You’ve always had a slightly ridiculous phobia of mirrors.
It’s never interfered with your life before, except in small and completely inconsequential ways. You’d close your eyes during a middle school session of Bloody Mary, would rush past them in a dark hallway, things any red blooded American raised on a steady diet of horror and gore would call more habit than oddity.
One night, late, you’re getting ready to go out with some friends. You feel grimy, so you all decide to get ready at your apartment where you can clean up with your own products. Everyone’s hanging out, taking pictures, and generally having fun as you decide to wash your makeup off and start fresh. You decide that the quickest way to do this is the way they show in commercials, where you get it all over with at once by splashing water over your tightly shut eyes and completely soaking your bathroom floor. You glance up quickly to be sure that your friends don’t notice your moment of hesitation when it’s time to close your eyes and scrub within sight of the mirror.
As you rinse off your face, your eyes open to see your reflection staring back at you, which is not unusual. What is slightly off, however, is that when you go to leave, the other you does not. You stare at each other with wide eyes, waiting to see what happens next. You turn to your friends to see if they’re seeing what you’re seeing to find their grins growing wider, too wide to be quite human. Their eyes turn as black as coal, and they start to walk forward. Your reflection and your friends reflections start to scream. Your friends lunge forward towards their dopplegangers.
You always knew you were on the wrong side.
As your eyes begin to burn in an entirely sick, pleasant way, your grin stretches wide. Too wide.
Credit To – girl_from_uncle
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I have no idea why this is rated so high, no offense to the author but for many reasons, a 5 is the highest rating this pasta deserves.
Sounds more like a flashback.
I think this story only applies to us Americans.
Fresh concept, being on the ‘wrong side’ of the mirror. It’s fun to think about, and surprised me with its creepiness. I also felt that it could have ended with “you always knew you were on the wrong side.”, but I guess then it would have missed explaining what happened next.
This story was confusing the way it was written.It didn’t make much sense as it is, but I see what it’s trying to say.I’m not really a fan of Present-Tense writing, either.If it is PT it needs to be clearly written with zero typos.Still much better than I could do. :)
Found the Hufflepuff
Ok now I don’t want to go to sleep I have a mirror in my room D:
well i mean, i could go a few da- years without sleep.
I LOVE this story. It’s awesome.
Honestly, it was good, but the story should have explained the monster part more
The entire wall opposite my bed is a mirror…
Great
Good! That means that you and the other can switch places when one goes to sleep. This means you can twice as much ‘work’ done in a given 24 hours! Cheers!
I loved this pasta!
Actually turning myself into something is my greater wish, so into a monster! :D
10/10
I love this story.. I’ve always felt that if you look hard enough in a mirror, you can see the other side: The side with the dead flowers, the broken chair, etc. etc. Great story!
I laughed at the part about splashing your face like in the tv commercials, because I used to do this when I was little, trying to be like the girls in the commercials. It had nothing to do with a phobia of mirrors, but it still brought me back to my memories as a silly little kid. :) I enjoyed this pasta.
I liked it…
It was ok i guess, I don’t like the pasta’s that make no sense and aren’t scary I don’t think anyone likes the non-scary pasta’s. But this one just didn’t make much sense
Here is a useful guide:
Should you write in second person?
Will there be a twist ending where the narrator is actually talking to the reader?
Yes? Don’t use second person.
No? Don’t use second person.
Besides being a 2nd-person story falling very short, the idea isn’t really original. Especially the last part.
Second person stories always fail to get me, especially when one starts with something that doesn’t relate to me at all (actually, I am fascinated with mirrors, they are on par with time travel and dreams in my favourite topics list).
Also there are lacks in logic throughout. Is it the first time ever that “I” look in a mirror? Seriously? And why should anyone care if the reflections lunge forward, considering that they are still in the mirror anyway?
That said, there is one little bit of this pasta that is good and would deserve to be used in a better story: when both real thing and reflection are surprised that they are not simultaneously in front of the mirror anymore.
Loved it! Short, surprising and creepy. All the necessary ingredients.
Sorry i didnt need to sleep anyways
im scared to turn around because I have a mirror in my room and it’s right behind me
I lked it was different too different
Seriously was “too” necessary twice
This would’ve been creepy, but, to me, the whole mirror-pasta thing is a bit overused…