His phone buzzed. A text from an unknown number: “Enjoying the preview? Pause if you want to save your hard drive.”

He double-clicked. The screen went black. Then, a single frame of the film appeared. It wasn't the movie's star, Varun Dhawan. It was Rohan himself, reflected in a dark window, sitting exactly where he was now.

Rohan stared at the blinking cursor on his desktop. Above the folder, a new counter had appeared: