[ WP ] Time resets to April 1st when the button timer drops to 00:00 . Everyone realizes they 're in a new terrible groundhog day reality .

We are running out of grays. 
 
 That was n't something they thought of, when this all started. After the Great Reset, the world came together in a way that had n't been possible before. I guess you can imagine what sort of hell we went through that week. All sorts of computerized systems went down. It was every horrible scenario dreamed up for Y2k, and then some. 
 
 *And on the seventh day, PressCo saved us all. * 
 
 It was n't a company, PressCo. The `` Co'' stood for coalition - a gathering of the greatest minds, the most wealthy manufacturers, the leaders of nations. They worked tirelessly for nearly a month, making sure the button was pressed *just so*, to extend their time before it all fell apart. They came up with a few miracles that month, the most important of which were the Bands. 
 
 The idea behind the Bands was genius: Take a database of every human on the planet who could press the button, who had n't yet pressed the button, and give them two bracelets. Both bracelets connected via global wireless. One to tell you it was your turn to press the button, and the other was the button to press. Frankly, I think they left too much up to the human element - but I guess that was the rub of the button, was n't it? Any human being in charge of saving every one of us. 
 
 Took a while to work out the bugs. A lot of folks pressed without the lightup bracelet going off. I'm still not exactly sure how it's color coded, but it did n't take long before people started banding together in communities of color. I never really understood that, either....I guess it's a new world we live in. Thankfully PressCo figured it out and set it so your button did n't do anything until they lightup bracelet let it - by then who knows how many grays blew their load prematurely and cut the rest of our lives that much shorter. 
 
 I'm not sure why I'm writing all of this now. Like a man on a sinking ship trying to get a message to his family on the mainland. One day someone is going to read this. They're going to understand what it was we had, and know that they can never have it. I doubt they read it all before they reset. That's the tragedy. They wo n't even know they wo n't know. 
 
 I wonder when my lightup will go off. I wonder what the fucking point is of pressing the button when it does. Someone else will press, and the timekeepers will come and collect me and make me press the next time my it goes off. Only then I wo n't get to enjoy my last few days on this timeline. It's weird, how much has changed. It's weird, how much things will stay the same.
