One in body, two in mind.
Prologue
Multiple personality disorder:
Multiple personality disorder, or MPD, is a mental disturbance classified as one of the dissociative disorders in the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). It has been renamed dissociative identity disorder (DID). MPD or DID is defined as a condition in which "two or more distinct identities or personality states" alternate in controlling the patient's consciousness and behavior. Note: "Split personality" is not an accurate term for DID and should not be used as a synonym for schizophrenia.
I guess that about covers it, my problem anyway, that is becoming increasingly difficult to control and… Oh my, where are my manners? I should introduce myself, or "selves" if you want to put it accurately. My name is Ava Spiel, my problem, well you know about that already, so I had better launch into a lengthy explanation on the nature of my predicament, eh?
Well, from what I know about the start of this "little" problem of mine(which isn't much) I would have to say it started around the age of three…
The little blonde girl walked to her door listening to the sounds of breaking furniture and two people yelling and screaming at each other, her mother and father. Her mothers face was the perfect picture of bull-gone-mad with her eyes bulging and her large frame charging about the room like a fat cat trying to chase down a mouse, the mouse… the little girl's father, always trying to calm down the beast that her mother was before he when't from mouse to frustrated hound, to full-fledged pissed-off gorilla. She would seem to do everything in her power to get him into a corner and make him fear for his personal safety, of course, being the imperfect man that he was, he struck back, sending the crazed woman reeling. They were so busy trying to fight one another, they didn't see the little huddledframe walking towards them.
"Daddy, MOMMY! Stop fighting please, please, please… your hurting me!" She thought that the situation was one-sided, but in her heart she knew that they were both terribly wrong. They didn't listen. And she scuttled off to her room, becoming so invisible when she had always had someone to talk to. To be so lonely was impossible to bear, alone anyway.
That night, the childs wish came true, but not in the way anyone expected.
That night was the night that she as a whole, became two pieces, jaggedly separated forom the stress of the terrifying moment, when she knew she was alone, terribly inexorably alone.
That night, the new side of the once one-sided child came into existence, and there was the start of the yin-yang girl, the gemini child, the schizmatic personalitys now Ava and Sava.
One body, two essences.