The 16th

As the sun sets down and darkness swallows everything, a feeling of indifference started to start within me. I thought that this year will be the same. An ordinary year with struggle and bit of happiness but sometimes you least expected it to be.

Of all the problems someone can experience mine was rather odd and extraordinary. It involves supernatural occurring events that even my mind cannot comprehend. But the moment you know that you are the protagonist of the story that is the time you know that life is not fair. Knowing the purpose of my existence and how these things happen to me drove my mind to its senses. Thinking back then it all started in mid of summer on the day before my 16th birthday.

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As the night is approaching, the people are sleeping comfortably without knowing the next dreadful event that will befall them. In a particular orphanage, a girl is having her most strange dream.

As I walked into this endless fantasy I think that I don't want to go back to the reality of living a life full of sufferings. But everyone who holds dear to me is waiting for me and I don't want to bring them sorrow and sadness.

The sound of the wind is whispering on me as I try to find my way, and as I look in the mirror I can see another my dress in a beautiful gown.

She looks like a princess in a storybook, with that blond silky hair, an elegant gown with all its frill and ribbons, an aura of a girl with beauty and dignity, nothing like me.

I wish I had a life like that, a life of happiness. I started to think about all the things I want in my life I want to live like an ordinary girl. I wish I have time to spend for myself, time for my friends, time to find a boyfriend. Silly me, I have to stop thinking something like that. In reality, I have to do all the things for me to keep living and besides I have a family. Like Sister Kate and the children in the orphanage, I wish for nothing more.

But I know inside my heart that there is something I most desire, and I know in myself that I started to deny it because I know that it will eventually devour me. It is a sin, growing inside of me little by little, hate for this world and this life. Many people deserve this kind of sufferings, I and the children of the orphanage didn't deserve this kind of fate. Without me knowing I started to hate this world.

As I stared in the mirror I found out that the person who looks like me is staring right back at me.

I started to avert my eye but the more I do, I can feel that her gaze is becoming closer and closer.

Until I started to realize, it's not a reflection… it was another me. It took me a long while to realize this because she gave a different vibe it was dreadful and scary.

This was the strangest dream I've ever had

As I try to walk away, I found out that she was following me

I wanted to wake up, I wanted to wake up

I try to pinch myself so that I will wake up from this endless nightmare.

I wonder why it's not working

I have no choice

"Excuse me, I know it's strange but I wanted to know why are you following me?" I said with a crack in my voice.

The answers I expect are just a blank, cold expression and a mere silence.

"Ok if you don't want to talk that's fine, I didn't know that you are mute."

I thought saying this will give her a bit of feeling of annoyance, but to my surprise, she gave me a blank reply showed in her facial expression.

"But can you please stop following me, because it bothers me a lot," I said with a clear voice, I tried to said it with guts so that I don't sound like a coward.

She stared in my direction and look at the depth of my eyes. And the sound of footsteps started to echo in my ears like a voice who was trying to whisper on me.

"You must break the contract my 16th one." She said. This time I can feel that we didn't have the same face but I feel a connection between us. It's like I know her in my entire life.

Her voice is like the wind so soothing but the words she says started to linger in my mind.

"What do you mean by breaking the contract?" I said with curiosity.

I expect her to answer but suddenly I felt that the floor is gone.

I thought, "' is this a black hole?"

******

I found myself in a place where you can see a mirror everywhere. I can see my reflection, but I wonder why I don't think that it was my reflection, Yes, they look like me they have the same face and physical properties but I wonder why I feel that they are different people.

They dress differently, almost all of them wore beautiful clothing and among them, I'm the only one who looks like I live a life of sufferings. There are 15 of them, and one of them stands out, the women I saw on the other side of my dream. Maybe she's the original, I wonder why I've thought about it.

"So you are the last reincarnation?" the woman in black clothing said.

Huh? Last reincarnation?

"You are the participant in the hunting game? You sure are unlucky." the woman in frill dress said.

"Why do you look like a pheasant? Is that the destiny of the 16th?"The woman in the pink dress said.

"Ha!! You are the one who will have the longest lifeline but also the one who will live the life of a servant. How tragic." the woman in blue gown remarked in a mocking voice.

Annoyed by what she said I pouted my lips cross my arms and use a very provocative voice.

"Ha!! You all look like a princess, but inside you are all just a rotten apple that stinks."

"How dare you?" the woman in blue gown remarked.

"Enough, I wanted you to break this curse that binds us and I believe you can, for now, good luck on your life ahead." the woman on a beautiful gown said I think that she looks like a fairy that slips into a fantasy book. So breathtaking but at the same time mysterious that is greatly seen in her cold, sinister aura.

And suddenly I heard a very familiar voice.

"Beatrice, what happens? Another nightmare?" Sister Kate said while shaking Beatrice's shoulder, she believes she's having a nightmare seen in her state with the sweaty body, faint breath, and moans.

Waking up from all the shaking Beatrice open her eyes to see a worried Sister Kate.

"No, it's nothing sister," I said trying to convince her with my tone I don't want her to worry because she already has a lot to worry about.

"You fell on your bed and you were screaming. Are you having a nightmare?" Sister Kate said with a soft voice.

"Yes, a very dreadful nightmare," I said trying to clear the conversation.

For Beatrice not to be reminded by her nightmare Sister Kate changes the topic.

"Go prepare yourself we must prepare for breakfast, everyone is starving."

"Yes, I will just give me a minute to prepare myself"

What a dream. Who is the person in my dream?