The Idiosyncratic

Chapter 2 - Mirror Mirror On The Wall


Max quickly turned the shower handle off and rolled her eyes towards her stupidity. Of course she had forgotten a spare change of clothes. She was so caught up in her daydreaming she had forgotten that she was in fact a human being and that people don't run around naked.

Max moved some of her wet hair from her eyes and peered out stealthy around the shower curtain. A sway of hot cloudy steam made its way from behind the curtain she had been showering in and spread throughout the room.

Okay Max, you got this. Just… Don't make any noise.

Slowly Max pushed the shower curtain away from her body and sprinted over to the sink.

On her journey she happened to kick over a beer can which clanged on the ground noisily and while she worried about that, she accidentally stepped on a spare bottle of shampoo which squirted out onto the floor making her slip and crash into the sink knocking over a packet of hairclips which had been left, they scattered along the ground.

..Wow Max. Wow.

The freckled girl straightened up, relieved that no one was awake to see that. Max reached for her white towel and her damp-with-sweat pajamas. The girl hastily wrapped the towel around her thin form in fear that the noise she made would have alerted some of the girls in the dorm. Max looked down at her cocoon of pajamas, and grimaced, she wasn't putting those back on. Not before they get washed anyway.

Once Max's body was wrapped up, she looked towards the door but before leaving decided to check her appearance. She moved into sight of one of the mirrors.

Max wiped her hand along the mirror which was clouded with fog and looked at her reflection just to make sure she wasn't oblivious to something like 'Loser' written in permanent marker across her forehead. Luckily there was nothing there.

Well honestly there wasn't exactly nothing... She definitely saw something… Something very odd.

Max creased her eyebrows in confusion, looking at the mirror again and leaning in towards it slowly, checking to see if she had only imagined it. There looking back at her, was herself, obviously. But what she couldn't explain where the two small brown ears poking out from the top of her head. Concerned she reached up and touched the top of her head where the shell shaped ears were poking out. There was nothing there.

Now currently wondering if she was going insane, Max stepped back from the mirror her heart beating in her chest and moved to the next sink. She wiped the fog away from the mirror and looked at her reflection again. This time there were no 'ears.' Well, that's what she assumed they were anyway.

She repositioned her towel and slowly stepped back into the original mirror. Again, no ears. Max squinted her eyes shut, checking again. She creased her eyebrows in confusion and shook her head as if shaking away a trance. No ears… Of course there wasn't, pfft, what was she? Insane?

Max let out a sigh of relief. Obviously, the heat from the room must've been getting to her head, she quickly left the room with a towel wrapped around her and pajamas in hand.

Wowzers, it's cold.

Max cradled her arms as she held the towel up around her body while she walked down the hallway. She hoped none of the other girls would wake up before she got back to her room. And, no one did.


Max quickly entered her room, shutting the door behind her. She placed her back against the wooden structure and slid down it slowly - exhaling deeply - just contemplating her life as she sat on the ground in a pool of water with a wet towel wrapped around her body.

These dreams are totally bizarro… Maybe Warren would know something? No… This isn't science... Is it? Plus, how would he react? He'd think I'm totally strange… Maybe I am.

Max bit her lip for a second remembering her reflection in the bathroom. The ears looked so... Real. The way they were twitching around reacting to the sound of the shower dripping. Max thought for a second longer, she quickly decided that she sounded completely insane and that it was probably just stress that was making her see things. Best not to bring it up again.


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