Authentic hallucination

It is a spine Stiffening winter. Snow plunging the ground and, you can feel your breath. No one dares to go out, yet you are chilling with your bosom buddy Dave in your high school party. You are not so excited about it, as you prefer small crowd gatherings of your known circle of people. You bear the name Michaelson. The second son in your family and team with a first-born sister and a naughty brother.

“Mike! Have your glimpse here” Your friend Dave is urging you to look. 

You swiftly react and get dumbfound. A piece of artwork that reflects light and gigantic. You admire the entire artwork which is traditional and can be regarded as an antique piece. Yeah! The feast for your eyes is from the mirror which is fixed just moments back as a part of the decoration in the lawn. 

“Man this is amazing I thrive with this man!! It’s incredible, the one who made their hands dirty for this artwork is stupendous” Saying this you started touching the mirror.

“Hey guys, you cannot touch that! By the way, the party is over there why are you guys here?” Mr. Anton raised his voice from inside. He is the student in charge of your college.

“No sir just got struck with this majestic piece of work...” You started explaining, but Mr. Anton cut you short.

“No mike! It is not for dazing, this is a rare piece of art, our chairman has dug his heels in the acquisition of this. I hold the responsibility of its safety as it is treasured. You are in your salad days, but please! Do not make anything to get to my nerve. Either go and chill in the party or get back to your assigned room now!”

You are irritated with the way Mr.Anton reacted. Yet, since you intend to go ahead to your room since the thoughts of not earning any discredit at this point. “Okay sir, sorry to trouble you”. Saying this you started, but you are mesmerized by the mirror and cannot take your eyes back from it.

(In your room)

“What happened man? Are you ok? I notice something wrong from the moment you saw the mirror” Dave started on with his questions to you.

Your titillation is not so good and you want to cut the crap that Dave started. “ Man nothing I think I drank more at the party, let me rest” You avoided the talk and pretend to sleep.

Dave judged your logic reasonable and went on to sleep. You were still on the bed thinking about the mirror. Some magic in its reflection prevented you to stop thinking about it. 

Time went on and you begin to doze deeply.

The next day, you got up and started enjoying the chill breeze air. The freshness lifted your mood and you are feeling to conquer the world with ease. Motivating yourself for the day you are about to start college. You intend to pick up Dave, but suddenly the thought of the mirror and its reflection struck you. After a moment, you come back to the world and started thinking to yourself “Something is there! Not sure why again and again the thought, hmm…!”

The phone started ringing you come back to normalcy and attend the call “Mike? How are you, my dear? “ Hearing this you realize it is your mom, Mrs. Kaira. 

“Mom! I am okay, what happened?” You become so inquisitive as her voice is worried.

For which your mom replies “Nothing my son! You have not yet headed up to college?”.

“No mom, I am about to jump off. Want to pick up Dave now.” Answering this you intend to hang on as you are eager on other things but your mom is not in a mood to cut it short.

“Mike! Prick your ears for a moment, we all miss you and you were not here recently. Why can’t we have a trip in the coming weekends?” 

You are not interested in those topics as you want to get a move on.

“ Mom! It is not the right topic now, I have to proceed for the day, yeah! Sure it is a good idea, will think upon this and let you know.” Saying this you hung the phone up and proceed for the day.

You are calling Dave for pick up but he seems to be already in the college. To get the cracking you are speeding up the things and you are entering the college. A bright day which you hope for is about to start. The mirror is placed as a decor in the lawn with its reflection again alluring you. You are hooked in front of it and were starring. All of the sudden the busy area got deserted and you are yet to realize it.

After a while, you notice something weird. A hand from the mirror came to hug you in a flash of seconds and you are clueless on how to react. You are terrified and want to leave but you are not able to as you are paralyzed. 

“Mike! “ A voice came over there and it is none other than Dave. “Again stuck here?” he heads towards you.

After Dave’s arrival, everything vanished and turned out to be normal. You are horrified and wordless with what happened.

“Man? What happened? It is getting late now, we have practicals. You are again staring at this?” Dave tries to drag you towards the class. Suddenly something struck you. Though you are doing the action of moving, you are not actually rallying.

Suddenly the floors tend to be imaginative and the place weaved out to become dark. You are not able to distinguish anything except the reflection from the mirror and you can sense only Dave.

After all realization, you are synchronously watching in the mirror and now can see a woman with a big smile laughing at you.

“Wait aren’t you Mia?” Miaria is your girlfriend. Everything seemed to be a puzzler for you. She again tried to hug you but you are so bewildered and on the other side Dave is tightening his fist than before. 

Now you are aghast with whatever happening around you and not able to come over it.

“Mike….. Hey, Mike” Dave calls you with his hoarse voice.

He is shaking you like anything and in the end, you wake up from your dream.

“What are you up to man? You are sleeping this long? It is Mia’s birthday today and you are already late. She would have been dismayed already” Dave tries to wake you up and only then you are back to the senses.

“Dave? Aren’t we in college? Where are we? I want to tell you something? I saw hands coming from the mirror in the lawn over me to give a tight grip”

“Hey chill man! It is Sunday, we had a party yesterday and you over drank and I guess you slept thinking about the mirror” Dave tried to calm you down.

“Uffff….. Dave, you mean to say everything is my hallucination?” You are trying to get sustainable to the scenario.

After a cup of coffee, you are back to normal and went ahead to be with Mia and splashed her with your surprises. She got happy and it turned out to be a wonderful Sunday.

On Monday morning, you receive a call from your mom with the same proposal for a picnic. This time you denied her straight for the picnic but gave a word to be with them coming weekend. When you reached college the mirror and its reflections are engaging you.

You cannot get your eyes away from it and this time Mr. Anton cautions you to leave the mirror. You listen to him and immediately turn around but you giving a gaze at the mirror. This time the hands came out and waved you bye! You are dismayed to see that and left stunned.

Moral: Do not underestimate your dream. It turns out to be unfaked at times.