Chapter Three
Was it odd of me that these creatures didn't scare me? I didn't fear death. We all had to die one day.
I made it this far, I may as well fight to the end.
Besides, I'm a curious person and I thought I should figure out what's going on.
I drove back home and sat in my old room.
I lied down on my bed and thought about how my sister's death, the news deaths, and the preppy's death were all similar.
My sister died in the bathroom, as did the other victims on the news. The preppy died from a slimy green thing after her reflection didn't reflect her exactly.
Wait, the reflection was the start of the weirdness at the mall. Then the creature appeared. If the preppy never looked into the mirror, would the creature have appeared anyway?
If the answer is yes, then my theory is inaccurate.
If the answer is no, then I could be correct.
I figured it was the mirror that made the creature appear.
But how did that relate to my sister?
There are mirrors in the bathroom.
Where was the exact location where people died.
I walked back downstairs to the living room and turned on the TV.
The news was still on of course.
"People are still dying in their bathrooms. No one knows why. Here is live footage on an innocent civilian who died," said the news lady.
I watched as the camera person filmed a person lie dead on the bathroom floor…in front of the mirror.
I wasn't stupid.
This all made sense now.
My theory was correct. All I had to do now was prove it.
I ran back upstairs into my room and found my old video camera.
I began recording myself.
"Hello. My name is Jaycee. I live in Kansas. I know why people are dying now, hopefully I can prove it. Mom I know you'll see this since once I die, my video camera will be with me on the bathroom floor. My theory is reflection. Creatures have been appearing and taking our hearts once we look into the mirror. Our reflections aren't following us," I said.
I walked into the bathroom and turned on the light.
I looked straight into the mirror at myself.
Nothing happened.
I raised my hand.
My reflection did the same.
I jumped around and ran in circles.
Still, my reflection followed.
I turned off the lights and touched the mirror.
I still saw my reflection do the same.
I looked back into the camera.
"Okay my theory one is a fail. I'll be back later," I said.
I turned off the camera.
"Dammit," I said to myself.
I looked behind me and all around just incase a creature did appear after all.
Nothing was there. Only me.
I walked back into my room to rethink my theory.
What if it wasn't the mirror that killed people. What if it was just these creatures coming from…hmm...I had to work my theory.
What if it were just the people? What if everyone had a green killer following them now and some people didn't get one yet and they got lucky?
I had to consider my options.
I decided to go back downstairs to watch more news.
I watched the news and ate lunch while my mom was out of the house.
There was one part of the news that they were showing a person walking into a bathroom and nothing happened.
Then the news went back to filming just the lady talking at the news desk inside the news building and immediately after they stopped filming the bathroom scene, it came back on.
The news reporters stuttered and the camera wasn't turned back on in time to see what had happened.
One second there was a person standing in the bathroom, then the news lady talked, and the next second, that person was dead.
The camera was off when the killing happened.
"There was a creature…where'd it go?" questioned a camera person.
I watched the scene with wide eyes.
"I swear to God there was a giant green thing that came out of no where and once I turned the camera back on, it disappeared," said the camera guy.
Maybe my theory was correct after all.
I was filming myself.
The creatures don't like that.
I filmed myself in my room.
"Okay I found out that filming my reflection is what makes the creatures angry. Therefore I will put a note on this camera for my mom and whoever sees this, I was killed by a green slimy creature. I know they're real I've seen them. So here it goes, good bye," I said.
I didn't know why I was using my life for science. It's what I had to do.
I turned off the camera and put it on my desk. Then I put a pink sticky note on it saying "Mom, this is me before I died. I love you".
After that, I took a deep breath and decided to face my end
I walked into the bathroom and stared at myself in the mirror.
"Look, there's no cameras here. Only me," I said.
I raised my hand in the air.
My reflection did the same.
I poked the mirror, and my reflection just stood there, staring back at me.
