You and I just waiting for 5:53

02. Two people who can't meet

Even after hanging up the phone, Chaeyeon couldn't put her phone down for a while.

A single call log remained on the black screen, blurring the line between reality and dreams.

강채연 (18)

It must be voice phishing...

Even as I muttered like that, my heart didn't calm down easily.

Although he didn't say much and didn't explain at length, the other person's voice remained strangely vivid.

I said I lost my phone.

He said he called his own number.

And the fact that it was connected to a number that is no longer in use.

Chaeyeon checked her air conditioner phone once again.

There was no SIM card and the Wi-Fi was turned off.

I was unable to make or receive phone calls.

And yet... it definitely rang.

강채연 (18)

...that doesn't make sense

But that wasn't the only strange thing.

The sound of the other person's breathing, the slight drag at the end of the sentence, scratched my heart for no reason.

In the end, Chaeyeon left the house.

If I didn't go to the meeting place, I felt like this uneasy feeling wouldn't leave my head all night.

"Playground near XX-dong"

It was a place I often came to when I was young.

The space that used to be filled with children's laughter around sunset was now deserted.

Chaeyeon stopped at the entrance to the playground and slowly looked around.

A bench next to the slide. A creaky swing. An old horizontal bar.

But there was no one.

강채연 (18)

...There's no one here

The voice on the phone clearly told me to come out here.

By now, someone should be running out there looking for their phone.

But there was no one passing by or waiting at the playground.

Chaeyeon sat on the bench and took her cell phone out of her pocket.

The call records still remained.

Like an indelible trace.

About 30 minutes passed.

There wasn't a single person coming into the playground.

There wasn't even a single person who glanced at the playground.

강채연 (18)

When are you coming...

Then suddenly a strange thought crossed my mind.

It's not that the other person broke their promise

Could it be that you were never able to come here from the beginning?

As that thought occurred to me, a chill ran down my spine.

An old memory overlapped between the low sound of the wind.

A scene from when I was little, playing on a swing with my older brother at this playground.

The days when we laughed and chatted, saying we didn't want to go home until the sun went down.

강채연 (18)

This is... where I lived until last year.

Chaeyeon slowly got up from her seat.

The playground was getting darker and darker, with only the streetlights dimly lit.

On the way back home.

Chaeyeon continued to hold her cell phone in her hand.

In case the phone rings again.

And that night, after much thought, Chaeyeon had this thought.

'This call may not be a simple illusion.'

'And this number is connected to a time that has not yet ended.'

The thought quietly but surely dug into Chaeyeon's night.

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