Demons in the Mirror - Chapter 112

Adreanna was born perfect.

She was perfect in many ways. But not in the way you think. She was perfect in a general way.

She never shed a tear. Never laughed. Never showed any kind of emotions. She was the perfect doll, a beautiful one. A really gorgeous doll.

When she was born, her mother thought that she was mute. She never talked or cried for two years. She was just a living doll that happened to be born in an unfortunate family.

She was just two years old that day. A cat was staring at her, and the young girl tilted her head at it. It quickly followed her movement, and Adreanna felt like she wanted to follow the cat.

It was a weird feeling. She wanted to hold it. The cat had a weird colour. It almost looked like red. She liked the colour.

When she approached it, the cat ran into the woods, leaving some trails behind for her to follow. The girl slowly followed the cat. Her sparkling blue eyes scanned the area and focused on the cat’s footprints.

She might have lost her way when the footprints had vanished. The girl looked around, and her long black hair bounced around. She found a red liquid that almost had the same colour as the cat.

Adreanna quickly followed the red liquid until she went even further into the woods. She stopped when she saw the red liquid everywhere and found the cat sleeping on the ground.

She picked it up and tilted her head curiously. She slowly hugged it and caressed the back of its fur. It wasn’t moving. Maybe it was a heavy sleeper.

There was this warm thing around the cat, though. The red liquid was warm. She looked up to see people sleeping around and picked a knife that was on the floor. She pocketed the weapon and gazed at the sleeping cat once more.

She recognized the faces. They were her neighbours. They fell asleep together. Maybe father was here too?

“Adreanna? Is that you- oh my god.” Her mother’s voice caught her ears, and the girl quickly turned around to see the woman hovering over her.

She offered the cat in her hand, trying to show how the cat slept peacefully without moving. Adreanna quickly got hugged by her mother. Oh? Did she like the cat too?

After that day, she never saw the cat any more. And the neighbours.

The first time she spoke was when she found her grandmother lying on the kitchen floor with the same red liquid. She was told that it was blood and that people with blood would be gone just like the cat.

She did not want that.

So Adreanna plucked the knife on her grandmother’s neck and brought it to her mother.

“Grandma gone. Blood.” She offered the knife to her stiffened mother, who suddenly shoved her away and screamed.

Adreanna’s elbow got hit by the edge of the door and bled. It stung, but she should probably follow her mother.

When she arrived at the kitchen again, her mother suddenly shook the girl’s body with water flowing out of her eyes. “You killed her!” She screamed at Adreanna while she kept shaking her body.

“Grandma gone,” Adreanna repeated her words and offered the knife again.

“It’s you. It’s because of you.” Her mother trembled and got away from her, looking at her with big eyes. Adreanna did not like the big eyes, though. She liked her mother’s usual one.

“Not me.” She extended her tiny hand and gave the knife to her mother again.

Her mother shook her head and looked at her with an ugly look. Adreanna disliked that look.

“Monster…” Her mother uttered with a slightly trembling voice.

Adreanna learnt what a monster meant that day. It was her.

She thought a monster was ugly and big, but apparently, she was a monster too. People called her pretty. Did that mean she was a pretty monster?

The next time she saw a red liquid was when her aunt tried to stab her. She was sleeping when suddenly, a person tried to shove the knife into her stomach. The knife pierced through her skin, and Adreanna gritted her teeth.

There was red liquid coming out of her stomach. She tried to shove her aunt’s hand away. Would she sleep forever too? She did not want that.

“Die, you monster.” Her aunt gritted and shoved the knife even deeper.

Adreanna thrashed around, trying to ask for help, but no sound was coming out of her mouth. She bit her aunt’s hand, causing the woman to stagger back while holding her bitten hand.

Adreanna quickly took out the knife, causing blood to overflow even more into her already red pyjamas.

Before the aunt could react, Adreanna shoved the knife into her aunt’s neck so that her aunt could sleep forever, just like how her grandmother did.

Adreanna did not want to sleep forever, so her aunt should be the one who slept forever.

Then the door slammed open, revealing a man with black wavy length hair staring at her with wide eyes. Her father came in and quickly secured Adreanna away. Her father easily treated her wound as her mother screamed once again at the sleeping aunt.

“You killed my sister!” Cecilia screamed at Adreamma and quickly got hugged by Cain, trying to calm her down.

“Yes. But aunt tried first.” She justified, and yet no one heard her voice.

Her mother stayed away from her since that day, never wanting to see her face. Adreanna was left alone, locked in a room. She heard that she was dangerous from her father.

But she did not do anything.

When she finally spoke up, no one heard her. No one believed her. So, in the end, she stayed silent again. She learnt that it was best that way.

No one would want to hear her.

Not even her father.

Her father would sometimes ‘test’ her and make her slice some dolls that looked like a person. One or two times, her father would test how she would handle a gun. It was weird at first, but she believed that she should be good at doing the test.

Adreanna aimed the gun to the head and shot the doll right on the spot. She lowered the weapon and tilted her head toward her father, looking at how her father’s face sometimes made a weird movement.

She wondered how to make that weird movement too.

The day her mother died, she was the last person to meet her. She brought a lavender because her mother always kept that flower around.

She got in after the doctor finished talking to her mother. When she got in, her mother did not even glance at her but she was used to it. The young girl put the lavender beside her mother’s bed and stayed silent.

Adreanna watched her holding a camera and tried to record herself. She once saw her mother do that too. Her mother always did that and never wanted to be disturbed.

One day, the first time she got in the room where her mother tried to record herself was when she wanted to see her brother. She tugged her mother’s dress, and her mother stared at her with wide eyes.

“Don’t make a noise or disturb me when I’m recording. Please don’t listen to my recording too. Just stay silent and stay away from me.”

Her mother quickly left the room and went to record somewhere else.

Adreanna learnt that she shouldn’t disturb her when she wanted to record herself. So, every time she wanted to meet her mother, she would wait until she finished.

However, even though she waited, her mother would only ignore her and go past her. Adreanna still came to her mother’s room every day though, because that was the only way for her to meet her mother.

So when her mother was recording a video on her bed after giving birth, Adreanna waited beside her. She stayed silent, just like how her mother taught her.

“The doctor- Adreanna call the doctor, please-” Her mother suddenly spoke.

Was she speaking to her? Oh, was the camera aiming at her? Should she talk? Was this a test?

Adreanna stared at the beeping sound and her mother, who suddenly stayed silent. Was she sleeping? But she told her to remain silent and never talk when a camera was recording. Maybe she should stay for a moment.

Her mother slept really well. Adreanna probably should leave and let her sleep. She was probably mad because she went in when she was recording.

So the girl quietly left the room, not knowing that her mother had left the world at that moment.

She went to many tests after her mother got buried. She saw how her father would cry all day in her mother’s grave and stood right beside her father. She would stay by his side and wait for him to finish pouring water from his eyes.

The tests turned into training, and the training turned into a killing. Her father would make her stay away from her brothers all the time.

One day, when she wanted to spend her time with Kiaran on his ninth birthday, her father brought her away. He said that she should not hang around her brothers because she lived in a different world than them. He told her to throw away the knife that she wanted to give to Kiaran.

She wondered if she could join their world too. Maybe they could join her world. But her father said that they did not have the criteria to be in her world.

She wished they lived in the same world. But maybe she could kill all the people in their way and make her brothers live in the best world.

And so she killed all the people in her brothers’ way to make a perfect world. She became the best assassin and protected her brothers from afar, hoping that they lived under the bright light while she watched from the shadow.

Then maybe when her father told her that she could finally finish doing all of this, she could join their world too. Maybe went into the same school as Kiaran and walked around the city with Axel.

That was her mission for a while until she met a serial killer named Maera.