It is rumoured that when you stare at a mirror at exactly 11:11:11 on the 11th of November, something will happen to you. It depends whether you have broken any mirror in your life. If you have not, congratulations, you will have good luck for the rest of your life. If you have, you will face 7 years of bad luck for each mirror you have broken.
Have you ever heard of this urban legend? Well, neither has she. She laughed in her annoyingly high-pitched voice when her classmate told everyone this story. He sighed in exasperation. Why wouldn't she believe him?
Then, everyone fell silent as she stood on the table, dangling a piece of mirror between her fingers. A loud crash pierced through the silent air. He screamed in terror.
"Why would you do that?! Are you challenging The Mirror Deity? He will find you. He will definitely find you!" He escaped from the class, pushing aside two flabbergasted teachers who came to investigate the commotion.
As she was being punished to clean up the broken pieces of mirror, she paused to pick up the largest piece and hold it in her palm. A glint caught her attention. She turned around. There was nothing behind her. She looked at the mirror again. A hairy figure was standing right at her back. She checked her surrounding once more. Nothing. The mirror turned black. She blinked her eyes and then dropped the mirror in horrifying surprise.
The mirror turned black because it reflected the dark hair. Yet, a bloodshot eye appeared in the mirror, as if looking for its prey. When it locked on its target, the eye gave a wan smile. That was when she lost her grip on the mirror.
Drip. Drip. Drip.
She sought for the sound and realized her palm was bleeding. The blood dripped onto the newly broken pieces of mirror. She couldn't feel the sting at all but blood was flowing out as if the platelets were unable to stop the bleeding. Her face turned pale when she noticed all the fragments of the mirror turned black.
She flashed back to the other 9 times she accidentally broke some mirrors. 11. Those were not coincidences, were they? She checked her watch. It was exactly 11:11:11.
"Time's up!" The voice came from within the mirror. She felt the room was growing bigger and bigger. Then, she was staring at the ceiling, unable to move. After a long time, someone came and picked her up to hang on the wall. A sudden realisation hit her. She was confined in a mirror. She had replaced the previous Mirror 'Deity'.
She suddenly realised she might be alone for the rest of her life.
- The End -
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