Silhouettes - An Owl City/Adam Young fanfiction

Chapter 4 - Sunburn

Echo had brought out two foldable chairs, and made them both a bowl of popcorn. "For breakfast, since I'm too lazy to actually cook something." Echo had stated, sitting down in his chair. Now the were both sitting in front of the mirror again. "Okay, so this may sound crazy. And it is crazy...but that's not the point. Anyway, my grandmother died from skin cancer or something a few years back," Echo started. Adam looked down. "I'm sorry..." Adam murmured. Echo blinked. "Oh, it's fine. We haven't talked in years, really. But when I did visited her when I was younger, she would always go on about some magical mirror, or a portal. I don't remember, since my parents didn't trust her very much and thought she had lost her mind. We didn't visit often. But she said that the mirror was magical, and that somehow she got into another universe through it when she was younger. Then she went on and said some other stuff, about meeting a girl who looked exactly like her. She said her reflection came to life in front of her eyes. And eventually she went back to her- my -universe find that less than an hour had passed in her reality. She told us that she went back every week, untill eventually the mirror stopped working. That's pretty much all I remember. But when she died, I inherited some of her old junk." he gestured to the boxes, "and I didn't really look through it. Of course I checked a few of the boxes, but it's just old useless things. And I haven't been up here to look at it again untill yesterday night. I couldn't sleep, and then I remembered her stories. I also remembered that she had given me a mirror, so I had to try out if it really work...and I guess it did." Echo smiled. "Now, what's your story?"

"...and I was curious, so I decided to see if my reflection really had moved or if it was all in my head. And now I'm here" Adam finished up his side of the tale. "So it was just lying there in an antique shop?" Echo asked. "Yeah. What's wrong with that?" Adam said, once again tilting his head. "It just seems like our universes are connected. I have a mirror, and now you have one. But if nobody else has noticed it, maybe we're connected too. Maybe we're...alternate versions of ourselves. But the mirror only connects if the person who owns the mirror sees the alternate version of themselves..." Echo trailed off. "Wow, I never thought about it that way." Adam blinked, "But...you could be right."


((Author's note: I'm going to end the chapter here. I might add more tomorrow, or just start a new chapter all together.))