It happened on an ordinary afternoon.
She was walking home, tired, hungry, and thinking about leaving everything behind someday — school, expectations, the heaviness she carried inside.
A stranger stopped her.
A woman. Calm. Kind eyes. Tired smile.
“Water?” the woman asked softly.
Sofia hesitated, then handed her bottle.
The woman drank, nodded gratefully… and held Sofia’s wrist for a second longer than necessary.
“You see things others don’t,” she said.
Sofia blinked. “What?”
But the woman was already walking away.
That night, time stopped.
Literally.
The clock froze. The fan froze. Even the sound of traffic vanished.
Only Sofia could move.
Her heart pounded as she stood in a world that had paused.
Then time snapped back.
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and then Add to home screen.