The Mirror Inside the Attic

                                                                    Chapter 1 - Magical Mirror

    A sigh echoed in the attic. The room was quite tiny and cramped from all the old boxes - with abandoned items - stored in it. No one ever visited the place ever since the owners from before disappeared in a sudden accident during the war in their country. Just one girl - the daughter of the owners - was left alone in the house. The only room she ever stayed in was the attic. She just waited there ever since her parents left to go and pick her brother up; but they never returned.

    She was lonely ever since. One thing about her was that she had a sickness. Her feet were just weak. They weren't strong enough to help her walk or stand up. The only thing she could do was look around the messy attic and find the items that would bring her memories back to the times she was happy when her family was still alive. The news struck her when her neighbours came in to move the items into the attic.

    Her name was Rin Kagene. She would have to stay in the house for she can't move her feet. Her neighbours would bring her food up the attic and leave it there for her to eat, since they knew about her disability. Probably it was just pity that they even mind visiting her. Whenever they try to strike a conversation with her, she would just continue to stare into the mirror with a blank face as if she was in another world. She hadn't spoken or even smiled ever since the day her family disappeared.

    An old worn mirror was the only thing she would look at to forget the happy moments she had with her family and erase the thought that they will never return. She would study her features: her blonde hair which had two, black clips holding her hair up to the left; her now dull, crystal blue eyes filled with loneliness; the black dress she had worn for so long that had a white ribbon tied around the waist of the black attire. The dress covered her neck with a white fabric and the black sleeves would cover her arms. Her legs were covered underneath her dress while she sat down and only her face would be the only part of her being that didn't have any fabric covering it.

    Everything would just repeat every day, until one day, a whole new magical event occurred in the attic changing her life.

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Rin's POV

    I just continued to stare into that same mirror I had been looking at all this time. The neighbours had visited me once again, but I didn't mind having company. They would bring food and then leave me or either try to make me smile and talk again, but I just feel like I'm no longer part of the world I used to be in with my family.

    I looked down at my lap and sighed once again. I always wondered why I was left to continue living. My parents and my brother would make me happy even if I wasn't able to walk. They would carry me on their back just so I could see the view outside. I love them so much, yet they had to disappear. Why hadn't I been able to join them? I can't understand.

    Looking back up at the mirror, my reflection just shocked me. Instead of the lonely girl who would just stare back at me with those dull, empty eyes as I usually saw, I saw a boy who was standing in front of me at the other side of the mirror. He was quite young and around my age. His hair was the same colour as mine, with messy bangs and at the back was a petite ponytail. The eyes that I thought would be as lonely as mine was, was a deep blue shade and was filled with joy and happiness. He wore a black cape around a navy top a prince would wear and matching pants.

    I just kept staring into the emotions that filled his eyes that mine once had until he broke the silence that had formed in the beginning.

    "Hi!" he simply called while a gentle smile formed on his face.