Sly Lie's

Chapter 4

It was dark, pitch black but it was warm.

Wasn't it suppose to be cold, the coldness of death should be touching me.

Not warmth.

I opened my eyes but still there was no light, there was no source of the darkness, but I felt as if in a large box, floating atop a non-existent floor. It felt like this place went on forever on each side, like I was being strung up by a string that wasn't there.

I tried harder to see something, anything.

"Hello Mari, how have you been" I turned around to face a girl my age, she had black hair, green eyes, small petite lips and a soft round facial shape.

"W-Who are you" I took a step back, well tried to I couldn't move, I was stuck.

"Aawww, come on, you don't remember me" she had small pout and then laughed at me. I was a little shocked. What had I done that was funny? Actually now that I think about it I've heard her voice before, but I don't remember where.

"Do you remember that little voice, telling you they don't love you, they don't LOVE you" she touched her bottom lip with her pointer finger, and put a fake innocent look on her face "Come on Mari, don't tell me you don't remember me, that's mean, I was the only one there".

I tried again to take a step back, but again I couldn't. It was as if I was on ice. She could move though, very quickly too. Before I could comprehend what had happened she was behind me, she was hugging my waist, her lips near my ear. She whispered,

"Don't you think about what would happen, if all you did was listen to me. If you just followed exactly what I tell you, trusted me" she snuggled into my neck, and sucked in a breath.

Again I couldn't move,

"I-I would never listen to you. W-would I?" I whispered this and dropped my head, disappointed in myself.

"O really now, although I think you already know you have. Haven't you my dear Mari, you listened to me all this time, because I was the only one there. I was the only one there for you, wasn't I MARI" she seemed very happy about that fact but I wasn't.

"Y-you weren't the only one there for me, t-there was s-still Ma-Sebine and T-Tom, even Chat was there for me" she started to choke me, I struggled, I clawed at her hands, but my hands weren't touching anything. In this world it seemed I was left to just wait it out, just live with it happening, and she knew it.

She had a psychotic smile on her face, now she whispered menacingly into my ear,

"I was the only one here, wasn't I Mari" when she said the word 'wasn't' her grip got tighter.

I felt as if I was dying, I struggled with her but to no avail, then a bright light shot its rays, she let go as if those lights hurt her.

"Marinette, you are ok, although you felt as if you were dying you were not. This is a world where you can see us and face us. I am Markie, the part of you that makes you happy, although I haven't been around recently. This is your fault not mine as you believed her over anything else, therefore becoming blind to me, any happiness." she crossed her arms but had a smile on her face, a smile as if she was facing a toddler who didn't know what was happening. Which I guess was exactly what was going on, I was a toddler, confused struggling to know.

She looked like an angel, her hair was the brightest blue, her eyes like diamonds, her lips heart shaped.

"M-Markie, if I'm blind to you, why can I see you and why couldn't I hear you." tears were falling down my face, I started to sob and choke on my saliva and mucus. Markie strode over to me, put her arms around me and pulled me down so I could sit, so there was a floor.

"Marinette, you are blind to me does not refer to sight but to sense. In other words you could not sense happiness so you believed it was not there, if you think I'm not there you will not hear me. Whether I scream or whisper." she was patting my head, and I felt secure for a short time anyway.

"T-t-that s-still d-doesn't answer one of my questions, w-why can I see you now" I was stuttering from the sobbing, like she said I shouldn't be hearing her or seeing her because I was blind.

"Well child, you have jumped off a building, your dying. So we are here to see your last minutes, and either make your last minutes happy or desperate. Answer your questions and send you off.

Another way for this to be happening is if you are confused about your life. So we come to let you pick a side again or just for guidance but usually you shouldn't see us just hear. Unless your extremely desperate." she was looking me in the eye and wiping my tears away.

"So either you guys are here because I'm dying from my fall, I'm extremely desperate for help or confused about my life" she nodded and stayed silent.

"So then Mari, forget I was here" the other girl shrouded the place with darkness again, I was blind and I was strung up again.

"Mari, Mari, Mari. Didn't you want to know my name, Natalie, is my name and my part of you KILLS. And I just LOVE it" she was smiling again, she was holding me, holding my body still.

She came close to my face, noses almost touching. She smelt of Roses and death.

She pulled a rose out of her pocket,

"Remember all those roses out there in the world, I'll help you with them" she ripped the petals off, revealing all the thorns. The thorns were no trouble for her, she just plucked them off.

One of the thorns grew once she plucked it off, it grew to the size of a knife. She drew closer to me, and before I knew it she was cutting me.

She cut my cheeks first one cut on each cheek. Then she turned my hands over,

"Three cuts on each wrist, would that work Mari" she looked at me and cut three lines into both wrists.

She stabbed me in both thighs, deep. I screamed.

"AARRGGHH" I tried to move, again and again I struggled but I couldn't.

"Does that hurt Mari, it hurts like all those other thorns and roses doesn't it" She laughed psychotically, she was crazy.

But if this Natalie was so crazy, and Natalie is in my head does that equal to me being crazy, does that mean I am doing this to myself.

"Marinette this is not yourself, once in this part of yourself you do not control us, in fact you do not control us ever. Although our personalities do come from you it does not make you psychotic, nor does it make you like me." Markie waved her hand as if saying goodbye,

"NNOOOOO, I'M NOT FINISHED YET" Natalie screamed, they were fading.

"By the way Marinette, you have not chosen one of us at this moment so you will be able to hear both of us, goodbye for now"

They were gone, now a door was in front of me and I could walk, I dropped to the floor first.

The door opened to more darkness but maybe it was good, the door was open and it was the only place I could go so why not...

And so I walked through the door...