Reflection..

I woke up in horror, I had a nightmare. My nightmare was about me, in the toilet, in front of the mirror, washing my hands. Just as I stared at my reflection with a blank expression, my reflection smiled while I was still having a blank expression.

I was surprised and my reflection smirked, just then, my reflection expressed an angry expression and choked me through the mirror, as I felt like I was about to die from running out of oxygen and how it feels like having my throat smashed, I woke up.

I was confused and horrified, this never happened to me. Despite the fact that I watch horror movies and it gives me nightmares when I go to bed, it’s never a nightmare that is actually related to ghosts or demons.

Usually it’d only be like I was stabbed by a man in black or something like that, it wasn’t that scary cause it didn’t feel that real and I was aware that I’m in the dreamland.

I shook my confusion off and started doing my everyday routine. I thought that it must’ve been because I was too tired yesterday, although it makes no absolute sense.

Afterwards, I checked my savings, seeing if I had enough savings for a living for more than a month, since I knew the dance competition wasn't gonna come that quickly and it’s not like I will just win out of luck, so I need to practice.

Just then, I realized I had more savings than I thought. I had enough savings for living for more than 3 months. I didn’t realize that I had been living that frugally. Welp, this is a great thing for me, so I should be grateful for it.

I open the refrigerator to see if there’s still any food left and much to my luck, there is an apple. I took the apple and sniffed it, it still smelled fresh. I bit it and it was my breakfast for the day.

After I finished, I played with my phone for a few hours, letting the food digest in my stomach before practicing to dance ballet. After a few hours, I decided to go out, maybe if I’m lucky enough I could find a ballet or dance studio where they have all those mirrors reflecting all your movements and everything that I can use with not too much payment.

I took a walk around, not really rushing as I’m enjoying the slightly shivering wind. I was searching on my phone for ballet or dance studios that are near my apartment. I found a few but I need to pay quite the amount of money to use it.

After 20 minutes of walking and for my last hope, I found it, the payment is actually really cheap, but I was wondering why there wasn’t anyone around that studio and when I walk in and said I wanted to use the studio, the person seems frightened as they took the money in a swift and ran out.

I decided not to think too much about it. It felt sort of thrilling because the place was like in those horror movies, dark, spiderwebs, a little dusty and just pitch silent, like a jumpscare is about to come, but I know what’s reality or not, so I wasn’t too immersed with this scary place either way.

I went up to the second floor and saw a door, it said ‘practice room’ I lightened up, thinking it must be the room and went inside. To my surprise, the room is very clean and the mirror walls were all glossy and shiny, which seems a little strange, but maybe it’s nothing to really worry about.

I started setting up the music, doing the exercises I remembered from Yesterday. I exercised and everything and started trying some moves I watched from youtube this morning. I soon got a hang of the tempo and everything and was dancing calmly while looking at my reflection in case something looks wrong somehow, I truly need this money.

Suddenly the music seemed to glitch and it suddenly switched to another music, but it seems the same. It’s just a little bit scarier somehow, although it still sounds like music you can use for ballet, so I just continued, following the new tempo, trying to get my body adjusted.

I’m still not perfect yet, I can’t do spins, I can’t throw my leg high or jump split, but I can spin and make some fluent and gentle movements still. So at least it was a progress, I concentrated on my reflection for a few minutes when the pitch went down slightly and made the music sound much scarier.

I brushed it off and continued watching my own reflection, but out of a sudden, the room seemed much darker and as I continued concentrating on my reflection, it smiled.. My reflection smiled and my eyes widened in shock. I'm not smiling, but my reflection suddenly smirked, “h-huh?-”.

Just as I backed away from my reflection, I felt a shadow overshadowing me and that was the last thing I saw before everything went black.

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