Chapter One~No User

Lin’s phone made a buzz as she was walking out of the coffee shop. She remembered that she had put her phone on ‘Do not disturb’, so she did not expect any chimes to come from the device any time soon. 

She put the tip of the cup to her mouth and drank some of the hot coffee. The bitterness brought some sort of relief to her. 

She then reached for her phone from her bag as she approached her brand new car that her boyfriend had gotten her. She checked her messages before getting in and saw that she had gotten a text from an unknown number. 

“Who are you?” She whispered to herself as she finally got into the car. When she was settled in and had placed on her seatbelt, she decided to respond to the text message. 

The message read, ‘I know a juicy secret that you don’t know. :)’

Lin was very intrigued. She had her doubts and believed that it could be a prank but she decided to entertain it. Plus, she knew that she was not late for work, in fact, she was an hour early. 

‘Who are you???’ Lin texted back. She bit her lower lip as she waited for a response. 

And she did not have to wait for long, she soon received a response from the person. A very vague and in her opinion, annoying response. 

‘You can call me No User, Lin. And I am dedicating my very existence to bringing you the truth about it all. The real truth. No more secrets,’ The text message read. 

“What the hell?” Lin said under her breath. Her heart had increased its pace a bit and she had forgotten about the coffee that she had been so excited to get. 

Her fingers were quick to type back, ‘What do you mean by the real truth? Whoever you are, stop f*cking with me and go get a life!!’

Lin was annoyed now. She lightly threw her phone on the seat next to her and grabbed her coffee from the dashboard of the car. She proceeded to drink it down, remembering her love for the drink. 

After she had gulped almost all of the drink down, she placed the cup back on the dashboard and fastened her seatbelt. She then started the car and smoothly drove out of the parking and onto the road. 

As she approached a traffic light, she had to slow to a stop because it was red. And as soon as she did that, her phone made a few more chimes that caught her attention. 

“Oh, for f*ck’s sake,” She complained as she reached for the phone. She took it and unlocked it with her face ID. 

There was certainly a new message and it was from the same person. She clicked it open and instead of seeing a text, she saw a picture. 

Her face scrunched up and she squinted her eyes as she stared at it. 

“Why in the world is this person sending me porn?” Lin asked herself lowly. It was a picture of a guy and a girl in what looked like a hotel room. 

But she could not tell who the people in the photo were, their faces were blurred. 

‘Leave me alone!’ She texted back. 

‘Don’t you want to know who they are?’ A message popped up in reply instantly. ‘Trust me, you’d want to know.” 

Lin swallowed and just as she was about to reply, she heard a loud honk that startled her so hard that she dropped her phone to the floor of the car. 

It was a car behind hers. And it was still honking. 

She looked up at the traffic light and saw that the light was green. She pressed on the gas gently and her car moved, taking her away from all the loud honking. 

She proceeded to drive, heading for her office building even though her phone was still on the floor of the car and she was dying to know who the couple having sex were. 

Lin knew that she was not far from the office anymore so she decided so to park at a gas station. When she did, she did not turn the engine of the car off though. She only ran her hands through her brown hair before reaching for her phone on the floor. 

When she picked it up, she saw that there were two messages from the same person: No User. 

She clicked open the first message and it read, ‘Clock’s ticking, Lin. Do you want to know the people having sex? You have seven minutes.’

Lin checked the timestamp of the message and saw that it had been sent five minutes ago, so she basically had two minutes to reply. 

She hurriedly tried to reply because, of course, she wanted to know who the people having sex were. ‘Okay…who are they?’ She texted back just in time. 

And as if it was an automatic message, a response came through in the very second. It was a picture. 

Lin stared at the image that was sent to her for a full five three minutes before being brought back to reality. The people who were having sex were her boyfriend and her best friend.

But how?

“Holy sh*t,” She whispered to herself. She swallowed hard and tried to control her breathing but it was getting harder by the second. 

Before she knew it, hot tears were streaming down her face. She sniffled and blinked before wiping her eyes. ‘Where are they?’ She texted back, dying to know. 

‘I see I have your full attention now. ;)’

‘Please…tell me where are they,’ Lin texted back with a heavy heart.

‘At Hotel Ivory, 22 KG street. And Lin? Hurry.’

Lin breathed out sharply and placed her phone in the seat next to her, she already had the location of the hotel engraved in her mind. She could feel the rage building in her as she started the engine of the car, speeding away from the gas station. 

She was so angry, and she could not erase the image of her boyfriend and her best friend out of her head. 

She did not know exactly what she was going to do when she got at the hotel, but she knew that it was not going to be anything good.