A story by Petra

BEYOND THE MIRRORS
In a busy town there were a lot of flats. In one of these flats a young teenager named Anne lived. She really liked spending time watching herself in the mirror.
Every time she got up she looked at herself in the mirror as many girls do. When Anne came home she did the same. And the same when she got in her bed. Many times she just talked to her reflection in the mirror. About her life, decisions and everything that it was on her mind.
But she never thought that beyond her mirror there was another world. People were the same as we and their job was to be our reflection that we see it in the mirrors. But people weren't the same as people who looked in the mirror. And everyone had their own man who covered our piciture. Those people walked in a special rooms that were beyond mirrors. There was a whole building of these rooms. Every room had a window that we thought it's our mirror. Well it was a mirror from our side. But what they saw it was a glass and a person who stood in front of the mirror. It was easy for them to folow our movements.

So Anne had a mirror-man called Marlin. He was middle aged and he didn't enjoy his job. Although he saw Anne he was just tired of all people that he covered in his long life. He was 140 and still not old.
But there was a young man called Jack. He didn't have parents and he lived in this building. He walked from a room to a room and he loved watching people beyond the mirrors. Especially Anne. Marlin didn't care about that. He didn't care about the boy spending time watching Anne in the same room that he covered her reflection. Actually he liked talking to him during his work.

One day Marlin didn't come to work. Jack was worried but there was nothing he could do. And in the morning when Anne got up she was terrified because she she didn't see herself in the mirror. There was nothing just the wall behind her. She thought she's going out of her mind or perhaps she's invisible. But in school her friends talked to her normally and nobody noticed that there's no Anne's reflection in the mirrors.
When she came back home she went in the bathroom. Still there was no reflection in the mirror. She was desperate and she threw soap into the mirror and it broke. Beyond the broken mirror she saw a room and there was a boy in it. Jack looked at her. She fell in love immediately. Like in a love story. From now on she lived with him, watching faces and people beyond the mirrors. They even figure it out who is that Bloody Mary that people are scared of. Actually she was a friendly old woman and from time to time they ate cookies withher. Anyway everything was just fine.
Petra Kuralt, 8.a