The Girl In The Mirror JiYoo (Short Story)

Antique Shop

Yoohyeon is walking down a sidewalk looking at the stores on the side. She walks into an antique store and smiles at the owner of the store. The old lady smiles back at Yoohyeon.

"Come, there is a whole new storage that I got and I would like to let you look at them before they go on sale." Yoohyeon shook her head and waved her hand.

"I just wanted to come visit you and see how you were doing. I don't have any money with me anyways." She said kindly. The old lady thought to herself for a moment and then looked at Yoohyeon and smiled.

"It's the least I could do." She said kindly. 

"Please. I would feel bad if you walked out empty handed. You don't need to pay me, my dear." She said. Yoohyeon didn't want the owner to feel bad and had no choice but to accept the kind offer. She followed the lady towards the back of the store and into a storage room.

The old lady got out her keys and opened the locked door. Yoohyeon stood there with wide eyes looking at the all of the old treasures in the back, but one caught her eye immediately.

She looked at a full body mirror and stared at it. It had a beautiful gold rim, but was a little dirty. She felt attracted to it and looked towards the old lady.

"Do you mind if I take this?" She asked. The old lady looked at her with a shocked expression.

"Are you sure? It's old and it probably hasn't been taken care of in a while." She said still surprised. Yoohyeon just nodded. She was sure of taking this home with her.

"Please?" She asked. The old lady sighed.

"It's all yours." She said while smiling sweetly towards Yoohyeon. Yoohyeon smiled back and told the owner to wait for her here while she goes and gets money. Yoohyeon runs out and back towards her house. 

Her dog barks as she turns the key and opens the door to her apartment. She immediately pets it quickly and picks up her wallet and then heads back out. When she got back to the antique shop, the owner was gone and the mirror was sitting out front. 

Even if the owner wasn't there, Yoohyeon wrote on a piece of paper and put the money on top of it thanking the owner. She grabbed the mirror and brought it back home. Once back home, Pie, her dog, looks at the mirror confused by what it is. Yoohyeon just smiles at how cute her dog is and puts it in her room in front of her bed against the wall.

She looks at it and realizes how badly in shape it really is. 

"The owner wasn't kidding." She said thinking. She looked towards it.

"Why did I buy this thing?" She asked. She sighed and continued to stare at it. She wondered what she was going to do with it now. She goes to her bathroom and takes out a cloth and rinses it in water and goes back to the mirror. She slowly begins to clean the mirror and when she was done, she smiled proudly at how shiny it was.

"It's so pretty." She said, while staring at it. She was about to touch it, but before she could, Pie started to bark at the mirror. Yoohyeon looked at Pie confused wondering what she was barking at. 

She looked back at the mirror and saw herself. She went towards Pie who was still barking and knelt down.

"It's just your reflection Pie." Yoohyeon said trying to reassure her dog, but it wasn't working. Pie immediately ran towards the mirror and Yoohyeon watched as her dog went through it like a portal.

"What?" She asked herself. She went towards the mirror and put her hand on it. It didn't let her go through it either. She started to panic and banged on the mirror calling out to Pie.