An apartment complex with a multitude of delivery lockers at its entrance, buzzing with courier personnel and residents.

The delivery locker area, a wall full of grey metal compartments, each secured with a digital lock.

The apartment living room, homely and cluttered with the day's deliveries.

Tom's bedroom, posters on the wall, a desk cluttered with books, and a sense of teenage chaos.

The apartment at midnight, quiet and still, with only the ticking of a wall clock.

The dawn breaking over the apartment complex, the early morning silence pierced by the chirping of birds.

The Delivery Code

Tom helps his father collect a package and opens the delivery locker with a code, setting off a chain of unexpected events.

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Tom, a young teenager, was helping his father collect packages from the delivery locker at their apartment complex.

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His father, struggling with a couple of bulky parcels, handed Tom a slip of paper with a code scribbled on it for the next locker.

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Tom punched in the code, the locker door swung open, revealing a small package wrapped in brown paper. He picked it up curiously.

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As he closed the locker door, he noticed that the same code worked for another locker as well. He opened it and found another package inside, but this one was labeled with a different name.

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Tom, puzzled, brought both packages home. His father, engrossed in sorting the other parcels, didn't notice the extra one.

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Later that evening, Tom's curiosity got the better of him and he decided to open the misdelivered package.

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Inside the package, Tom found a strange device that looked like a GPS tracker and a note that said 'Activate at midnight'.

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Startled, he decided to talk to his father about it, but his father dismissed it as a practical joke.

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Unable to resist, Tom activated the device at midnight. Suddenly, the tracker buzzed to life and started displaying coordinates.

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Tom, now scared, woke up his father and showed him the activated device. His father's dismissive attitude transformed into concern.

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They decided to report it to the police. The officers were intrigued by the mysterious package and promised to investigate.

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In the days to come, Tom and his father would often wonder about the package, the device, and what chain of events they had unknowingly set off.

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