A Glance Through My Mirror

Chapter 3

A Glance Through my Mirror

Awenganda

Chapter 3

In my entire life, never have I thought of having a fiancé in my early years yet here it is. An assumption came out of nowhere that there’s a possible man who I could married with. The son of a very wealthy merchant was said to be my ‘best friend’ and might be sooner my fiancé. I still haven’t used to live in here nor comfortable being in this country but what can I do. I don’t even know how I got here what more on how to return to my world.

Even if I do wish to return, I am unsure if I could still go back since the last thing I remember is that I’ve died at my world. Returning might be a difficult and impossible decision, right now what I need to do is to focused on becoming ‘Mnemosyne Javier’. A frail and shy daughter of a famous florist here in the Capital and the owner of the Agricultural fields.

I heard a lot of our workers said that I’ve become a completely different person after that ‘incident’ happened. Of course, I am! The person they knew for years is gone, I don’t even know what happened to her, maybe she really did die even after I was transferred to her body.

But for now, I wanted to set that aside and focused to my problem which is being ‘married’. Even though they said that the man called ‘Gilbert Huasson’ is my best friend, I couldn’t help but to feel more worried. If he really is close to the owner of this body, then maybe even by just staring at me he will immediately know that I am not his best friend! And when that happened, I’m sure how to respond if he asks me about what happened to the person he knew. I might just run because of the overwhelming pressure but I don’t think I could run away that easily.

In medieval era, what I know is the ladies doesn’t have enough power or freedom to do whatever she likes. The women’s status in the society depends of her husband’s reputation in the society hence if even a woman gains a lot of accomplishment then it will hardly impact only to her husband. In other words, all you’ve achieve will be useless for your own gain, it’s kind of unfair since woman are often belittle just because of their gender.

“What are you thinking so deeply Syne?”

I looked at my back when I suddenly heard a man’s voice. My lips instantly roused up as soon as I saw his gentle face.

“Father!”

I quickly got up of my bed and rushed towards him. I missed him so much! Even though I did not grow up with him, the tender feeling of love he gives to me warmed my heart. He instantly become my first man in my life.

“How’s my little pumpkin doing?”

“Being left here in the house bores me”

“what about the books I gave? I gave you a plenty of it”

Those books you’ve given to me are all about romance. I did not enjoy any of it but I did still read them all since it’s all I can do. I don’t have any gadget with me to kill some time. Is what I want to say, but how could I hurt the feelings of my beloved father?

“I’ve enjoyed reading all of it! Although I prefer some educational books but still, I liked it!”

I make it sounds like happy even if I don’t. His face become serious for a couple of second before he smiled warmly at me. For a second, I though I was caught on my little act! Thankfully seems like he did not notice.

“You’ve becoming more and more energetic and intelligent as time goes by. My pumpkin”

Or not.

Cold sweat starting to form on my palms and my forehead, I blink several times out of habit, I felt nervous all of the sudden. Did he notice something? What did I do wrong?

  “…uhmm…am I not that excellent academically in the past, father?”

“You are not hahaha”

That…That was straight to the point, he did not even hesitate when he said that. God, what did that girl do in her life for her father to think of her like that!

“I…am?”

“You usually spend a lot of time reading Romance Books and not educational books, since you don’t have a lot of friends; you befriended a lot of our female employees and spend a lot of your time talking about how you admire the crowned prince and how you felt envious of the crowned princess. “

C-crowned prince?! Is he saying that I am ambitious enough to dreamed of being the crowned princess myself? How courageous his daughter is, I thought that she is just a frail and shy woman like what they said.

“Father! How could I dream something like that! You must be thinking it wrong…”

“No… you actually begged us to meet the Royal Family ourselves to let you meet the crowned prince even just once. Of course, we didn’t do that hahaha you were just too young back then”

“What…?”

My head felt hurt and my vision become blurry because of what my father said. I really thought that Mnemosyne Javier is a very conservative girl, seems like she is actually a very… wild girl in a discrete way.

“Is your head alright?”

“ahh… yes, I just felt a bit tired”

“Should I call a doctor for you?”

“A rest will do…”

As soon as I said that, he then escorted me tuck me at my bed. My father smiled and caressed my forehead lightly, he was treating me like a very valuable jewel.

“call us if you need anything…”

I felt my heart heated, this is the first time I was treated like this. Is it ok for me to become greedy just for once? I am actually grateful that I died at my past life, if it wasn’t because of the incident, then I wouldn’t meet these wonderful people.

Minalyn, my step sister can have my parents for all I care. They don’t even need someone like me, who they just trained to become their loyal and obedient pet for the sake of the company.

“Before I head back, I wanted to give you this”

Father then hand over me a small, circular metal thing that seems to be something familiar.

Something familiar…

It means it’s something I know…

Wait… this is!

“I should be the one asking that, sister! Why do you always treat me like this, what did I do to make you hate me like this? Is it because our parents care for me more that you do?”

I felt a pang on my heart as my breath had stopped in a second. My eyes felt like they are burning, my throat is itching to shout.

I hurriedly grab my mirror and faced it to her, I could not help myself but to cry in front of her. My hands was shaky even my voice, I have been keeping this all the time but now I could not hold my anger back.

“Looks at yourself! Look how-skinned you are. Look how delusional you are! Look how you took everything from me! Look at that face!”

I sobbed as I stared to her with hatred.

“Did you even see yourself? How shameless you are to steal everything from me! You are just my STEP SISTER why do I have to share with you?! Look how far your features from us! You are not a Villacente! LOOK HOW YOU LOOKED DIFFERENT FROM US!”

“NO!”

She shouted pushed me forcedly that makes me lost my balance, tripped and fall immediately from the balcony.

The memories from my past live rushed in my brain, the item I was holding is something I owned in my past life! How did it reach in here? I was sure that I was holding unto it when I died, I just never thought that it will also follows me even to my present life!

“What’s the matter, Syne? Is that thing not yours? You were holding to that thing when we found you. We thought that it must be something important.”

He looks worried as he was asking me that. I am a very manipulative woman in my past life, a lot of people  often says that I am a b***h, a witch, a very perfectionist woman, they say no one can  accept someone like me, even my parents and relatives. I was hurt but I ate all of their insults and make it my armor so I don’t ever waver. So why did God give me this wonderful gift? Is he contented with my suffering and gave me my reward instead? If so, then thank you God.

“It is… thank you, Father”

Though my real parents are awful, I am still grateful that they provided me with everything I need. The item I was holding is a flipped hand mirror, it’s actually a very cheap item that my parents give to me when I was young. It was the only item that they bought and give to me personally, that’s why it’s quite important.

“Ohh… your mother asks if you can visit her to her Flower Shop? she was quite busy nowadays because it’s almost festival and a lot of our customers are buying by bulk so she asks if you could come instead.”

Shop? To the flower shop? I want to! By being there, I could secretly see the process of their business in here and might as well help mother! I am very much confident with my capabilities and I think it won’t strain me that much, mother is the owner. I’m sure that she also has a lot of employees since she is quite famous in the business.

“I would love to go father! Please do tell mother that I will visit her more often.”

“You were also not like that in the past hahaha”

Ohh my… is it a wrong move again?

“I … I am quite bored here and I also wanted to go out, I was in the house for a while now. I wanted to visit Mother and see if she was doing fine since I did not see her for a couple of days now.”

“She will be glad to hear that”

We talked a bit before father excuse himself, even our house workers are quite busy these days since I often see them in one place or being relaxed. As a person who is also used to have a lot of work to do, laying here in bed is quite a nuisance! I felt like I’ve becoming more a lazier, did I got this attitude from the previous owner of this body? Beats me.

More importantly…

How did this thing get in here? I am referring to my mirror, maybe because I am attached to this thing that is why it also follows me? Why am I thinking so unrealistic right now.

I opened the mirror and checked if it has any cracks, thankfully it seems like it doesn’t have any damage. The metal is still the same and the mirror…

The mirror… is broken?

Why am I seeing something so weird in the mirror?

Did it broke?

Does it have a hole?

Why can I see myself in the mirror being…  wet and shocked, and why does our servant look worried.

WHAT IS THIS THING?! WHAT IS HAPPENING TO MY MIRROR?!

*knock knock*

The knock made me almost jumped in surprise, I almost even drop my mirror. The mirror!

When I checked it once again, the only thing I see now is my own reflection. What did I see just now? Did I get suddenly drowsy and started seeing scenes in the mirror? That was weird.

“Miss Syne? Are you asleep?”

“uhh… no please come in”

The female servant slowly entered my room while she’s also carrying a food tray. I immediately went to her to help her with the food, she seems having difficulty in holding the tray.

“I will help…”

“No Miss, I can do it myself”

I did not listen to her and quickly grab the food tray, she’s quite old to be holding a heavy tray.

“No it’s ok I---”

I was taken back as soon as I saw her face, she is the same person I saw earlier in the mirror! I felt my arms weakened making my hand slipped and drop the mild hot milk all over my dress.

I was again taken back, the scenario felt similar to what I saw on the mirror! And now even getting wet over a milk also happened!

What the heck happened?

Why did I saw a glimpse of scenario that was about to happen in the mirror?!

Does I mean that I could see the the future in the mirror?!

Say what?!

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End of Chapter 3