.

And maybe... maybe they don't need to escape so badly.