AlecReyes19: You'd be surprised at just how similar the Mirror dimension is to the real world. In fact, that's exactly my intention to portray how similar the two worlds are.
A-Plus Cassiopeia: Mirror Samson basically reflects Sam's original attitude. So, the stuff that comes out of his mouth are stuff Sam would've said before he met Janet and started to change.
BookMast3r: Oh, if only they had talked about things. And, face it, it would be rather odd if ONLY Mirror humans lived in the Mirror dimension.
With that said, let's move on.
(Bonus Scene: Mirror Isabella's POV)
My brain was totally clogged up, like when your nose gets…never mind that. So many things had happened these past couple of days and it was so hard to focus that it physically hurt. I felt like I was enduring a migraine
For the life of me, I couldn't get it. Why, oh why, had Samson Crystal fallen for that bog-headed louse. It was totally confusing. She wasn't pretty, at least to me, and since it's my opinion that makes it right. Her hair looked like it had mud stuck in it, and she was always blushing for some reason and it was disgusting. Her eyes were too big and she had such thick eyebrows. Yeah, my eyes were a little big too but it looks good on me, unlike her.
And what is with her clothing? She's dressed all in…I think Bella said its called pink or something, but it looks like a light red. It looks so awkward on her. Nothing like my clothes, which are stunning as well as match my skin tone. The louse has peach-coloured skin, so having pink clothing just doesn't match up.
On another subject, she has such a helpless-sounding and high-pitched voice and it totally grates on my nerves. I'd say it sounded cutesy but anything coming from her is anything BUT that. Sam is, what, her age and he sounds nothing like her.
And she is SO annoying. Bella has talked about her all the time and I figured she was a brat, but this is beyond that. I've only had one encounter with this shi…excuse me, shrimp, and she is already a contender for my non-existent 'People I Hate The Most' list. Along with Brenda Collins, even though I haven't met her yet.
Oh yeah, I bet you're wondering why I'm so high-strung about Samson and Janet "platonic" relationship (platonic my posteriors, that louse WILL make a move eventually) but I'm not concerned about Bella and Brenda's acquaintance. Well, there are two reasons.
One, Bella and Brenda are in their "two-digits" (that is, Bella's eleven and Brenda's ten, so two-digits in years) so they're more mature and rational than Sam and Janet, who still need to wait two years before they receive their two-digits.
As my friends Pandora and Ophelia told me, "Two-digits is better than one-digit", but don't quote me on that.
Second of all, experience. The last time Samson formed a bond with a girl, Amanda was her name, two years ago (why am I using so many twos now?), things ended BADLY. He showed her stuff that she shouldn't of seen, and she got curious, and…bam, we have to go and leave that stinking place. Bella made a lot of friends at that orphanage, but she new the limit. They knew about out powers, but not too much, and that was fine.
Samson brought Amanda into the Mirror dimension a few times. Sometimes, I really don't know what's going on in his head.
And now he's just showed Janet the Mirror dimension…eh, Daja Vu or something. But either way, I don't like it.
So, as this monologue can tell you, Janet SUCKS. Now I just have to find some way to convince her that she's a worthless pile of feces. I'm not going to KILL her, I'm not a psycho, but that brat needs to be taught a lesson.
And…what the…is that HER? Speak of the devil, she's right there in front of me in the corridors of Sam's building. I'm looking closer, and she's…wait, is she feeding my woodpeckers? What is up with that? Doesn't she know they hate kids, except for me and Bella. Uh, she is getting on my nerves. I have GOT to get her and her brother out of here.
Oh yeah, almost forgot about her brother. I hate him too.
(End POV)
Janet, as the POV had already explained, was sitting down of the smooth ground, the two mirror woodpeckers who had previously beaten up David standing on her folded legs, chirping happily.
"Oh, aren't they adorable?" Janet said to nobody in particular. Holding out some bird seeds she had somehow gotten her hands on, she watched as the woodpeckers began eating it up quickly.
The reflection woodpecker accidentally poked Janet's arm cast, causing the girl to flinch a bit. During the last few days, Janet's arm had healed a bit after her encounter with the rabid dog, but it still hurt if touched a little too roughly. Nevertheless, she acted like it didn't hurt and allowed the woodpeckers too finish eating.
"You want some more food?" She asked politely. The woodpeckers, apparently understanding her, nodded a bit and Janet scooped more bird seeds from the small pile next to her.
"What are you doing to my birds?"
Janet instantly recognized Mirror Isabella's voice. She had only spoken to the reflection girl on one occasion, but Janet could recognize anyone's voice no matter how little they spoke, something she didn't dwell on too much.
However, she did notice something was a bit off. The last time she heard Mirror Isabella speak, she had a rather sarcastic and dry feeling to it. Now, however, Janet thought she sensed contempt and disgust in Mirror Isabella's voice, and it unnerved her.
However, she didn't want to disrespect Mirror Isabella so she slowly got to her feet and turned to face Mirror Isabella. The reflection girl was a foot taller than her so Janet had to raise her head high to look at her.
"Uh, greetings Mirror Isabella," Janet quickly greeted and did an attempt at a curtsey, but just looked odd. Mirror Isabella sighed loudly and folded her arms over her chest. Janet tried not to let that bother her and resumed facing her.
"I found your woodpeckers and they seemed hungry, so I just decided to, feed them..." Janet stuttered out, twiddling her fingers and looking away. She hoped Mirror Isabella would be grateful.
Instead, Mirror Isabella placed one finger on Janet's cheek and slowly jerked her head to face her again. "Janet," She said, speaking as if Janet was a five-year-old, "Did it ever occur to her that maybe you should have left those woodpeckers ALONE?"
Janet shrugged. "They looked unhappy and starved," She defended, gesturing to the woodpeckers, who were currently picking at the bird seeds.
"Maybe there's a reason for that?" Mirror Isabella said. "Hey, maybe I kept them on guard to protect my gym room for my upcoming party, in case someone came in to vandalize the place, and not feeding them was just a way to get them in the mood to defend the place?"
Janet gulped. "I didn't think of that," She muttered pathetically.
"No you don't think, do you?" Mirror Isabella snapped, tapping Janet on the forehead. "You just do what you want to do, not listening to reason or being concerned for anyone else!"
Janet flinched at Mirror Isabella's sudden shift in tone. "I'm sorry," She apologized. "I won't do it again!"
"Are you sure, Janet?" Mirror Isabella hissed at the younger girl. "You're so airheaded, you'll probably forget what you said in a few hours, if not a few minutes!" She shoved Janet a few inches.
Now Janet got upset herself. "I said I was sorry, okay!" She shouted and pushed Mirror Isabella away. Mirror Isabella instantly caught herself, gritted her teeth, and flung herself forward and struck Janet across the face with a closed fist.
Time seemed to slow down for Janet. The blow had caught her completely off-guard, and she felt incredibly light-headed. She knew Mirror people were stronger than the average human, but Mirror Isabella's blow hit her so hard she felt her skull had leaped out of her skin.
With a heavy thud, Janet crashed onto the ground like a rag doll. She looked unconscious, but was totally awake, and could feel some blood trickling down her nose. Her eyes were wide open in shock and dizziness.
Mirror Isabella roughly jerked Janet off the ground and held her a few feet off the ground for a few moments. "Don't you ever put your filthy hands on me again, you dirtbag!" She spat out into Janet's face.
If Janet hadn't been so shell-shocked by getting struck by Mirror Isabella, she might have laughed. Mirror Isabella looked so proper and fancy, in stark contrast to the real Isabella, that hearing these immature words fly out of her mouth seemed so odd. But, given the circumstances, Janet felt incredibly hurt.
Mirror Isabella scoffed when she saw a few tears in Janet's eyes. "Oh, if you're going to cry at that, I wonder what will happen if I do this." She transformed her hand into a blade.
Janet's heart seemed to stop. When Sam's hand turned into a crystal blade, it was cool because he was doing it to defend her. But Mirror Isabella's hand turning into a blade made Janet for afraid than when the rabid dog nearly killed her.
"What...what are you doing?" She whispered.
"You need to pay somehow for pushing me like that," Mirror Isabella sneered and aimed the blade at Janet's face.
"No, no," Janet whispered, trying to raise her arms a bit to try and plead, but she felt too weak. Mirror Isabella's blade neared Janet's face, and the girl shut her eyes to embrace herself for the pain.
Janet felt a swish of air fly past her fast, followed by a cutting sound. Janet opened her eyes in confusion. Mirror Isabella hadn't cut her skin?
However, moments later, Janet saw it. One of her pigtails dropped down the side of her head and landed on the ground softly. Janet breathed heavily, relieved that Mirror Isabella hadn't lacerated her skin but still incredibly humiliated at Mirror Isabella cutting her hair.
Mirror Isabella's blade swished past Janet's face and cut off her other pigtail. It dropped noiselessly on the ground as well, causing Janet to flinch in embarrassment.
"They were always ugly, especially on you," Mirror Isabella sneered and dropped the girl onto the ground like a toy. Janet fell on her stomach and slowly curled herself into a ball, sobbing a bit, her shortened hair concealing her face.
Mirror Isabella watched a few inches away, her arms folded across her chest. For one moment, her eyebrows raised and she felt a twinge of deprecation at herself for what she just did, but then she hardened her heart and watched with a stone-cold expression as Janet sobbed.
With a sneer, Mirror Isabella turned to leave, when she heard a voice.
"How dare you touch my sister!"
Before Mirror Isabella could react, David slammed himself into her, causing her to stagger backwards. Mirror Isabella was shocked, but even then she could calculate what had happened. David was going to try and talk to her about something, but instead stumbled upon her cutting Janet's pigtails off, and now he was pissed.
David shouted and lunged at Mirror Isabella again as Janet, who had just noticed what happened, began to scramble off the ground as the two older kids began to scuffle.
Mirror Isabella was stronger than David and quickly threw him on the ground roughly. David groaned in pain, his side hurting, but he shrugged it off. He was so angry that Mirror Isabella had hurt his sister, that all he could think of was hurting her back somehow.
As Mirror Isabella stood over him, David jumped up and swung his fist at her. He was aiming for her nose, but he was somewhat off-balanced and missed her face. Instead, his fist slammed right into her chest.
"AUGH!" Mirror Isabella screamed in complete agony and stumbled backwards, holding her chest. David, his clenched fist still outstretched, blushed a bit at what he just did. However humiliating, it proved effective as Mirror Isabella stumbled onto the ground, groaning in pain.
David lowered his arm, confused. Why had THAT hurt her so much? He figured she would've just shrugged it off. However, that thought left him when he saw Janet's cut pigtails on the ground, and Janet. dried tears on her cheeks, struggling to get up.
David ran over and grabbed Janet, hosting her to her feet. "Are you okay?" He asked his sister. Janet wiped her tears from her eyes and nodded a bit. Suddenly, the three heard Sam enter the corridors.
"What just happened?!" He shouted out. The first thing he saw was Mirror Isabella, rolling on the ground a bit, and then his eyes fell on David and Janet.
Sam narrowed his eyes at David; he knew Janet couldn't of done it, she was way too peaceful to have inflicted whatever had happened to Mirror Isabella.
"What happened?" He asked again in a stern voice.
David opened his mouth to speak, but Janet shushed him. "I fed Mirror Isabella's woodpeckers without her consent and she got upset at me and scolded me, and my brother came and got mad and he hit her. It's my fault, don't blame my brother, he was just defending me."
"No, she cut Janet's-" David started but Janet elbowed him. Mirror Isabella got to her feet.
"Samson Crystal, I need to speak to you...alone," She said, stressing the last word. Sam was too fearful to disagree and Mirror Isabella walked past him, Sam following her.
Soon, they reached Sam's bedroom, and Mirror Isabella flopped on the bed, sighing. Sam stood awkwardly at the door, awaiting whatever Mirror Isabella had to say.
"Look, don't get mad at Janet, okay," Sam pleaded before Mirror Isabella could say anything.
"You can stay a while longer," Mirror Isabella said bluntly, raising her hand.
Sam felt like he'd been punched in the face. "What?" He asked. "I can stay?"
"Yes, you seem to like those kids quick a bit," Mirror Isabella said, silently scoffing. "So, why not spend a bit more quality time with them, especially your girlfriend."
"We are just friends!" Sam hissed out. It was the truth, after all.
"Okay Sam, you want to be buddies with Earth-dimension people, be my guest," Mirror Isabella sneered, venom clear in her voice. "I'm not stopping you."
Sam felt a little unnerved. "You sure?" He asked. "Maybe I should stay with you, just in case."
"No, I insist you go with those Barrets," Mirror Isabelle sneered, managing a smile despite still feeling the pain from David's punch. She gave a glance towards Sam, one that told him that this was the end of the conversation.
Squinting his eyes, Sam left the room, not taking his eyes off of Mirror Isabella. He realized she was planning something, but he didn't know what.
Turning around, Sam ran off to find David and Janet.
"I have to defend those two," He whispered to himself to urge himself. "I have to."
Well, that's the end of the chapter. R&R.