This is a very old mirror, my dear. Look right into it. It looks like smoke is blown into it. Do you see it? Just come a little closer, so you can see it.
Soraya looked at the mirror and without time to think it over she said, I'll take it. This is the mirror I want. She put her hand in her pocket to get her purse out, but the woman pushed her hand away.
No, my dear, it's a gift. From me to you. It's for your new home, enjoy it. Hang it somewhere you can see it every day.
Nikkie who just came through the curtain looked surprised, but to Soraya it was as normal as breathing. Nikkie saw.
Soraya took the mirror and just started to carry it away. Nikkie stepped up to catch up with her.
Isn't this, maybe just a little out of the ordinairy, Soraya? I mean, a mirror, maybe worth twohunderd bucks, handed to you for free?
What do you mean? Soraya asked, why is it so strange? This is just a very nice lady, she saw how Pretty I looked in it and wanted me to have it, I can't see why that should be strange.
You can't see why that's strange? Are you kidding me?
Nikkie, you're a nice girl, but don't try to understand charity. She realized the mirror and I were made for eachother. Now stop being jealous, be happy for me like a real friend would be.
Well. that's the problem right there. I dont know if I should be happy for you. Getting things for free Always hold a strange prize, you know?
You know what Nikkie? You start to sound like my mother, and I'm not moving out because I want to hear my mother talk all day, you get it? Now leave it. I got it, for free, it's mine, learn to live with it.
Nikkie walked towards the car. She had a really bad feeling about all this.
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On their way back home, the girls stopped at a gasstation to get some sixpacks of beer. Home at the appartement the boys attacked the beer like it was the first thing they would drink since ages.
We earned that sweetheart, didn't we Kevin?
Kevin agreed, as if an angel urinates right into your mouth. Nikkie looked at him with a disgusted face. Urine is urine my boy, she said.
Well, if it tastes like this, you may sit on my face lady, Kevin joked.
Nikkie quickly turned away and walked into the hall, shaking her head.
She saw Soraya standing. Was she talking to the mirror? Nikkie took another good look, but when Soraya noticed her, Nikkie quickly turned her head the other way. She walked back into the room and grabbed a beer. They boys were just about to get back to work.
Let's do the lamps, it'll be dark before we know it. and your dad can stay home, it's not that hard to connect a couple of wires, don't you think Kevin? Kevin already had a screwdriver in hand and asked where the lamps should go. Soraya walked towards the boys and started to instruct them.
Meanwhile Nikkie took advantage of the opportunity to take a better look at the mirror.
She saw the mirror was darker than normal, also it looked like smoke was catched in it. She looked a little bit deeper, but couldn't see anything else than that.
Maybe it's all in my head. Nikkie thought and soon she just forgot about the mirror.
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The first days and even weeks after Soraya's moving, there wasn't anything strange about her. She looked a bit tired, and when somebody asked, she answered that it's really hard. Working, studying, doing Household with everything that comes with it like paying bills and stuff, it wore her out, she said. She also wasn't used sleeping at her new house, all by herself, but she was determined to go through with it. No slumberparties at friends houses or sleeping a couple of nights at her parents home, she just wanted to consist.
Nikkie offered to sleep over at her house and to help her out a little bit, but Soraya kept her distance, and nobody noticed but Nikkie. That distance kept growing bigger and bigger between Soraya and everyone around her.
Soraya, once her closest friend became more like a stranger to her, and that worried Nikkie. That close bond they Always had, was almost gone to none.
To be continued..
