LILLIAN

Prologue

'Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the darkest one of all?'

I chanted as I stared right through the other side of my world. Two dark orbs stared back at me. I glared back at them, peering right into their enlarged void, deep into its abyss. Tingles etched through the corners of my eyes, bringing familiar moisture to them. They glistened from the moonlight, which barged in through the unlocked window. My eyes continued stinging, but I refused to blink.

'Mirror mirror on the wall what is it that you keep concealed from all'?

I'm not Queen Grimhilde here. Snow White? Probably yes, probably not. Snow White was a fairy tale. My tale is reality and a riddle to the outside world.

'You disguise, you copy, you reflect. Yet you cloak what is inside us all.'

My vision blurred, and so did the reflection in the mirror. It blended in a haze of black and white. Swirling the darkness around me with the moonlight. This time, I didn't hold back and blinked. Once, twice, thrice until the tears seeped back into their ravines. Moments ago, the world was a haze and the next plain and transparent. The moonlight illuminated my face, stretching across my soft features, giving them a new defined dimension. The crescent moons under my eyes looked dark, and my skin pale. I looked like a ghost amid the blank darkness. And my raven hair made the paleness appear louder.

'Mirror mirror on the wall...You are the one thing that scares me most of all.'

The cool breeze gushed in kissing my exposed skin. I am covered under several layers of clothes, yet sitting right in front of the mirror makes me feel naked. As if the girl staring at me could see right through me. Right through my soul. However, she is just my reflection yet also 'another me'. I know her, and still, I don't. All this is so obscure. It scares me. The mirror scares me. The mirror knows everything, even the things I could be oblivious to. Every time, it feels as if I'm being watched. I'm being stalked, chased....and haunted. It petrifies me, yet I'm intrigued. No matter how much I want to run far away from this turmoil but I can't. I just can't. Cause the more I run, the more I am drawn towards it. It compels me, it calls me and I have to obey. It's like a spell, I'm trapped. With no escape. As if my essence has been trapped inside it and thrown into its deep...profound...abyss with zero chance to escape.

'Mirror mirror on the wall please...stop...my...Freefall'.

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'Deep down the ocean, lies the darkest secrets.'
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A.N.----------

Aaaarrrrrhhhhh!!!
My first chapter. Tell me what you think about this chapter. Comment all you want. Aren't you excited for the next chapter!!!!
I'm so excited that I can't hide it. This is the new version of 'Upside Down'. I took down the previous one, which I had published long before, and I'm rewriting it again with new twists and turns in the plot.

Until the next chapter
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