Stray Soul(one-shot story collections)

Reflection

A sound of a strong rain and a huge slap of air can be heard in a room. Window's opened, white long curtains swaying and following air's direction. Suddenly a banging sound of thunder shooked everything underneath it....

A boy in his teenage year facing a big antique oval mirror. A classic wood sculptured design surrounding it's shape, enough to reminisce the old magnificent memories.....

A boy looking at every part and edges of his body, from head to toe. A tear gradually scaping out of his eyes, and a soul so confused. Mind being tortured and a heart screaming inside...

''WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!'' he screamed loudly and painfully, that even the crying clouds got confused who's the more grieving one.

''WHYyy-y! it has to be this way. WHYyy! my life should be this devastating. WHY!'' doubting his existence.

''if you really is almighty, then why did you let this happen to a kid! Why did you let this happen to me! you stole the beauty that should be staying on my childhood! you stole it from MEEEEE!'' doubting the power of the above for everything that he has suffered of..

Suddenly, his reflection on the mirror changed. Like it has it's own life and control without the owner's permission. The boy then got shocked that even made him forgot he's aching.

''Why? HAHAHAHA. why so surprised huh??? i told you i'm real and i'll take over your body. Look, between us I'm the one who should live. Not you, patethic b*tch'' the boy inside the mirror said, while smirking and rooting for him.

''Nooo! you're just an illussion. You aren't real!'' the boy shouted while pointing at someone on the mirror.

''Why? can't accept that I'm real? I'm the other you, and i know every single little thing in you. The way you think, and feel; your intentions and desire....'' the boy inside the mirror said like it's about to expose everything about its owner, one-on-one.

''what are you tryin' to say huh?! you're just a creation of my mind! you're nothing without me!''

''Nothing without you??? I think you're missing something, let me rephrase it for you honey...HAHAHAHA'' the boy inside the mirror talked back.

''You. You are. You are nothing without me. You are nothing if i wasn't inside you, like an empty can. You could have been died a long time ago if i wasn't inside you. Do you think you can handle yourself and life now?Now that you've grown a bit? you ungrateful bastard!'' the boy inside the mirror exclaimed like he owe him his life.

''I. I-i survived those hard and unbearable events, A-alone!. I owe you nothing nor I should be grateful to you. 'Cause I-i. I survived and fought all.by.myself.'' the boy emphasized while hardly crying.

''You mean? those times when your relatives talk shits on your face, for being a murderer's son and a home wrecker's son?Bastard.  you think you did handled those if i wasn't inside you??huh?! How about you being traumatized and being disgusted about yourself because of that guy who raped you and did disgusting things to you many times??!''

''do you still think you'll survived those if I wasn't with you all along?!'' the boy inside the mirror delivered his closing argument.

Meanwhile, the boy outside of the mirror was left silenced. He then reminisce the moments when his relatives talk shits on his face.      '"Anak ng pagkakasala yan'' ''bastardo'' ''criminal tatay nyan'' 'dba nakapatay tatay nyan'' ''eh totoo nman'' and the time when that boy doing disgusting things on his body without knowing that he was taken advantage because he wass too innnocent and has no idea for what is Good and Evil.

He suddenly got back to his senses. He looked at the mirror  and a tear is scaping out of his eyes again. But this time, he is full of stregnth, an open mind, an open heart and a living soul. He gaze at the boy inside the mirror and said

''If that's what you think, Then i must say. You're wrong all along....honey!'' the boy then smiled at the boy inside the mirror.

''You seem to be a bitch and a savage version of me, then why didn't you smack their mouth when they're talking shits on my face? You said earlier you were inside me all along, didn't you?'' the boy said while not even letting his gaze out of the boy inside the mirror.

''Then why didn't you also cut that pedophile's pen*s and crashed his balls when he's doing disgusting and inhumane things to me? you said you were inside me all along, then why didn't you?'' the boy again asked the one inside the mirror.

The boy inside the mirror got flustered and left silenced. He didn't expected that his words and manipulative ways will backfire on him that fast.

'' Truly what the quote says, 'Mirror show us what we look like, not who we are' so why would i believe you? why would i owe you? Like what i said, if it wasn't for me i shouldn't be living right now. Not you.'' the boy outside the mirror then smiled.

And with the glimpse of an eye, he strongly punched and broke the mirror. Releasing his stregnth on it. Ignoring the blood coming out off his fist.

He then gave his final glance at the broken pieces of the mirror on the floor and said

''Mirror should think longer before they reflect. You know nothing about me and you'll never understand me until the day you got shattered nor show your final and last reflection.....''