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At 6:30 p.m. sharp, Lilly stood in front of my door and grinned into the camera.

I lived outside the city in a huge and very ostentatious house in the hills of California.

Personally, I would have settled for a small apartment in the city, but my parents literally insisted that I move into this fortress.

I walked up to the door and pressed the security protocol, including the iris scanner.

Only when the person is fully identified does the door lock open.

This procedure, every time I visited, was already bugging me when I moved in.

Sometimes I felt like I was in a high-security wing that was better guarded than Fort Nox.

Finally the door opened and Lilly came marching into my living room, laden with several bags.

"So here I am. I brought a few outfits and my entire makeup arsenal." She said and lifted the bags onto the couch.

I knew full well that today we wouldn't be trying on any of her souvenirs, but something from my sister Malia's new fashion collection.

Malia was my 2 year older sister, who after studying fashion directly with our Aunt Lyla, designed several fashion collections of her own.

I basically had to act as a model. The advantage of this was that I could keep all the clothes I was photographed with.

After almost an hour and a half of changing outfits, we both had finally found one we liked.

Lilly wore a purple black mini dress with a v-neck and several cuts at her waist, so that you could see quite a lot of skin. In addition, she wore black highheals, which were tied together with two ribbons up to her knees, crossed.

I, on the other hand, wore a sapphire blue, knee-length dress, where the back was free, but with silver chains to set accents. In addition, black boot heels.

After doing her hair and makeup, Lilly suddenly took out a small, very old-looking book from her bag.

She leafed through it a bit until she stopped on a page and pointed to a picture with a squiggly mirror.

"You see, the book says that if you want to know what a recurring dream means, you should look into the mirror of destiny.

If you slowly lose yourself in it, the keeper of memories will answer all your questions."

She looked at me with a serious face. I couldn't help myself and laughed out loud.

I shook my head and sarcastically asked her if she was serious.

"I love you Lilly, but do you seriously think that an old mirror with an old man in it could tell me what is wrong with me, or what is wrong with me?

I don't believe in such hocus pocus! And even if that mirror does exist somewhere, who's to say it's not lying at the bottom of the ocean next to the Titanic?" I snorted, still laughing.

Lilly screwed up her face and gave me a dirty look.

"You'll see. When the time comes, the mirror will reveal itself to you."

I wiped aside the fairy tale of the magic mirror, took our handbags and was about to walk towards the door.

Someone honked the horn and a huge smile spread across Lilly's face.

This could not mean anything good for me.

My mouth was open and I looked incredulously back and forth between my best friend and the oversized stretch limousine in my driveway.

Lilly pulled me into the huge vehicle with her and we drove off.

"Are you serious!!! A stretch limo?! The only way it would be more eye-catching is if it was pink!" is all I brought out angrily.

Lilly just shrugged her shoulders and casually said "The pink one was out.

Also, relax a bit! We're only here once a month and then you might as well make a real appearance!"

I rolled my eyes and wanted most to ask the driver to park on a side street,

but there we already stopped at the end of the queue.

As we got out, all eyes were on me, as if I were an actor about to walk the red carpet at a movie premiere.

We walked past the crowds towards the entrance.

Not only could I feel the probing stares on me, but I could also hear the sneering comments.

"Look, here comes Miss Double Zero, has several zeros in her account, but also has 0 respect for the common folk."

"Oh look, Madame thinks she is something better, just don't get in line and wait out here with".

Others, however, again pulled out their cell phones to take an exclusive photo of me.

When we arrived at the entrance, the bouncer, a man like a cupboard, with an emotionless mine, looked at us urgently. Then he opened the barrier tape for us and greeted me with a small smile. "Welcome Miss Nightmoon" and waved us through.

Inside we went straight to our regular table.

A small cordoned off area on a pedestal, so that one could overlook the complete club.

I looked over to the bar, where a familiar picture presented itself to me.

The waiters played scissors, stone, paper. The winner was then "allowed" to serve our table tonight.

After all, there was always a good tip from us.

And again it was Luna who emerged as the winner. With a broad grin on her face, she sauntered over to our table.

We greeted each other with a warm embrace.

Luna had been a year below me at college, studying archaeology and history.

By now she was one of the most recognized and youngest archaeologist , in the whole country.

But since there weren't new excavation sites every day, she worked as a waitress at the Triangle in between.

"As usual, the usual?" she asked us happily.

"Yes," Lilly and I replied in sync.

"How can you guys like this colorful stuff? It looks like a rainbow that fell from the sky, doesn't it?" Luna asked us.

I just shrugged my shoulders and answered her that it's not the looks that matter, it's the taste.

"Okay. All right, two Fantastic Lagoon, coming right up!" she said, turning directly toward the bar to relay our order to the bartender.

Once Luna was out of earshot, I turned to Lilly with my arms crossed.

"So now, out with it! Why exactly did you want to come here today of all days? Our monthly trip here , actually would have been next weekend."

"Well, um....how should I best tell you this now?" she just stammered.

My gaze darkened and I lowered my head to look a little more threatening.

Finally, her masquerade broke down and she opened up to me about the reason for our visit here.

"Tonight is date night. And before you start snorting around and rolling your eyes again...You've barely looked at another guy since we broke up with Brandon..."

Yes Brandon, my first love who betrayed and disappointed me so extremely.

"Should I have continued to provide with this hypocrite who loved my family's money more than me?!

After all, he now felt he was cheating on me with my roommate Kelly after I refused to buy him a sports car."

I massaged my temples because I got a headache as soon as I thought about Brandon.

"Besides, I just had a date last week."

Lilly widened her eyes and looked at me in disbelief.

"And why didn't I know about it?" she asked me, both outraged and horrified at the same time.

"Because there was nothing to tell. Jack had chosen the most expensive restaurant in town and once ordered half the menu. He wolfed down the meal and then demanded that I pay the bill at the end. From then on, the date was over for me," I told her and shrugged my shoulders.

She saw my sad face and grabbed my hand to pull me onto the dance floor.

"Come on, let's go dance a little. The singles stuff doesn't start until midnight anyway,so we still have plenty of time to enjoy ourselves. Besides, you clearly need to clear your head."

Right when we got to the dance floor, the DJ played our favorite song and we half danced our hearts out.

We swung our bodies around wildly, to the beat of the music. After a good half hour, I pointed to our place and made a pantomime movement with my hand, as if I was going to drink something.

So we went back to our table , where 2 ice cold Fantastic Lagoon were already waiting for us.

I took the straw in my mouth and drank almost half of it in one go.

Lilly stared at me somewhat incredulously and we both had to start laughing.

At midnight sharp, the DJ turned off the music and announced that date night would now begin.

Instantly, masses of men poured out of the club, to our table.

It could be compared to a lush meadow and a swarm of locusts, I was them meadow.

The manager of the Triangle saw the commotion and asked the men to behave in a civilized manner and not to regard me as a piece of meat. Otherwise, they could leave his club and receive a one-year suspension.

"Date night or not, there will be no riot here!" he said, scowling at the crowd.

I listened to one life story after another.

There were stories about sick family members who needed expensive treatment, to heirs who were also rich, where a merger of the businesses and between us could be very beneficial. I had heard all these stories so many times now and I was tired of it always being about the money.

I was sitting bored at the table, sipping my third Fantastic Lagoon, when suddenly I saw a black shadow flit by in the corner of my eye. I looked up to see the figure that had so suddenly caught my attention. Standing in the back corner to the storage room was her. She looked like the woman I had been dreaming about for weeks. She nodded at me briefly and disappeared behind the next door.

I stood up with a jerk, so that the table began to sway threateningly. Lilly and the gentleman sitting across from us looked at me in confusion.

This could not possibly be real, I was awake!

I had to get to the bottom of this.

I walked around the table and ran across the dance floor, toward the storage rooms.

Lilly was having trouble keeping up with me.

When she finally caught up with me, she asked me, all out of breath, what had suddenly gotten into me.

"You're going to love this, I just saw the woman from my dreams, she was walking towards the storage room. Think I'm completely nuts, but I want to know what's going on now.

I finally want answers!"

Shortly after I said these words, we heard a purring voice telling us to follow her.

"Did you hear that too?" I asked, and Lilly nodded at me.

Since I wasn't the only one who had heard that voice, I was sure I hadn't lost my mind. We continued to creep towards the storage room.

As we entered the room, I could still see the tip of a coat darting around the next corner.

We went after it. Behind that corner was a huge, magnificent mirror, with strange runes on the sides.

This language should have been unknown to me, but as soon as I touched the frame, the runes unraveled before my eyes and I could read it.

It said, "The gateway between worlds."

I actually read it only to myself, but shortly after I had pronounced the last syllable, the mirror suddenly shone and and our reflection changed.

Before us now stood no longer our mirror images but a picture of a fairy and an elf.

In disbelief, I raised one hand and the fairy followed suit.

I looked over at Lilly, but she only grinned over both ears, as if this was nothing special for her.

The elf in front of me put her hand on the surface of the mirror, I snapped my eyes open and before I could say anything, I did the same.

A bright beam of light appeared, then everything went black and I fainted.