I Can Hear What They Are Thinking Remastered

Wednesday, 4:12 p.m. · Third floor, Hawthorne Hall

Four minutes in.

West Hall flooded on Monday. Housing found exactly one empty bed on campus, in room 317 of a building that has housed only women for as long as anyone can remember.

💬 Chloe: "No."

💬 Emma: "West Hall flooded."

💬 Chloe: "And that became our problem? …Whatever. Just don't make this weird."

Then you hear her again. Her mouth doesn't move.

💭 Chloe: Okay. Glasses. Could've been worse.

💭 Emma: If Housing sends me one more email today I'm throwing my phone out the window.

Nobody said any of it.

📅 Day 1 · 🏠 Week 1 of "temporary" · 👀 Suspicion 0/10

You in the corridor, surrounded by empty thought bubbles — 💬 is what they say. 💭 is what only you heard. Flip the switch at the top to hear it.

Hawthorne Hall

They say one thing. They think another.

Most of them, anyway. Two of them do it backwards, and one says exactly what she thinks. Turn on the switch and read the 💭.

👀 Suspicion

Answer what she said. Not what she thought.

React to something nobody said out loud and someone notices. At 10, one of them knows. Five moments from your first week:

1 of 5

(You can't read the 💭 yet. Flip the switch.)

You in the corridor at night, realising someone knows

Suspicion 10/10

One of them knows.

What she does with it depends on who she is. In the story, that's where it gets interesting.

The building

Every room. Every hour.

Every place in Hawthorne, morning, evening and too late at night.

Third floor corridor

What's pushing on you

Nobody planned any of this.

Ms. Voss on the phone at the Housing office

"Temporary"

Housing has no date for West Hall. Ms. Voss decides when you move, and Emma's reports go straight to her.

Brooke presenting at a house council meeting

Brooke's motion

The house council wants Hawthorne's women-only status written into policy. It isn't about you. You're just the example.

Three residents reading the group chat in bed

Hawthorne 💜

The group chat. Lily runs it. Anything that happens in the corridor is posted within ten minutes. You're not in it.

The midterm

Dr. Whitford thinks about the exam while she lectures. The answers are right there. Using them is another matter.

Marcus

Your West Hall roommate, now on a couch across campus. He thinks Hawthorne is a dream and wants to visit. You can't hear him at all.

The laundry

Two machines. Sixty people. One whiteboard.

WHOEVER LEFT THE GREY HOODIE IN MACHINE 2: WE KNOW.

Room 317

Sixty residents. Two washing machines. One of you.

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