It was a bright and sunny day, I woke up really excited for the day because I get to hang out with my three favorite people after a very long holiday apart. Jane, Ada and Praise have been my best friends since primary school ever since they stood up for me against Clara the class bully.
We made a plan and decided on a rendezvous. I get ready to leave the house and tell my mum about the whole link up plan and she replies “Aelin, be careful out there and have a good time. Also be back before curfew”. “Thank you mum, I love you” ,
“Love you too hun”
Ok, so we all went to the pool that evening after stopping by at the salon and got some new colorful wigs, time to get skinny dipping and Ada rushes towards me and grab my wig having misplaced hers god knows where. Yea, she’s at it again, clumsy as ever and forgetful I am sure she must have kept it somewhere else I thought to myself while watching her put it on.
I don’t know what forbidden chants my friends made but we all entered the pool each wearing a colored wig asides me of course since Ada has already worn mine. After swimming one of my friend was still in the pool and suddenly it was like she was drowning then she quickly rushed out of the pool. Only for us to realize we are stuck on a different plane where we can see everyone but they can’t see us.
Although we can still use our phones and send text messages and make voice calls but that’s just it.
We try tapping people around and yelling but that was all it was a futile effort as they could not see or hear us. We decided to move around the place when everyone has gone but can’t find a way out and just then we spot Sundan my ex, a 6’5 brown skinned cute looking guy who has been missing for over a week now. His poster was all over town, “Sudan” I shout and he turns towards me. Oh no I think to myself he can hear me that would mean he is probably stuck here to and might have been for over a week. We all rushed towards him all at once screaming out questions “how did you get here”, “don’t tell me you have been here all this while your family has been looking for you”, “have you found a way out?”.
“Waoh, slow down you all, I don’t know how I got here, I was swimming one moment the next I found myself here. But somehow around 1pm I am able to touch objects and people around, I try to talk but I don’t think they hear me”. We all spilt trying to find clues that can get us out.
I text my boyfriend and he comes looking for me but can’t find me. Instead the only person he can see is my nemesis and ex who somehow has found a foothold in both planes I can calm him down and he can feel me a bit . I guess that because I did not swim with the enchanted colored wig.
I sent a voice recording to another friend of ours that did not come out with us to swim hoping to get help from wherever possible….
I am filled with sadness and cry, talking to my boyfriend and narrating how much I love him and how sorry I am that I put him through this . When suddenly he kisses me and I felt it, I am bothered and relieved as to how this has happened hoping that somehow he is not also trapped here with us. When suddenly Ada comes running and saying something only I can’t hear her. Then I realize when my boyfriend kissed me he wasn’t stuck with us I was pulled out. Good thing I have an A in reading lips and I figure out what she was saying. “Aelin I saw like a clue on the wall at the other end and I think that it means of someone was desperate enough they could pull some stuck on this side.”
I pulled out my phone and called a family member of each of them and narrated our ordeal and I guess they where each desperate to see them because they where all pulled out from that plane.
After a week of more disappearances around the pool area, it was sealed of, turns out the pool was some kind of mirror portal to another plane, and the salon shop had some kind of connection with it seeing that the lady of the shop was no where to be found when I and my friends went to tell her what had happened.
The day I anticipated the most almost turned out to be the worst day ever, thank goodness everything was righted.
The end.
I was inspired to write this story from the #27 prompt “mirror”