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She looked up Liam. Her ex. They’d broken up four months ago—his idea. He’d stopped posting on everything else, but BeReal caught him every day at random. She told herself she just wanted to see if he was okay.
Maya’s phone buzzed at 2:17 PM. Time to BeReal. bereal viewer
She stared at the screen until the app timed out. Then she uninstalled the Viewer, deleted the APK, and buried her phone under a pillow. She looked up Liam
At first, it was curiosity. A girl she vaguely knew from high school, now brushing her teeth in a dorm bathroom. A cousin in Chicago, mid-yawn at a desk job. Little windows into unpolished life. It felt honest. Kind. He’d stopped posting on everything else, but BeReal
The Viewer showed her: Liam at 9:14 AM, eating cereal in his boxers. Liam at 6:47 PM, gym mirror, face blank. Liam at 12:03 AM, staring at a laptop, alone.
One night, the notification came late: 11:59 PM. She opened the Viewer. Liam’s photo loaded: a dark room, his phone’s flash illuminating a piece of paper on his nightstand. She zoomed in.
It was her name. Maya . Written three times. Crossed out. Written again.