📓 Echoes Before It Happens: Zaiyen’s Diary
🗓️ Part 17: One Diary, Two Realities
✍️ By Zaiyen
Ameya and I sat in silence —
two strangers connected by something we didn’t write.
We both had pieces of a diary.
Same stories.
Same handwriting.
But some pages… were **different**.
In her version, my sister never disappeared.
In mine, her father never died.
Both versions true.
Both memories real —
but in **different timelines**.
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We laid the diaries side by side.
Same entry.
Different outcomes.
> Me: “I saw the shadow figure in the hallway.”
>
> Ameya: “There was no shadow. There was *me* standing there, calling your name.”
What is this?
Not a dream.
Not a lie.
But **two layers of reality** merging
because someone — or something —
is trying to connect us.
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And then the page turned by itself.
Both diaries.
At the same time.
And we read the line together:
> “Only one of you can finish the story.”
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I looked at her.
She looked at me.
What does that mean?
If she writes the final page…
do I disappear?
If I do…
does her world fall apart?
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We decided to try something no one warned us about:
We **wrote in the diary at the same time.**
Two hands.
Two realities.
One page.
And the words glowed:
> “You’ve broken the timeline rules.”
Suddenly, the room changed.
Paintings twisted.
Clocks spun backward.
The lights flickered into darkness.
And one final line appeared between us:
> “The author is waking up.”
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Who is the author?
And if they’re waking up…
What happens to the story?
🖋️ — Zaiyen
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