"Yes, I am."
That moment when you think something is true but the revelation you are right still surprises you could now be applied to David. The moment Izzy, or Isabella, spoke those words, realization dawned upon him and he suddenly didn't feel very confident.
"So…so you are Sam's sister," He said, breathing heavily. Isabella gritted her teeth and reluctantly nodded. Then, her appearance began to alter slightly. She still had the red hair, but the lower half of it turned blue, her skin darkened slightly, and her shiny green eyes became bright blue.
"Don't tell Brenda," She warned. "Understand me?"
David didn't respond. He was still recovering from the shock of the revelation. "Did you hear me?" Isabella asked. "I said don't tell her!"
"I can't believe it," David muttered. "I've known you for two years, longer than I've known Brenda, maybe even longer than she's known you. How could I NOT know this?"
Isabella shrugged. "You aren't as smart as you like to think, David," She replied simply.
"There are so many things that never added up until now," David said. "I never saw your house. I never saw your parents. You always seemed to just disappear in the forest like that."
Then, forgetting what Isabella had said beforehand, David suddenly added, "I have to tell Brenda." With that, he turned to take off.
"NO!" Isabella shouted, and David suddenly found him flung into a tree. The tree immediately toppled over from the force.
Isabella stomped over to him. "You are not telling Brenda about this!" She hissed, grabbing David by the collar and hoisting him on his feet.
"Or what?" David asked. "You'll kill me?"
"Well, half of me might," Isabella responded. David flinched a bit. Isabella had never been very kind to him, but the thought that she may actually end his life made him uncomfortable.
"W-what?" He stammered nervously.
Isabella sighed and dropped David to the ground. "Sorry about that," She mumbled in a somewhat insincere tone. "But, a lot has happened lately thanks to you."
"Hey, it's not my fault some blue girl knocked me out on the road," David argued, getting to his feet and brushing his clothes off.
"You shouldn't of been there in the first place," Isabella hissed, clenching her fists. "We were upset."
"What do you mean, 'we'?" David asked. "Does that girl have anything to do with you?"
"It's complicated," Isabella replied. "But you have to bring Sam back to us, NOW."
David bit his lips as he tried to come up with an explanation. "It's a long story," David said. "But the thing is, Sam's…he's…"
"Spit it out!" Isabella demanded, frustrated.
"He's been staying with us voluntarily," David explained.
Isabella's mouth hung open in disbelief. "But that's impossible!" She said. "Sam would never stay with the likes of you willingly." She gasped and then added, "Did you infect him or something?"
"I'm not a virus, Izzy," David said. "You go and ask him yourself. He wants to stay-"
He was cut off when Isabella transformed her hand into a blade and pointed it at his throat. David gulped in fear and a beat of sweat dripped down his forehead.
"You have 24 hours," Isabella said. "Go get Sam, and send him back to the mirror with us. Okay, kid?" She pressed the blade against his throat lightly.
David nodded, and Isabella removed the blade and then disappeared into the fog.
"So, your sister came to visit you here?" Janet asked Sam inside her room. Sam nodded a bit and bit his lip. "It's a long story," Sam said. "And I told her you and David know about my powers, so now I think she's upset."
Janet nodded in response. Suddenly, the door was pushed open, and a shivering David shambled inside. He had a frozen look of fear on his face.
"David, where were you?" Janet asked. "Sam was just filling me in on his sister coming here and-"
"I know who your sister is, Sam," David revealed. The room grew silent. Sam and Janet stared at David in shock.
"You what?" Sam asked. David bolted onto the bed in between Sam and Janet. "I know who she is," He repeated.
Sam's face paled in shock. "W-what happened?" He asked, fearing the worst. "Yeah, who is it?" Janet asked.
"It's Izzy!" He shouted at Janet and began breathing heavily. Sam's eyes widened in shock and he bit his fingers. Janet's mouth hang open in shock.
"Izzy…" Janet said in disbelief. "Izzy is…"
"Yes, she is," David responded worriedly. "She confessed herself." The three didn't speak a word for several minutes as they tried to comprehend what had been said.
"Does Brenda know?" Janet asked. David and Sam shook their heads. "She said she'd kill me if I told Brenda about it," David said.
"Guys, there's something I should tell you," Sam said. The two stared at him. Sam, truly, didn't want to say anything, but now that his sister had been found out, he felt he needed to confess something.
"Me and Bella…are orphans," He said. David and Janet stared at him in confusion before they both said, "We know."
"Well, some kids have asked why I'm not in an orphanage, then," Sam continued. "Well, me and Bella used to live in one."
"Well, what happened?" David asked. Janet nodded in agreement. Sam sighed.
"Look, the people in the orphanage knew about my powers and my…reflection," Sam explained. "They did with Bella, too. But things were different. They loved Bella for her powers because she had more control over them. But I wasn't as fortunate. When I used my powers, something usually went wrong. Kids got injured, parts of the building would get damaged, so I wasn't very popular."
"We know how that feels," Janet mumbled under her breath.
"But then I met her," Sam said, and his face lit up briefly. David and Janet stared at him in confusion. "Who?" Janet asked.
"Her name was Amanda," Sam said. "She was a nice kid. She liked me. We became friends, and the fact that the other kids didn't respect me very much suddenly became an afterthought. I was happy, and so was she. And then…"
"And then what?" David asked, intrigued.
"Okay, about our reflections," Sam said. "They can't usually leave their mirrors, but we can. The thing is, if we let our emotions lose control, then they can possess us or something, and use us to enter this world."
"One of you lost control of your emotions?" David asked. Sam nodded, and a look of uncertainty spread across his face.
"It was…it was me!" He spat out after a while. "I got angry about something. I don't even remember what, and my reflection, he possessed me! He didn't like Amanda, so he, hurt her. Badly."
David and Janet stared at him in shock. "What happened to her?" Janet asked worriedly.
"She was taken to the hospital," Sam said. "At that point, Mirror Isabella, my sister's reflection, had us move out of the orphanage to avoid being taken away. Because of that…I never got to find out what happened to Amanda." A tear began to form in his eyes, but he wiped it away.
David and Janet stared at Sam for a moment as he covered his face. Eventually, he regained his composure and got off the bed.
"Um, guys," Sam said.
"What is it?" Janet asked.
"I think I should introduce you to someone," Sam replied.
