Mirror Line

“You can laugh but watch out, the person next to you might be laughing too”

I was reading this funny story the other day at the library. I go to the library only when am bored. The story was so funny that I started laughing, not LOL but really laughing out loud, I tried to conceal it so that I won’t disturb others but I was really choking with laughter. Then, I noticed the guy sitting next to me was also choking with laughter too. I drew my seat back to see what he was laughing at but it appeared he was laughing at nothing, infact he seem to be laughing with me because he was looking at me.
‘What are you laughing at, are you dumb?’ I said but I didn’t say it out.
The boy nodded his head still laughing.
‘What!’ I almost shouted really surprised.
‘Seriously? This guy must really be dumb’. I thought. What is he nodding at?
He looked up at me again still laughing, and said “At the story ofcourse”. ‘ofcourse not! How on earth is he able to read something beyond a wood used to dimacate the seats’. I thought. The boy swiftly turned to me and signaled me to pipe down.

“What the hell!” I wanted to shout but I didn’t. The boy drew his chair close to mine like he wanted to say something but I shifted away the boy then whispered gently “Stop saying hell, hell is real”. I freaked out almost Jumping off my seat.
Now almost at the edge of my seat. I said again to myself without saying it out.
“Oh yea, seems you stopped by there while coming to school this morning.”
He smiled and nodded his head again.

“What the f**k!” I shouted and jumped off my seat and took off. I noticed the librarian calling me back but I didn’t stop.

That same day, as I was going back home from school by bus, I was thinking about what had happened earlier in the day, how the boy was nodding his head like we were in a conversation and heard every single thing I said to myself. It really scared me. I heard a beep and brought out my phone to reply the text when a man sitting next to me inside the bus who had been reading a newspaper since I got into the bus suddenly burst into laughter and said “Did that really happen to you today?”
I froze.
I wanted to jump out through the window but the bus was moving a little bit fast so I brought out my earpiece, plugged it into my ears and started singing out loud.

Later at midnight, I woke up to finish the funny story so I got up carefully and slowly, because I didn’t want to wake my roommate. I went to the reading table and started reading the book again. My roommate was now snoring so I relaxed but then, I started thinking about what had happened in the library and in the bus. Are people now ‘reading’ my mind or something I thought well maybe they were both dumb or maybe it was a conincidence.

Then I heard my roommate laughing really loud, I shrinked. Then, I thought maybe he was dreaming.
“No am not dreaming” he said “Are you kidding? That boy must really be dumb to tell you he stopped by in hell”.

I wet myself and it was so hot that it burnt my skin.