The Call at 2:17Updated at Aug 25, 2026, 23:44
At 2:17 every morning, someone calls Maya's phone.
They never speak.
They only breathe.
At first, Maya thinks it is a wrong number. Then she notices something strange. The calls began exactly one week after her mother's funeral.
On the seventh night, the caller finally whispers four words:
"You left me there."
Maya knows her mother died alone.
She knows she was the last person to speak to her.
And she knows she left the house that night after hearing her mother say, "Don't come back."
But the voice on the phone sounds exactly like her mother.
As Maya starts digging into the final week of her mother's life, she discovers messages, photographs, and hidden recordings that suggest someone had been watching their family for years.
Then she finds the most disturbing clue of all.
The mysterious calls are not coming from outside her house.
They are coming from a phone that has been sitting inside her mother's locked bedroom.
A phone Maya buried with her.
Story Premise
Maya lives alone in the apartment where she grew up. She has spent the last year trying to forget the complicated relationship she had with her mother, Elena.
Elena was controlling, secretive, and often frightened for reasons Maya never understood. Their relationship finally broke down after one terrible argument. That same night, Elena told Maya to leave.
The next morning, Elena was dead.
The police ruled it an accident.
Maya accepted that explanation because she wanted to.
Then the calls started.
Every night at exactly 2:17 a.m.
The first few calls contain nothing but silence. Maya ignores them. Eventually, curiosity turns into fear when the caller says something only her mother could know.
Maya begins investigating Elena's past and discovers that her mother had been secretly recording conversations with several people. One name appears again and again: Daniel Vale, a man Maya has never heard of.
But Daniel knows everything about Maya.
He knows where she works.
He knows about the argument with her mother.
He even knows what Maya was wearing the night Elena died.
As Maya gets closer to the truth, she realizes that Elena wasn't afraid of someone hurting her.
She was afraid of someone hurting Maya.
The biggest mystery, however, is still unanswered:
Who is making the calls at 2:17?
And why does every clue eventually lead back to Maya herself?