Echoes Before It Happens - Part 8: Zaiyen’s Diary

 📓 Echoes Before It Happens: Zaiyen’s Diary  

🗓️ Part 8: The Number That Called Me From the Future  

✍️ By Zaiyen

It was 9:06 AM.  

Exactly as the diary said.

My phone rang.  

An unknown number.  

No caller ID. No location.

Just silence.

I hesitated, then answered.

What I heard…  

was my own voice.

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But older.  

More tired.  

And terrified.

**“Don’t trust the mirror,”** it said.  

**“And whatever happens on the 27th… don't stay home.”**

Then — the line cut.

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I dropped the phone.  

Not because I was scared,  

but because I knew that voice.  

The way it trembled.  

The pain in it.  

It was **me**.

But how?

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I checked my call history —  

nothing.  

No record.  

Like it never happened.

But it did.

I could still hear the echo of my own voice  

ringing in my ears.

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Later, I looked at the calendar.  

The 27th was four days away.

Was it a warning?  

A hallucination?  

A glitch in time?

Or…

A message from a future version of myself  

trying to rewrite his own ending?

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Since then, every 27th  

feels like a countdown.

Because if my voice from the future  

had to reach me that urgently…

Then maybe something terrible already happened  

— and I’m the only one who can stop it.

🖋️ — Zaiyen