The Lost Mirror

Chapter 2

Jade's eyes fluttered open, something had woken her up. She yawned and sat up, the airbed making that rubber on rubber sound beneath her weight. Rays of moonlight lit up the floor at the end of her bed from the uncovered window, but the room itself remained as empty as it had been when she had gone to bed. Jade sighed. Great, now she needed the toilet. She threw the covered off herself, shivering slightly as the cold night air hit her like a ton of bricks and slipped her small feet into the pumps by the side of her bed, she didn't bother to tie the laces. There was no way she was walking around the house bare footed, not until everywhere had been thoroughly cleaned. She pulled herself from the bed and stretched, she hated waking up in the middle of the night and it didn't help that her new house looked like somewhere out of a horror film. Jade found herself looking over at the mirror. She hadn't mentioned it at dinner. If she had what would her parents do? Sell it? It made sense, it must have been worth a fortune but Jade didn't want that. There was something about it that seemed to draw her in and it wasn't just because it was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. It was hard to see it in such little light but it looked like the gems were glowing in the moonlight. Jade frowned. It looked like there was someone in the mirror. At first she thought she had been imagining it but the more she looked the more she saw it. Jade cautiously moved closer, the image became clearer with every step she took. It was a girl, lying in bed asleep. The girl looked a lot like her but with much longer hair that fanned around her as she slept in her silk sheeted bed. Jade stepped back a little, she must be dreaming still. Jade heard the sound of a rodent scurry around the wooden floor behind her. She whipped around to see where it had come from too see 2 beady eye looking back at her. She freaked and stepped back. She ended up stepping on one of her untied shoelaces and unable to stop her momentum she flew backwards. Letting out a shriek of surprise she closed her eyes and waited for the pain of hitting the mirror...

But it never came. Instead of hitting the mirror she fell through it. Like the mirror had been the surface of a body of water. Jade looked down at herself. Her body was no longer solid, it appeared to be nothing but mist. White and transparent, like the slightest wind could blow it away. Except there wasn't any wind, there wasn't anything. All Jade could see was darkness, no light, no sound. As if she was falling through a never ending void. It might have been peaceful if she had had the slightly idea of what was happening. Instead Jade's mind was running wild, her imagination conjuring up the worst possible situations, her heart rate becoming more erratic by the second. This had to be a dream, maybe she had never actually got out off her bed. Maybe she was still in her creepy house under the covers of her airbed...but this dream was looking more and more like a living nightmare. Jade's head began to hurt. Whether it was the stress of the situation or the smothering atmosphere she felt around her she didn't know. She continued to fall until eventually she found her eyelids becoming heavy and she fell into a deep sleep...

When Jade woke up again she welcomed the light that blinded her. Relief washed over her as she realised she was no longer inside that void of nothingness. She lay there for a moment, relishing in the fact that her nightmare was over...until it dawned on her. Jade frowned as she came to the realisation that her mould stained windows wouldn't have allowed that much light through them. Her frowned deepened as she noticed that she also wasn't staring up at the very high, old and dusty ceiling of her new bedroom. Jade sat up quick enough to twinge her neck slightly and looked around. This was definitely not her room. It was beautiful but not hers. The bed she was in was an elaborate, wooden, 4 posted bed with curtains dangling from the 3 sides in front of her for her privacy. They looked as if they had recently been pulled open. The sheets she had been sleeping in felt soft, warm and smelt as if they had just been freshly washed. Jade felt the panic start to set in, she had no idea where she was or how she had got there. What was she going to do? Thinking that maybe if she explored her surroundings more she might gain an idea of what to do, she decided to get up.