Ben

5:15 pm - When the lights turned back on you could only hear Ben gasping for air, panicked from the fear of the unknown. The room was small enough to turn in one circle and see that Luna had left the room when the lights blacked out. The lights still didn't make sense it wasnt storming or snowing. Unless something or someone did this on purpose. When Ben started to deepen his breaths even more than before the man in the bed started to panic. Before he could know what was going on Ben took off running down the hall dodging nurses like a human obstacle course. While running down the hall you could hear the man shrieking from his room because he was not able to see. When Ben turned back around to face the direction he was running he almost ran into a nurse trying to do her job. When he finally arrived to Annabelles room Annabelle was sitting up straight, on her bed there was a red splotch near where her midsection would be. Yet she didn't look in pain. Nor did she look curious about why he sprinted down the hall and almost knocked down a few nurses to get there.
"Have you seen Luna?" he asked, still panting from running down the hall.
"Im right here" she came out of the bathroom like she did before. Not scared at all. But excited and with slightly tinted pink cheeks. Her black hair was perfectly pinned to her back. But they are friends. He could feel himself falling but made sure to pick himself back up before they crossed the line of no return.
"How did you make it here in the dark"
"I don't remember actually it's just one big blur of fear"
He began to feel his heart race, panic and worry started to set in.
"Annabelle what happened?" The words came out more aggressive and confrontational than he wanted them to be.
"To tell you the truth I don't know"
"No I mean that" pointing at the blanket which he can see now more clearly after panicking that it is dried blood
"Oh! I ripped my stitches and it caused some bleeding. I'm fine now though"
Then Seth, Annabelles doctor, walked through the door.
"I think it's time for you guys to leave"
"Why?" Ben said rudely
"Because visiting hours are over and Annabelle needs her rest"

5:30 pm - They had reached the front doors of the hospital. Ben had turned around to peer at Annanelles room. But when he turned around he saw the restaurant. The one that Annabelle had been in. He's been there before but in this image in front of his eyes it looked like a different world. The floor was messy, there was a perfectly neat rack of clothes and there was a door where there should be a wall.
¨Ben come on!¨ He could hear Luna shouting for him.
But he was scared of losing the image so he took one closer examination and when he did he could see chains attached to someone's wrist from the glimpse of a mirror.
¨Seriously Ben come on, are you having one of your weird hallucinations again?¨
Again! He's only talked about them as dreams, never hallucinations. But either way he listened this time and started jogging towards Luna and surely enough when he turned around the image of the restaurant was gone just like the mirror in the bathroom.

[Narrator]
If you are confused now it is okay. It will all become painfully clear soon enough. But before we move on in the story I need to define a word for you or rather an object and the way you use it. It will help with this story. I promise you whether you believe in it or not. The object is called a scrying mirror; it can come in many different sizes but one thing is the same in all. The mirror part is black. For my or rather our purpose it is to see into the future. Now remember this, maybe this will help for the close or rather distant future.

Ben

6:15 - Ben and Luna had pulled into the loosed stoned driveway of Luna's house. The outside of the house had dark shaded red bricks from years of rain. From Ben's eyes Luna looked calm and collected almost like she hadn't gotten into a fight earlier that day with her mother. Luna grabbed the black door handle, waved goodbye to Ben and walked through the open white door. Ben stayed in the driveway for a couple of minutes to see if she was going to come back out.


© Caitlin