At first, it was just exhaustion.
Every morning, Mara caught her reflection blinking a half-second too late. A trick of tired eyes, she told herself. Long shifts, bad sleep, too much coffee. Mirrors were honest. They only showed what was there.
Then the reflection started smiling when Mara didn’t.
It happened on a Tuesday night. She was brushing her teeth, foam at the corner of her mouth, when her reflection’s lips slowly curled upward. Mara froze. The smile stayed—wide, patient, wrong.
“Stop it,” she whispered, lifting her hand.
The reflection lifted its hand too… but the fingers bent differently, joints popping like they’d been assembled by memory instead of bone.
Mara stepped back. The reflection didn’t.
After that, mirrors felt crowded. The bathroom glass fogged even when the room was cold. At night, she heard soft tapping, like fingernails clicking against the other side. Sometimes she woke to the sound of breathing that wasn’t hers.
She covered the mirrors with sheets. All of them. Bathroom. Bedroom. Hallway.
The house grew quiet.
Too quiet.
On the fourth night, Mara passed the covered bathroom mirror and heard her own voice drift through the cloth.
“Why did you leave me here?”
Her voice, but stretched thin. Like it had been waiting a long time.
Hands shaking, she yanked the sheet away.
The mirror showed the bathroom behind her—empty. No Mara. No movement. Just a woman standing inside the glass, palms pressed flat against it from the other side. Her face was identical, except for the eyes.
They were desperate.
“I thought if I stayed long enough,” the woman mouthed, soundless, “you’d remember which one of us was real.”
The lights flickered.
Now, when neighbors see Mara through her bathroom window, she’s always smiling at the mirror.
And sometimes—just sometimes—the mirror smiles back first.
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