Mute

CH1

hi yall, i got like 3 books in the middle of making at the same time smh. i keep getting sO mAnY gReAt IdEaS, jk i SUCK at writing. but here's chapter 1 of mute, read the description for further details

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Marinette's Pov

I woke up to someone shaking me. I knew it was Luka because he always comes to wake me up like that. Currently it's 8am on a Monday morning an- oh my god, where are my manners? Hi, I'm Marinette Dupain-Cheng. I live with my brother Luka. My parents are well...

le flashback

"Marinette, Luka, come over here you little monsters!" This was when Luka and I were 6. Even though we're both 6, Luka was born before me which makes him the older twin. Yep, him and I are twins. We've grown to live with the fact that having a twin can be very annoying, but helpful.

Anyway, we're getting off track aren't we. Our mum, Sabine Cheng, and our dad, Tom Dupain, were chasing us around the park. They were trying to get us in the car because they had to be somewhere. Where exactly? Well, one of their old friends from high school was having a baby and they promised to be at the hospital.

"There we go, I got blueberry, you got blackberry?" Our dad nodded, "I got the little blackberry right in my arms, come on!" Our parents used to call us that. I'd be blueberry because of my fully blue hair and eyes. Luka was blackberry because he had more ombré hair going from black to blue. His eyes were blue as well, but not as many shades as mine. When we got home our aunty and uncle Plagg and Tikki were waiting for us inside. "Uncle Plagg! Aunty Tikki!" I had a fairly high voice back then, and for what like-? I've always been closer to Plagg and Luka was always closer to Tikki, not sure why though. Because of this, I went and hugged Plagg first. "Hey there blueberry, you ready to have some fun~!" "YES YES YES!" "Now now there you two, NO funny business alright?" "Oh Sabine, you act like they'll listen to you. Luka and I, as the responsible and calm ones, will make sure nothing happens. But hey, are you sure you still wanna leave? I mean, apparently it's a pretty long drive to the hospital and it's gonna storm really bad in that area." "Oh Tikki, you worry to much, watch us be back here tomorrow!" "I wouldn't make any promises if I were you, just be careful, I love you," "I love you too Tikki. I'm always careful but i'm not the one driving so tell Tom." Everyone looked at dad, he seemed so embarrassed because of all the stares. Plagg and I couldn't help but giggle at him. Oh I miss those times, when we were always having fun.

Mum and dad later then left and it was just us 4 in the house. It was nice weather so Plagg and I went to go play soccer in the backyard. Tikki and Luka were more calm, introverted people so they were baking cookies. After about an hour and a half of playing soccer, we went inside to find Tikki watching the news, eyes glued to the TV. Plagg noticed the worried look on her face and shook her out of her thoughts. "Tikki, you alright? You seem a bit worried," "oh, u-uh w-well, they're reporting the weather in the area where the hospital should be. It's not looking pretty, there's been a lot of accidents."

Now I didn't hear any of this because Luka and I were in the kitchen grabbing cookies. We went straight upstairs to have a bath. Luka and I were able to get everything ready and clean ourselves at an early age so our aunty and uncle didn't say anything. We were also used to having showers and baths together. We didn't really get disgusted or anything because well, we're twins. We're basically the same person just different genders. We were really close as siblings and still are at the age of 14.

When we finished with our bath, we got into some nice warm clothes and went downstairs. We found Tikki on the phone with tears in her eyes, we looked over to Plagg that- OH MY GOD HE WAS CRYING! Plagg never cries, or shows any emotions for that matter. If he was crying, it was sure serious. My blue-eyed brother and I shared glances before I spoke up. "Um, uncle Plagg, aunty Tikki, why are you crying? Is something wrong?" They looked hesitant to answer but nodded to each other. Plagg came up to us and said, "we'll tell you in a bit. Do you mine staying in your room for a while, just until Ladybug finishes the call."

Ladybug was Tikki's nickname. She had red hair and firey eyes. She loved the colours black and red. All of this lead up to us calling her Ladybug. Plagg was Chat Noir. He had black, spiked hair with dark green eyes. He always wore black and green because they reminded of him of himself (and because he thought they were cool). This led up to us calling him Chat Noir, it translates to black cat. Plagg is in love with cats, that's partially why we called him 'black cat'.

Just as he told us to leave while Tikki got off the phone, she threw the phone on the couch. She was crying a whole waterfall I think. Neither of us knew why she and Plagg were crying so we just stood there like stick figures. "Um- what's wrong? Blueberry and I are really confused right now." They looked at us sympathetically, "kids, come sit." We then ran the rest of the way down the stairs and sat on the couch.

"Please, there's no joking around with this, as you can see it's serious because Plaggs crying." We nodded for them to continue, "how do we say this?" "I suggest get straight to the point, kids, you're parents died in a car crash. The road was too slippery and they lost control of the car and well...crashed." I had tears in my eyes.

My parents were gone.

I'll never see them again. Not until I myself die.

I couldn't take it anymore, I couldn't sit there any longer, I ran into my room. Luka was frozen in place with tears rolling down his face. He immediately ran after me when he saw that I had ran into our room.

That was the day I stopped talking. I decided that I'd let whatever happen, happen. I didn't wanna talk to anyone, I never have. Not Plagg, not Tikki, not grandpa Fu...not even my other half...Luka.

I was mute.

le end of flashback

Now Luka and I are 14, Plagg and Tikki come every other day to check up on us. They're also the ones who pay for our house bills, school bills along with food and clothes. We made an agreement that when Luka and I are 21, we have to pay for everything ourselves. When we're 18 we have to get jobs. When we're 16 they're gonna only come on weekends because they will trust us at that age.

Today, we're going to a new school, the people at our old school always brought up our parents. They'd bully me for being mute. They'd make fun of us and call us weird for our blue hair because it wasn't a common thing. The main bully at that school though was Lila Rossi. She was the absolute devil. I don't even know how someone can be so cruel to others.

She would slap me to try get me to talk or just to amuse herself. She'd scrape Luka with her long, sharp nails also for her amusement. She was the first person to call us weird for our hair and for the fact I was mute. She was always tryna put us down by bringing our parents up.

She failed. She failed miserably.

It wouldn't make us sad, it would aggravate us. Sometimes, I wanted to find a butcher's knife and- you know what, let's not get into detail. Anyway, we're starting at this new school on a fresh, new page. Let's see how this goes!