"The Mirror"

"Okay guys… remember that this is my first time to write a novel that is written in English. If anyone of you find mistakes while reading… I do apologize…please spare me.
Thank for having a time in reading my story. I hope you enjoy and have fun while reading.”

Sincerely yours,
Diana Vymm

The characters and events in this story are purely fictional and are not to be construed as even remotely inspired by person and events known and unknown to the author.

PART 1

”Don’t dare to go in that room Tom!” His mother scolded him.
“Why?”He replied.
“It’s forbidden!”
A 10 years old Tom ran into his room like he used to.

That was 12 years ago…
He was really curious about that room, he never been there or even dare to get near on that place.
He decided to find the key of that forbidden room.

“There you are… finally, I’ve got you.” He smiled while holding the key of his great grandpa’s room.

He took the long hall from the east wing of that mansion.
He really wants to know what’s inside of that room,
why it was forbidden.
He was really curious about it.
As he took his last few step from the door...
“Are you sure about this Tom?” He asked himself.
He took a pause and said.
“There’s nothing wrong, I just want to see what’s inside.” He reasoned out.
He was holding the golden antique key and put it in its keyhole of the big old door.
He twisted the key to right to unlock the door
...and slowly opened it.

PART 2

It was dark inside of the room, luckily he brought his cell phone and used its small light to find the switch of the light but he failed, he only found an old lamp near the table besides his great grandpa’s bed. He searched his lighter in his pocket and made a light.
“There’s nothing wrong in this room… why it was forbidden?” he asked himself as his eyes looked around the old room, he saw an old painting of his great grandfather. “He looked exactly just like me.” He realized while staring at it, a sudden lightning strike out in the window. He walked toward the window to see the view from that room, it was raining outside.
“It’s raining again?” He said. Tom sat on the bed behind him he accidentally held the statue on the edge of that bed. A secret door opened.
He decided to enter that place. It was a long stairs going down. “I didn’t know that there’s a room under this mansion.” He said as he walked down, holding the old lamp he saw a while ago. Finally he reached the end. “What is this place?” He just saw old walls on the end of the stairs. It was a dead end, all he sees there was nothing but a…
“Mirror?” He saw an old mirror on the darkest part of the secret room, He looked at it, it was an old antique mirror, oval in shape made with a gold and precious gems.
“Cool.” Tom said, he put away all those spider webs covering that mirror revealing his reflection in it, he remembered the painting of his grate grandpa upstairs. While looking at his reflection he noticed something inside of it… his reflection suddenly changed, his brown hair became black and his face got paler.
He was shocked on what he sees. He walked backward from it.
“Don’t be afraid!” The reflection spoke.
“W-Who are you?” He curiously asked.
“Do you want a wish?”

PART 3

Tom walked closer to the man inside the mirror. “A wish… Are you a genie or what?”
“No, I’m a prince… a cursed vampire.” The man in the mirror explained.
“Vampire Prince? Wow cool…”
“You can wish anything your hearts desire, but in return you must help me to get there in your time to find a potion that will make me back to human again.”
“If you can give me a wish, why don’t you wish for that potion?”
“I can’t do that… that’s why I needed your help.”
“But how can I help you?”
“You must come here.”
He thought of his Dad, he was sick, a kind of disease that there’s no cure. He thought that that wish was the only thing to save his dad’s life.“Okay then but how can I go there. But how long it will take? I can’t be there for a long time my family will find me.”
“They won’t notice that you were gone. I’ll take your place there instead.”
“You will take my place, what do you mean?”
“Put your hand in the mirror and close your eyes.” He put out his hand upon it and slowly he closed his eyes.

In just a blink of an eye they exchanged.
Tom opened his eyes, he saw his reflection again, those dark brown dreadlocks and his brown eyes… but, “What is these?” He was holding his face realizing that there’s something in his mouth, “a fangs!” He looked at his hands it was pale like he was a living dead, no blood rushing in his veins it was cold… it was very cold.
“What happened?”
“I told you they will never notice that you were gone…” He saw himself smiling at him.
“You… you took my body?” He couldn’t believe that it is possible.
“I will give it back to you as soon as I found that potion.”
“But what if you didn’t found it?”
He saw his real body giving him sad face. “If I didn’t found it we will stay like this forever.”
“But that’s not a deal!”
“The deal was, I will find my potion here and I will give you your wish.”
“Yes it was, but I don’t want to stay here forever.” He was thinking about his girlfriend Zannie.
“I’ll find that potion as soon as possible then I give your body back.” He narrated.
That was the last word he said. Then the mirror became an ordinary mirror.
“Wait!” he tried to communicate to the other side but no one responded.
He was looking on his real reflection in that mirror. “I’m a vampire now…”He realized as he saw himself from it.

PART 4

”I missed this feeling… this warm body makes me feel alive.” Bill was so happy being a human again in Tom’s body. “But I need to go back there… as soon I found that sorcerer.”
“But where will I start?” he asked himself.
He walked upstairs and goes straight into Tom’s room. He entered the room. He looked around noticed things that he never saw before…
“Kring! Kring! Kring!” Tom cell phone was ringing; Bill was wondering about that strange noise, he felt it was vibrating in his pocket. He curiously took it and looked at it.
Tom’s mom was calling from abroad. He accidentally pressed the answer button.
"Tom? Tom?” Bill put the unknown object to his ears, hearing the voice of a lady in other line.
“Hello Tom, are you there? Hello?”
“Hello?”
“Why you didn’t answer my calls?”
“I’m doing something…” He explained without knowing who’s in the other line.
“Okay… me and your dad needed to stay here for a long time Tom… you know your dad needs it, so take care of yourself there ha…”
Now Bill knew that the voice in the other line was Tom’s mom.
“Okay… take care.” He said blankly.
“Okay, Take care too, love you.” And the line went off.



“Master Tom, Miss Zannie was there outside waiting for you.” A maidservant said.
“Zannie?” he curiously asked. His maid servant noticed that something went wrong.
“Master… Are you okay? Is there something wrong?”
“Huh… no, why, do you think I’m not?”
“No Master.” She quickly replied with fear.
“Okay then, where is she?”
”At the garden, young master.”
“Thank you.”


He went straight to the garden.
Zannie was there standing next to the fountain. Bill walked toward the girl. Zannie noticed that he was there so she looked back. Bill was surprised on what he sees. “Yana? What are you doing here?”

PART 5

”Yana? Tom. Are you sick?” He put the back of her hand in his forehead, but she felt no warn on it. “hmmp, I’m hotter than you… what’s wrong with you babe?”
Bill hugged her tight; he really missed Yana his long lost love…


She was the only daughter of King Trimon but the king won’t let her go outside of there palace.
“You can never go there my dear princess.”
“But Dad I just want to see…”
“Not a word Yana, go to your room!”
She can’t do anything but to follow his Father.
Yana escape from the palace to see what’s outside of that wall now she was walking around to see the view outside her castle.

She has ebony black wavy hair, a face that everyone fantasized; she is the most beautiful from all.
“Oh! I never thought there a beautiful falls here.” She was amazed on what she saw.
Yana decided to go into to feel the refreshing water on it, she looked around to if anyone was there before getting undressed.


Meanwhile…
“Oh! Where is my locket?” Prince Bill asked one of his guards standing next to him for the locket that his beloved mother gave him.
“The Prince’s locket was missing… find it!” All the soldiers were looking for it. “Its okay maybe I left it in the falls… I’ll get it.” He said.
“We’ll get it for you our Prince.”
“Remember that you are not allowed to enter that place, soldier.” He smiled.
“I’m sorry your highness.” He bowed down to him.
“Its okay soldier…just stay here and I’ll go back.”
He went back to the sacred falls.

PART 6

Bill took his golden locket in the tree near the falls, he noticed that someone was there and it looks like... it needed his help. Without any doubt, he jumped into the water.
Yana was shocked when someone held her waist. “Ahh!” she screamed. They both float into the water. Bill was looking at her, curiously.
She was naked. “Disrespectful!” She slapped him on his face. Yana submerged herself back to the water, while Bill swim back to the land and took his clothes off.
“What are you doing?” She nervously asked staying under the water.
Bill gave it to her. “Cover yourself.” She reached it and covered herself.“Thank you.”
“Its okay lady,” He smiled. “I’m sorry, I thought you needed help, I thought you were drowning…” He explained while his eyes were searching for her dress, he walked to get it and gave the silk dress to her. She took it and get dressed.
Bill was at his back. “What are you doing here Lady?”
”Just looking around.” She was finished getting dressed and now she was walking toward him. “I want to…” She suddenly slipped. “Ah…” Luckily Bill was very fast he caught her. “Be careful Lady.” They were so close; she was looking at his face, “He’s so handsome.” Her mind whispered. She moved herself backward as she hid her blushed face. It was a strange feeling she never felt before.
“Did you know that this place was forbidden?”
“Forbidden? I’m sorry I don’t know.”
“You’re not from here, right Lady?” He asked.
“Yes, I don’t live here… I live in that palace.” She point out the palace near that place.
“So you’re from that palace… Did you know that this place is dangerous for you, what if I’m not the one who saw you there…”
“I’m sorry; I just want to see what’s outside our palace.” She stooped down.
“I see… Lady, my name is Bill, and you are?”
“Yana.” She said
“And you? Why are you here? You said this place was forbidden?”
“We own this place.”
“Really?”
He nodded back.
“You’re lucky you own this place… It’s beautiful, Bill.”
“You can now go here every time you want, Yana.”
“Really you will allow me?”

And they became friends from that day on and later became lovers…
but.

PART 7

”You can’t be with him!”
“Why daddy, I love him! I love Bill!” It was the first time she argued with his dad.
“How did you meet that prince from the east? Did I tell you that you’re not allowed to go outside of this palace?”
She kept in silence.
“Guards!” The palace soldiers were there instantly. “I want you all to be very strict in watching your princess! I won’t allow this thing to happen again!”
“Dad! Don’t do this to me!”
“Take her to her room!” King’s ordered.


Yana,
Always think about you, I miss you, I want to
be with you. I’m hoping to see you again, my princess.

Bill.


She misses Bill. She really loves him. They communicate though letters even it was forbidden, until…
“Daddy!” She was caught by his dad. “This letter was for that prince? I told you about this Yana! You were about to get married!”
“I don’t love him! And I will never love him!”
The King slapped her soft face. ”Disrespectful! You will marry the prince from the South whether you like it or not!”
She was left crying in her room.

PART 8

”Poor darling can’t be with your lover?” a voice came out from no where.
“Who are you?” she looked around her room. “Reveal yourself to me!”
“The forest witch…darling” She appeared in front of her.
“I love him but…”
“…but the problem was your father, right?” She nodded back.
“I can help you darling…”
“But how?”
“Just drink the forbidden potion.” She calmly said.
“The forbidden potion? But it is forbidden that why they called it forbidden potion, right?”
The witch laughed wickedly. “But you want to be with your prince…”
“Yes…I want to be with him, but…”
“Then drink it.”
The witch gave the black bottle where the forbidden potion was. ”Drink it!”
“But how can I be with Bill? they said through this you can travel in time…but.”
“Exactly!” She added quickly.
“What do you mean?”
“If you can’t be with him in this time then you will be with him in other time.” She gave her a fake smile.
She was staring at the small black bottle in her hand, “Wait…” She walked on her table and took a piece of paper and her feather pen, she wrote her last letter for Bill.

Bill,
This will be my last letter for you, I will go far
from this place, you will never see me again, maybe I’ll
see in my next life, maybe in that time we can be
together, until we meet again my love.
Yana.


She let her friend dove take the letter to his beloved prince.
Bill went to her palace but it was too late. The whole palace was in mourning
“Look what you’ve done to my beloved daughter!”

PART 9

He looked at her body lying on the golden bed. “She drank the forbidden potion for you to be with her,”
“What? She drank the forbidden potion?”
“The forbidden potion allowed the person to travel in time… but there’s no assurance that the person who drank it will still came back.” The lady beside the king explained.
“She took it because of you; it’s your fault because you make her fall for you!” The King added.
Bill was blank looking in Yana’s body lying; cold, lifeless… she was a sleeping dead.
“Cursed him!” The King ordered the lady beside him… She’s wearing a black cape covering her face.
“You will be thirst for blood, you will drink blood, and you will be the most dangerous predator for humans, you… together with your whole clan will suffer.”
“Ahh!” Bill screamed out loud as he transformed as a vampire.
“You can only break the curse if you found the potion that can bring our princess back to life.” She chanted.


As he went back to his palace, everything there has changed… there’s blood everywhere. His people were eating each other… He went straight to his palace and seeks for his beloved father.
All of his clan became vampires just like what has been said to the curse.
He found his father sitting on his throne but lifeless, the King was dead…all of his clan was dead on the floor… they killed each other.
“Father! Father!” He tried to wake his beloved father.
Bill he went to the sacred falls to talk to the palace fairies.
“Bring my father back to life, fairies.”
“We can’t do anything our prince.”
“But this is impossible! You are fairies…”
“We can’t bring dead humans back to life.”
“No!” He cried.
“but we can make an immortal humans for you my prince.”
“Immortal humans?”
“Yes my prince… a human that will never die for you to eat.”
“Done! Do what you have to do fairies.”


Years later Bill heard that the King from that palace died together with his people because of war. That beautiful palace became cursed. Everyone who tried to get in never came back alive.

PART 10

That was a 100 years ago, everything has changed, people has changed. He was still searching for that potion, to bring Yana’s back to life and to be a human again… He was hopeless while looking at her beautiful face… Yana was sleeping in his bed but lifeless.
“I miss your smile Yana… the way you look at me, the way you kissed me…”He was reminiscing those moments. “I’ll promise I will make you back to life… my beloved princess.”
He went the deep sacred forest to see the forest witch.



“What a pleasant surprise, my prince.” She gave him a wicked smile.
“I needed your help…witch.”
“Its been a hundred years since I saw you… I remembered you’re a human back then…”
“I know… but as you can see I’m a vampire now… I needed your help to bring me back to human again and bring Yana back to life.” He narrated.
“You have your fairies, why don’t you ask them?”
“I tried but they can’t do it.”
“Okay but you know you must give something in return.”
“What do you want? Do you want gold? Everything… I will give it to you…”
“I don’t need your treasures my prince… I need more than that.”
“Then what is it?”
“Your beautiful long hair.”
“My hair?”
“Yes, your hair my prince.”
“But…”
“It’s just your hair.”
Bill held his long hair as he think on what’s the right thing to do,
“Okay but promise me that you will make me a human again and I will find that potion to make her live again.”
“You can be human again but not in that body my prince.”
“What do you mean?”
“You will travel in time using this mirror.” She showed the magic mirror made of gold and gems. Bill looked at the mirror. “How can I find the potion?”
“You need to go in the other side but you need a human to make it possible.”
“But how?”
“I will give you one wish to give it to that human in return. Then find the sorcerer who cursed you and take the potion to her but you must comeback here in our time before the sun down on the 3rd day.”
“That sorcerer knows where the potion was?”
“What? That’s why…” He remembered that moment when the sorcerer suddenly gone. He was thinking why the sorcerer did that, why she made him a vampire and why she let Yana asleep for a long time… he was confused, why the King didn’t notice that his trusted sorcerer was the one who can make his beloved daughter back to life.
“What will happen in if I didn’t found the potion? What if I can’t comeback in time?”
“You get stuck in that time.”
“How about if I came back in time but I didn’t found the potion?”
“I will take the first born of your great grandson.” She wickedly laughed.
“So I must do both?”
The witch gave him an evil smile.
“I will comeback in time and find that potion, witch.”
“Done!” She chanted the magical words. Bill Held his beloved long hair for the last time and after those chants it became short. It’s just a magic it disappear suddenly. He didn’t get surprised on what she did, she was the wicked forest witch… she can do everything… anything.

PART 11

Tom was very thirsty…He wants to eat… he want blood.
But he doesn’t know where to start… he don’t even know where he is…
A woman came into the room. “My prince I’m here for your dinner.” She laid her hand unto him; He noticed that it was full of bite scars. “You’re a human?”
“Yes my prince.” She bowed down to him.
“But why? I mean if I bite you… you’ll die.” The lady laughed.
“Are you sick my prince?” Tom kept his silence as he was looking at her.
“I can’t die… I’m immortal remember? I was made for you.” She narrated.
“You are made for me? to drink your blood?” He asked innocently.
The lady noticed that it wasn’t Prince Bill anymore. “Who are you? Why you’re in our prince’s body?” She moved backward.
“Ha! Me? I’m Tom… from that world inside that mirror.” He confessed while he pointed the mirror beside the window.
“You are from there?”
“Yes you’re prince asked me to stay here until he found that potion.”
“But how… you mean there’s a world behind that?” The girl looked at the mirror.
“Yes…” He looked around the place; he noticed it was the room of his great grandfather. “This room it looks familiar.” He curiously walked around; the girl was just staring at him. “What the date today?” He asked while she was looking at the painting in front of him.
“Today? April 1, 1909…”
“Today, in my time it was April 1, 2011.” He mind remembered. He sat on the bed and think.
“This place…”
“Why? Is there something wrong?”
“No… nothing, I’m just thinking how I will come back in my time.”

PART 12

”So… that’s what happened here.”
“Yes and we will suffer forever if the Prince will not found that potion.”
“So that potion was really important?” He took her hand and looked at her scars.
“Yes it is Prince…”She looked at him.
“Tom, just call me Tom… and don’t add the prince word.” He smiled.
“Tom… I’m not used to talk like this to our prince.”
“Really? So you see him on me?”
“That is his body, remember?” She helped him recall.
“Ah… oh yeah… sorry.” He scratched his own head while giving her a smile.
She simply smiled back at him. “He’s always here in that room taking care of princess Yana’s body.” She was looking at the golden door near the window.
Tom walked near it. “This was her room?” Tom was holding the edge of the golden knob.
“Don’t open, it was forbidden!”
He pulled his hand back. “Okay! I won’t try to open any forbidden doors anymore.” He said hands up.
She smiled as she saw Tom’s reactions.
“She’s so lucky to have him…” She said sadly.
“You like Bill, don’t you?” He noticed as he walked near her.
“Me? No, I mean its not right for me to tell this things…”
“I’m your friend now… don’t worry, wait I haven’t asked your name?”
“My name?”
Tom was waiting for an answer.
“Zannie, I’m Zannie…”

PART 13

”Really? Zannie is your name?”
“Yes…why?”
“Nothing, you have the same name of my girlfriend.”
“I see so her name was Zannie too?”
“Yes… coincidence huh?”
Zannie smiled at him.
“Yes coincidence… Tom you can take you’re dinner now go ahead you can bite me now.” She remembered her purpose why she was there; she gave her hand on him. Tom was looking on it. “Does it hurt Zannie?”
She smiled “Its okay Tom… bite me.”
He was about to take his first bite but… “I can’t…” He dropped down her hand.
“But you will starve Tom if you won’t drink my blood…”
“I will wait until Bill came back with that portion, I can’t take to look at you while I’m drinking all your blood.”
“Tom…” She hugged him.
“I don’t want to add one more scars on your wrist Zannie.”
“Thank you Tom…thank you.”

It was the morning of the third day but still no sign of Bill from the mirror. “Do you think he can find the potion?” Zannie asked Tom. “I hope he will, I want to go back in my time… my family needs me and I missed my girlfriend.”
“Oh… Zannie, she’s so lucky to have you Tom.”
“Thank you… for sure you will find yours.”
She just smiled back.

PART 14

Back in 2011.
“Tom hurry up…”
“Where are we going my princess?”
Zannie looked back. “Tom, you just called me a princess… are you sure you're not sick?”
“Me? Sick… no, I’m not sick I assure you… I am myself.” He answered back.
“But you act so strange these past few days… what happened?”
“Nothing …happened.”
“Are you sure?” She moved closely on him.
Bill hugged her… “You really don’t remember me?”
“Tom… what are you talking about?”
“Its me Bill, Yana…”
“Tom? Who’s Yana?” She was confused.
Bill explained to her everything…
“You mean Tom was there inside this mirror?” She was in that room where in the magical mirror was.
“But Bill I’m not really Yana… please take him out of there and give his body back.” He begged.
“But I can’t go back without that potion.”
“What potion?”
“The potion that can makes Yana back to life.”
“It’s been foretold that the potion was here… in this time.”
“What do you mean?”
“I need to find that sorcerer.”
“You don’t need to find her anymore…”
They both looked back. “Mother?” Zannie said.
“I am that sorcerer Bill!”

PART 15

”But mother?”
“You are?”
“Yes I am the sorcerer…”
“But how can you do that to Princess Yana?”
“What do you mean?”
“You have the potion that can bring her back to life… why you…”
“I don’t have…“ She cuts his words. “That’s why my course on you is to find that potion to bring my daughter back to life.”
“I didn’t know that Yana’s mother was a sorcerer.”
“Now you know.”
“That’s why I never heard about the queen.” He concluded.
“Yes Yana was my daughter… the King raped me to have a child. He was so unkind and a selfish King! I no wonder why the forest witch cursed his palace.”
“I see, but you really don’t have the potion?”
“I don’t have it.”
“Then where will I find the potion?”
“To the forest witch Bill, she’s the one who gave my daughter that forbidden potion.”
“That witch has the potion? Wait...Then why you are here in this time?” He curiously asked.
“I need to travel in time to be with my daughter, this is the safest place for Yana.” She narrated.
She looked at Zannie. “Yana… I did this because I love you, I don’t want you to die forever.”
“You mean… I am that Yana.” She asked her mother.
“Yes… in his time.”
Bill looked at her. “I know it is you…”
“But I’m not Yana… I’m Zannie!”

PART 16

”Yana, listen to me…you don’t really exist in this world. Zannie was not you; I just took her existence in this world for you.”
“You mean…but Tom? How about Tom?”
“Tom was not the one you truly love… Tom will not exist if you will not go back to your real world, Yana.”
“What?” She exclaimed. “Tom? Will not exist? What do you mean mother?”
Her mom turned to Bill. “Bill you need to go back inside, she’s the one who have that potion… not me.” She narrated.
“That witch! She fooled me!” Bill realized.
“If you will not get that potion and bring her back to her own time… everything in this time will change… Tom will not exist… because Tom was your great grandson Bill… my daughters grate grandson.”
“Tom is my great grandson?” Bill exclaimed while Yana held her womb.
“Yes… he is…”
She looked back in his golden locket… It was the third day…
1hours left before the sundown.
He must come back… now!
Bill stood up in the mirror and chants the magical words…
In seconds he was there…
In his own room. He looked for Tom but he didn’t found him.
Tom was not there…


“No! No! No! I must do something!” The witch screamed. She was looking inside of her crystal ball. She looked back at Yana’s body on the other side of her magical ball and make faces. “I will have… him no matter what.”

PART 17

”What are you doing here Zannie?” She asked Her girlfriend.
”I’m here to take you my love.”
“But how did you get here?”
“Don’t ask anymore my love just come with me…”
He followed her. “What’s this place Zannie?”
“Your mine now…“ She laughed wickedly.
“What?”
“Give me you’re hand…”

“No don’t come closer to her Tom!” Bill exclaimed.
He looked back. Bill was there, Zannie was on his back together with the sorcerer.
“Zannie?” He was confused on what he sees… He looked at his hands it was not pale anymore he already feel the his blood rushing through his veins. He was not a vampire anymore he’s human again. He’s back in his real body..
“Don’t come with her Tom!” Zannie exclaimed.
Bill looked at his back. “Yana…”
“Don’t listen to her Tom… come with me!” The other Zannie said.
“What how come there are two Zannie?” Tom was confused looking on both opposite sides.
“She’s an impostor Tom! She’s not real, believe me.”
“No! She’s the impostor Tom!”
"This isn’t happening… Two Zannie?” Tom was really confused.
“Yana? You’re back?” Bill hugged her. “How come?”
“I don’t know mom and I held the mirror and were here…” Yana explained.
“Don’t believe her Tom… come with me were going home.” The other Zannie disturbed Tom as he think. “Yana?” Tom looked at Bill and Yana as they hugged each other. “Zannie?” He hugged the other Zannie and she hugged him back.
“No!” Bill and Zannie both exclaimed

PART 18

”He’s mine now!” She laughed out loud.
Tom passed out. Magically the witch revealed her real image. “Look at him… he look exactly like you my prince.” The witch was holding Tom’s face.
“Don’t hurt him!” Bill exclaimed as Yana held his hand.
“I won’t hurt him… He’s not the one that I need.” She put her hands on Tom’s tummy and chants a word. “His first born.”
“No please…” Yana cried.
“But that’s not the deal witch, I came on time remember?”
“Yes, you came on time… see you’re human again and your beloved Yana was back in this time but have you seen the potion?” She grinned. “It’s because there in no potion at all, my prince.”
“No! You fooled me…you witch!”
“I’ll wait for his first born my prince.” The witch disappeared as the black smoke filled that place. Tom was left lying on the floor.



“Well… Tom don’t let your first born face this mirror, we don’t know when the forest witch will come.”
“I understand… Bill… I mean great grandfather.”
“Be careful” Yana hugged him. “I will miss you Zannie.” He smiled back.
“You won’t miss me my child… you will see.” She gave him a meaningful smile.
“Wait! Here take it.” Bill gave him his locket. “Open it when you already need your wish.”
“Oh! Yeah my wish… I totally for got that, thanks anyway.”
“Goodbye son!” Yana and Bill waved at him as he entered the magical mirror. He waved his hand back to them on the other side.
Tom saw a white light.

PART 19

”Tom! Tom!” Zannie shook him up. He slowly opened his eyes. “Zannie?” She saw Zannie but not the Zannie he remembered. It was the Zannie he met inside the mirror.
“Umm!” She strikes on his forehead. “Ouch!” He held his forehead as he sat down on his bed. “Why did you…”
“You’re joking around again.”
“Huh?”
“Huh? You make me so nervous…” She explained.
“What happened?”
“I found you lying on the floor in you’re great grandfather’s room.”
“Really?”
“I thought you’re…dead!” She hugged him tight, “Don’t do that again Tom!”She was crying.
“Maybe that’s why mommy told you not to open that room…because the ceiling was weak, thank God you’re still alive.” She narrated.
“The ceiling fell on me?” He concluded.
“What do you think? That you fell on the ceiling?” She tried to make fun of it. She pinched his nose. “You’re very naughty like your son.”
“Like my son?”
“Oh come on Tom…don’t tell me have amnesia now?” Zannie stood up from the bed first. She throw him some pillow. “Get up now… Bill wants to see his dad.”
“Bill?”

PART 20

He walked together with Zannie from that long corridor.
He was still confused about everything…
“Your son was very worried about what happened to you.” Zannie said.

“Daddy!” A 9 years old child jumped into his arms.
“Mommy said the ceiling fell on you… are you okay now dad?”
Tom was trying to remember what happed to him.
One by one his memory came back...

flash back
“Who is she?” Tom asked his friend Gustav.
“Don’t tell me you don’t know Zannie?”
“Zannie?”
”Oh come dude I thought you know every girl in this town? Well she’s new here maybe that can explain….”
He was looking on her as she walked down the street carrying his bag of goods.
Tom stood up and leaves Gustav behind. “Dude where are you going?” Gustav whispered but Tom never looked back him.
“Can I help you there?”
Zannie looked at him. “What?”
“I think that’s heavy, I’ll help you with that.”
“No its okay… I can…” Suddenly the goods fell out in her paper bag. Tom picked it up. “See… come on I’ll help you.” He took the paper bag on her hands. “Thank you” She smiled.
“So where do you live?” Tom asked.


"Hi!" Tom greeted.
"Oh! Its you again?"
Tom just smiled at Zannie.


“I love you Zannie.”
Zannie hugged him. “I love you too Tom.”

PART 21

Zannie was wearing a white wedding dress as Tom waiting for her in the end of the isle.
“You may kiss the bride.” The pastor said.
The newly weds kissed.


”Tom! Tom! He’s coming.” Zannie screamed out. Tom brought her in the hospital.
“It’s a boy! Congratulation Mister. Your firstborn was a boy.” The doctor said.


“What’s that?” Zannie asked.
“The key to my great grandfather’s room.”
“Come on Tom you know you can’t go there… it’s forbidden.”
“Ah… okay.” He just agreed.
But he still went inside the room he opened the door with that the golden antique key.
It was dark inside of the room, luckily he brought his cell phone and used its small light to find the switch of the light but he failed, he only found an old lamp near the table besides his great grandpa’s bed. He searched his lighter in his pocket and made a light.
“There’s nothing wrong in this room… why it was forbidden?” he asked himself as his eyes looked around the old room, he saw an old painting of his great grandfather. “He looked exactly just like me.” He realized while staring at it, a sudden lightning strike out in the window. He walked toward the window to see the view from that room, it was raining outside.
“It’s raining again?” He said. Tom sat on the bed behind him he accidentally held the statue on the edge of that bed. A secret door opened.
He decided to enter that place. It was a long stairs. “I didn’t know that there’s a room under this mansion.” He said as he walked down, holding the old lamp he saw a while ago.
Finally he reached the end. “What is this place?” He just saw old walls on the end of the stairs. It was a dead end, all he sees there was nothing but a…
“Mirror?” He saw an old mirror on the darkest part of the secret room, He looked at it, it was an old antique mirror, oval in shape made with a gold and precious gems.
“Cool.” Tom said, he put away all those spider webs covering that mirror revealing his reflection in it, he remembered the painting of his grate grandpa upstairs. While looking at his reflection. He was shocked as he looked up. “Ahhh!” He scream while he saw that the ceiling was about to fall on him. He was blocked out after that.

PART 22


”So it’s just a dream?” His mind whispered as he realize those experience inside that mirror.
“…and I am a father now? …and Zannie was my wife.” He’s mind concluded.
He remembered what his great grandfather Bill said to him. “Well… Tom don’t let your first born face this mirror, we don’t know when the forest witch will come.”
“But what if it’s real?” his mind doubted.
“Zannie Don’t let our son go near that place.” He turned his head back to Zannie
“Where? In your great grandfather room?”
“Yes…”
“I already locked that door.”
“Son don’t ever go near that place huh.” He turned in his son Bill.
“Yes Dad!” his son hugged him.

“Oh you’re okay now!” His father exclaimed. His mother was beside of his beloved father.
“Dad!” he stood up and hugged his dad. “You can walk!”
“Well, thank God they discovered a cure for my sickness.”
“Really?”
“They have great doctor’s abroad, son.” His mother intervened.
“I see…” he smiled.


It was late in the evening.
“Bill… Bill…” a familiar voice called his name.
Bill got up in his bed and followed the voice.
“Mom?”
“Bill come here…” the voice was directing Bill to the forbidden room.
“Mom?" Bill opened the door.

PART 23

Tom was unease that night. “Zannie… did you really locked the door from that room?”
“Yes why?”
“I’ll check it!” he stood up from their bed.
“Wait I’ll come to you.” She took her white night gown coat and put it on.


“Bill?”
They both searched their son in his room but Bill wasn’t there.
“Oh my… Tom where is our son!” Zannie became nervous.
Tom thinks fast. “The forbidden room!”
They both ran toward Tom’s great grandfather’s room.
Tom was right.
“Bill!” They both exclaimed.
Bill was carried by a woman wearing a familiar dress. He was sleeping.
“The forest witch!”
“Oh! Tom you still remember me?” She laughed.
“So it was real?” he realized.
“It is… real.” The witch replied.
“Give back my son!” He ordered.
“Oh! I’m scared.” She made faces.
“Bill…” Zannie was crying for his son’s life.
“No, I’m so sorry dear, but I won’t give back your son… he’s mine!” The witch was about to enter the magical mirror.
Tom remembered the locket. “The locket!” He searched it in his pocket and took it out.
“Wait!”
“What Tom, what are you going to do? Kill me?” She laughed wickedly. “…but how?" She added as she continues to laugh.
Tom showed the locket that Bill gave to him. “I still have my wish, witch!”
The forest witch remembered the locket where Prince Bill put the magical wish that even she can’t control the power of that wish. “What? You will use… that?” her voice was filled with fear.
Tom opened it and a magical light appeared. “My…” Tom starts to make his wish.
“No! ...wait! Don’t use that!”
“…wish is.” He chanted.
“No!” the forest witch screamed for her life.




The End.

Sincerely yours,
Diana Vymm