Every morning a woman and her son would pass by Kara’s house. He would trip and scrape his knee at exactly 7:34AM and his scream would immediately tear through the neighborhood.

At 7:50AM, her brother would storm down the stairs and out the front door. He was hardly ever late to school but Kara knew he forgot to charge his phone last night and the alarm never went off. It was too bad Kara couldn’t go back to fix that.

Exactly 48 seconds later Kara’s phone would buzz. It was her ex boyfriend, begging to talk to her. Each time he would scramble to explain why he was seen making out with a girl from another school. It was always the same poor excuse.

Whenever Kara was bored she’d talk to him about it and see what she could do to mess with him, but she wasn’t having it this morning.

She hasn’t been having it this morning for a few mornings now. Not since she noticed something was off. She’s lived over fifty repeats of the same day and finally she noticed that one particular person was changing something about herself every single cycle.

Not only would she wear something different every day, she would also change her hair style every day. She even went bald for a cycle before the day reset. Truly it was the baldness that finally caught Kara’s eye and got her to pay attention to the girl. In the last couple of weeks Kara considered talking to her.

Of course she considered that this girl could be like her, stuck in a time loop and fully aware of it happening. It would be nice to have company in these strange times and even better if it was someone who she could finally talk to without losing her mind.

But she couldn’t. After several cycles of investigation, asking around and even looking for the girl at school, she found out that she didn’t even go to her high school. Even worse, her ex-boyfriend had been cheating on Kara with that same girl.

And she was stuck with her in a time loop.