Online at Midnight. Missing by Morning
When Lila Monroe, a popular young influencer, goes missing after a late-night livestream, her friends Jade and Amir are thrust into a race against time. Each cryptic message, hidden clue, and mysterious post leads them deeper into a chilling game that blurs the line between reality and the digital world. Lila’s disappearance isn’t random—it’s orchestrated by someone who knows her every move, every secret, and every connection.
As Jade dives into the dangerous search and Amir deciphers the digital breadcrumbs, tensions rise, loyalties are tested, and fears long buried come to the surface. Relationships shift under pressure: Jade’s protective instincts clash with her fear of losing Lila forever, Amir’s analytical mind struggles to keep up with the emotional chaos, and Lila herself must confront the manipulator controlling her fate while leaving subtle clues for those who love her.
Every decision matters, every moment counts, and one wrong move could mean losing Lila forever. Just when it seems like they’re closing in, the line between ally and enemy blurs—and a shocking revelation leaves them questioning everything they thought they knew.
Will Jade and Amir save Lila before it’s too late, or will the darkness surrounding her disappearances consume them all?
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Chapter: Missing No MoreChapter TenLilaThe first night back home, I sleep with the lights on.No ring light. No phone propped up on my desk. No audience waiting for me to speak.Just silence.It feels unfamiliar—like stepping into a room that used to be crowded and realizing it’s finally empty. I lie awake listening to the soft hum of the house, the normal sounds I used to drown out with notifications and music and voices that weren’t really there.When morning comes, sunlight spills across my bed like it’s apologizing for being late.I sit up slowly, testing my body. Sore. Bruised. Real.Alive.Downstairs, I hear Jade laughing at something Amir says, and the sound anchors me. Proof that the world didn’t end while I was gone. Proof that some things stayed.I pull on a hoodie and head down.They look up at the same time.Jade crosses the room in three steps and hugs me like she’s afraid I’ll evaporate. Amir smiles—small, tired, relieved.“You slept?” he asks.“A little,” I say. “Enough.”That’s true in more
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Chapter: UnmaskedChapter NineJadeThe police station smells like disinfectant and burnt coffee.Jade sits with her hands wrapped around a paper cup she hasn’t touched, watching a red light blink above the interrogation room door. Lila is on the other side of it. Alive. Breathing. Wrapped in a blanket that doesn’t look warm enough for what she’s been through.Jade keeps replaying the moment the rope snapped.The moment Lila stood up.The moment the world stopped holding its breath.“You did good,” a voice says.Jade looks up to see Detective Harris standing beside her, tall and tired-eyed. He has the look of someone who’s seen too many endings that didn’t end well.“It doesn’t feel like it,” Jade replies.He nods once. “It rarely does.”Across the room, Amir sits hunched over, answering questions from another officer. His hands shake when he talks. Jade knows that look—his brain still racing, trying to solve something that hasn’t finished unfolding.Because it hasn’t.The antagonist got away.And that
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Chapter: The Second StreamChapter EightLilaThe first thing I learned about disappearing is this:You don’t vanish all at once.You fade—piece by piece—while everyone is still looking at you.I knew something was wrong two weeks before the livestream.It started small. A message that wasn’t creepy enough to block. A comment that knew too much. Someone quoting things I’d only said out loud in my room, pacing, talking to myself like the walls weren’t listening.You hide your fear well, the message said.I laughed it off. Screen-shotted it. Sent it to Jade with a joke.But that night, when I turned off my ring light, I saw the reflection in the window.Someone standing behind me.I spun around.Nothing.That was when I realized the scariest part wasn’t being watched.It was being watched by someone who knew me.By the time I figured out who, it was already too late.The warehouse floor is freezing against my bare arms. My wrists ache where the rope cuts into them, tight enough to remind me not to move, not to ho
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Chapter: Voices in the DarkChapter SevenJadeThe warehouse smelled like rust and river water—sharp, metallic, and old. Jade gagged as she stepped inside, the beam from her phone flashlight slicing through the darkness like it didn’t belong there.“I hate this,” she whispered.“You’re doing great,” Amir said, but his voice echoed too loudly, bouncing off concrete and metal. “Just… stay close.”They shouldn’t have come alone. Jade knew that. Every logical part of her brain had screamed police, parents, literally anyone else. But logic hadn’t helped Lila.And logic hadn’t sent the message.Midnight again tonight.The location had come ten minutes later. No address. Just a dropped pin near the river—the same river from the blurry photo on the hidden account.Some places remember you.Jade’s hands shook as she swept the light across the warehouse interior. Broken crates. Torn plastic sheets. A shopping cart tipped on its side like it had been abandoned mid-escape.“This is insane,” she muttered. “What if it’s a tra
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Chapter: The Hidden AccountChapter SixAmir hadn’t slept.The glow from his laptop was the only light in his bedroom, throwing sharp shadows across the walls as lines of code scrolled endlessly down the screen. His phone lay face-down beside the keyboard, buzzing every few minutes with messages he refused to answer.Jade had called six times.He knew he should pick up. He knew she was spiraling just as much as he was. But Amir needed to be sure—absolutely sure—before he said anything out loud.Because if he was right, everything changed.He leaned closer to the screen, heart pounding as he replayed the clip for the fourth time. It was from Lila’s final livestream—the one everyone had already watched, dissected, slowed down frame by frame. The one that had gone viral for all the wrong reasons.Except Amir wasn’t watching Lila.He was watching the reflection behind her.At exactly 12:47 a.m., when Lila leaned forward to read a comment, the ring light caught something in the dark window behind her. A blur. A movem
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Chapter: Offline ThreatsChapter FiveThe warehouse wasn’t on any map most people used. It was the kind of place that only existed in whispers—a decaying, forgotten building on the outskirts of town, fenced in with rusted metal and overgrown weeds. Everyone in our school knew it, but no one went near it.Except me.I had argued with Amir, tried to convince him we should wait for the police, but he shook his head. “They don’t move fast enough,” he said. “We’re the only ones following her breadcrumbs. If we wait, we’ll lose her completely.”I knew he was right. And besides… I couldn’t stand the thought of Lila being alone in whatever nightmare she was caught in.I drove slowly down the gravel road leading to the warehouse, windows cracked against the chill. My stomach twisted with every turn of the tires. The building came into view just as the sun was dipping behind clouds, long shadows stretching across the cracked asphalt.The place was worse than I remembered from the rumors: paint peeling from the walls, g
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