Fake it with me
He was not trying to look inside, but the angle of his approach meant he could see through the gap, and what he saw made him stop in the corridor and stand very still for a moment.
There were two people in the room.
Ava, and a girl Ethan recognized as one of the younger members of the cheer squad, a first-year named Jade who had the particular look of someone who had been crying recently and was hoping it wasn't obvious.
Ava was standing in front of the mirror, not looking at Jade directly but at Jade's reflection, which Ethan understood immediately was a deliberate choice, giving the girl somewhere to look that wasn't eye contact.
"Show me the sequence from the top," Ava said.