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Juleka
The redhead girl I saw in the back of Nathaniel's mom's car ran up to us the next morning.
"Where's Nathaniel?" Rose asked.
"I don't know. I was hoping he was here." She nervously muttered.
"What was the red mark on his face?" Alix spoke up. Looks like Rose and I weren't the only ones who had noticed.
"I should tell you a bit about our past." she murmured, then took a deep breath.
"Nathaniel and I are identical twins. Our dad died when we were 5, so we don't remember much about him. Our mom started dating this guy, I think his name was Chris, and they got engaged. Then she found out he was already married, with two kids, and she started drinking. One night, she got so drunk that she started hitting Nathaniel and I, so our older sister, Eilissa, tried to protect us. Eilissa got hurt so badly she bled to death. We tried to get help, but mom locked us in the house. We stayed by her until she died. The red mark on his face was from when mom hit him a few days ago because he got detention. Now we're moving to America so she doesn't get in trouble for child abuse and he doesn't want to go and I don't either-" She broke off with a sob. Rose wrapped her arms around her, obviously shocked.
"Wait a minute..." Alya said, "Identical twins?"
"Y-yeah," the redhead replied, her voice cracking, "Nath will probably kill me for telling you this, but he is trans."
"What. The. Hell." came from Kim
"How did we not notice?!" Nino shouted.
"He is really protective of his male identity, and being an introvert helps too." the redhead told us, "By the way, my name is Hayley." She glanced at her phone and cursed in surprisingly foul language when she saw the notifications.
"I'm going to be late. Nath is watching Claire and Ellie, my little sisters, and he needs to go somewhere in 5 minutes!" she shouted, "Nice meeting you, bye!"
Everyone stared at her as she left.
"This changes a lot." Chloe, surprisingly enough, murmured, "I've been a real bitch to him."
I heard lots of other things people were muttering, lots of 'wow' s, but I didn't say anything. In my eyes, this didn't change a thing. Nathaniel was still Nathaniel, the artsy kid in his scene phase with the crazy-cool sister and depressing life.
Then, Rose spoke up. "We should make him a 'We'll miss you' package! It could have all sorts of stuff from all of us, and maybe a class photo!"
"We should make one for Hayley as well," Marinette added.
"Yeah! Hers could have all sorts of fun stuff in it, considering we don't know much about her." Rose agreed.
"She seems to like galaxy patterned stuff," Sabrina noted.
"Everyone get your stuff for them and meet back here in two hours!" Marinette said.
Nathaniel
I ran home, up the stairs, and into my room, slamming the door. I stormed over to my wall covered in drawings of Ladybug and Chat Noir, Super Nath, Juleka, and other random stuff and started ripping stuff down from the wall. Halfway through, I felt tears drip down my face and collapsed on my bed. I felt my binder press against my chest but didn't bother taking it off. I knew it was dangerous to wear it for too long, but I would be fine...right?