Man in the Mirror ♤ kpop

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"Jongdae! Brothers! Come quick!" She called from the hallway after leaving her bedroom in a rush, startled that there was someone else in the reflection of the mirror. She had also been surprised that she even had a brief conversation with the entity, and he was as normal as if he were any other person. He didn't seem to be bad, but then again she couldn't be too sure after having spent only a few moments with him.

Her voice was so full of worry and even fear, something unusual in her, that her brother ran towards her in a flash, ready to protect his sister from any type of harm. He had heard her quickly, his own room was only across the hallway from hers and he had grabbed the first object he could potentially use as a weapon in self defense. The rest of their brothers were still downstairs with their parents, exploring the many rooms of the house's main floor. Doyoung and Taehyung had been especially excited about the pool in the back yard of the house, and had gone directly out to it, rather than visiting their new bedrooms first. None of them had heard Jisoo's screams calling for help from the second floor.

"What is it, Jisoo? Are you okay?" He was out of breath and held an aluminum baseball bat securely in his hands, ready to swing at an intruder. His eyes darted from one side of the room to another in search of intruders. When she didn't say anything, he asked her again, "What's wrong?" He was expecting there to be a homeless person or someone breaking into the once abandoned house, but at that moment she didn't seem to be in any sort of danger. He seemed to relax significantly, dropping his arms to his sides.

She moved to the side and let him pass into the empty room cautiously. Jisoo grabbed onto her brother's arm and led him all the way into the room, stopping directly in front of the mirror which had been mysteriously left behind by a previous owner.

"Look into the mirror, Jongdae. Tell me what you see." She gestured towards the gold color rimmed object before them.

Her brother's dark eyes looked at his own reflection in the mirror with confusion. It was all he could see in it.

"Its a mirror." He stated the obvious. His grip on the baseball bat relaxed considerably and he let it fall to the floor with a thud. If there was no one to protect his sister from, he wouldn't be needing it until he could join a baseball team in town, most likely the one at his new high school.

Frustrated, she groaned, "Well duh, Jongdae. But...do you see anything else there? Anything at all?"

"Like what sort of thing am I supposed to be looking for?" He eyed her, confused, turning now to face her. He was starting to think that she was trying to play a prank on him. Usually he was the one playing pranks on his other siblings, but every once in a while they'd gang up and prank him back. 

"Like, I don't know, maybe a guy in a military uniform?" She insisted, her eyes darting from her brother to the mirror and then back again. Jisoo could clearly see the boy standing inside the mirror.

Kyungsoo rolled his eyes, telling her, "You're wasting your breath and your time. He's not like you, he can't see me. All he can see is his own reflection." If anything, he was surprised that she could see him at all.

She looked right at the boy in the mirror. "You be quiet."

"Jisoo, who are you talking to?" Jongdae asked, cocking an eyebrow at her suspiciously. He seriously thought his sister was out of her mind at that point.

"No one, Jong. I thought I heard you say something." She quickly replied, in an attempt to reassure him that she wasn't crazy. But she felt like she was clearly going insane if she was seeing things that weren't really there. The boy in the mirror looked as real to her as her brother who was standing next to her. "This mirror was just here when we arrived and I wanted to know what the deal with it was...just forget it." She waved him off, dismissing him now that he had proven to be of no use to her.