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The voice whispers: “Don’t turn around.”

is open again. The waveform is moving. It’s playing back .

The year is 2014. You’re seventeen, sitting in the back of a geometry class you’ve already failed once. Outside, the November rain slicks the windows of your high school, turning the parking lot into a blur of brake lights and sighs. The Sound Recorder -Windows Phone-

You are Sam. You are sitting in your room. You are very much home.

You press play.

The icon is a vintage microphone, silver and black, like something from a 1940s radio station. You tap it.

You turn around.

In your pocket, your Windows Phone vibrates. Not a call. Not a text. The alarm you set for 2:17 PM. You don’t remember setting it.