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The only sound in the room was Tikki chewing her cookies while looking at her holder. Marinette had already taken down Adrien’s pictures from the walls, changed her desktop background and put her 50 gifts for Adrien’s next birthdays in a box to donate to charity.
Today she was a new woman. It was time to move on. She had one million other things between her hands, starting by her new Guardian role, as to be wasting her time with heart breaks and childish plans on how to woo guys.
She wasn’t in the mood to have a boyfriend or pursuit a relationship. Something like that requires time she didn’t have and a commitment that she couldn’t make because her top priority will always be to save Paris, to keep the miraculous safe and to study more than ever about the Guardian role, as Fu was no longer in the picture.
Part of this was her fault. She was the only culprit as why Fu was caught in the first place. Looking for him while in disguise was an error and she needed to assume it and forgive herself. But the reason behind that was that she was so jealous, so distracted and unfocused on the mission because she saw Adrien almost kissing Kagami, that she did a huge mistake. And she had to live with it. Embrace it and learn from it in order to grow.
She can’t let something like that to happen again.
She needed to shut down that part of herself. And she already decided she will do.
“Okay, done.”
“Are you sure about this, Marinette?” Marinette was putting the lucky charm Adrien gave her for her birthday in the same box where the magazines he appeared on and the unsent letters she wrote confessing her love were at.
“Of course, Tikki. I don’t have time for this. Hawkmoth is getting stronger each day and I need to think of a strategy to take him down soon. After that I will probably have time to focus on my love life again”
“Marinette, I know you are young. But I had lived longer than you and you need to know this: Love comes unannounced. You can’t decide to just close the door, it will find its way through a window.”
“If it arrives, it arrives. But I won’t be pursuing it any longer. It’s hard and it makes me stupid and prone to embarrassments I don’t want to keep having. I’m clumsy enough without the extra mess in my head, Tikki” Marinette sat down in her divan, holding Tikki between her hands and giving her a smile.
“You’ve matured a lot lately, Marinette. I’m sorry this is happening to you being so young.”
“Hey, don’t worry. I’m glad I’m Ladybug, I’m glad to have you in my life. Together we will defeat Hawkmoth and restore the order once again.”
Both were suddenly startled by a noise in the rooftop. It was like a flowerpot breaking. She hopped to the trap door and put her head out. It was dark so she needed a few seconds to adjust but she finally saw it as clear as day. A kitty was smelling the soil from the broken pot. It was gray with a white tail and big blue eyes. She breathed out resigned, the kitty broke her attempt to grow Asian Greens this summer.
“Thanks Kitty, I’ll need to start again.”
With the sound of her voice the kitty disappeared as fast as his shorty legs let him. “Thanks for the quick visit, though” Sarcastically, she went up to clean a little bit. Tomorrow she will need to buy a new pot after school.
Separating the roots and the broken pieces from the soil, Marinette said: “Well, you know what they say: Never is too late to start again”