The Mom in the Mirror Wants to Take Me Away 1 Chapter 06
Mom let out a shaky breath and finally nodded before calling Wayne.
Unfortunately, Wayne had gone out of town for work. Earliest he could get back was in half a day.
The second the call ended, Dad slammed his fist against the dresser and glared at the mirror like he
wanted to smash it into pieces.
Mom grabbed his arm before he could.
“What if breaking it traps Lily in there forever?”
Dad gave a cold snort. “Then maybe she should stay there forever.”
Even so, he lowered his hand.
After waiting over thirty minutes for Wayne, Dad finally lost patience.
“This room doesn’t even have windows,” he said suddenly. “Lily has to still be in here somewhere. Everybody search the room carefully. Maybe she left something behind.”
Everyone agreed and immediately started tearing through my bedroom.
Aunt Cheryl looked around with obvious disgust before laughing under her breath.
“This place is depressing as hell. Kid barely owned anything. Let’s see where that little brat thinks she’s hiding.”
She yanked my blankets and pillows onto the floor and even crawled down to check beneath the bed, but there was no sign of me.
Just as she was about to sit down and rest, she suddenly jerked upright.
“Ow, what the hell?”
Something beneath the mattress had poked her.
She ripped the bedding back and immediately recoiled in disgust.
“You guys need to come look at this. Lily’s filthy. There’s a pile of nasty crap hidden in her bed. It reeks.”
Her voice immediately drew my parents over.
Covering their noses, they stared at the shredded, filthy clothes stuffed beneath the mattress.
The fabric matched exactly what the hands inside the mirror had been wearing.
Dad’s face instantly went pale.
But only for a second.
Then he forced himself to calm down.
“Lily must’ve hidden dirty laundry under there while we were gone,” he said quickly “I told you leaving her home alone for three days was a bad idea. She obviously couldn’t take care of herself”
His voice stiffened.
“And she lied about those ‘mirror parents’ taking care of her.”
Uncle Rick frowned as he picked up one of the torn strips of fabric.
“Gary… this doesn’t look like a kid’s clothes.”
Mom glanced anxiously toward the mirror, clearly terrified they still hadn’t found me. She hurriedly cut in before Dad and Uncle Rick could start arguing.”
“Can we not do this right now? Finding Lily is more important. We can worry about everything else
later.”
The two men reluctantly nodded and continued searching.
But after tearing apart every inch of the room, they still couldn’t find me.
In the end, they had no choice but to call the police.
The officers arrived quickly after receiving the missing child report.
After hearing the story three separate times, the lead officer still looked skeptical.
“Mr. Miller,” he said carefully, “your daughter disappearing is a serious matter. But you’re telling me someone dragged her into a mirror?”
Dad immediately nodded.
“My wife and I saw it happen with our own eyes. Someone inside the mirror took our daughter. Please, you have to help us find her.”
For a brief moment, the officer looked like he was questioning my parents’ sanity.
But after seeing Uncle Rick and Aunt Cheryl backing up the exact same story, he could only
continue the investigation with a deep frown.
Trying to gather more information, the officer asked, “Did your daughter do anything unusual before she disappeared?”
Mom and Dad exchanged a glance.
Then Dad spoke.
“Before she vanished… Lily had been acting weird around her sister’s room. Sneaking around it a
lot.”
The officer looked confused.
“Why?”
Mom avoided his eyes before answering awkwardly.
“Because… she was jealous of the attention her autistic sister gets. We never thought something like this would happen right under our noses.’
The investigation had completely stalled when suddenly, one of the female officers pulled something from the trash can.
“A note,” she said quietly.
It was the goodbye letter I’d left behind for my parents.