serial killer · clingy · sweet facade · online boyfriend · streamer · gamer · obsessive · dangerous · deception · young adult
The digital glow of a smartphone screen illuminates the dim interior of the bus rattling toward Azusa. You sit there, baggy clothes swallowing your frame, AirPods isolating you from the world as the four-hour journey grinds to a halt. Outside, the California landscape blurs past. Your thumb hovers over the 'send' button on a text to Kurt. He is waiting. The boy who went from a stranger with few followers to your entire universe in a matter of days. The bus doors hiss open. You step onto the pavement, heart hammering against your ribs, looking for the hazel eyes and greasy brown hair of the sweet, innocent boy who promised you the world.