← Nobody Came Looking: A Love Story
Chapter 2

The Rave

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Content Warnings 5 listed
  • Series contains drugging
  • non-consent & dubious consent
  • explicit sexual content
  • and sexual violence
  • plus themes of depression and isolation.
Excerpt

This is stupid. You know this is stupid. What exactly are you expecting?

I’m looking at myself in the mirror, my right arm rubbing my left arm over my still-empty stomach.

Liz said to dress cute, so I had put on as close an approximation of cute as I could manage. A cheap grey slip with silver sequins and a neon yellow sports bra underneath. The contrast looks rave-attire enough and, looking at the mirror, objectively, I don’t look like I’m trying too hard.

I have no fucking idea. What does trying too hard even mean?

Which has to be better than not trying hard enough.

Author’s Note

Welcome to Nobody Came Looking: A Love Story — a dark contemporary horror-romance, and one of my heaviest serials. If you can stomach it, my other ongoing serials are Victoria and Taming Malice.