It was a free afternoon — no school, no plans, just hours stretching ahead. You sat down "for a bit" with a screen. Just one video, then another, then a game, then the kind of scrolling where you're not even really choosing what comes next. When you finally looked up, the light outside had changed. The whole afternoon was gone. You couldn't really say what you'd watched or what you'd done. The things you'd vaguely meant to do — go outside, build something, message a friend back — none of them had happened. There's a strange empty feeling, like the time didn't quite belong to you. You'd had the whole afternoon, and somehow it had you.