THE REFLECTION ON THE MIRROR

Chapter 3: MEMORIES

For 10 minutes, I stood under the shower letting the hot water run over me. Soon, the bathroom was covered with a thick layer of fog. I was thinking about Tayor when I got sudden sharp moments in my mind. There was one of a girl tied on a chair, who creepily looked like me. There was another one in which the same girl was screaming my name. And the final moment was the scariest. My heart started pounding. My head was screaming. I was on the verge of fainting. The moment was me pacing slowly and taking a knife and shattered a mirror which had blood spurting out of it.

I snapped back to reality, and I heard Annie's and Lucas's voices. "Madison! Madison!" I heard the voice from a panic-stricken Lucas. I managed out a faint "Yes". I had a loud sound of exhaling from Lucas and Annie. Annie then said "Why were you screaming?" I thought about it for a minute and replied with a shocked tone "I was?". I heard no reply from them. I changed into the clothes I had chosen and blew dry my hair. I walked out of the bathroom, unbothered, and saw Annie and Lucas talking. I asked "What are you guys doing here?" Lucas and Annie stared at me in shock. "We think that you're losing your memories". I looked at them with one eyebrow up and started laughing out loud. "You-you think I'm losing memories", I said half-chocked with my laughter. "More like you lost your minds".

The last thing I remember was that I went out of my room shaking my head with disbelief and chuckling. That's when everything went down.

The next thing I remember was waking up in a white hospital room and I was wearing a white hospital gown. There were two doctors in the room. For some reason, I had the urge to run away but something kept me down. I started shaking my arms and then my legs, and soon enough my whole body, but I could only shake, no more than that.

I stared around me. Then a particular person caught my eye. It was Charles or something like that. Charlie! He was my childhood friend who was my neighbor and Charlie and I used to play pranks on Taylor and Annie all the time! It was so funny cause I basically was the outgoing one while Taylor was more of an introvert. So, every time we played a prank Annie and Taylor used to run to my mom saying "Mommy" or "Mrs. Daze", and Charlie and I would start laughing so hard. This was when I was 10 or around that age. Soon after he had to move out of town and as far as I can remember I haven't played a prank on anyone else.

"Charlie", I called out. "Over here, to your right!". He looked up from the clipboard he was holding and looked around. Then he saw me. He was caught by surprise. He stared at me for an entire minute before he came running towards me.

He was almost there when suddenly he was pushed back. He looked in front and standing there was a tall man who seemed vaguely familiar.

I saw Charlie grit his teeth as he spat out "What do you want Jace?"