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Mirror Image



Estimated reading time — 3 minutes

“I don’t want to move away.”
The words hang in the air between them, like dust, slow and stuffy.
“I don’t want you to move away either,” says Toby. They’re both sitting cross-legged on the hardwood
floor of his bedroom, facing each other. Matthew pokes at a small bug crawling across the floor, so does Toby.
“You could leave, too,” Matthew says.
“You know I can’t,” Toby replies.
Matthew does know, but he likes to think it might happen, somehow. The thought of being torn away from his best friend hurts him, especially because someone like him doesn’t often earn the title of best friend.
Ever since he’s known Toby, they’ve been practically identical, which, in Matthew’s opinion, is really great, because it’s pretty much like having a twin brother. He’s never had a twin, let alone a brother, and while he thinks he has some cousins on his mom’s side, they’re all grown-ups and they live far away. He doesn’t know if his dad has any family his age.
He likes Toby because Toby never thinks he’s weird or messed up for the things he says. Toby
doesn’t whisper about him, like his classmates do, or yell at him, like his teachers do, or scribble notes
onto a little yellow notepad, like Ms. Stacy does every Thursday at 4:00 after school. The best part is
that Toby doesn’t sigh. His mom seems to do nothing but sigh; sigh at the news, sigh at the grocery bill,
sigh at his report card, sigh, sigh, sigh, until he’s sure she must be nothing more than a big mouth of
never-ending sighs, like a draft from an open window.
Toby listens to him and understands. He cares. Even when all Matthew is saying is rants about his classmates and bad grades, rants about getting picked on or not being invited to so-and-so’s birthday party, Toby sits patiently and listens.
“Dad says I’ll meet new friends.”
Toby frowns his answer, “Yeah, but I won’t. I’ll just have to live with the fact that whoever else moves in here could be old and cranky.”
“You don’t know that. It could be someone our age, a kid. They could be nice.”
“I doubt it. Even if a kid moves in, they won’t be like you. It wouldn’t be the same.”
Matthew doesn’t reply, he picks at the torn hole on his jeans.
“I know I’m the reason your mom wants to move,” Toby speaks up.
“Don’t keep blaming yourself for it, okay?”
“No, it’s fine. I know she’s scared of me. That’s why you’re not supposed to talk to me. But I’m always here whether she likes it or not.”
Matthew laughs at the thought of his mother fearing his best friend, but he doesn’t disagree.

—–

A week later, moving day has arrived.
“It shouldn’t have to be like this,” says Toby. They’re sitting back to back, heads tilted towards each other close enough that Toby can’t actually focus on Matthew’s face without going cross-eyed. “You could do something to convince your parents not to move.”
Matthew considers this, but before he can reply, he hears his mom walking up the stairs, and then the sound of her shoes on the hardwood as she walks towards his room. Suddenly, the door is pushed open and his mom peers in. Toby quickly moves out of view and watches. Matthew’s mom comes in, fake smile and tired eyes. She helps him to his feet and walks him out of the empty room. For a second in the doorway she turns around. Matthew’s mom looks right at him, but simply shakes her head and walks into the hall. She knew he was there.
But from his hiding spot inside the mirror, he knows all she saw was herself.

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31 thoughts on “Mirror Image”

  1. xXjman1012Xx IS DEAD

    I agree with joe
    It was great and I think it would be good if there was murder involved

  2. Cassidy Williams

    I loved the story. Yes I understand this website is called “Creepypasta” but that doesn’t mean EVERY one of their stories have to be about death, gore, ect. I loved the innocence of it. They do say little children are able to see unearthly things because their minds aren’t fully developed. Maybe this is just an imaginary friend. Maybe its a kid that is on the other side. Maybe Toby is what or who the little boy really is on the inside. I loved it. I feel like people should look past the typical creepy, scary things and read some thing like this every once in a while. 10/10 stars.

    1. I agree with you. I think the story was great! And With a tiny bit of work this story could go so much further.. great concept.

  3. It took me awhile to realize what the twist people kept referring to was. This is not due to a lack of understanding…its just hard to really label this as a twist; it’s in the title of the story after all >.>;

  4. I thought it was a ghost until i went back and read the title again. It was a good read for me but i don’t understand the back-to-back thing, or if it was his reflection why could he not move with them?

  5. Good story. Not creepy but I liked it. Only thing…if they were sitting back to back, they would be facing opposite directions. How then could they be so close they couldn’t focus on each other’s face? Perhaps you meant knee to knee?

  6. A fun read for sure, but I’m not sure about entirely creepy.

    First of all, I admit that I suspected it was his reflection fairly early on:

    1) They looked identical.
    2) They were sitting in the same position.
    3) They both squat and insect at the same time.

    Secondly, I see don’t see the scary part of it all. Sure it’s unsettling to think about a reflection being something other than a mirror image, but this reflection seems innocent enough. Seems like he’s just a friend to a lonely kid. Nothing to indicate the reflection had any evil intentions.

    I’m not much of a writer, as you can probably see from my own style of writing, but it seems to me that mirror pasta are hard to write. Mirrors/reflections are a very old theme, so it has to be a truly good story for it to be a shocker.

    I don’t know. It seems that about 90% of mirror pastas involve some sort of demon trying to do harm to the protagonist, but this doesn’t have that theme. It’s actually more sad than creepy – a lonely little boy who has found a true friend who enjoys his company, and the mother breaking the friendship up.

    Once again, though, I enjoyed this story. I think I’d give it an 8/10.

  7. Didn’t even really give me the chills… there was no real buildup to that point, no hints as to Toby’s true nature (if he was supposed to be the oddity), and no… anything really. If I didn’t know any better, I would have assumed that this passage was just the start of an average book. Nothing about it seemed to stand out to me.

  8. I wish this was a bit longer. Maybe have mirror boy try to and eventually succeed in convincing the kid to murder his parents so they would not be apart. Just something I would have liked to see. Good story though.

  9. Was he mentally unstable, or did i misunderstand. To me it seemed like in the end his mother picked him up to move him to a mental hospital or something?

  10. Great story, though not as creepy as you could’ve made it. There’s a lot of potential for a scary and unique outcome. I absolutely loved the twist even though it was a bit predictable, and as someone said above this could be a novel idea.

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