Mirror Mirror

Eris stared into the mirror, hoping that if she stared long enough when she looked away she would be home. That maybe her eyes weren't really black and the area surrounding them a dark smudge of blue-purple that left people thinking she had two black eyes or way too much makeup. Or even the tattooed dots extending out from her eyes at either end and across the bridge of her nose or the dark stripes marring the right side of her lower lip were a bit more normal. No one made fun of the normal kids. Maybe if she stared long enough her reflection would change. As that thought filtered through her head the image in the mirror startlingly morphed into the face of someone else, but a face with the same dark eyes and same dusky smudges of socket. Though the tattoos vanished, they were replaced with inky lips set in a face cracked with darkness and shimmer.

"What do you want, mother" the brunette all but growled at the new form, leaning against the sink with both hands balled into agitated fists.

"Why, can't I just visit you to see how you're doing?" The reflection asked with a frown.

"Nice doesn't suit you, mother. Get to the point" Eris's tone was clipped and pungent with aggravation.

"Fine. You shouldn't have used your real name"

The girl in the bathroom rolled her eyes "you came all this way just to tell me I should have made up a name? No one's going to suspect anything, and I highly doubt anyone even knows my name anymore. So I don't see why I can't use it." The girl started pacing.

"It's dangerous, Eris"

"What? You want me to use Discordia instead? Besides people don't even remember their history, let alone anything about us. Even if they did, there's no reason for them to connect us. So why worry."

"Eris."

"Look, if you're so worried, then don't use it, but I'm going to, it's just about the only thing I have left."

"You know that's not true, you have me, and your brothers and your sisters-"

Eris whipped around to glare at the woman "They all hate me, mother, even you."

"Well it's not my fault that you got yourself banished to earth" the woman snarled back.

"Yes it is. You're the one that sent me into that mess in the first place. If they hadn't gotten so pissed at me for it they never would have plotted against me and eventually gotten me kicked out."

"No, don't blame me, you're the one that fell in love." her mother growled, looking nearly ready to come through the mirror to throttle her daughter.

"Because they made me, mother. One prick of an arrow and I was gone." Eris told her in a bored tone, turning away from the reflection. She didn't want to talk to this woman.

"I would rather go back to living in the chaos plains than here, but there's nothing that can be done. I just don't see why you have to put me through all this."

The woman in the mirror immediately calmed to a sickly sweet mood that caused Eris to cringe "Honey, I only wanted you to have a normal life, to make friends, and this way you can"

"I hardly call this normal" Eris mumbled "If you want me to be normal then find a way to get me invited back."

"You know I can't-"

"Sure, wouldn't want to loose our status now would we. Wouldn't want to disrupt anything" She spat back at the woman "I'm done talking with you, mother"

"Eris.."

"No! I'm done" with that she thrust her hand out towards the mirror and it cracked, destroying the reflection of her mother "if you really want to talk to me, do it some other time" she growled while stalking out the door.

A red head attached to a girl called Layla peeked hesitantly out of her stall as she heard the bathroom door shut. That had to have been one of the weirdest conversations she had ever heard. The red head crept out of the stall to put a hand upon the mirror, tracing the cracks that scattered out from a single point, almost as if Eris had actually hit the mirror.

"I wonder what that was about" she whispered to herself, then bustled off to class, wondering if the girl had actually had a conversation with her mother in the bathroom mirror. Mostly she hoped she wasn't going crazy and this Eris had really had a conversation on an exceptionally loud cell phone.