Chapter 1
As you probably guessed, I'm here to tell a story. You're correct. Based on the title of the story, you probably figured this is about looking into a mirror and seeing your reflection.
Reflection: The image of something or someone that appears in a mirror or other reflecting surface.
Exact definition from the dictionary.
But now we don't fear of the reflection from the ugly person next door's mirror, we fear of our own.
I'll tell you my story.
My name is Jaycee. I live in Kansas City, Kansas in the United States. I am nineteen years old, not in any relationship, and my family is broken.
I usually like to keep to myself in life and only mind my own business.
I didn't care about anyone else, which was good in my situation.
My story begins in school. I go to college, and I live in my own dormitory.
It was lunch break on a sunny day in April, and I was sitting in my dormitory room, studying and listening to music when I heard a loud boom outside.
I peeked out my window and saw nothing.
Just a few car alarms went off.
I sighed and continued with my studying.
Afterwards, I attended all my classes, and studied all night until ten o'clock.
My typical schedule.
I only heard a few students talk about the giant boom noise that was heard earlier.
Know one knew.
That night while I tried to sleep I wondered about what it could be.
My roommate, Jessica sat up in her bed.
"Hey Jaycee?" she asked.
"Yeah?" I questioned.
"You heard that loud noise outside earlier right?" she asked.
"Yeah," I answered.
She heard it too.
Now Jessica wasn't the type of person I'd hang around with on a regular basis. She was very picky, bitchy, and could be quite snobbish.
I felt bad for her boyfriend and I wanted to tell him that he should move on 'cause he'd be better off with someone else.
"What do you think it was?" she asked me.
"I have no idea. Maybe an explosion or something," I said.
She laughed and lied back down.
Was that a trick? What was funny? I didn't care.
I rolled over and fell asleep.
Little did anyone know, that the whole world was changing while we slept.
At around 2 A.M. my cell phone rang and I answered.
"Hello?" I whispered sleepily.
Jessica woke up.
"Who is it?" she demanded.
I ignored her.
It was my mom.
"Jaycee? Where are you? Are you okay?" she questioned.
"Mom I'm fine what's wrong?" I asked.
"Jaycee, something is wrong. Look at the sky," she said.
I opened the small window and peeked outside.
The whole dark sky was turning a strange green color, as if there was some kind of severe weather occurring.
"Oh crap," I said.
Jessica jumped out of her bed and ran over to the window next to me.
"Oh my God. Is this a dream?" she questioned.
I was speechless.
I saw students below my window looking up at the sky wondering what was going on.
I glanced over at Jessica's TV and ran over to turn it on.
There was news on every channel about it.
In Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, every language in the World.
There were videos of other countries such as China where it was daytime and the sky was bright orange.
"What is this?" I questioned.
Just then the phone went dead.
I had full battery, I think we lost connection.
The TV got blurry and eventually, after I noticed on a news channel that there was a strange hole somewhere out in the ocean, the power was dead and the whole room went black.
Me, Jessica, and several other girls I heard from other rooms screamed and ran out of our rooms.
Was this the apocalypse? What was going on?
For the first time in many years ever since my parents divorce, I was scared.
Everyone ran down the stairs into the main lobby.
Most girls were still in their PJ's. I wasn't.
I was wearing a white shirt, sweat pants, and my empty backpack I grabbed before I left the room.
I put my cell phone inside it.
I ran to the refrigerator and grabbed as much food as possible before all the other girls could see me.
I searched the cupboards and found more food.
I stuffed many things in my backpack and ran out the front door with everyone else.
The sky was still green and there were no clouds.
Just then everyone saw something float up into the sky.
Whatever it was, it seemed to have came from far away.