My name is Taylor and I am a mute, well as far as everyone knows I am. Really I just stopped talking. It all started when I was 10.
FLASHBACK
"Taylor your mom is dead" my dad told me. I walked into the room where I my mother had been and saw that she laid there lifeless and limp. I ran over to the bed wondering why. Why did she have to die, why did my dad not even care. I sat by her bed side and cried until my dad came in and told me to leave. When I asked where I should go he said anywhere but with him. In other words he told me that I wasnt aloud to live with him. I ran upstairs tears still running down my face and packed up my stuff. I put all the close I could fit into my suitecase and grabbed my phone. Yes I have a phone my mom gave it to me because she new my dad didn't care to much about me. He didn't know I had it and if I told him he would take it away from me. My mom said that if something ever happened to her to text my cousin Liam and go to his house. I've never met my cousin but she said he'd know what to do.
I put on my shoes and walked out the door after I text my couisn. I just started walking because I didn't know where he lived. I was walking around the woods when my phone buzzed. He texted me and said that he would pick me up at Starbucks because he didn't want a ten year old walking town by herself. I walked to Starbucks. Luckily it was close to my house so it didn't take long. I walked in and looked around I didn't know what my cousin looked like so I sat down and text him. He said he was in the coner booth by the window. I walked over to the booth and saw that he has brown hair brown eyes and was about 16. He asked me what my name was and I wrote it down for him. I was scared. I didn't want to talk so I didn't. He asked me if I could talk and I shook my head 'no'. He took me home with him and told me that I would be living with him.
END OF FLASHBACK
Its been two years since I started living with Liam. Since then he had made friends with 4 other boys. Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, Harry Styles, and Louis Tomlinson. They're great guys but I still haven't talked to anyone. They all think I'm just a mute and I want to keep it that way. I also started school. I don't talk to any of my teachers either. Despite the fact that I don't talk I made a friend. Her name is Jamie. She doesn't know my story. All she knows is that I live with my cousin and I cant talk.
Back to reality. I walked into my room after I got home from school. I took a look around my room. I haven't gotten used to it yet. It had purple walls with a blue carpet and it had posters of my favorite band The American Rejects. I throw my book bag on to my purple loft bed, and walked to my desk. I opened my laptop and logged on to twitter. I had about 300 new followers and about 400 mentions. I read through most of them and most said that they thought I was lucky to be Liam's cousin, that they thought I was pretty, and wished I could talk. There where also a few that said that I didn't deserve to live with the boys. Did I mention Liam and his friends are in a band? Yep that's right One Direction.
I tweeted my followers saying that I really appreciated all the good tweets I get. I log of twitter and shut my laptop. I walk back to my bed and climb in it. I take my book out if my book bag and continued reading it. Louis walked in and yelled "Taylor how was school?" I gave him a thumbs up and smiled. "You look just like your cousin. But I came up here to tell you that we are going to the court house so Liam can take full custody of you. He said that we will leave in an hour so you have time to take a shower or do whatever you need to do." I mouthed a 'thank you' and he left the room. I walk into my bathroom and started the shower. I got in and quickly washed my hair and body. When I finish, I get dressed in a pair of black skinny jeans. (That were bought for me by Harry) and my Finding Nemo shirt. I blow dry my hair and put it back into a ponytail. I put on eye liner and mascara and look at the clock. I still had 15 minutes left. I climbed back into my bed and pulled my book back out. I only got about a chapter done when the Niall and Zayn came running upstairs. "TAYLOR!" Niall yelled. He ran in my room and said "Its time to go." "Are you ready?" Zayn asked me. I nodded and we went down stairs.
Liam, Louis and Harry were standing by the door waiting for us. "Let's go" Liam said. We walked out the door to Louis car. Louis drove and I sat in the passenger seat. Liam, Niall, and Harry sat in the back. Niall had a bag of oreo's with him so I looked at the oreo's and gave him my best puppy dog face. At first he didnt want to give them to me but I tried again and he gave me some. On the drive there we had to stop one to get directions and then we had to stop again so Niall could get more food. Harry and Niall fought the whole time and Louis had to yell at them several times for them to shut up. Liam was really quite the whole time and he looked really nervous.
When we got to the court house we all got out of the car. I walked up to Liam and gave him a big supportive hug. He grabbed my hand as we made our way into the court house.
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The Mute With a Motive
JugendliteraturTaylor can talk but no one knows. Her mom died when she was 10 and that was when she was told to live with her cousin Liam Payne. She never talked to Liam, and she has been living with him for two years. In the two years she never talked to anyone...
