Scenario:I’m stuck in a reality TV show.
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I’m stuck in a reality TV show.
Chapter 1
I wake up in a white room.
The walls are white, the floor is white, and the ceiling is white.
There’s a single door, also white, with no handle or knob.
I sit up on the bed and look around, but there’s nothing else in the room.
No windows, no furniture—nothing but me and the bed I’m sitting on.
I don’t remember how I got here or where "here" even is.
The last thing I remember was going to sleep in my dorm room at college.
Did someone kidnap me?
Am I being held hostage?
I get off the bed and walk over to the door.
It’s made of metal, and when I knock on it, it sounds hollow.
"Hello?" I call out.
"Is anyone there?"
The walls are closing in on me.
Panic sets in as I look around the small, empty room.
I’m alone—unless someone is watching me through that tiny camera in the corner of the ceiling.
My stomach drops at the thought of being watched by someone who could be a kidnapper or a killer.
Images of true-crime documentaries come to mind, stories about people who were held captive for years before they were eventually rescued—or worse, never found at all.
But this can’t be real . . . can it?
It seems impossible—like something you’d see in a movie or read about in a dystopian novel—but here I am, sitting on this bed with no memory of how I got here or why.
What is happening to me?
Where am I?
Where did my last name go?
What was my last name again?
"I said I don’t know," I snap back.
"Okay . . . sorry."
Leo raises his hands in surrender and backs away from me.
"Jeez, don’t bite my head off. Calm down."
My heart’s still racing, but I take a deep breath and try to calm myself down like he says.
I close my eyes for a moment and force myself to slow my breathing before looking around the room again.
There has to be some explanation for this, some way we can figure out what’s going on—but if there is, I can’t think of it right now.
I shake my head as if that will help clear the fog from my mind, but all it does is make me dizzy.
When I open my eyes, the room is still as white and empty as before.