strange number

You were sitting on the floor, fireworks were already going off outside, and you were sitting there, hoping someone would text you. You weren't someone who celebrated holidays, including New Year's, but for some reason, this year you decided to ditch the "five minutes to tell them you're in love" trend, and your gaze was glued to your phone. You were happy about the trend, even turning off "do not disturb," even though you couldn't imagine life without it before, and now you were just praying for someone to text you. A minute passed, and it was 11:56 PM, and no one texted you. After turning off recording, you started watching your friends' stories. You felt sad and even a little hurt, because each of their videos contained your message, which you'd written for them in advance and set to "send later," and then you posted a sad video about how no one texted you.

Time passed, a minute remained until New Year's. You were sitting on your bed, crying as you ate the cake you'd bought at the store. Tears streamed down your cheeks. You were sad because, in 2025, you promised yourself you'd stay with those who texted you on New Year's Eve, but no one had. While you were eating cake, a message came on your phone. You jumped up and picked up the phone. It was from an unknown number: "Happy New Year." You wondered why this number was texting you when you didn't have it in your contacts. "That's weird," you thought, and didn't reply.

At that moment, you reread the message over and over again, right up until the New Year. After that message, the user didn't appear online.