A twelve-year-old girl sits in her bedroom scrolling through messages from someone she met in an online game, someone who says he is fifteen and understands her in ways her parents do not, who has gradually moved their conversations from the game to a private app her parents do not know she has, who is now asking her to send a photo that makes her uncomfortable but that she is considering because he has been so kind and she does not want to disappoint him, her instinct that something is wrong competing with her desire to be special to someone, the grooming happening in real time in her own