The 3:14 AM Intruder

The 3am Calls I’ve lived with anxiety ever since my freshman year of college,

and it all started with something so small that I ignored it at first: my phone buzzing at

exactly 3:14 AM every night. It didn’t matter if the ringer was off,

the phone was on silent, or even in Do Not Disturb mode. At 3:14,

the vibration would shake me awake. Every time, I checked my notifications and found nothing.

No texts, no calls, no alerts. I figured it was some kind of software

glitch. The second week is when things started getting strange. I’d wake up and

find my phone in a different spot than where I left it. Once,