Chapter 3
"Maybe you can place it here inside my bedroom," Rosalie told the two men carrying the mirror to put it in her bedroom. And the two men bring the mirror inside the bedroom of Rosalie.
"Where will you place this mirror? On the wall?" one of the men asked Rosalie.
"Yes," Rosalie answered.
"If you tell us which wall you will place this mirror on, we could do it for you." Said the other man.
"Really? But I have no materials." Rosalie answered them.
"We have in the car."
"Really, then I will be very thankful if it will be done for me. I think I cannot do it alone by myself."
"You can do it with your husband?" one guy said.
"I am not married. I live here alone!" Rosalie told to the two men that she only lived alone in the house.
That night Rosalie went to bed satisfied. The mirror was placed on the wall next to the small night table next to her bed. For a while, she stayed awake as she had thoughts on what the woman told about her previous past life. She was a Queen, royal blood. A nice thought. She, born in the Philippines, her family poor, royal blood, a queen before? And Rosalie fell asleep refused to think the other not-so-good part of the story the woman in the Paranormal Fair told to her that day.
Twelve o'clock midnight. Rosalie was awakened and she knew it was midnight as she heard the clock of the neighbor struck twelve times.
Normally she slept like a block, when she closed her eyes almost always at nine o'clock in the evening, she will be awake in the morning at six o'clock. She needed no alarm clock; her body has a rhythm and it did not disappoint her.
She went out of the bed, go out of her room and go to the water closet as she had a strong urge to pee.
When she came back to sleep again, she felt so cold that she took an extra blanket and cover herself with it.
Rosalie had not quickly returned to sleep as she wanted. Her thoughts were busy analyzing the story of the woman about her past life and this time her thoughts were on the horrible death that happened to the queen.
Then she heard something outside her bedroom, like someone is walking hence and fort. It's the first time she felt uneasy about her house. She remembered one time when she gave a party that one friend of hers, her name was Emily hurriedly leave and went home. Later she heard that Emily was in the toilet when she saw a big hand wanted to grab her. She was so afraid but do not want to disturb the party that she just asked her husband that they must go home.
There were also friends that asked her if she was not afraid to be alone in her house. They said that they saw some person that must not be there, in one word they meant ghosts. Rosalie by herself never experienced strange happening in her house, so she just answered the people that told her about the ghost that she had not noticed it, and if there are indeed ghosts in her house, she's not afraid and with a joke told them that the ghosts in her house were her bodyguards that protect her.
Tonight, this night was different. The house seemed was filled with an eerie atmosphere and discomfort. Of the unexplained noise outside her bedroom, Rosalie had a fear that she quickly got up from her bed and locked her bedroom. She never had done it before, locking her bedroom but this time she thought she must.
Unnoticed Rosalie fell asleep and she doesn't know what time. Six o'clock in the morning she woke up according to her biorhythm.
Rosalie prepared to go to her work. She first drank tea, take a shower, had her breakfast and after she dressed, she looked at the mirror she had just bought yesterday. She saw herself look haggard but she thought it was just because she had not slept well that night.
"Okay, you may look haggard but you have to go to your work, Rosalie." Rosalie talked to herself and she bowed to pick up her handbag when she suddenly stopped and looked again in the mirror. She saw something strange in the mirror but she was not so sure. When she's talking to herself in the mirror, she saw her reflection smiling when she herself was not.
For quite of time, she just stood in front of the mirror motionless and have a kind of penetrating looked to the reflection of herself, but she noticed nothing; but why when she talked to herself about although she looked haggard, she must go to work, she saw her reflection in the mirror smiling when she herself was not? Strange she thought, but maybe it was just her imagination.
SAME as yesterday, Rosalie and Isabel were partnered again to roam the city. The vicinity of their work was the same, the Paranormal Fair.
"We have again to walk through extraordinary things," Isabel said, what she meant was the many tents in the fair.
"That's why it's called paranormal," Rosalie answered. "Yesterday I saw a tent about Palmistry, what do you think if we let our hands be read today?"
"Rosalie, it costs money," Isabel said. "You can afford it because you are single but me, I have two kids. Besides seems you believe this kind of stuff."
"It's just for fun! I will pay for you, don't worry about money." Rosalie was so eager to go inside the tent of Palmistry.
Isabel shrugged her shoulder and reluctantly walked with Rosalie to the direction where the tent of Palmistry was when Isabel noticed something.
"Rosalie, look," Isabel said and pointed to Rosalie a vacant space. "The tent about Guardian Angels was gone!"
Rosalie stopped walking. Isabel was right, the tent where they were in yesterday to know who their guardian angel is, was gone. *To be continued* Remedios Dorio