Chapter Two ~ Learn the truth
"So Mimi, how did you get here?" Lilly asked, her and Lilith looking at the girl.
"I don't really remember actually. What I do remember is that I was dreaming before. It had to be a dream, because in it, I died and it felt so real. I woke up right outside the school, so I just kinda went in and rolled with it. Lilly came in not long after I got to that class, which made me so confused. Anyways, how did you guys get here."
"Same for me really, I woke up in that garden over there." Lilly explained, pointing to the garden, which could be seen from the roof they were currently sitting on, eating their lunch, or rather, what they purchased from the vendors. It was still there first day, so they didn't really know where anything but the classes were."In my dream, I got shot, and Mimi was there, screaming."
"Where was I?" Lilith asked, she was surprised to hear that she didn't play a part in her only sister's so called demise.
"You weren't there, sorry." Lilly apologized upon the realization. It was strange, Lilith usually appeared in every single one of her dreams.
"It's not your fault, your brain knows I wouldn't be stupid enough to be there if that happened."
"Sure it was, or maybe I just didn't see you."
"Well, would you like to hear my dream?"
"Alright, what happened in yours?"
"In mine, I was ran over by a truck that had a weird logo on the side of it." Lilith described as she played with strands of her hair in thought.
Mimi's eyes widened, "Really! Do you remember what the logo looked like?"
"Umm...I think It had three S's on the side inside a circle."
"That's weird, in my dream, that was on the guy's jacket." Lilly pointed out.
"Hey guys, I think I had the same dream as Lilly! After she died, he shot me! How is that even possible!" Mimi shouted, piecing together the scattered memories of her own death.
"How should we know...Anyway I have Music next and I don't feel going! So, Lilly, you're going for me, you've always been better at it. What do you have?" Lilith said, giving her sister no room for argument.
"I have Art so I guess that would work. We need to get ourselves some hair dye and you a pair of contacts. Give me your glasses, we should be able to pull this off. Let's go!"
The three girls headed into the school, somehow knowing exactly where to go to get to the twins dorm room. Once inside, they got to work on getting out the materials they needed in order to switch places. It had to be done fairly quickly, but they were used to rushing it. Lilly went to work putting the temporary white dye through her waist length black hair. Which took longer than expected since she had trouble getting her hair the right shade to match her sister's. Once she was finished, her hair looked incredible! While she did that, her sister was doing the same but with black dye, also taking a large amount of time to get the right color.
After that, Lilly slipped into some lighter clothes while Lilith put on darker clothing before grabbing a bag filled with Bobby pins. The girls then placed them within their hair, using more and more until their hair looked shoulder length and was styled the way they wanted. Lilly and Lilith smiled at the mirror, and Lilith put on contracts while Lilly put on glasses, completing the looks. Mimi, who had been outside the room, was let in by Lilith to see how it turned out. She looked between the two, trying to find anything to tell her who was who.
"So did you guys really switch, cause I'm not so sure."
'How could she confuse me with a baked potato! I'm clearly the better looking one!' Lilith thought.
"SUCH RUDENESS DIRECTED STRAIGHT AT US!" Lilly shouted, over exaggerating the situation like she tended to do most of the time. Mimi looked at her again, searching and failing once again for anything that have it away other than her behavior. "You two are very talented at switching. If she hadn't said that I wouldn't even know the difference."
"Yep!" The twins said in unison. Walking out of the room, along with their friend. The three walked to classes together before breaking off, going to Mimi's class first since the twins had classes across the hall from each other. Once the two parted, classes began and both were thrilled with their choice to switch.
About halfway through Art Lilith noticed a girl with purple hair watching her as if she were out of the ordinary. This caught Lilith's attention as she turned and waved to the girl, who in return smiled and mouthed "meet me after class."
Lilith was a bit taken back, though, she nodded her head, not really intending to go alone though. She pointed to the ceiling, signaling they would talk on the roof, and the other nodded in agreement.
Once classes ended, Lilith ran across the hall to grab her sister before running back out and going to Mimi's class. The two girls were dragged by the third as she explained what happened and where they were going. When the steps leading up to the roof were reached, the girls paused. Each person took a deep breath before Lilly, who still looked like Lilith turned to her twin.
"Let me and Mimi go first, maybe they'll think we're bodyguards, and then we could share them off." Lilly said, glancing to Mimi with a determined look in her blue eyes.
"Yeah, okay, but don't forget that you're wearing my glasses! You break them you buy them!"
"Okay then, Mimi, you first!"
"Why me!?"
"Cause we look related, so you go first and try to scare them, and I'll be the sister who had Anger issues and is overprotective. That is a deadly combination." Mimi seemed to want to say something, but decided against it. She sighed before turning and starting up the steps, Lilly following after five steps behind, and Lilith five steps after her. On the roof was not only the girl from Art, but many others as well.
"Lilly, glad you could make it! Are they your friends?" asked the girl. The three friends looked around at the people who gathered around them. At this point, none of them could find it in them to anger these people. The fact that one guy had a halberd (A/N: I don't think I have to say this, but I will, Noda is an idiot) only made it worst. After a moment though, Lily, still dressed as Lilith, spoke up, still trying to act tough.
"Yeah, what of it." The girls eyes landed on her, and the guy with the halberd began glaring at her.
"We would like for the three of you to join the SSS battlefront. We are rebelling against God for the unfair lives we had when we were alive."
"You're going to do...What?" Lilith asked, trying to understand the new information, but it began to become a bit overwhelming, especially the part "when they were alive".
'What does she mean by when they were alive? Do you think this is some kinda twisted joke?' asked her sister's voice in her head, momentarily calming her.
"We are rebelling against God for the unfair lives we had." The girl said answering her question.
'I don't know, but this is weird. I'm not sure I wanna be here anymore, we should just leave.' thought Lilly, feeling uncomfortable under the many foreign gazes.
"By now, you should know that you're dead."
The three girls blood ran cold, and a sinking feeling came over them as they paled, before Mimi slowly began stepping backwards. Her eyes as wide as saucers from the information she had just unwillingly received.
"No, we can't be dead, we can't! I still had so much I wanted to do, so much I wanted see. I couldn't keep my promise to Jessica, the one about helping her get away from your uncle. This has to be a joke." Minah, who was in denial, laughed before turning to her twin companions, "Right Lilith? Right Lilly? It's just a joke?"
Tears sprang to the girl's eyes as silence overtook of her two friends. She was on the verge of crying, her eyes becoming a light shade of pink as proof. Mimi's entire world came crashing down in a matter of seconds scattering debris all across her fragile psyche. Even with that occurring in her mind, one single question still remained "Why?".
Lilith did not take to kindly to the tortured look on her friend's face, but she was unsure of what to do or say in this situation, 'Do you think, that maybe the dreams were real?' There was a moment of silence in the mental connection, before her sister replied in a weak voice.
'Yeah. I think they were. I think… they might be telling the truth. We're dead, aren't we?' Another pause, before Lilith's broken voice spoke over the connection.
'I think…we were,' Deep down in the pit of her stomach, Lilith had known the painful truth all along. She remembered every vivid detail of her death, such as how she was pushed by a mysterious figure into oncoming traffic. The young girl was murdered, she was innocently waiting for the light to turn green at a crowded crosswalk near a busy intersection when it happened. Lilith promised herself that she would never tell her sister of what truly occurred on the day she left the world of the living. If the truth were to be revealed everyone she cared about, whether dead or alive would be put in danger.
Her and Lilly then turned their heads towards Mimi, who was now sobbing in a fetal position on the floor of the roof. With sorrowful smiles, they both went over to her and positioned themselves so that they were on opposite sides of their friend. Soon enough Mimi found herself engulfed in a warm, comforting hug, much like how a mother would embrace her.
"You remember those dreams we had?" Lilith asked, earning a nod of the head from Mimi as her tears lessened. Knowing her friends were there made it less painful, but only a little. It would take a lot more than that to repair the damage that has been dealt. She was lucky enough to not go into shock, or worse, a state of hysteria.
"They were real" Lilly finished, helping her twin pull the girl up into a depressed stance while they headed back into the school building. But stopped momentarily at the top of the descending staircase prior to speaking to the members of SSS battlefront, "Our answer to your question is no." She said in unison with her sister as they continued down the stairs, carefully taking talongiends arms and leading her back to their dorm room.