"The Mirror"
a short story by Samantha Nakamatsu
“Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the one that will take the fall?” ......Silence...... After waiting a while, Jacky decided to leave her bathroom to get ready for a huge school party that she will be going to.
Jacky arrived at the party and was greeted by her friends. Jacky was looking for someone in particular, Sabrina. She has been competing for fame with her ever since she walked into high school. Now Jacky has a plan to finally win over her classmates. Jacky had invited Sabrina over to her house along with some of her friends to hang out for a while. After school, they all walked to Jacky’s house. They did what they normally do, go on social media and take pictures. Jacky pulled Sabrina to the bathroom, closed and locked the door.
SMASH! Jacky had broken the mirror. One of the flying pieces scratched Sabrina's face. Horrified, she ran out of the bathroom immediately leaving Jacky in the bathroom all by herself. As she was standing as still as a statue in front of the broken mirror, all she could think of was the saying “if you break a mirror, you will have bad luck.” She felt something walk past her but when she turned around, she saw an empty bathroom. While slowly turning back to the mirror and looking down at her bloody trembling hands, she thought “I will fix it tomorrow” and left the bathroom.
It was a Saturday morning and Jacky's mind was overflowing with thoughts about what would happen if she puts the mirror back together. After calming herself and her thoughts down, she went to her bathroom to start putting the pieces together. She was slowly adding piece after piece, until she noticed something on her mirror. It looked like an arm? Jacky just brushed off the strange and mysterious thing in her mirror.
It was Sunday and Jacky was having an uneasy feeling in her stomach as the night before she heard creaking and mumbling from her bathroom. She slowly approached the mirror that she didn’t even notice that the arm was still there from yesterday. She was going really quickly as she glued every single piece of the mirror back onto the frame. She finally finished but Jacky was still nervous as she slowly entered her bathroom after putting everything away.
She slowly moved her head up as the room got colder and to her darker. Suddenly something appeared in her mirror! It was dirty, it had hair in its face and its entire body was as skinny as a noodle. Its big black eyes looked directly at Jacky as she wanted and tried to scream and run but something was holding her back. The thing slowly moved closer as Jacky was staying as still as a statue. The thing held out a hand that was coming out of the mirror and that hand was pulling Jacky closer to the mirror. It slowly whispered “YOU took the fall” and slowly went back into the mirror and sent this eerie blue dust towards Jacky. The dust hit Jacky in the face and her sight slowly got blurred as she fell on the floor blacked out.
Jacky woke to the bright sun hitting her face. She shot up as she rushed to the bathroom to see if the thing was still in her mirror. For some reason, the mirror looked as good as new. “Was it all a dream?” Jacky questioned herself as she was getting ready for school.
She got to school and got distracted as she was busy talking to her friends. She was walking to her class but had to go to the bathroom, so she told her friends she will meet them in class. As she entered, she saw Sabrina. She noticed that the same scratch that she got from her mirror was on her face! She then looked at the mirror in front of her and saw the same “thing” that was in her mirror the day before. Her friends got worried that she still wasn’t in class so they went to go check on her in the bathroom, the only thing they saw was a piece of the mirror and written on it was “I thank her for setting me free.”
