I’m standing at the front door staring at my reflection in the glass “Knock, knock, knock,” “let me out, it’s so cold and lonely in here.” I hear the tiniest whisper of a voice, it’s so faint I can barely hear it. “Let me out of here.” The voice gets louder and more controlling. I look around I am at a loss for words, my blood runs cold my mouth gets dry. “I said let me out!” That’s the last thing I hear as I see a decayed hand reaching out towards me. I start running fast, as fast as I’ve ever run before, I had to get away. I freeze in my tracks, why am I running? There’s no need for me to run, what I saw what I heard that wasn’t real. I slowly walk back towards my house, my house that I grew up in, the house I spent countless days running around. I inherited this house when my parents died in a car crash. I was 14 years old, all I remember is the officer saying “He said he wasn’t using his
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I look up as my eyes meet the microwave I see my reflection, except this, isn’t my reflection, or at least not my recent reflection, it looks as if I were a child. I look like me when I WAS a child! I fall to the ground and start to sob, I don’t know what’s happening, and I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I head to the bathroom to splash my face with cold water, I need to snap out of it. I turn the cool water on full blast, I put my hands under the faucet and splash my face. Then I look up and stare at myself in the mirror. I wasn’t prepared for what I saw, my parents were standing there with me, 14 year old me. “I told you I didn’t like being ignored, now you’re going to pay. Everything that I thought was happening was, I was thinking to myself “is this really how my life is going to end, am I really about to be killed by my reflection?!?” I see that slender, rotting, hand fighting to grab my arm, as I keep backing up.
I look up as my eyes meet the microwave I see my reflection, except this, isn’t my reflection, or at least not my recent reflection, it looks as if I were a child. I look like me when I WAS a child! I fall to the ground and start to sob, I don’t know what’s happening, and I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I head to the bathroom to splash my face with cold water, I need to snap out of it. I turn the cool water on full blast, I put my hands under the faucet and splash my face. Then I look up and stare at myself in the mirror. I wasn’t prepared for what I saw, my parents were standing there with me, 14 year old me. “I told you I didn’t like being ignored, now you’re going to pay. Everything that I thought was happening was, I was thinking to myself “is this really how my life is going to end, am I really about to be killed by my reflection?!?” I see that slender, rotting, hand fighting to grab my arm, as I keep backing up.