The black door in the corner of the room
opens with a creak. A girl walks in. The girl, 16-18 years old, has long curly
hair and is dressed in all white. The girl looks around the room confused about
where she is. The door blends into the wall leaving no trace of it. She looks behind
her and touches the wall where the door once was.
The room is also all white and glows. The
girl examines the room trying to figure out where she is. She knocks the wall
with her fist. She presses her ear to the floor. She goes to the other side of
the room, to check if something was there. Finds nothing. She goes back to the
wall where the door was and examines it again. Her efforts were wasted. She
knew nothing about what this room was.
*
She is examining another wall, her ears catch
a buzzing sound. She looks around to see where the sound is coming from. She is
surprised when something starts emerging from the floor right in the center of
the room. What had emerged was a mirror. Its frame was made of thick white marble-like
blocks, their shine exceeded that of the room’s. The girl touched the frame,
it’s surface smooth. She sees herself in the mirror and corrects her shirt. She
couldn’t notice anything weird about it. She steps back and looks at the mirror
her eyes scaling this object from top to bottom.
Curious about the mirror itself now, the
girl goes to touch the mirror’s surface but as soon as the tip of her finger connects
with the mirror, it starts filling with colour emerging from the point where
her finger was placed. The mirror is filled with every colour there ever was. The
brighter colours present in swirls, resembling galaxies amidst the vast expanse
of space filled with the darker colours. She raises her hand and approaches the
image. When she touches it, the entire image falls like a drape down to the
ground as if a mirror didn’t exist there just a minute ago.
On the other side of the frame stands
another person. It is a humanoid figure, with no face, its body covered in the
same swirls as before. The girl stood petrified and didn’t know what to do. The
humanoid walks towards the girl. Scared, she stumbles backwards. As the
humanoid walks through the frame, the humanoid transforms into the girl
herself, the only difference being that while the girl’s skin was a light
brown, the skin of the humanoid has the swirls covering her skin.
The swirls were now present on every inch
of visible skin of the humanoid, her face covered in stars. The humanoid also wears
different clothes, but still all white. The humanoid walks forward, and the
girl walks backwards, trips on her own leg and falls on back. The girl quickly
picks herself up and runs to the corner of the room. She tries her hardest and
beats the wall with her hands trying to open it.
The humanoid walks towards her. When the
girl turns, the humanoid is standing right next to her staring at the wall she
was beating. The humanoid looks at her with concern, but the girl is still
scared and presses along the wall too scared to move. The humanoid not knowing
what to do, stares at the girl for a few moments and then sits 5 feet away on
the floor. The girl still scared, stands staring at the humanoid. Their eyes meet
and the humanoid gives the girl a wholesome smile. The girl smiles weakly at
her. She still stands there, frozen. The humanoid keeps sitting there, admiring
the room.
She spots the mirror and is confused by it;
she looks at it for a few moments intently but then shrugs it off. They both
stay in their exact same places for a long time. The humanoid waiting and the
girl shaking. The girl looks at the humanoid’s skin and the way the swirls sit
on it. Not knowing what else to do, the girl slides down to sit at the same
place. Not shaking anymore but not taking her eyes off the humanoid anymore
either. The buzzing sound that preceded the arrival of the mirror starts again,
this time a white table with two chairs raises from the floor not too far away
from them.
The humanoid stands up and goes to the
table without hesitation and sits on one of the chairs. The girl doesn’t move
from her place. The humanoid looks at the girl still sitting and gestures at
her to come over. Hesitantly, she goes to the table as well. It has food laid
out on it, a burger neatly set in the middle of the plate, with French fries to
its side and a tall glass of cola. The humanoid had already started gorging on
the burger.
The girl, a bit apprehensive at first, hears
the rumbling sound in her stomach was making and sits down. She takes one bite
and melts. The girl stuffs her face slowly keeping one eye on the humanoid who
was inhaling the food. The girl just stares at the humanoid as she eats the
food, the humanoid picked up the cola and drank it all in one giant sip after
which she let out a giant belch. The humanoid blushes white, the girl on the
other hand starts laughing.
The humanoid giggles too, wiping her lips
with the back of her hand. They continue to eat. Their plates are almost empty,
when the girl notices faint music playing, it’s a funky beat. The humanoid also
notices the faint music, it seems to be coming from the mirror. They both get
up and walk towards it, the music getting louder as they get closer. The
humanoid touches the mirror’s frame which seems to be vibrating with the music.
The girl goes around the mirror but the music doesn’t seem to have a source. The
girl comes back around to the front of
the frame and finds the humanoid bobbing her hand to the beat with her eyes
closed. The girl looks at her with amazement. Surprised.
The humanoid opens her eyes and urges the
girl to dance with her. The girl, startled at the offer, declines. The humanoid
not caring, grabs her hands and starts swaying them. The girl terrified shakes
her hands off and looks at the humanoid with anger. The humanoid steps back,
wipes her hands on her pants. She bows her head down in apology and goes back
to the table and sits down, facing away from the girl.
*
The girl stands awkwardly beside the
mirror, the music still playing. She
looks at the frame and then at the humanoid. She goes over to the humanoid and places her
hand on the humanoid’s shoulder. The humanoid gets up and stands next to the
frame. The girl waits for a few moments and then goes to the frame too. She
holds the humanoid’s hand, their skins in contrast. She starts swaying their
hands the same way as before. The humanoid smiles and starts grooving to the
music as well. They dance their hearts out.
The humanoid throws out the girl out for a
spin and pulls her back. She lands in the humanoid’s arms. The girl never feels
the humanoid at her back. The humanoid dissolves into a cloud of colourful
powder.
The girl coughs and swats the powder away.
She turns around looking for the humanoid. The humanoid is nowhere to be found. She goes
to the frame and tries to pass through it. It’s nothing but a frame. She goes
back to the table and leans against it. She looks around for the humanoid again.
She looks at the table, the plate she ate from is a bit out of place. She
reaches out to correct it and she notices something on her hand. The swirls are
on her hand, not like the humanoid’s, they are superficial and sit right below
her skin. The swirls dissipate into her skin. The buzzing sound comes again,
she looks behind her. The door has reappeared, she goes to it. She looks back
at the room once again and then at her skin. She caresses her hands, opens the
door and leaves.
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