"I saw your friend Faiz, my cousin."
"What?" Skylar went one step forward, approaching Michelia to hear her more clearly behind the vibrations of her voice.
"It may not make sense to you, but I saw him disappear for myself. He disappeared like he had been sucked into a mirror in the warehouse."
Skylar's legs became limp. What's this?
***
"Are you sure Lia?" asked Skylar almost sounding like a whisper of disbelief.
Michelia nodded, but she still replied directly. "I'm sure I saw it for myself."
Skylar sighed, he tapped the tip of his shoe to the floor. "I forgot to know that actually, the thing Faiz is going through is the same thing Neil is going through now."
For a split second Michelia's eyes widened and instantly glazed over, Skylar knew she must be mad at him. However, Skylar's mind is too full of Neil to have room left to tell Michelia about this.
"Where's Neil? I've been looking for him to and fro and I'm almost desperate and I want to go straight to the police. While you're here to know about him and don't bother telling me."
Skylar massaged his forehead and released it. "I'm sorry."
"Where is he?" asked Michelia again, she seemed in a hurry.
"He's stuck in a mirror world." Skylar wished he didn't have to explain it completely now. There was still Faiz he should be able to search for and find clues instead of just standing here.
Michelia seemed to be aware of something. When Michelia wanted to open her mouth to ask, Skylar raised her hand to stop her from speaking. "Later, I'll have to see where Faiz disappears. I also had to get Neil out of there, you don't know what he's been through recently."
Skylar walked fast, but only a few steps away he left. Michelia clasped Skylar's hand and stopped him. He clucked and Skylar was about to jolt his hand when Michelia finally asked, "Neil why? He's fine, isn't he?"
"Later."
In the end, Skylar ran down the corridor towards the warehouse that Michelia was referring to, he left the girl in his wake. As he stood on the floor of the warehouse, Skylar instead found Davi standing in front of the mirror, carefully stroking the dull mirror attached to the wall at the corner of the room.
Realizing Skylar's existence around him, Davi immediately turned his head and grinned as he met Skylar. Skylar moved forward towards him. He asked a little harshly even though Skylar didn't mean it that way. "What are you doing here?"
"Relax, why are you angry? I could have asked the same thing," he said. Stuff one of his hands into his pants pocket.
Skylar examines Davi and finds suspicion within him. Davi who was standing before him was no longer the quiet person Skylar knew. There was a look of cunning in his small eyeball, especially with one corner of his lips raised in such a way. Created a pattern of suspicion for Skylar about Davi's presence here. He was right in front of the mirror when Skylar entered, just like a few days ago in the toilet with smoke and cracks in the mirror. How is Skylar so blind?
Skylar's bad thoughts always appeared in the worst of circumstances. "Do you know Faiz is missing?"
Davi seemed to think but he didn't because he already knew it, Skylar narrowly watched his movements closely. He could still hold his patience for a moment. Davi piled his weight leaning towards the mirror on his side. Skylar did not miss how Davi's eyes glanced into the mirror. It was clear that Skylar never mentioned the mirror to Davi to be the reason.
Skylar followed his gaze. He gasped, it could be that at that moment in the toilet Skylar wasn't paying proper attention. Now he could see it, and put together a very plausible theory and discover the fact that Davi aside from that he was stupid, was also careless.
"I don't know, obviously the news hasn't spread well, right?" he replied with a question.
The sound of noisy shoes echoed within the deserted corridor and stopped in the doorway. There was no need to turn around to see that Michelia came up with noisier.
"I know who you are, and where you're from," Skylar said sharply. Skylar's jaw hardened as he again glanced at the mirror without the reflection of the shadow from Davi's figure.
Davi seemed to stiffen where he stood, but he tried as smoothly as possible to stay calm. But of course, it's free.
"How did you get here?" asked Skylar as he got closer to Davi, his eyes staring intently flashy.
Davi snorted his hands crossed in front of his chest with his eyes moving out of focus. "What nonsense are you talking about?"
Skylar rolled his eyeballs. Michelia came and stood next to him and asked, "What are you talking about?"
Davi wouldn't open his mouth, Skylar knew that. He wouldn't be begging for information, he would take out his brother and his own best friend from the mirror.
"I've seen it," Skylar said, turning his head toward the mirror. "If you're involved in this. Sooner or later you know what's going to happen."
Davi looked flabbergasted, his lips open only for him to close again. "Look, you'll never be able to get him out. It will never be able to."
After saying that Davi left with an uncomfortable silence for Skylar. He wished those words were just meaningless sentences.
"What did that mean?" asked Michelia.
Skylar sighed heavily and only shook his head in response, he approached the mirror to see what was wrong.
"If it's related to Neil and Faiz you can't just be quiet."
"You won't understand." Skylar looked at the mirror more closely, his hands raised to sweep away the fine dust on the dirty surface of the mirror. "Faiz disappeared here?"
"Yes, I didn't intentionally see it for myself. It's like he got sucked in there." Skylar only nodded briefly. He remembered Neil disappearing by hitting the mirror." Faiz broke this?"
Michelia needed some time to answer, Skylar turned her head to see the girl staring with furrowed brows. In the end, Michelia replied, "No, he didn't break it. But what does all this mean?"
Skylar ignored him with his eyes exploring his falling seat right on the seat lying upside down, mindlessly grabbing it with a feeling of despair Skylar smashed the chair into the mirror. The glass shattered into pieces under his feet with a loud sound of deaf ears.
He heard a sharp breath from Michelia who was standing behind him. Skylar scared Michelia, but it was Skylar who was more afraid. Although he didn't know how Neil and Faiz's place disappeared, he knew for sure there was no change, he was still here.
"What are you doing, Skylar?" Michelia sounded amid the roar of Skylar's thinning breath. Wrong time to ask, Skylar thought.
"Shut up. You don't know about this," Skylar snarled.
"It's related to Neil my best friend and my cousin Faiz. I asked," he almost shouted.
Skylar snorted, although he knew it shouldn't be Skylar venting his emotions at Michelia. "Than me? Neil's my brother, Faiz my best friend."
Michelia backed off, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have shouted. But I just want to know where they are."
"They are somewhere else, not here, nowhere. Even if it doesn't make sense." Skylar turned to face Michelia directly.
"Where?"
Skylar tiredly pointed at the mirror that was beside him. "I thought you'd known since Faiz disappeared."
Thank you for reading.