He watched his past-future self not look up as Sana sat down across from him. She said something. He didn’t hear it—the audio was muffled, canteen noise drowning everything out. But his younger self pulled out one earbud, smiled a small, closed-mouth smile, and nodded.
He didn’t send it.
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Instead, he opened his calendar. October 9th, 2024. That was next week. He didn’t have a camera. He didn’t have a time machine. He didn’t have a user named to thank or blame. He watched his past-future self not look up
Leo’s stomach turned over. Sana had transferred to a school in Manchester last December. Her dad got a new job. They’d promised to keep in touch, sent three texts, then nothing. He hadn’t thought about her in months. But here she was, walking past the water fountain that always tasted like rust, on a date that hadn’t happened yet. But his younger self pulled out one earbud,
The video cut to black.
The recording skipped. Suddenly it was lunchtime. The canteen. Leo saw himself— himself , sitting at the far table with his earbuds in, scrolling through something on his phone. He was wearing the grey hoodie with the torn cuff. The same one he had on right now, in his bedroom, at 2:30 AM.