The mirror

Chapter 1: The garage sale

It was night. There it was. The lonely, solitary house. A car pulled over in the driveway. It was a long, black car.

Inside the house, a girl stood alone in the dark, peering into the mirror with lit candles. Her skin was pale, and she had a white complexion. She had the appearance of a ghost. Her eyes appeared to be swollen. Her reflection smiled back, but she didn't.

*KNOCK KNOCK*

There was a bang at the door. A middle aged women opened the door. "Come in" she said in a soft teary voice. At the door was an old man who was maybe in his late fifties. The man came in. "We can get started" he said. "She's upstairs" the women said.

They crept up the stairs together, slowly and steadily.  "Alice?" The women said. Alice slowly turned her head, she peered into the woman's eyes.

Suddenly everything in the room started to shake. The man grabbed Alice and ran downstairs with her. She was screaming as loud as a banshee. He slammed her to the table and tied her arms and legs to the legs of the table. He grabbed his bible and started to recite.

things went completely insane: Alice got extremely violent and had to be restrained physically. Alice vomited glass, nails, and blood while the pastor performed numerous exorcism rights.

The women then dashed down the stairs, mirror in hand. "This is what started it all," the woman said

Alice's voice grew ominous, demonic and distorted.  "It's pointless. This soul will be mine. She promised me one, and now she will deliver."

Tables overturned themselves and plates began flying throughout the room. The man took out his holy water and sprinkled Alice with it. He returned the ghost to the mirror world, but Alice was taken with it...

The women started to cry as she had lost her beloved daughter." YOU'RE USELESS" she exclaimed. "I need you to get the fuck out." She grabbed a cloth and covered the mirror as he left.

The next day Alice's mum sent the mirror to a garage sale.

It had been a week since the incident. Aika, a young woman, was heading home from school when she noticed the garage sale. She went to the garage sale after seeing something odd covered in the cloth. The man cried no as she was going to remove the cloth. "It's a mirror." Take it for free if you want it, but don't remove the cloth until you get home!" He said. She thanked him and took the mirror. She returned home.

She snuck up the stairs and into her room, where she hung her mirror. The fabric was then removed. "Wow, I really hit the jackpot." She noticed a faint but eerie shadow in the backdrop of her mirror. She turned around, but there was nothing there. She returned her gaze to the mirror, but her features were twisted.

Aika walked into the bathroom to switch on the shower, thinking she was imagining things. She walked into her room and got fresh, new clothes from her wardrobe. She went back to the bathroom and removed her school uniform. She stepped in the shower and began scrubbing herself.

She then took a bottle of shampoo from the shelf and poured some into her palm. She applied it to her scalp and massaged it in. She let it sit before cleaning the remainder of her body. She began to rinse the shampoo out of her hair after a few minutes, but she felt a hand rubbing her scalp. She turned around.. Nobody was around. She sprang out of the shower and raced out of the bathroom, covering herself with a towel.

She turned back but nothing was there...