Ashley's POV
I, Asher and Mum sat in the living room watching our favorite TV program. I spooned cereals into my mouth as we did.
"How was school today?,any friends?" She asked, her eyes still on the TV and I smiled. "Yeah,I really want you to meet them." I told her and she chuckled,Asher scoffed.
He imitated me rolling his eyes. I laughed and ignored him. "Can they come over Mum?, you'll really want to see them." I pleaded giving her the puppy dog eyes.
"Sure. Maybe I could see them tomorrow before I go on my night shift." She said and I grinned like a crazy person. "Thanks Mum."
"Urggh!,next thing and this house is a Barbie castle." He groaned and I threw a pillow at him.
I ran upstairs and turning on my laptop,video called the three of them.
Summer's sqeal sealed our agreement,we were having a sleepover tomorrow night and I was so excited about it.
If only we knew what was in stock for us.
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I avoided dark blue eyes throughout the next day,I guess he wasn't even in school.
I had another fun experience with Asher's friends from the football team and I laughed till my ribs hurt,there was one person I looked forward to seeing there.
The one with the eyes that reminded me of my favorite chocolate.
He flashed me a grin today and I felt butterflies in my stomach.
Now I stood in my living room in my PJs preparing snacks for our sleepover. I pecked Mum on her cheeks when she came down in her work clothes.
"Are they here yet?" She asked running her hands over her cloth. "Almost,it's six already." I said. Asher ran down the stairs and plopped on the couch. He reached out for a snack and I smacked his hand away. "Harsh." He pouted.
The door bell rang and I jerked in excitement. I ran to the door and opened it. Noel, Summer and Tory stood at the door with their stuffs.
"Hey girl!" Summer said and I giggled as I ushered them in. Asher shifted to a different position on the couch and flashed a grin.
They introduced themselves to Mum and for the hundredth time,told her how cool she was for letting us have a sleepover,she waved it off and in a few minutes,she was out of the house.
"I'll be up, expecting someone by the way." Asher flashed another grin our way and ran up.
They stayed silent.
Then they began screaming. I covered my ears.. urggh!
"You know Asher Richardson?" Noel asked and after giving her a moment for realization,she oohed.
"Your brother then." Tory exclaimed and fell on the couch. "My twin brother."
I waited for it.
They screamed more and I groaned.
"He is so adorbs." Summer purred and I laughed. "You have a boyfriend Summer." Noel said and she pouted. "Doesn't mean I don't admire hot-" She said and I shivered cutting her short,she giggled.
"No boy talks." I said sitting beside Tory on the couch although I wanted to ask about one whose eyes gave me chills
Wait,two did.
"Let's watch a movie." Summer suggested taking a slice from the pizza.
They changed into their PJs and soon we were in front of my laptop arguing about the movie to watch.
"Romance?" I suggested.
They giggled and replied in sync "No."
"Comedy?" I suggested again. I knew what was coming so I continued to sort through my movies.
"Wait,what's that?" Tory asked taking control of the laptop. "The bloody Mary!,damn,you have this movie?" She asked in excitement.
"Um.." I didn't remember putting this here,at all. "Let's watch it!" Summer said.
I shrugged giving in. "It's gonna be a cosy night." Noel exclaimed making her voice vibrate and we giggled.
I forgot about the fact that I didn't put this movie in my laptop, the fact that I hated horror movies.
I was caught up with the movie and drowned in the ocean of their excitement about the movie.
Thirty minutes later and we were screaming,all huddled together and eyes fixed on my laptop.
The light in the living room flickered and went off. We got silent.
Then it came on again and we burst into laughter.
"That was awesome. I got scared out of my wits." Summer exclaimed getting up. "I have to pee,which way?" She asked me.
"Upstairs,the room at the left." I directed and she ran up. The rest of us talked about the movie and how freaked out we got from it.
"Ashley!" Summer screamed. We waited and when her scream rang out again,we all ran upstairs.
Have you ever been shocked so much that you could barely speak?,well I was immediately we got to my room.
Mirrors hung everywhere around my room and Summer stood in front of the biggest one admiring herself. I began a thorough mind calculation. Who put these here?,the first name in my head was Asher but still if he did,what for?
"You didn't tell me you had a flare for mirrors." She giggled. "I.don't." I said between pauses.
"You know,why don't we try the stuff from the movie?,it's a sleepover after all." Noel suggested looking at us expectantly.
I was too caught up with the mirrors that I didn't realize when the girls plopped on the floor in front of the largest mirror. "C'mon Ash, it'll be fun." Tory said. Flashes appeared in my head,the image of the girl from the other night.
I could have told them that I didn't like the idea,that I had never ever played a demonic game but instead,I sat on the floor with them.
"Switch off the lights. Wait,we need candles." She stood up and moved to my dressing table,she pulled my drawer and pulled out seven candles. Noel smiled,"your room even wants us to play it."
I stared at the candles in her hands. I didn't put that there. Many people would have taken this as a prank but I didn't. Whenever I felt weird or felt things were about to get weird,I would feel certain things run down my spine,weird sensations and my palms would get oddly cold.
Right now,I felt more.
Noel lighted the candles and switched off the light in my room. Before that,we arranged ourselves in an orderly manner,still in front of the mirror and waited.
Noel was to start everything.
The air flowing in from my window seemed to flow with a whisper,the fire on top the candles glowed brighter and stood firm. I gulped at the uneasiness that enveloped me. Maybe if we hadn't seen the strange mirrors or the candles I had certainly not kept in my room,I might have been excited to play this game.
I wasn't,and that should have stopped me,but it didn't,I was too stuck to the floor to even say a thing.
We chanted the 'Mary' seven times and I could not help remember the girl from the other night,she had called me Mary.
We finished and waited for what would happen next. We were in total silence except for the tick tock sound of my clock.
I closed my eyes, reopened them.
Nothing.
I nearly let out a sigh of relief when they burst out laughing. "Well that was fun." Summer said. Weirdly,we still sat in front of the mirror staring at it as if we knew it would happen.
And it did.
The breeze coming in from the window whistled and flowed in furiously.
One by one,the candles went off.
I could barely breathe as I sat fixed on the spot. Then we saw it.
A figure stood in front of the mirror. A female with long faded gament,long black hair that covered her face except her eyes and then blood.
Blood rolling down her eyes.
"Holy shit." Noel muttered out of breath. Tory fell back on the floor, whimpering and moving backwards. "The door!" Summer screamed rushing up. The figure screamed and a furious wind lifted Summer and flung her hard on the wall.
My window closed shut.
My door too.
I watched in horror as every means of escape locked up.
"M..a..r..y" it said with trembling voice as it emerged from the mirror.
The terror I felt made me jerk up a bit especially when I saw my life flash before my eyes. My Bible stood on top of my dressing table,I hastened to stand up and get it.
Glass shattered from above and the force of it sent Tory flying through the air till she made a hard contact with my door and fell.
I gapsed getting up to reach for my Bible. "ma..ry!" the figure screamed and a force threw me back forcefully on the floor. With one hands up at Noel's direction,I watched Noel floating on air and choking fiercely.
I groaned in horror and the figure faced me. She approached me,her smell like rotten corpse. I shook my head vigorously as terror completely washed over me. I crawled backwards as she came forward.
The stench of death surrounded her as her hands shot up at me,cracking as it did.