I shrugged off the weirdness and turned my phone to silent.
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Updated 4 years ago,October 29, 2021
Im not great with electronics.
I have a goal tracker inside of my paper planner.
Nong Vang
I have a wall calendar where I keep track of my appointments.
I send my bills through the mail instead of sending payments over the internet.
Born in the wrong generation.
I never really use the apps on my electronics.
I use my phone for texting.
I use my computer for typing out documents.
I use my smart TV for streaming videos.
If I need a calculator, I grab an actual calculator.
If I need to jot down notes, I grab the pad attached to my refrigerator.
Thats why it was so freakishly strange when an alert blared on my phone.
It was a reminder that said: PHONE CALL WITH LUCY AT 6.
I dont know how to set calendar alerts on my phone.
Not to mention, I dont know any Lucys.
But I work at a big company.
I know most people by their last names.
I could be completely forgetting about someone.
I asked whether anyone at the company went by that name.
I asked them whether I was forgetting about any meeting today.Noagain.
I shrugged off the weirdness and turned my phone tosilent.
The workday was normal.
Nothing else weird went down.
But the next day, I received an actual phone call from Lucy.
I answered the phone and heard static.
Like a broken television.
No one said a word.
I was forced to hang up because there was nothing on the other side.
No indication of another person.
They each had complaints, but not about the same issues I was experiencing.
A part of me wondered whether I was getting harassed by an ex or old client.
Maybe it wasnt a glitch.
Maybe someone was fucking with me.
The rest of the day went on without a problem.
But the next morning was a Saturday morning.
All of a sudden, the show zipped away.
A video call overtook the screen.
I planned to curse her out.
Tell her to stop bothering me.
Put her in her place.
Except, thats not what happened at all.
When I answered it, a man filled the screen.
He was sitting in darkness.
More shadow than human.
The jot down you would buy at the dollar store for a Halloween costume.
Other people say hes dangerous, that he matches the profile of a killer thats never been caught.
I dont really care who he is.
I dont want to find out.
I dont want to see him ever again.
Im just hoping the police do their jobs and protect me.
