Reflection--Jackie

“Hm?”, I look around the dark room with no windows or doors, though the room was too
dark, I was still able to find my way around. A light suddenly shines down in the center of the room revealing a little girl. Golden flowy curls as her hair and a tiny frail body, though her face was not there. She was unidentifiable. “ Hello?”, I say slowly walking towards her. “STOP PLEASE, YOU’RE HURTING ME!”, the little girl screamed. Confused, I looked around to see who she was yelling at but when I looked back at her, to tell her no onees here, she was gone. I panicked and ran to where she was standing shouting , “Little girl?! Where did you go? Hello?” “Stop! Please!”, I turned around seeing the little girl on the floor curled up with someone surrounding her like a wolf ready to attack it’s prey. “Leave her alone!”, I yelled. I tried to run and stop the person but my body would not move an inch, as if I was frozen. I look up and see tears dripping down the little girls chin as the stranger continued to circle her. I continued to struggle trying everything in me to move to save this little girl. I looked up again and she was gone. My body was finally able to move, I ran straight towards where she would have been. “Little girl! Where are you?” I say with worry taking over my body.

I waited and waited for her to appear again or to give me a sign to know that she’s here. “You’re 

up, trembling. I see where she was looking only to see that two shadow figures were walking towards her. “Stop, please!” the little girl yelled with pain and fear in her voice. “Get away from her!” I yelled. My feet glued to where they were at, “No, No, No, Little Girl!” , I yelled for her to run towards me. The two shadow figures were in front of her as she screamed for mercy. “Stop!”, I yelled, though I knew they would not stop. “No!”screamed the little girl before disappearing once again.

Tears streamed down my cheeks like a river as I knelt down not wanting to hear her cries of pain, help and misery. “ENOUGH!”, I screamed still facing the puddle of tears on the floor. Everything was finally silent. I slowly looked up to find myself in an elevator, facing my reflection. I looked around continuing to see only my reflection. I stopped with chills going down my spine, the once beautiful little girl was not covered in cuts, bruises and no emotion on her face. Her clothes ripped with blood stains and dirt which told me those shadow figures damaged her. I turned around and there stood the little girl. “You didn’t help”, she said with tears forming in her eyes. In a blink of an eye, sewing thread closed her mouth shut preventing her from speaking. “I c-couldnt”, I say with pain and guilt in my voice. I looked away in shame, only to see that both the little girl and I were now in a living room. She looked down disappointed and hurt as I see shadow figures come behind her. “Don’t come near us!”, I yell warning them.

“Who are you?”, I shout as they continue to walk towards us My eyes were blinded by something silvery and shiny, which caused me to look to see what it was. My blood ran cold when I realized they all had a knife they were harshly gripping. “Get out of here little girl, Run!”, I shouted to try and get her away. Even if I died, I’ll die knowing that the little girl ran away. But she didn’t move an inch, “Run!” I say again, trying to get her to safety. The shadow figures were were now only three feet behind the little girl. Everything stopped for that moment. Time stopped where I had to make the only decision, I grabbed the little girl and ran to escape, but stopped to see a mirror. The shadow figures now behind me, we were trapped. The shadow figures held up their knives ready to stab us, I quickly dropped to the ground to protect the little girl. I felt the pain of knives going into my back. I held the little girl close to prevent any knives cutting or harming her in any way. I screamed and cried as the knives sliced and cut into me. I looked up into the mirror seeing all of the shadows stabbing me as my tears mixed with my blood. I looked at the little girl but she disappeared into me at the same time the stabbings stopped. I looked to see that the shadows were now surrounding me and I, being the little girl that whole time.