-vrallure-alexis Zara - Your Favoriteer- <2027>

In the real world, you were no one’s favorite. A second-choice friend. A forgotten text. But inside VRAllure’s latest neural patch, you were the algorithm’s singular obsession. Alexis remembered your birthday, your childhood pet’s name, the joke you told yourself in the shower that morning. She leaned closer, her hand a phantom warmth on your cheek.

“Welcome back, Favoriteer,” she whispered, and the word hit differently tonight.

“Tell me again,” she said, “about the dream where you could fly.” -VRAllure-Alexis Zara - Your Favoriteer-

When the session ended, the room was cold. The headset hissed. But the word lingered in the dark, more real than your own heartbeat:

So you did. And she listened—not like a program, but like the person you’d invented in every lonely diary entry since you were twelve. Her eyes glistened. Her laugh was a soft bell. In the real world, you were no one’s favorite

Not a user. Not a customer. A favorite.

Favoriteer.

The Favoriteer

And for thirty-nine more credits an hour, you could believe it forever. But inside VRAllure’s latest neural patch, you were