Mirrors

Chapter 11: And Everything Goes

 

Zooey:

 

April 29, 2017

 

“Connor!” I scream as I fight against his arms, “Let me go! He killed her!”

“I did not kill her Zooey!” Paul exclaims.

I stand completely still but Connor’s grip on me doesn’t loosen, I didn’t expect it to.

I look Paul dead in the eye and speak with a scary calm tone in my voice, “then where is she?”

He frantically gestures to the girl leaned against a tree with her chin on her knees, looking sadly up at us, “She’s right there Zooey! That’s Taylor, that’s the real Taylor.”

My eyelids squeeze shut and I shake my head, shake off the tears that are bound to come. When I open my eyes I look at the girl and ask her, “Are you Taylor?”

She shakes her head.

I speak again, “What’s your name?”

“Kyra..” She whispers.

“Did you know Taylor?” I ask remembering her fit at the water last night before she fainted, screaming ‘where’s Taylor?’ over and over.

She nods and a tear falls from her eye that she doesn’t even bother trying to brush off.

I exhale, Connor’s grip has loosened but I have no intention of violence, not yet, “Kyra… tell me about her.”

She smiles sadly and nods, “Taylor was the sweetest person I have ever met, Taylor was always trying to make me happy, she was always making me smile, she was so happy and she would never hurt anyone… she doesn’t deserve this…”

Kyra looks at Paul, “She doesn’t deserve to be dead.”

She looks at me again, “Taylor, yes she was my reflection. But she wasn’t like the others, she possessed me because she was trying to save me from choking, she tried to kill herself once she was in but I told her no, I told her to live her life, I told her it was her life now. And I faded away, I went to sleep…” She’s sobbing now, “Taylor was in love with me, I wish I could’ve returned those feelings to her… I can’t now.”

Kyra buries her face in her knees and the attention turns to Paul.

He stands there, frozen, speechless.

I take a step forward, Connor doesn’t stop me.

I walk right up to Paul, so close the our noses are almost touching.

I whisper, “You killed an innocent girl.”

I pause to give this time to sink in.

He clears his throat uncomfortably and turns his head away, I step back.

I look at the people around me, Nick, Molly, Connor, Paul,... Kyra. Everyone is scared and speechless, everything is falling apart.

I walk away.

 

Kyra:

 

April 29, 2017:

 

After Zooey leaves everybody looks at me. I’m not exactly sure what’s going to happen next but I’m not exactly sure that I want to know.