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~Third Person POV~
It had all started out with small things, stuff that she could easily pass off and take Adrien's advice of 'Taking the high road'.
First, they rearranged seats, again, her ending up in the back, alone, of course, as Lila got to sit next to Adrien. But she had calmly taken a deep breath and pushed it away, Lila was fine sitting up front, no harm done.
Then, Lila started making promises, that ended up falling through, leaving her to pick up the pieces.
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"Hey Mari, Lila's famous chef friend can't make it, do you think you could make the snacks for us?"
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"Lila accidentally sprained her wrist yesterday trying to help rescue a kitten in a tree, so now she can't help us with the fundraiser. Do you think you can help out instead?"
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"Hey Marinette, Lila's movie costume designer buddy got sick and won't be able to help us out. Do you think you can go back to doing the costumes?"
That last one ended up leaving her with less than 48 hours to work on 7 different costumes. Let's just say she was exhausted for 2 weeks afterwards.
As things continued, Marinette tried to just avoid Lila altogether. Anything she was invited to, Marinette skipped it.
After all, it made it easier for her to not call Lila out, if she didn't have to hear Lila's lies.
So it wasn't until about a month ago that things really started to get out of hand...
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~Marinette's POV~
The day had started out rough already. I had awoken to Tikki yelling at me to get up, cause both her and me slept through my alarm.
I had stayed up the night prior, finishing up the scarf I had made for Adrien. It was a black scarf that had a yellow, green, and purple stripe near the end. Then, embroidered on the end in green letters were the words, 'I'll love you no matter what'.
You see Adrien and I had previously grown really close to each other. Especially after accidentally revealing to each other that I was Ladybug and he was Chat Noir.
We had gotten so close that last week when Adrien had asked if he could tell me secret and made me promise not to tell anyone, especially his father, I had swore an oath.
He then nervously explained to me that he had most recently figured out that he was gay, and how he realized that his so called 'crush' on Ladybug, or rather me, was more out of admiration instead of actual romantic feelings.
I obviously hugged him tight and firmly reassured him, that this didn't change anything. He was still my best friend and still my partner in crime.
Was I sad knowing that he didn't return my feelings, slightly, but my crush on him had pretty much vanished recently, and as long as he was happy, so was I.
That's why I had been finishing up this scarf for him. That way he would know that I still loved him for him.
Anyways, I had quickly thrown on my clothes, grabbed my backpack and Adrien's neatly wrapped gift. Before running downstairs to the kitchen, where I snagged a few cookies that had been made 2 nights ago, slipped them in my side-purse for Tikki, before booking it to school at incredible speeds.
When I got to school, I rushed towards the classroom as the warning bell went off signaling that class was starting in a few minutes.
Except I wasn't watching where I was going and had accidentally bumped into someone, right outside the classroom. We both fell to the floor with a loud thud.
I looked up to see Adrien rubbing his head as he looked up at me.
" Oh my gosh Adrien," I said feeling horrible. "I AM SO SORRY!"
He chuckled lightly at me as he got up dusting himself off. "It's cool princess, I know fully well how clumsy you can be," he smirked at me causing me to wrinkle my nose and stick my tongue out at him. This only caused him to laugh harder as I pulled myself off the floor before looking around quickly finding the present that had flown from my hands at the impact.
I picked up the small present that had been wrapped in blue wrapping paper, before turning to Adrien and holding it out towards him.
"What's this, bugaboo?" He asked taking it from my hands as he raised an eyebrow at me. I just hummed slightly as he started to unwrap it.
He looked at the scarf in admiration, taking in its features, before he noticed the writing at the bottom. He quickly read it, but as he did small tears formed in his eyes, causing a smile to find its way to my lips.
"Do you like it?" I asked him looking at him questionably.
"Like it?" He repeated and for a second I was worried that he didn't like it at all. "Mari, I love it!" He exclaimed as he wrapped me in a hug before spinning me around as I laughed at his goofy antics.
"I thought that after that discussion we had last week, you should know that no matter what, you will always be loved," I told him with a smile.
He wrapped the scarf around his neck before leaning in close to me.
"You are paw-sitivly amazing, purrincess" he said wiggling his eyebrows at me. I laughed as I pushed his face away.
"Shut up," I mumbled as a light blush crept on my face at the compliment.
We both laughed as we finally made our way into the classroom.
It was at that moment when my whole world started falling apart, for my ears weren't met with the usual chatter between my classmates, but instead light sobs.
Me and Adrien were both shocked to see the class, minus Chloรฉ and Nino who were still in their normal seats, surrounding Lila's desk trying to comfort her as she cried. And right there on Lila's face was a giant bruise around her eye. She had a black eye.
Everyone turned to us as they heard me and Adrien enter the classroom.
"Oh my gosh! Lila, are you alright?" Asked knowing full well it was all probably fake, but I had to make sure she was alright regardless. "What happened?"
I was suddenly met with a bunch of harsh and fierce glares as all my friends looked ready to kill me on the spot.
"Don't act all innocent Marinette!"
"How could you?"
"What the heck's wrong with you?"
"We thought you were a nice person, but you're really just a bully!"
I felt hurt. As if my heart had just been beaten like a piรฑata. It was then that I knew what was happening and I braced myself.
"Lila told us how you cornered her, threatened her, and then punched her!"
That...
That was the moment when my entire world was ripped away.
Lila had done it. She had made good on her threat. She successfully took my friends away from me, and I could do nothing.
I was powerless.
Lila had won.
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That's all for my beautiful little cinnamon rolls!
I must confess that I am very good at procrastinating & bad at updating things...so I'm tell you now, the next chapter should be out somewhere between the next 2 days - 2 years!!! So yeah, srry!!!
Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this and I promise that I'll try to keep updating & who knows maybe I'll actually finish this book & finally accomplish something in my life!!!!!! โค๏ธ