An Outcast Of Time

Aurora sat on the desk, she took out a small mirror from the pencil case and looked at herself in the mirror.

Some of the classmates around were laughing and joking, and some people were sad, complaining, and grumbling because the test was too difficult.

Aurora seemed to be lost in the commotion, she was still sitting quietly in the corner of the room. Looking at herself in the mirror for a while, perhaps feeling that her face was a bit pale, she took out a wine red lipstick from her pocket, and happily applied it.

Before she could finish applying lipstick, her face in the mirror suddenly flickered and crumbled. Aurora screamed in fear, the lipstick in her hand was also dropped to the ground. The lipstick poured onto the floor was lined with pure white tiles, and the red lipstick was dazzling.

She closed her eyes, then opened them again, repeating them a few times, probably thinking she was dizzy. But when she looked back, the mirror was still empty, her figure seemed to have become illusory. The faces of the classmates in the back were still clearly visible, only she was absent.

Aurora felt very scared, she also ignored the fact that her expensive lipstick fell to the ground and looked around. The other classmates were still the same as usual, laughing and joking, complaining and complaining. But it was that normality that made her limbs freeze, like falling into an ice cellar.

Why so?

Although these people probably won't like her, because she entered this school through the back door because she is arrogant and flamboyant. But they did not dare to ignore her.

And even if they were intentionally ignoring her, at least when she shouted just now, someone would look at her with suspicious eyes. They would also wonder why she was mad, not just normal, acting like it was nothing.

What's more, she doesn't even have a shadow, how is it possible that she can't see her shadow in the mirror?

Did she now have the superpower of invisibility?

Aurora shouted again as if trying to see if anyone could hear what she was saying. But even if she shouted hoarsely, the people around were acting, as usual, they couldn't hear a thing. The scream was like a feather falling into a lake, unable to evoke even a single ripple.

Afraid Aurora said aloud:

- Are you deaf?!

Aurora even came up with the idea to ban the chair, throwing it in the face of the giggling girl sitting in front of her. But then, she realized, she couldn't touch the chair.

Being a daring person, Aurora started to get mad. She tried to take a deep breath to regain her composure, wanting to make the fire burning in her chest fade away. Beyond this fury, there is despair and crisis.

She reached into her pocket and pulled out the brand new cell phone she had begged her father to buy her. Aurora put her finger on the fingerprint sensor, but the phone did not respond. Neither the fingerprint notification is wrong, nor the sensor is dirty. No matter how hard she tried to press the power button, the screen wouldn't light up.

Now that the crisis was growing, it seemed that her desperation to burn her to coal.

Aurora collapsed, she didn't know what was happening, nor did she know what to do, in front of her eyes was just a hazy patch of fog, covering her eyes.

This episode she had seen in a movie, or a certain manga. When the main character falls into this state, it means… They are already dead. Maybe she's already dead? Died in a way she didn't even know...

So how did she die? Did the rafters fall, or did the fan fall? Or was there a truck that crashed right into here, into this room?

But why only she died…

So could it be that she has a heart condition?

Aurora thought a lot but still couldn't think of a proper reason for the strange thing that was happening in front of her eyes.

If she was dead, then what should she do? She was still too young, still had so many things to do, so many places to go. And her parents, if they knew she was dead, how sad would they be?

Although she is normally a bit feisty, a little irritable, and a little pushy, she has always been, the child they love. Stupid girl…

Deep in thought, Aurora's eyes began to fill with tears. Burning tears drip down, drop by drop rolling down her cheeks, smearing mascara. Making her face look like a ghost with a black, disheveled face.

She sat still for a while, waiting for her heart to calm down, her tears gradually drying up, then raised her sleeve to rub her tears. Her sleeves remained pure white, without any stains and her face was still as black as the black coals of a stove. Aurora suddenly stood up, she ran out of the classroom. 

She wants to go home immediately.

She wants to see how her parents are now! Even though they couldn't see her, she wanted to be with them...