The Twin Fight

Holding Up The Mirror

It was a time in each twins life that wasn't easy.  Maybe the twins saw it in their own life at the time or not.  It's irrelevant now.  They were carrying too many stones on their back.

Irritation between them mounted.

Then one twin pointed out a flaw she saw in the other twin.  Offended the other twin threw up out a flaw she saw in her sister.  The descent from there became quick.  An all out argument went into full swing.  

One twin fled to her room and slammed in the hall.  The other sulked in the hallway glaring at the door.

"She can't take any criticism," steamed one twin.
"She's so sensitive!" the other fumed.

"She never lets anything go!  She can't get over any infraction!" the first said with clenched fists.
"She's wallows in her past wars!" the second decided.

"She thinks she knows how everyone should live their life!" one concluded.
"She wants to boss everyone around and gets pissy when people don't do what she wants," the other resolved.

"She tries to make everything about HER!" the other established.
"She projects EVERYTHING!  Her life isn't my life!" the second decoded.

"She's not mature enough to understand everything!"
"She needs to grow up so she can grasp life!"

"She been manipulating me from the start," a sister gathered.
"She's gaslighting me into thinking I'm not valid!" a sister decreed.

"If she could only see what she's doing to herself and those around her she'd come to her damn senses!" they both decided.  

With vigor they snatched a mirror off the wall.  They'd show the other how wrong they were being.  Once they held up that mirror to the other the sister would apologize!  They just knew it!  This was for the other's own good, after all.  They needed to see the ugly flaws.

"I'm doing this out of love for my sister!" they both decided.

The door flew open and they stood there holding their mirrors.

For the first time in a long time the twins couldn't see the differences in them.  They saw the similarities that were irritating each other.  The things they saw in themselves that the other was doing.  

"How dare she accuse me of looking that way!" they both thought as the mirror that was being held out to them looked like their sister and not themselves!  "I don't look like that!  You do!"

When they opened their mouth to spout their opposition they couldn't hear the similarities because of the contrasting way the messages came out.

The door was slammed, locked, and barricaded.