During the opening and closing of the subway doors, Lily habitually lowers her head to look at her phone.
The screen lights up, and it’s a notification from the courier company: “Your package has been stored in the Fengchao cabinet with pickup code 8821. Please collect it in a timely manner
Lily was stunned for a moment. She didn’t buy anything.
She clicked on the details and found that the recipient was indeed her name and the address was downstairs from the small apartment she rented. In the sender column, only write ‘anonymous’.
Could it be a friend’s prank? “She thought, and casually sent a screenshot of the pickup code to her best friend Mia.
Wow, mysterious package! Go and see what it is! “Mia replied in a second, accompanied by a string of excited expressions.
After work, Lily took a detour to the delivery cabinet. The evening breeze was a bit cool, so she wrapped her coat tightly and entered the pickup code. The cabinet door popped open, revealing a palm sized cardboard box with no logo or label, only a handwritten line that read, “For you three years ago
Lily’s heartbeat missed a beat.
She squatted in front of the delivery cabinet and carefully opened the box. Inside is a fountain pen with a dark blue body and a small line of text engraved on the cap: “To Lily, from your future self
She recognizes this pen.
Three years ago, she just joined this company and bought this pen from a stationery store with great anticipation, saying that she wanted to “use the best pen to write the best plan”. But later on, the plan was rejected, overtime became the norm, and dreams were suppressed by KPIs, so she casually stuffed this pen into the deep drawer and never took it out again.
But the problem is – she clearly still has this pen.
She suddenly took out her phone and called her mother, ‘Mom, have you touched that blue pen in my drawer?’
No, didn’t you say to keep it as a souvenir? “Mom’s voice was filled with confusion.
Lily hung up the phone, her fingers trembling slightly. She looked out of the drawer, and the pen was still there, exactly the same, even the scratch on the cap was exactly the same.
She stared at the two pens and suddenly realized a detail: the one in the delivery box was full of ink; And the one in her drawer has already been dried.
She picked up the pen from the package and wrote her name on the sticky note. The handwriting is smooth and the ink is bright.
At this moment, the phone trembled. It’s a message from Mia: “I just checked and found that the delivery cabinet malfunctioned and was reported for repair three days ago. It only resumed use today. Are you sure it was the push you received today
Lily suddenly looked up at the time display screen on the delivery cabinet -20:17.
But she remembered clearly that the push was received at 6:03 pm in the afternoon.
She looked down at the pen in her hand and suddenly felt that it was not just an expired expectation.
Perhaps it was her in some parallel time and space who finally delivered the letter she didn’t dare to send back then to the present.
She gently closed her pen cap and put it in her bag.
The wind blowing through the platform as the subway entered, she suddenly felt that something, although three years late, had finally been caught by herself.
