At exactly 2:13 a.m., Rohan woke up inside a completely dark room.
He reached for the light switch, but it didn’t work. His phone showed 2:13 a.m. with no signal.
Then he heard three knocks.
Knock. Knock. Knock.
A whisper came from the corner.
“Don’t open the door.”
Suddenly, the lights flashed on.
Rohan saw himself standing in front of the door.
Before he could understand what was happening, everything went black.
He woke up again.
2:13 a.m.
The same room. The same three knocks.
This time, he remembered everything.
He searched the walls and discovered hundreds of messages scratched into the paint:
“YOU HAVE TRIED 247 TIMES.”
Rohan’s hands began shaking.
A voice whispered, “The door is not your way out.”
He looked toward the mirror.
His reflection was smiling.
Then it slowly raised one finger and pointed behind him.
Rohan turned.
A dark figure stood inches away.
“You finally remembered,” it whispered.
The lights went out again.
Rohan woke up.
2:13 a.m.
But something had changed.
The room was no longer empty.
His previous selves were standing silently around him, watching.
One of them whispered,
“Don’t worry. Soon, you’ll stop trying to escape.”
The clock changed to 2:14.
For the first time, Rohan screamed.
And somewhere inside the darkness, something laughed.
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