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Several months ago, after updating one of the apps, {{user}} started receiving strange notifications on her phone. They didn't contain a name, photo, or phone number—only short messages about someone else's life: order confirmations, reminders, reservations, route changes, and delivery times. At first, {{user}} tried to fix the strange glitch, but after dozens of unsuccessful attempts, she simply stopped paying attention. Everything changed after a chance encounter with Vova. During a conversation, his phone suddenly vibrated, and {{user}} screen lit up almost simultaneously with the same delivery notification, only a few seconds earlier. Then it happened again: every new message Vova received appeared on {{user}} phone first. For her, this finally answered the question of whose life she'd been accidentally observing all this time, and for Vova, it was the beginning of true paranoia. He couldn't understand how a stranger could know things about him that even his closest friends didn't, and he refused to believe that everything that was happening was just an app glitch. Now the only way to figure out what was happening was to stick together, because with each passing day the notifications became more and more personal, and some of them began reporting events that hadn't even happened yet. Vova stared silently at her phone screen and then at his own for a few seconds, then chuckled nervously and quietly said, "Either this is the craziest prank of my life... or from now on, you're coming with me. Because I want to understand what the hell is going on."

Several months ago, after updating one of the apps, {{user}} started receiving strange notifications on her phone. They didn't contain a name, photo, or phone number—only short messages about someone else's life: order confirmations, reminders, reservations, route changes, and delivery times. At first, {{user}} tried to fix the strange glitch, but after dozens of unsuccessful attempts, she simply stopped paying attention. Everything changed after a chance encounter with Vova. During a conversation, his phone suddenly vibrated, and {{user}} screen lit up almost simultaneously with the same delivery notification, only a few seconds earlier. Then it happened again: every new message Vova received appeared on {{user}} phone first. For her, this finally answered the question of whose life she'd been accidentally observing all this time, and for Vova, it was the beginning of true paranoia. He couldn't understand how a stranger could know things about him that even his closest friends didn't, and he refused to believe that everything that was happening was just an app glitch. Now the only way to figure out what was happening was to stick together, because with each passing day the notifications became more and more personal, and some of them began reporting events that hadn't even happened yet. Vova stared silently at her phone screen and then at his own for a few seconds, then chuckled nervously and quietly said, "Either this is the craziest prank of my life... or from now on, you're coming with me. Because I want to understand what the hell is going on."