Mirror Mirror

Mirror Mirror 3

The mirror, for all the fact that the girls barely paid attention to it, was paying attention to them, biding it's time. The first time that someone noticed something was off was just after the first snow had started to fall, nearly two months after they had moved in. Miranda was home alone, most of the girls at work or classes but she had a feeling that they would be home sooner rather than later due to the amount of snow coming down.

She was parked out front, having done a huge run to the grocery story being the only one of them that had a truck with a covered bed, which meant that she had more room compared to Marilyn's jeep. Luckily Kendra had been able to help her with all of the shopping and shoving the things into her truck before she had headed to work.

She was just thanking whoever had decided that the front entrance wasn't all that huge and long, allowing her to park up close to the stairs. She was planning on leaving the heavier groceries for later, but anything that happened to be cold, frozen, or was anything that would break and or explode in the cold was going to be dragged in. So far, she had hauled in most of the stuff, piling them in the hallway when something caught her attention.

It wasn't all that much, just a flicker of motion out of the corner of her eye, making her whip her head around and frown at the mirror as she put a giant box of sausage patties down. Seeing nothing that could have made the movement, she checked the rest of the hall before shrugging it off and continuing to pull things in. Once she had finished off with most of the important stuff, she parked her car under the open air garage port and headed inside, closing the door with a sigh.

She stripped out of her wet winter gear, putting her boots in the tote box next to the door and hung her jacket, scarf and mittens in the closet. She eyed the mirror when the lights flickered, making her sigh and go hunting for the stash of candles and batteries, and pull out each rooms lanterns. She could hear the generator tick over with the flicker and wanted to have everything set up to see just in case.

She forgot about the movement that she had seen as she set up everything and was forced to use some candle lanterns to put up the groceries. She pushed it even further out of her mind as the girls started to arrive, helping her haul the heavier stuff into the house and they set up the living room for the rest of the afternoon and night.

The next woman to see something in regards to the mirror as Marilyn. It was just two weeks after Miranda had seen the movement and she just brushed it off as having drunk way too much wine while out with a supposedly nice guy who had turned out to be an asshole. She was leaning against the front door as she was tugging off her heels and had looked up to see a reflection in the mirror.

She only looked for a second, squinting, before she looked down to her shoes again. It took a few more seconds for it to register that she had seen a human in the mirror and looked back up with wide eyes. She found that there wasn't anything there though.

Staring at the mirror, Marilyn decided that it had just been her not-so-sober mind playing tricks on her. Carrying her shoes and bag, she headed into the kitchen to get some water before heading up to a bath. Her night could at least lead to a relaxing bath with a good book at the least, pushing aside what she had seen.

Stacy saw more when it came to the mirror than what her two friends had seen though.

It was the day after Marilyn had her disaster date, and Stacy had been working on taking pictures of the various heirloom items that her aunt had kept in the house for her blog. She had gotten pictures of other things at her family's home, and had started working on the stuff that was in the main house. She had just started the blog, so it was still new, but she had plans to do a few posts about the items in her family, including the mirror, and an old grandfather clock that was tucked out of any direct sunlight and was well protected.