Adventure Drama Teens & Young Adult

Conundrum

So what I’m seeing is a mirror with the reflection of two people. Why am I standing here alone with no one else around?. I can see this second person clearly who kind of resembles me on the side of me. This is too much to try to handle. I need to make an exit to my next spot in the house, or should I say this touchy place?. My eyes seek my pretty purr cat, “good morning my precious baby” as I replied. I go near some stairs & while walking I hear BOOM! No way that was a gunshot towards me, and if so it missed its intended target. I’m pretty sure purr cat has something to do with it, but your innocence till proven guilty is correct?

“Mhmm mhmmm mhmmm mhmmm. Mhmm mhmm mhmm”. I hear someone humming a sound that sounds very sweet and familiar towards me. I look around to see who I can find, but it’s nobody. My skin is beginning to get very itchy. I'm having a breakout from an allergic reaction. As I’m walking while scratching the scales off my body, I hear someone shout out “ and don’t forget I have to be at my favorite coffee shop at 1030@ tomorrow”. Once again I see nobody but hear somebody. LOL I had to go outside to make sure I wasn’t losing my mind then all of sudden my voice changed 10 different times it stopped in a raspy voice. I don’t want to talk any more at this point. Finally while thinking in my head I see another woman standing across the street who looks.. lost. Me wanting to ask her if she needs help, I didn’t have the urge due to embarrassment of my voice. So I’m going to mind my business,& go back inside. I came back in with a full cooked breakfast on a plate with my least favorite choices; pancakes with bananas, bacon,& applesauce. Sooo I’m going to give it to my pretty little purr kitty that I still think tried to kill me. ‘ ohhh purr purr’ as my raspy voice tried to screech out. The little baby is nowhere to be found. All I see is a dog?. Since when do I own a dog?

At this point I need to sing a little jingle to match this energy in my home. Cough cough. ‘I’m starting to feel like- like somebody watching me’. I love that song down, but right now that tune is fitting my energy I am very confused. Maybe I should move at last minute notice. So I’m running through my home looking for suitcases for this permanent vacation, I come across my bags already packed. So not only was I prepared,& didn’t know but now someone wants me gone quicker than expected! Great!.

I need to have a conversation with this lady who seems to be still standing outside my home looking lost, maybe feeling stranded.

Screech voice woman: excuse miss “taps on shoulder”.

Mysterious woman : May I help you? May you not touch me?

Screech voice woman: so so sorry, but I noticed you earlier may I help you?

Mysterious woman: no. Do you have a cigarette?

Screech voice woman: No!

The most uncomfortable encounter I had for a long time. Maybe I should throw all my bags in my vehicle, and just pull off. I feel like I’m forgetting something in my home. Maybe I should check before I officially leave. Approaching my door I opened it so fast I accidentally hit PURR?!!!! My poochie pooch I've been looking all over for you. Where’s the dog? This place is uncomfortable. Purr follows me to the cat, purr sees another cat and follows it to a tree. I grabbed purr saying “ purr we must go now now this place is insane, and you're not even a friendly cat”. As Purr and I were walking back over to my vehicle while Purr was smacked by another car. I heard Purr make a noise. I turned,& around and my baby was gone. Literally Purr's little fur body was not there anymore. Instantly my screech voice now turned normal and did an extreme cry out loud of disbelief. Not once did I lose my baby, but this time it was forever.

While impatiently getting in my car I see the mysterious chick speed by. Staring into the street I no longer see her car. At this point I’m living a dream I need to just wake up. Why is my hair falling out while I’m driving 50 in 25mph? I pulled over on the side of the road to clear my mind. While on the side, it’s begun to pour down rain in the midst of getting dark out. I saw a motel I can check into. Once going in to check in the motel I politely asked the front desk receptionist “Do you have any extra rooms for the one night”?. She gave me a key without an answer with the room number. She didn’t even look me in the eyes to see if I was a night creep murder for crying out loud. I started to hear cries all of sudden coming from the room next to me. The type of crying someone does when either the death of a family member, or watching the last episode of your favorite soap opera. I knocked on the door 3 times literally bang, bang, bang just wanting to see if everything was okay but never got a response. It made me realize to mind my own business and go to my room. I get to my room I get in, and the cold wind could’ve frozen me into a pretty ice cube. I went inside my bathroom wanting to start a bath up then my mirror on the wall fell into the bath tub and shattered. Grabbing tiny pieces of glass from the bottom with warm water all mixed in, I can see my blood which is now green absorb its DNA into the water. Rushly I went back to the front desk asking for a first aid kit nobody was to be found. Dripping blood through the halls on the way back to an elevator the doors opened and shut as if they weren’t even wired together. Malfunction it seemed like. I started heading back to the stairs then my knee bone popped out of place. As I stopped with the sorrow hump I hunched over in my back to comfort my knee I saw the lady who I thought I saw earlier that was only across the street from me.

I this time spoke out loud, well shouted perhaps “ heeeeyyy do you have any first aid?” As she slowly walks up I think about the mirror with a similar resemblance of me, I think back on my itchy, my cat, my sanity. What? I gave her the deepest stare a stare could do. I asked her do I know you from somewhere? She says I don’t think we met but I know how it feels to be in your shoes. I just got up, grabbed a napkin then went on. Creepily I made it back to my room. I see the water has been drained out clean with a mirror back on the wall. Now I know for sure this place is haunted. Or am I haunted? Did this mess follow me? Did I lead it? It’s just a conundrum side effect..

Posted Nov 22, 2025
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Lena Bright
20:43 Dec 07, 2025

This story feels like stepping into a dream that keeps twisting in unexpected ways. The narrator’s confusion, humor, and rising panic create an unforgettable, eerie atmosphere. It’s bizarre in the best way, vivid, unpredictable, and full of personality. A wonderfully strange ride from start to finish.

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