Chapter:1 The Day I Stopped Existing
At exactly 3:17 PM, everything in my life disappeared.
Not slowly. Not gradually.
Instantly.
One moment, I was sitting in my classroom, staring at the clock, waiting for the bell to ring.
And the next—
Everyone froze.
The ticking sound stopped.
The air became heavy.
Even the sunlight coming through the window stopped moving, like the world had been paused.
I stood up, confused.
"Hello?" I called out.
No answer.
My best friend Riyan was sitting right beside me, but he didn't move. His eyes were open, but lifeless… like a statue.
"What's going on…?"
Then I noticed something even worse.
My desk.
My bag.
My name… scratched off.
Slowly disappearing.
"No… no no no…"
I rushed to the mirror in the hallway.
And my reflection—
Was fading.
Like I was being erased.
That's when I heard a voice behind me.
"You finally noticed."
I turned around.
A girl stood there.
But she wasn't normal.
Her body flickered… like a broken screen. Parts of her disappeared and reappeared randomly.
"Who are you?!" I shouted.
She tilted her head.
"I'm someone who wasn't deleted properly."
My heart stopped.
"What do you mean… deleted?"
She smiled faintly.
"This world… is not real. It's a recorded timeline."
I couldn't understand.
"A… what?"
She walked closer.
"Every human life is recorded. Every moment saved. But sometimes… errors happen."
My chest felt tight.
"And you…"
She pointed at me.
"…are one of those errors."
Silence.
"So… what happens to errors?" I asked, my voice shaking.
Her expression turned serious.
"They get erased."
The word hit harder than anything.
"Then why am I still here?"
She looked straight into my eyes.
"Because something went wrong."
The walls around us started glitching.
The sky outside cracked like broken glass.
And then—
A message appeared in the air.
[ERROR: SUBJECT NOT FOUND]
[INITIATING FULL ERASURE]
The girl grabbed my hand.
"Run."
"Where?!"
She looked up at the breaking sky.
"To the place where deleted things go."
The ground beneath us shattered into darkness.
And we fell—
Into nothing.