A Small Consolation

Submitted into Contest #101 in response to: Write a story that involves a reflection in a mirror.... view prompt

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Horror Urban Fantasy Funny

“Ouch, my damn head hurts,” she said as she barely opened her eyes.

She was lying on the bed in her dorm room looking at the ceiling.

“I don’t remember drinking that much yesterday, I’m probably just dehydrated from the Adderall”

She mumbled while sitting up and removing the Indian style cover, “Why am I naked?” She thought, usually she would sleep in her pink pajamas and only on very rare occasions she would fall asleep in her undies, but never naked.

 “ What did I even do last night?” She scratched her blonde head and sat on the side of the bed. 

As she lowered her hand from her head she noticed her palms were black, covered in some sort of black paint. 

“This is weird, I got to go and wash my hands” She said, raising her eyes to scan the room for her slippers. The room seemed strange, everything was kind of murky, it was definitely her room but things were on the opposite sides - Her bed was on the left side of the room and the bathroom door was on the right side of the wall, she could have sworn that yesterday it was the other way around.

She noticed the slippers closer to the window and as she started pulling them on she noticed the bottom of her feet were also covered in the same black paint. 

“Ok, this shit is crazy, I’m going to take a shower, drink some water and then I’m going to figure what kind of wacky stuff I did last night” She said decisively to herself and started walking towards the bathroom, the room started spinning but she took a deep breath and soldered on towards the wooden door.

The bathroom seemed strange as the rest of the room except for the full body mirror that was right in front of the door. 

“ Weren’t the sink and the toilet on opposite sides? no matter, let’s just go into the shower” She thought, sitting down in the shower and pulling on the middle faucet knob in the shower.

The warm water started flowing on her body and her head started clearing up a bit and last night’s events started coming back to her.

She recalled that together with Stacy they went to this Downtown bar The Dark Shed ,a mystery and dark magic themed bar filled with all the weirdo’s the town had to offer. They were dying to go there for the Black moon party but Stacy told her they had to get fake IDs for over 21 to get in, finally last night Stacy texted her she got them the ID’s and they can go.

The place was nice, filled with hot gothic guys and elf chicks. She and Stacy were dressed like little devils with  sexy black short mini dresses and red horn bows they got from the mall toy shop. 

Then she remembered meeting Dorian, this hot older guy with piercing blue eyes and crazy hand tattoos.

They had a few bloody marries and the last thing she could recall is Dorian saying to her: 

“Kim, it’s time for the summoning, you have to get ready”.

As she heard those words everything went dark, up to the point she woke up with this terrible headache in her room.

Now, feeling a little better she started washing the black paint of her hands and feet and decided to check if there are any signs on sex or any other injuries - she didn’t find anything.

“That’s a relief, at least I wasn’t raped” she thought walking out of the shower “ Probably just had too many marries together with those Adderall pills and blacked out, I’ll just call Stacy to fill in the blanks”.

Her reflection in the mirror looked like she expected, like a reflection of an 18 year old girl that just partied a bit too hard. She brushed her teeth and after finishing she just stood there smiling in front of the mirror.

Suddenly the reflection winked and Kim was baffled staring at herself in the mirror. Slowly a grizzly smile stretched on the reflection’s face, a terrifying and evil smile with the corners of the mouth stretching almost all the way to the ears.

Kim couldn’t move, she stood there frozen with fear as the sinister image in the mirror started speaking in her voice “Hi Kim, My name is Lilly and I want to thank you. I’ve been waiting for you to wake up so I can explain everything to you, so please listen carefully”.

Lilly’s words drove tears or terror to Kim’s eyes but she still could not move. “You can’t move until I finish explaining everything, I won’t let you. Anyway, try to relax and breathe. They say it helps dealing with these kinds of situations.”

“Like I said my name is Lilly and I am an entity from another world, a quite different world, usually you refer to it as Hell” Lilly said as she started to brush her golden hair.

“Dorian is my servant, it’s kind of a long story but what you need to know is that he sold me his soul during a DMT trip at Coachella and part of the deal was to help me find a human body to possess. 

Things got a little complicated so I had to drive his mother to kill herself but all in all he got the hint and started lurking at that rat infested shit hole he called The dark shed”. Lilly finished brushing her hair and started putting on mascara and eye shadow and continued the story.

“He promised me he will find me a good host there, and a few nights later as I was starting to grow impatient you waltzed in together with that cheap, 5 dollar hooker looking friend of yours. 

Dorian Drugged you both and brought you over to the sacrificial altar at the old treatment plant, where he slit your ugly friend's throat and burned her over the pentagram.” upon hearing those words Kim tried to scream but to no avail.

“Honey I told you to stop resisting, I’m almost done” Lilly said and took out the red lipstick “So the he took her ashes and mixed with some mud and we put it on your hands and feet, I use the blood of the sacrifice kind of like where’s my iPhone to find the person I need to possess.’

“The problem is that we first needed to clear your body out of your soul, otherwise some fucking priest could have exorcised me. So what we did is an ancient alchemic spell to banish a soul out of a body and so you won’t get bored or try to come back to your body. We trapped your soul inside your dorm room bathroom mirror - cool isn’t it?” Lilly finished putting her makeup on and started getting dressed.

"By The way, the reason you're naked is that clothes can't be moved together with your soul, so sorry about that."

Kim stood there understanding her fate was sealed and that the room wasn’t messed up; it was just a mirror reflection.

“Now Kim, you get to live forever in your little mirror dorm room and watch me start the apocalypse by doing one guy at a time and sucking out their souls as I replace them with my buddies from hell.” Lilly stopped to listen for a second. “ It’s one of them knocking on the door right now, some tasty Chad or Trent, I’ve got to go...so..ehh… see you soon.”

Lilly walked out of the bathroom keeping the door open so Kim could see what’s happening inside the room. Although Kim already unfroze from Lilly's grasp she still couldn’t move and her eyes were glued to the view inside the room where Lilly was just starting to dive into carnal pleasures and soul devouring with this poor unlucky frat guy.

Accepting Her gruesome fate and seeing Lilly daily increase her demon army by having crazy sexual escapades in her room she had only one thing to console her, in the night drawer next to the bed she had her trusty old friend that helped her to get through many lonely nights her Satisfier 3.0 pro vibrator. 

July 06, 2021 13:03

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Mira Echenim
14:50 Jul 15, 2021

Indeed this story is hilarious and all shades of dark. 😄😄😄🤭

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