The Broken Timeline

 Chapter 1: The Witness - Sarah

I swear, I saw him.

The man in the hallway. I know I did. He was wearing that same grey jacket with the odd patch on the sleeve. He had a twisted look on his face, like he was guilty of something. And when he saw me, he just froze. Didn't even move.

I tried to ask him who he was. But the look on his face—God, I’ll never forget it. His eyes went wide, like I was the one who shouldn’t be there.

I tried to tell the others what happened, but they all looked at me like I was crazy. They told me I was imagining things, that the hallway had been empty, that I probably hadn't gotten enough sleep. But I know what I saw. I’ve never been wrong before.

I don’t know how they can say I’m wrong. I keep thinking about him, about what he could have been doing there. Why wasn’t he in his office like the rest of us? Why was he sneaking around at night?

And now? Now, he’s missing. I’m telling you—he’s involved. He has to be.

Chapter 2: The Skeptic - Mark

Sarah’s not well. She’s been seeing things.

I don’t know what happened to her, but this is getting out of hand. She came to me, talking about some guy in a jacket and some weird memory. I tried to tell her to calm down, that maybe it was a dream, but she insisted it was real.

I know she’s been under stress, with all the pressure at work. She hasn’t been sleeping properly, and we all know what happens when people don’t sleep. Their minds start to mess with them. Maybe she’s just imagining things. But I’ve seen her worse.

The thing is, though... even though I don’t believe her, there was a moment where she looked at me. She had this… I don’t know, something in her eyes. Fear? Maybe she really did see something. I just don’t know what to think anymore.

The guy she described? I’ve never seen him. I know everyone in this building. Everyone. There’s no one who matches that description. At least, not any of the regulars. Could she be remembering someone else? Did she mix him up with someone from her past?

I don't trust her instincts on this. But I can't help but wonder if there's something I’m missing. Is it all just in her head, or am I the one being manipulated?

Chapter 3: The Insider - Diana

Mark is lying.

He doesn’t want you to know the truth. He’s been covering up for too long. I’m the only one who knows the truth about what happened. I was there when everything went down.

You see, I overheard Mark talking to someone in the conference room the night Sarah thought she saw that man. They were whispering, and I know he was trying to hide something. I don't know who he was talking to, but I could tell by the tone of his voice that they were both in on something shady.

It’s like they’ve been trying to erase something, manipulate the truth. Ever since I overheard that conversation, everything feels off. There’s a weird tension between Mark and Sarah, and I’m pretty sure it’s because of whatever happened that night.

I went looking through the records and found out that the man Sarah saw had worked with Mark years ago. What were they up to? Why hasn’t he mentioned him to anyone? You think that’s a coincidence?

Mark’s been hiding something big, and I know he’s not the only one. But he’s the one I trust the least. There’s no way Sarah would make up a story like that. She saw something, and I’ll figure out what.

Chapter 4: The Patient - Jake

They’re all lying. It’s happening again.

I’ve been here before, you know. This whole thing with Sarah, Mark, Diana—it’s a repeating pattern. I can see it, and I’m starting to remember things. But every time I get close to the truth, they erase my memories again.

I know this place. I know these people. But I can’t tell what’s real anymore. One moment, I’m sitting in my office, trying to piece together a puzzle, and the next, I’m in the hospital. They tell me it’s my mind playing tricks again.

The last thing I remember before the blackout was Sarah coming to me, saying she saw someone in the hallway. She looked so scared, so real. I should’ve listened to her. But now—now I’m not sure if I remember that at all. Did I?

When I woke up in that sterile room, I felt the weight of something heavy pressing on my mind, but I couldn’t grasp it. I’m starting to think that my memories are being manipulated. They’ve done this to me before. Why would they keep erasing things?

I know I’m close to something, I can feel it. But I can’t trust anyone anymore. Not Sarah. Not Mark. Not even Diana. The more I dig, the more it feels like someone is hiding the truth from me, twisting it in ways I don’t understand.

Chapter 5: The Observer - Anna

This is all a lie.

You’re not going to believe me, but I know what really happened. I’ve been watching all of them—Sarah, Mark, Diana, and Jake. They’re playing a game, and I’m the one who’s finally figured it out.

There was no man in the hallway. There was never a man. Sarah’s mind is broken, just like Jake’s. They’ve both been messed with, their memories wiped and altered. I’m not sure by who, but someone is using them as pawns in something far bigger than they can even imagine.

Mark doesn’t know, but I’ve seen him watching me. He thinks I’m just another face in the crowd, but I’m not. I’ve been collecting information, and piecing things together. Mark’s the one pulling the strings, but he’s hiding something deeper, something no one can see.

What I’ve learned? There’s an experiment going on. An experiment on memory manipulation, time manipulation, maybe even both. Sarah, Jake, and Diana—they’re all part of it. The thing is, they’ve been so caught up in their own twisted perceptions of what’s happening that they haven’t seen it yet. But I have.

Chapter 6 - The Truth Revealed

I can’t remember what’s real anymore.

Something’s been wrong with me for a long time, but I never knew how deep it went. Mark, Diana, Jake, Anna—they were all part of it. The whole time, I thought I was helping to solve the puzzle, but now I’m starting to see it. I never should have started this investigation. The truth?

The truth is that none of us were supposed to remember anything. But they wanted to see how far they could push us. They wanted to see how long it would take for us to break. Every single one of us—Sarah, Mark, Diana, Jake, and Anna—was a part of the same experiment.

Our memories have been tampered with, twisted, erased, and rewritten. And the man in the hallway? He was never real. He was a projection—an artificial piece of the puzzle we were all meant to find. Only, the puzzle was never about finding the man. It was about finding each other.

And now, we’ve all realized it too late. None of us can trust what we’ve seen. Not even our own reflections. Because in the end, we were all manipulated.