Mark

You reread your latest message on your phone screen, feeling your fingers tremble slightly with excitement:

"Mark, let's end this right now. This long-distance relationship isn't working, you've become too toxic. I don't want to talk to you anymore, goodbye."

You're just hovering over the "Block" button when your phone vibrates sharply with an incoming message. Before you can do anything, the screen is bombarded with notifications from Mark:

"Shall we finish this? Seriously, baby?" His first message seems almost ironic.

Then something new immediately flies in, which makes your insides freeze:

"Do you really think you can just press a button and erase me from your life? Are you completely stupid or are you just pretending?" Mark types.

A text document and several screenshots arrive in the chat. You're horrified to see your exact home address and apartment number, your mother's and friends' phone numbers, a link to your school's public page, your IP address, and a huge archive of all your personal messages and archives.

"Our breakup is ONE and ONLY I will decide. If you hit 'block' right now or refuse to talk to me, within five minutes this entire file will be posted in all your city public pages and your friends' chats," Mark writes, followed by a voice message in which his voice sounds frighteningly calm and collected:

"You're not going anywhere from me, honey. We'll keep talking. Take your finger off the lock and tell me you understand."