The House With no Mirrors

Chapter 3

The past few weeks I've been hearing those noises hardly getting any sleep. I soon became used to it. but there have been other strange things around the house. Different things moved places, toys went off, electronics would just randomly turn on and off also mirrors would get ruined. Ty thinks it's the kids but I know they wouldn't do those sort of things. Marcie has became very anti-social and would hardly come out of her room.

Ty was at work and I was home with the kids. Avril was sleeping, Marcie was in her room as usual and marshall and TJ were playing on the Xbox Ty had gotten them. Typical for men. I was in my room doing some paper work since I had off today from being a therapist and I heard Marcie laugh and talk to someone. I smiled and listened for a minute or so then looked down and went back to my paperwork. I then heard a response, it didn't sound like Marcie though. My head rose slowly and I listened to them.

I started to think someone broke into our house so I snuck to Marcie's room and slowly cracked the door open so she wouldn't notice me. I looked around and saw no one there.
I opened the door the rest of the way and smiled

"Who were you talking to, sweetie?"

She was sitting on a blanket on the floor having a tea party

"Emily."

She responded while not even looking up at me. her face had a blank look and her voice sounded dull. she didn't even look the little girl I knew and love.
I sat down on the blanket her her

"Can I play?"

Marcie nodded and handed me a cup a tea. I pretended to drink it then tapped on the side of the blanket where Emily was 'sitting'

"How are you, Emily?"

Marcie looked up quickly dropping her cup

"Don't do that."

She said sternly and I looked at her worried leaving my hand where it was

"Why not.....?"

She looked me in the eyes. her eyes were lifeless and cold.

"She hates you."

I felt the spot of the blanket where I had my hand get cold and my eyes widened. Marcie then slapped the cup out of my hand and make a mess out of her tea party.

"GET OUT!"

she screamed at me

"Don't you dare raise your voice at me Marceline."

She gritted her teeth

"I SAID GET OUT!"

She shoved me and I grabbed her hand.

"That's it you're grounded."

I sat her on her bed then locked her toys in her closet. I then unplugged her tv and tied up the cords.

"I'm sorry Marceline but you are going to learn not to be violent and to yell. also you are not allowed to play with Emily anymore."

"WHY NOT?!"

She screamed and began to cry and squirm around on her bed

"Because she's a bad influence and she is teaching you wrong."

I couldn't believe I was saying that.

"If I ever hear you talk to Emily again, I will make sure you share a room with one of your brothers or your father and i."

I then walked out of the room closing the door. I walked back into my office and closed the door. I sat back at my desk and took some Tylenol and laid my head on the desk, I then fell asleep.

It was dark and I looked around. I saw nothing. All of a sudden I was in the living room of my house except it looked different. there was old furniture and old toys with different colored walls. I then saw little girls playing with the toys on the floor. I looked over to see another little girl with a hat over her head like in Marcie's window walked down. All the girls stopped playing hesitantly then walked over to her. one of them pulled off her hat and I got to see her face.
She had different one of her eyes were a different color than the other and her face and nose were oddly misshaped and burnt like she was in a fire. she has no eyebrows and she had very short hair.

"Ugly face, ugly face, Emily has an ugly face."

The girls would chant over and over while Emily looked down and began to cry

"Leave us alone ugly face. you can't play with us, we'll catch your ugly."

One of them said. They went back to play as Emily ran upstairs crying her eyes out. I walked over to the girls and said to them sternly:

"Hey! that wasn't nice! you need to go apologize!"

But they didn't respond. I said it again, but still nothing. I tapped on of their shoulders but my hand just went through like I was a hologram.

I then woke up while sitting up quickly. I held my head.

"What was that dream about?"

I thought. I laid back in my chair and replayed that dream over and over again. could I have made that up? or was it real...?

I heard the front door open and walked downstairs and hugged Tyler tightly. he hugged back and kissed my forehead

"How was your day?"

I said with a smile

"Pretty good, how was your day at home?"

He said back

"Well..."

I walked to the living room to check on TJ and marshall and they were asleep with the controllers in their hands so I grabbed them and sat them on the table. I then picked up TJ and marshall and laid them on my lap while I sat on the couch

"That's what I wanted to talk to you about."

Ty sat next to me

"What is it?"

He said with a worried look and sighed then told him everything. what I heard, what happened in Marcie's room and the dream. he sat there with his eyes widened then looked at me like I was crazy.

"Urm...uh...ngh.."

He said and I sighed then picked up TJ and marshall and took them to their rooms. I was about to go downstairs then I heard a girl laugh. I looked around then felt someone shove me. I felt myself hit the stairs and roll down while hitting my head on the railing. I was able to let out a scream but right after that, everything went dark.