The party was only a couple hours away, Daniel had spent the last several minutes arranging his attire, he wanted to make sure that he looked his best. He sported white pants, a black undershirt, and an unbuttoned jacket that tied everything together. Daniel was always one to care greatly about his appearance. He felt that if he was around other people, it was important to frame his personality with a snazzy look.

Daniel straightened the jacket around his shoulders and approached a mirror in his bathroom. His reflection stared back at him as he examined himself. “Not bad…” he thought, checking his own body out from a multitude of angles. As he prepared to leave the bathroom, he gave his image one last look, smirking.

However, the reflection did not return the movement. Daniel did a double-take as he realized the odd occurrence. His reflection was just…standing still, with a blank face. Even as he moved, waved his hand in the air, changed his facial expression, the reflection did not mimic his actions. He smacked himself across the head, was he dreaming? He flicked the light switch off and on, but it did nothing to change the anomaly.

Daniel pressed his hands against the mirror and brought his face up to the surface, staring deeply into the eyes of his counterpart. Quicker than he could blink, a smile crept across the lips of the reflection, a wide, unsettling grin. The teeth were not his own, they had unusual features, a weird sense of jaggedness. The counterpart grinned, far wider than any normal human could.

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The glass behind his hands, holding Daniel up, gave way, shattering into millions of pieces. Even as the mirror broke, the reflection remained standing, a black void behind it. The creature walked towards Daniel, and before he had a chance to react, the entity grabbed him by the throat. With unnatural power, he threw Daniel into the abyss that the demon had come from. He felt as though he was standing on nothing, but still managed to avoid falling, the absence of gravity was unsettling.

The reflection stared back at him, their roles now reversed. The glass repaired itself at lightning speed, trapping Daniel in the void. Now, the counterpart was looking into the mirror, while Daniel was physically in it. It was as if he had been trapped inside a black box, the only light coming from the bathroom, a glass barrier separating reality. Daniel banged his fists against the glass to no avail.

The monster maintained its grin, waving at Daniel as it flicked the lightswitch off and left the bathroom, shutting the door behind it. Darkness consumed him, it felt like being in a deprivation tank, nothing to sense whatsoever. Daniel was left to suffer in the black abyss as his reflection took his place, it continued to grin, celebrating the new life that presented itself before it.