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00:00Welcome to English practice stories.

00:08Hello, my dear friends. How are you?

00:12Let's start the story.

00:14I had heard a knock on the door.

00:17But when I opened it, no one was there.

00:21I looked around. Nothing.

00:25Then I looked down and saw it.

00:29Lying there on the doorstep was an old cell phone with a cracked screen.

00:36I picked it up and clicked the home button.

00:40It opened without a passcode, revealing a home screen with only one app.

00:47Rebecca?

00:49I called out to my 18-year-old daughter as I stepped back inside and closed the door behind me.

00:58You know anything about the cell phone I just found on the doorstep?

01:03On the doorstep?

01:05She called back from the living room, likely scrolling away on her own phone.

01:12Yeah, with a big crack in it?

01:16Nope. I guess I'll just throw it out then.

01:20Wait. I want to see.

01:24As she cried out, her curiosity peaked as she made her way over to the kitchen.

01:32I held it up for her to see.

01:35EW. Looks old.

01:38Like from when you and mom were growing up.

01:42When your mom and I were growing up, there were no cell phones, Becca.

01:48Sounds boring.

01:50Yeah, it was. Perfectly boring. In the best way possible.

01:57Now look at what's become of the world.

02:01Yeah, yeah, let me see it.

02:04She said she was snatching the old, cracked cell phone out of my hand.

02:11What's the passcode?

02:13There isn't one.

02:16She opened it. Just one app?

02:19This phone is so mid. Mid.

02:23I asked, unfamiliar with her Gen Z slang.

02:29It means mediocre, dad.

02:32Where'd you find this thing, anyway?

02:35I told you on the doorstep.

02:38Someone knocked and ran away.

02:42So, it's some sort of prank.

02:45If it is, it's a pretty mid prank.

02:49I replied, giving her the same smug look I always did when I landed a dad joke.

02:58Weird jokes are not funny, dad.

03:01Anyways, I'm going to see what's in the app.

03:05Rebecca said as she scurried off back to the living room

03:11and proceeded to scroll away on the cracked old phone.

03:16Cool. Let me know what you find, Becca.

03:20I said it casually as I sat back down at the dinner table and continued reading my newspaper.

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03:39My wife, Erica, returned home from work, and we had dinner.

03:44Rebecca, it's dinner time.

03:48Erica called out from the kitchen, but my daughter didn't reply.

03:54Becca? I added.

03:57But again, Rebecca ignored us.

04:01My wife and I both looked at each other and rolled our eyes.

04:07Your loss. Food'll be cold again.

04:12Erica said, referring to the countless other times our social media-obsessed teen

04:20had foregone dinner so long that the meal had become cold.

04:25Kids. I muttered under my breath.

04:30So how was work, honey?

04:34A few hours later, my wife and I decided to go upstairs for the night,

04:41and seeing that Rebecca was still scrolling away on the couch,

04:47I reminded her that her dinner was on the table.

04:51Once again, our daughter just ignored us as she continued to scroll away on her phone,

05:00something that, after raising an 18-year-old daughter, I was very used to.

05:08But this time, something was different.

05:12This time, she was scrolling on a different phone.

05:17The old, cracked phone I had found on the doorstep, to be precise.

05:24She's still using that old thing.

05:27I wonder what app was on there.

05:30It must be some game or social media thing.

05:34I thought to myself,

05:37Just remember to turn the lights out before you go to bed, Becca.

05:42My wife called down before we retired to our bedroom, to no reply.

05:49But the next morning, not only did we find the lights on,

05:56but we also found Rebecca still sitting there,

06:00sure enough, scrolling away on the old, cracked phone.

06:06Rebecca, my wife called out,

06:10Did you even sleep last night?

06:13Yeah, Becca, you really shouldn't be pulling all-nighters like that.

06:20I added it as I went to the kitchen to put on a pot of coffee.

06:26But before I could make it that far,

06:29something caught my eye on the kitchen table.

06:33To my disbelief, there was Rebecca's dinner,

06:37still sitting there, completely untouched.

06:42That's when I knew that something was very wrong.

06:47By the time my wife and I were able to pry the old,

06:52cracked cell phone out of our daughter's hands,

06:56Rebecca had gone into a sudden fit of rage.

07:00Give it back!

07:02She screamed, her eyes cold and lifeless.

07:07I tossed the phone to Erica behind me while I stood between her and our daughter.

07:14I said, Give it back!

07:17Rebecca screamed again, in a threatening fashion.

07:23Becca, what's gotten into you?

07:26It's just an old phone, and a cracked one at that.

07:31I began,

07:33But before I could continue,

07:36my innocent daughter, who had never laid a finger on a soul her entire life,

07:43suddenly lunged at me, swung her arm, and ran her nails across my face,

07:51tearing the flesh from my skin and causing blood to pour down my neck.

07:58Rebecca, I yelled, raising my voice.

08:03But it was too late.

08:06She had already hopped over me and chased my wife into the kitchen.

08:13When I finally caught up to her at the entrance to the kitchen,

08:18I saw my daughter standing there with a steak knife on one side of the kitchen table

08:25while my wife stood on the other, shaking in fear,

08:30as she held the old, cracked phone in her hand.

08:35What was on that app?

08:37I asked hypothetically out loud,

08:41realizing that whatever my daughter had discovered on the phone

08:46must have been the cause of her 14-hour doom scroll and subsequent fit of rage.

08:54But Erica must have taken me literally,

08:58immediately opening the phone and going to the app.

09:03I saw a perplexed look wash over my wife's face as she took her finger,

09:10placed it on the phone's cracked surface, and started to scroll.

09:16No. Erica, stop.

09:20I cried out as I ran over to her and ripped the phone from her hand.

09:27But before I could even process what had happened,

09:31I heard the steak knife that my daughter was holding fall to the kitchen floor

09:37before she too collapsed to the ground.

09:41Becca? I asked, confused by her sudden change of disposition but,

09:49at the same time, relieved that her fit of rage had ceased.

09:56That's when I heard a growl behind me as my daughter's rage had somehow shifted to my wife

10:04and Erica picked up the knife from the floor.

10:08Give.

10:10Back.

10:12My wife screamed, her eyes now cold and lifeless.

10:18I looked down at my daughter, who looked as if she had just awoken from a trance.

10:25That's when I realized that whatever curse had been bestowed upon the old,

10:31cracked phone's app seemed to only affect the last person who used it.

10:38I took my day's daughter by the hand and led her out of the kitchen,

10:44out of the house, and to the driveway as my wife followed, still wielding the knife.

10:52Get in.

10:54I insisted as I opened my car door, and Rebecca hopped inside before I used my key fob to lock her inside.

11:04Give me the phone.

11:06My wife cried from behind me as she swung the knife at me.

11:12I stepped aside and watched its blade pierce the hood of my car.

11:19I thought to call out my wife's name in an attempt to snap her out of it,

11:24but I immediately realized that there was only one way to snap her out of her trance.

11:32As she struggled to pull the blade out of the car,

11:36I seized the opportunity to run back into the house and turn on the sink in the first floor bathroom.

11:46Eventually, my wife came back inside looking for me and, sure enough, headed for the source of the running water.

11:57And when she stepped inside, I hopped out from behind the kitchen island,

12:03slamming the door behind her before dragging a nearby bookshelf against the door

12:11and reinforcing it with a few other heavy objects.

12:16Give me the phone.

12:18I heard her cry out from inside the bathroom as I looked at the old, cracked cell phone that I was still gripping in my hand and knew what I had to do.

12:31Thirty minutes later, the deed was done.

12:36The old, cracked cell phone was left on a random neighbor's doorstep in the next town over,

12:44where I hoped no one would recognize me.

12:48When I got back to the car, my daughter was just sitting there in the passenger seat,

12:55still traumatized and speechless from what she had just gone through.

13:01We drove home in silence, and when we finally got back,

13:07we waited by the barricaded bathroom door as my wife continued to scream.

13:15And waited. And waited.

13:18Until eventually, she stopped.

13:23I slid the heavy objects and bookshelf aside and opened the bathroom door,

13:29only to find Erica just standing there, as if waking from a bad dream,

13:36with the same exhausted expression on her face that I'd seen previously on my daughter.

13:44It had worked.

13:46My wife was no longer possessed by the vile device.

13:51Erica walked over and hugged me.

13:55I looked over at my daughter.

13:58She smiled.

14:00I smiled back.

14:02In that moment, two things became clear.

14:06Someone else had been possessed by the phone prior to leaving it on my doorstep.

14:13Two, someone new is possessed by it now.

14:18But all that mattered to me in that moment was that my family was okay.

14:25I wish I could say that after the dust settled,

14:28my daughter swore off cell phones, social media, and apps altogether.

14:36But the truth is, it only took a day before she was back to doom-scrolling on her own phone.

14:45Now, every time she does, and her dinner gets cold,

14:50I can't help but fear that she's been possessed again.

14:55But then I realize, she's just a teenager.

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