Time traveling hair straightner and very confusing end of a relationship- switched timelines?
The bulk of this story revolves around a hair straightner and it’s absolutely bizarre to me.
My niece and her friend (16 and 17) stayed overnight with me, slept in my son’s room. They leave the next day, which also ended up being the last time I ever saw someone I was seeing. This situation ended in a baffling way, and he is still lurking in my life but has not apologized to me, which is confusing. Im now wondering if that day, I jumped timelines, and maybe this is why I don’t understand what happened.
Anyway: after my niece leaves she texts me to let me know her friend left her hair straighter and a couple other small items, mostly they just wanted me to find the straighter. We live in different cities, but I visit my nieces every month or two. I found this hair straightener in a colorful case on my son’s bed. I very, very distinctly remember seeing it there and putting it aside on a bookshelf.. well, I remember seeing it and picking it up, pretty certain I put it on a bookshelf but to note, I never remember seeing it in my house after that day.
2 ish months later I’m going to their city and look for the straighter. I search the house but can’t find it, and assume one of the kids moved it. I feel bad since the friend has been waiting and my niece reminded me about it the week prior. I see my niece and tell her I’m so sorry, I couldn’t find it but I’m sure it’ll show up.
She said “actually, and this is so weird, Amber just found it in her drawer a couple days ago.” My niece, her friend and I were so confused. I hadn’t been back to their city since, and the straightner hadn’t shown up at her friends house until 2 days before I came to their city to visit (the city I’m from). My understanding is this is not the place she typically keeps it, but she has definitely been in this drawer since leaving it at my house and it just suddenly showed up there. This was around the same time I would’ve been looking for it to pack it, which is also weird.
Every time I remember the image of it sitting on my sons bed in this colorful case, I feel chills. How did it end up 2.5 hours away? Is the timing with that being the last day I saw my ex a coincidence? Don’t know. I’m