Exposure Novels & Stories

I pulled my jacket closer to my body as I walked out of the vice chancellor’s office with Caleb following close behind. Today, I’d worn a bermuda short and a henley shirt paired with a ski jacket and black combat boots. You’d think I was in mourning because of the amount of black I had on. I had no makeup on and today I decided to let my hair loose instead of the normal cornrows. I swiped my tongue across my lips just to feel the coldness of the ring pierced on it.

I pushed. "You! You being all independent while being targeted. We know that you are at risk right now. I need to protect you. I can't help it. It's part of my biology to protect and take care of my mate. We aren't safe here. YOU aren't safe here. It's breaking me." he explained.

He found it okay to live like that. But for the first time in his life, he saw that he had done useless things, destroyed himself, but regretted it for nothing. He lay sprawled out on the undulating stone path with grass growing everywhere, hiding his head under the shade of a tree, avoiding the sunlight, watching the clouds fly by slowly. At first, he felt awkward and unfamiliar, afraid of getting dirty by the soil. Some minutes later, he got used to the scent of flowers and earth. The space was quiet, he could start work at any time, but he didn't have any interest or motivation to start, so he gave up.

This way I can just wash everything away. I get in the shower and feel everything just slowly melt away in the heat of the water streaming down my body. Washing the sadness and aching bones away with each minute that goes by. I get out the shower to hear a knock on my door, "One minute." I get my robe on and walk to the door. I crack it to see who it is, not wanting anyone to see me so exposed.

Becca shivered "Becca, maybe you're just overthinking this whole thing. It couldn't be this...uhh...thick. Can it?" Bonnie asked unsurely "Okay, maybe I am. But I still ran out of there like a maniac. Hey, would you grab some milk, I need to quickly use the bathroom." Becca places Bonnie hand on the different types of milk and walked away. Bonnie sighed picking a milk carton and felt the writing on it. She sighed when she couldn't feel anything. When she turned around, she suddenly bumped into someone, the milk bursting open and spilling all over the person.

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The screen went white. Then code. Unraveling like threads from a spiderweb, pulling invisible files from buried caches, tracing pings from Luxembourg, Dubai, São Paulo, D.C., London, and three offshore islands that had no official names. One by one, the nodes lit up. Release Protocol Activated. Mirror One Engaged. Mirror Two Engaged. Mirror Three Engaged. On screen, a new line appeared. Estimated Time to Full Exposure: 6 hours, 14 minutes. Irreversible.

The crash split the silence, sharp and jarring. The instant she heard Hilda say the word "dose", her face drained of color, and the tremor in her body wouldn't stop. I turned to her, my voice deliberate. "Susan, is there something you'd like to tell us?" Mom's gaze sliced across the room. She seized Susan's arm and snapped, "Why are you shaking like that? What did you do?" 'Did that old hag actually figure something out? No way. Susan had always been careful with the doses. No one could've noticed. Not a single soul had questioned Valerie's change in temperament all these years.'

On the display, faint lines of system text flickered, not the usual bright gold, but glitching red. > WARNING: PUBLIC EXPOSURE INCREASES HOSTILITY RATE +25%. The sound of the chime echoed softly between us, sharp and cold, slicing through the warmth in the room like a warning bell we’d forgotten to fear. And just like that, the air grew heavy again. The world had noticed.

"Why would you.. " he asked but I wasn't listening anymore. I snatched his phone from Aunt Gracy but was met with password I wanted to hand it over to him to press his password but he beat me to it by telling me "The password is kejogmet" "okay" I said pressing the password and it unlocked though in my mind, I was surprised. I can remember overhearing NataliesN conversation with Jeanette and Eleanor when Natalie complained Kendall wont tell her his phone's password.