Chapter 6: Good For Him
Kai didn’t answer her immediately.
He just sat in the glow of his monitors while rain slid down the apartment windows in crooked silver lines. The Discord window stayed open, the conversation sitting there like it hadn’t just erased a person from existence.
Deleted account. Gone. Like it had never existed at all.
That kind of silence online always felt wrong. The internet didn’t process things—it discarded them. One moment someone was panicking in his DMs, the next they were simply removed from reality, and your brain had to catch up on its own.
His phone buzzed again.
Kai?
He rubbed his face slowly.
Part of him knew exactly what this was now. Not quirky internet weirdness. Not obsessive fan behavior he could laugh off later. Something sharper than that.
But another part of him kept drifting back to the rooftop.
To her telling him to go inside before his address spread further.
To the posts disappearing minutes after they appeared.
She protected him.
That thought was becoming harder to push away.
i dont know if i should be
The typing indicator appeared almost instantly.
I didn’t want people near you.
Simple. Direct. No decoration.
Kai stared at it for a long time before responding.
luna you cant just ruin peoples lives every time they annoy you
Three dots appeared. Disappeared. Returned.
I know.
That answer didn’t fit what he expected.
No justification. No deflection. Just acknowledgement.
Kai leaned back in his chair.
"Why does honesty make this worse," he muttered.
Another message came through.
I’m trying.
That one landed differently.
Not dramatic. Not performative. Just... effort. Like someone holding themselves back in real time.
Kai swallowed.
Because despite everything, he understood that feeling more than he wanted to admit.
His phone buzzed again.
Did I scare you tonight?
Kai glanced toward the rain-streaked window. The city outside glowed softly under neon and headlights, distant and indifferent.
His apartment still felt tense, but not because of her alone. More because she had started to feel like part of the structure of his life rather than an interruption in it.
honestly?
a little
A long pause followed.
Then:
Thank you for being honest with me.
Kai exhaled through his nose.
Why did she talk like that?
Like his reactions mattered.
Like he wasn’t just noise on the internet.
He pressed his palms against his eyes.
This woman was either going to ruin his life or become the only reason he didn’t feel like it was already ruined.
Possibly both.
His phone buzzed again.
A Twitter notification.
Tagged post.
He opened it.
Someone had already clipped the rooftop moment. The exact second he smiled at her Batman joke.
The caption read:
HE LOOKS AT HER TEXTS LIKE A WAR WIDOW
4.8 million views.
Kai dropped his head onto the desk.
"No."
Another clip was trending underneath it—his voice saying "Are you fucking Batman?" remixed into romantic audio with soft music underneath.
The comments were worse.
"They’re toxic but the chemistry is insane."
"I can fix her."
"Nah she can ruin me."
"This man got emotionally adopted."
Kai scrolled further down, already regretting it.
People weren’t just watching anymore. They were building her.
Turning Luna into something collaborative. Something fictional. Something bigger than both of them.
One theory thread claimed she was an AI designed to target lonely men with attention deficits.
Kai stared at it for a second.
"...Honestly rude, but not impossible."
His Discord pinged.
Luna.
Don’t read too much about me.
Kai blinked.
u saw that already???
Yes.
are u refreshing my tags like a psychopath
A pause.
Then:
I prefer "attentive."
A short laugh escaped him before he could stop it.
It echoed too loudly in the quiet apartment.
For a moment, it almost felt normal again. Just weird internet chaos. Just late-night attention and bad coping mechanisms.
Then his phone rang.
Not Discord.
An actual call.
Unknown number.
Kai frowned and didn’t answer.
It rang again.
Then another call from a different number.
Then another.
Rapid. Staggered. Too many to ignore.
His throat tightened as he finally answered one.
"Hello?"
Heavy breathing. Then laughter.
Teenagers.
"Yo is this the yandere streamer guy?"
More voices in the background.
"Tell your psycho girlfriend I’m outside bro!"
The call ended.
Kai stood so fast his chair rolled back.
Outside?
He moved to the window carefully, pulling the curtain aside just enough to look down.
Three figures stood across the street, phones raised toward his building.
Recording.
Even from here he could hear shouting, overlapping voices, excitement bleeding into something more unstable.
"Oh you have got to be kidding me," he muttered.
His phone buzzed instantly.
Luna.
Stay away from the windows.
Kai’s fingers tightened around the phone.
theyre actually here
The typing indicator appeared immediately.
I know.
That wasn’t comforting.
The shouting outside grew louder. One of them pointed up toward his window.
Kai’s phone vibrated again.
Don’t worry.
Then:
They won’t stay long.
Kai frowned.
Something about the phrasing made his stomach turn.
Outside, one of the figures suddenly stumbled backward like he’d been shoved. The others turned sharply, confused shouting cutting through the rain.
Kai leaned forward without thinking.
One of them grabbed his phone. Looked at it.
Then went still.
All color drained from his face.
"What the hell..."
The group broke apart instantly. Panic replacing excitement. They argued for a second longer, then started backing away, then walking faster, then almost running.
Within moments, the street was empty again.
Kai stayed frozen at the window.
His heartbeat was loud enough that it filled the room.
His phone buzzed.
Better.
Kai stared at the message.
Then typed slowly.
what did u do
𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂
The typing indicator stayed up longer this time.
When the reply came, it was quieter than usual.
I just reminded them that you’re a person.
Kai read it once.
Then again.
It should have sounded comforting.
It didn’t.
Because he could imagine it too clearly—her calm, precise, absolute certainty applied to strangers who had crossed a line.
Not rage.
Not chaos.
Just correction.
His chest tightened in a way he couldn’t label cleanly anymore.
His phone buzzed again.
Did they scare you?
Kai looked down at the empty street. Rainwater reflected city lights in broken patterns across the pavement.
Then back at her message.
Always there.
Always watching.
He typed slowly.
yeah a little
The typing indicator appeared instantly.
I’m sorry.
Then:
You don’t deserve to feel unsafe in your own home.
Kai stared at the screen for a long time.
And for the first time since this all began, he didn’t think about how strange Luna was.
He thought about where she was right now.
And what it would look like if she was the one who didn’t feel safe at all.