If my brother had not been so stubborn, none of this would’ve happened!

It all started roughly a week ago... An ordinary day, one might say... But for me and my brother, it was FAR from ordinary...

At around 11pm at night last Friday, I recieved a text message from my bro. It read:

“Hey, Greg, I want to to show u something. If ur still awake, come over!”

I was curious, so I decided to head over to his house (we live in the same neighbourhood, as we wanted to stay close after our parents passed away).

When I opened my front door, I was engulfed by the expanding darkness. I couldn’t see any of the other houses in the neighbourhood, despite the fact that most people in the area were young, single lads like us. It was at the moment that I started to get a little bit apprehensive about going over to his house.

“Maybe I should just leave it to the morning?” I thought to myself as I nervously walked over to his house, feeling my way through the darkness.

I considered leaving it, but decided against it at the last second before I found the door to my bro’s house.

“What are you getting so freaked out about, Gregory, there’s nothing to be scared of!” I tried to settle my thoughts as I hesitantly knocked on his front door.

After a moment of uncomfortable anxiety, I was finally greeted with the warm, friendly face of my big brother, Eugene. He welcomed me into his dark house with open arms. He walked me upstairs to his bedroom. Did he find something ‘interesting’ on his computer again?

I was nearly blinded by the harsh, bright light in his bedroom... His computer was nowhere to be seen...

“Hey, check this out, Greg! I found this sweet datin’ app on my phone. It’s called ‘MatchBox’ and what’s special about it is that it gives you one FREE date with someone who you match with!” He excited hurried to show me, turning his phone on and opening the ‘MatchBox’ app (which had an icon with two purple hearts on it... How original...).

From that moment, I could already see that he had matched with a young brunette called ‘Charlotte Green’. She was average-looking... Even quite bland, to honest...

“Um... Eugene, she looks a little-“

“Hey, I don’t judge your taste in romantic partners, Gregory! I personally find her cute!” He cut me off before I could finish what I was about to say. (Eugene knows about my big secret...)

He showed me the texts from Charlotte that he got, including the date arrangement text from MatchBox.

The date was arranged for Wednesday night.

Well... I wish I could say that things went well... But they didn’t... It turned out that ‘Charlotte’ was a man... Furthermore, a very creepy man... He used MatchBox to lure my brother out to a far-away place... And I never saw him again...