mirror ;; 2jae

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the four of them arrive at youngjae's house at around 9pm.

the moment the four step inside youngjae's house all of them can definitely feel something off, but no one said a word

except for a certain jackson wang, "is it just me or something feels weird?" he asks.

the other three ignore him, as usual. although jackson is right, something does feel weird.

the four guys settle in the living room, finding their spots. jackson and jinyoung have placed the drinks they have brought on their way to youngjae's house on the table.

of course they'll end up drinking, and probably as youngjae predicted, the other three might as well end up fucking.

as the hours pass, can after can of beers have been opened and their talks have become more and more stupid. mostly for the three since youngjae's alcohol tolerance is quite strong compared to theirs.

"youngjae i missed coco, a lot. i guess more than you," mark says a bit slurry.

"i haven't seen coco, where is she?" mark asks as he tries to get up but fails miserably because one, jinyoung's body is basically all over him and two, he's already too drunk to even notice that youngjae has coco in his arms.

jinyoung, a rather drunk jinyoung, on the other hand slaps mark for moving around too much when he's trying to sleep.

meanwhile a certain jackson wang shuffles on his feet and stumbles near youngjae.

"you okay?" youngjae asks him to which he nods more than once as a reply.

jackson tries to fix himself as he sits beside youngjae on the floor while leaning on the sofa.

"youngjae tell me something," jackson starts off, a bit inaudible at first but youngjae is sober enough to make out what he's trying to say.

"about?"

"that mirror," jackson says as he points at the mirror on the wall beside them.

for some reason, youngjae feels the hair at the back of his neck stand and his whole body stiffens.

"there's something in it," jackson says and he's really drunk that time so youngjae doesn't know where all these are coming from and tries to convince himself it's the effect of alcohol.

"have you tried looking at it?" jackson asks and that certain question leaves a very confused youngjae.

youngjae can't comprehend jackson's odd questions, he's been nosy the moment they enter his house and now he's asking all sorts of stuff about the mirror.

so youngjae simply shrugs and convinces himself that it's just the alcohol taking effect on jackson.

"go to sleep, you can sleep on the sofa or in one of the spare rooms, you choose. since these two over here," he says pointing at mark and jinyoung on the floor all snuggled up, "looked comfortable in their position."

jackson doesn't say anything and simply drags himself towards the sofa. youngjae shrugs before getting some spare pillows and blankets for his drunken friends.

after tucking his friends under his blankets, he sees the mirror and stops for a while. he stares at the mirror, it's the first time he does. although he often sees himself from this mirror every time he passes by it, this is the first time he actually stared at it.

something about the mirror is drawing him in, asking him to come closer.

he slowly approaches the mirror, staring right at his own reflection. as he gets closer and closer, the reflection from the mirror gets clearer.

he can clearly make out all his dark spots, hie eye bags and even the mole under his eye.

"it's been a while since i saw my face from this close," he mumbles to himself.

he's a feet away from the mirror and he can see everything so clear. the mirror does nothing but reflect the light that passes through it but this one especially feels different.

it's like a lens and youngjae can see clearer, he can see more.

through the reflected image from the mirror, he sees jinyoung's hair sticking out from the sofa, he can also see a lump covered by a blanket which is probably mark, then there's jackson sleeping soundly beside them.

it's the same but not quite, and he can't put a hand to what's different

not until he notices a fifth person in the room

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i realized this could be longer than a three shot story, though i can compress the rest of the story into two more long chapters, i won't because writing that will take a while and for the sake of updating everyday i limit myself to 500~700 words. and i don't really like lengthy chapters, so ye. anyway thank you for reading this. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️