Chapter 1: Heartbreak
"Heeyy...Kitty! Wake up!" Marinette said.
"Gimme a minute..." Adrien said.
"We're finally going to our second year of high school!" Marinette said.
Apparently, Mari's sister had moved to Tokyo, in Japan and only came back to visit once every three months, so Mari hosted sleepovers with Chloe and Alya in the big room her sister gave her.
Marinette was no longer scared of Chloe's bullying. Surprisingly, they had buried the hatchet, let bygones be bygones and even became the best of friends, Chloe was no longer the self centred brat she was. However, there was one problem...
Chloe hated Adrien.
Marinette had made best friends other than Adrien, who were Alya and Chloe, while Nino was one of Adrien's best friends.
Adrien agreed to fake as Mari's boyfriend when she had to fit in her new school in the third year of middle school, so it was no different than high school.
Marientte did not let go of her crush on Adrien, but he was still oblivious, and even started to like someone else, Lila Rossi even though he was faking to be his best friend's boyfriend. It always hurt Mari to know that that was what they would forever be. Best friends.
"If you don't wake up, I'll leave without you!" Marinette pouted.
"Okay, okay, I'm up!" Adrien shot up.
"Hey, Kitty?" Marinette said nervously, walking side by side next to Adrien towards their new school.
"Yeah?" Adrien asked.
"O-Oh...It's nothing...I forgot what I wanted to say! Hahaha!" Marinette faked a smile, courage melting away.
"We're here," Adrien said.
"Mari!" Alya and Chloe exclaimed in unison, hugging their best friend.
"Hey," Marinette waved.
"So...What happened during the holidays? Any improvement in you and your 'boyfriend's relationship? I mean for real?" Alya whispered pulling Mari and Chloe to the side away from Adrien, asking as Marinette's face turned beetroot red.
"N-No...Why would there be?!" Marinette stuttered.
"C'mon Mari, you know the he's not good enough for you! Why do you like him?" Chloe asked.
"It's just...I've known him for all I remember...He was my first friend...Chlo, you liked him before, shouldn't you know?" Marinette replied.
"Well-" Chloe said, before the bell rang.
"Well, class is about to start, I checked the notice board, we're all in the same class!" Chloe added, smiling.
"Cool!" Alya exclaimed enthusiastically.
"Let's go." Marinette said.
"Hey," Nino waved.
"Hey dude," Adrien said.
"Dude, you would not believe this! Lila. Rossi. Is. In. Our. Class! I'm happy for you, man! Although, I mean, you gotta 'break up' with Marinette before you confess, though," Nino patted Adrien's back, causing Adrien's face to heat up.
"W-What?! I-I don't like Lila, o-or anything..." Adrien denied.
"C'mon, you do, there's no use hiding from me!" Nino said, before hearing the bell ring.
"Class is starting, let's go," Nino gestured.
"I don't even know where I'm supposed to go, where do you expect me to go?" Adrien said sarcastically.
"We're in the same class, c'mon!" Nino chirped, causing Adrien to sigh.
Seeing Adrien and Nino go into the building, a girl stared at Adrien in awe while her best friend was looking at someone else.
"Hey, isn't that guy cute?" Rose said, pointing to Adrien.
"Sigh...No one can ever beat Nath..." Lila sighed dreamily, eying the red haired artist.
"When are you going to confess your feelings to him, Lil's?" Rose asked.
"I-I don't know...Every time he waves at me, my courage just melts away... And my heart flutters," Lila replied, face red in embarrassment.
"Let's get to class," Rose suggested.
"Yeah, I'm hoping to make new friends this time..." Lila beamed.
"I'm sure you will," Rose assured Lila, before heading to her own new class.
Marinette stared at the back of Adrien's head, sitting behind him was a dream come true, especially when he couldn't realise she was looking at him, like he always did.
"G-Good..G-Good morning L-Lila!" Adrien stuttered, standing up and bowing to Lila.
"Good morning!" Lila greeted back, sitting beside Marinette. Alya and Chloe were behind Marinette, while Nino and Adrien were in front of her.
"Hi! I'm Marinette, you can call me Mari!" Marinette beamed, surprised that she could even talk to someone new.
"Hello! I'm Lila!" Lila chirped back.
"Okay, class...I'm your new teacher, Ms Bustier." their teacher said.
"Kitty...I need help..." Marinette said.
"I suck at math!" She added.
"Don't ask me, I'm worse!" Adrien laughed playing with Felix, his cat.
Marinette put down her pen, and lay flat on her floor, staring at the ceiling.?She was going to ask a "million-dollar question".
"Hey, Kitty...I-Is there...A-Anyone you like?" Marinette stuttered.
"E-Eh? W-Well..." Adrien's voice trailed off as he fell asleep.
"So cute," Marinette said, pushing a lock of Adrien's hair away from his face.
"How do you even fall asleep like that?" She asked, smiling.
After petting her best friend for a while, she stared at him, wondering if she could even find the courage to confess, before he pounced on her and pinned her down.
"K-Kitty?!" Marinette exclaimed.
"Lila...Will you go out with me?" Adrien said, before falling asleep again. Mari's heart palpitated like a jackhammer as her face was beetroot red. Her eyes glistened in the light as she was near tears. She knew that he didn't like her.
'What?'
"Mari? Adri? We're done preparing dinner," Emma said. Luckily, Marinette had pushed Adrien off before his mother came in.
"Sigh...This pig...Could you help me wake him up, Mari? Thanks!" Emma said, before leaving.
Despite the heartbreak she felt, she forced a smile, shaking Adrien.
"Hey Kitty, wake up..." She said, just before tears had welled up in her eyes.
"Wake up," She said again, this time coldly after wiping her tears away.
"Buginette?..." Adrien said, eyes opening.
"Dinner's ready," she said, not turning around to show her puffy eyes, going out the door.
"Good morning, mama, papa..." Mari said, eyes still puffy from the previous night.
"Oh my, Mari, what happened?" Sabine asked.
"It's nothing, could you tell Adrien I needed to do a project in school, and that I couldn't go with him? See you tonight," Marinette said, kissing her parents' cheeks.
"Wow...Early for the first time, huh?" Lila greeted, giggling.
"Hehe, yeah...I couldn't sleep anyways," Mari faked an appealing smile. Lila and Mari had been good friends, after chatting.
Seeing Adrien about to step in, Mari wrapped her arms on the table, putting her head in to make it look as if she was sleeping.
"Hey, Mari! Why'd you leave without me today?" Adrien asked, before the teacher came in and Mari ignored him.
"Mari, isn't he your boyfriend? Why'd you ignore him? Did you have a fight?" Lila whispered asking her new friend.
"O-Oh it's nothing," Mari replied.
Meanwhile, Adrien had decided the day before, that he'd confess to Lila that day after school.
"Nathaniel...I like you! Go out with me! And daddy will give you whatever you want," Anna confessed. (I don't know who this is, I just created another character to be the mean girl :)
"O-Oh...I-I'm flattered-" Nathaniel said, being the nice guy he was, he couldn't reject her, despite his feelings for Lila instead.
"B-But-" He was then cut off by Anna kissing him, and she soon wrapped her arms around him, he could not escape.
Upon watching Anna hug him after the whole thing, Lila turned around in tears, running away, before bumping into Adrien.
"L-Lila..." Adrien greeted, before seeing her face and hugging her.
"W-Why can't it be me?" Adrien asked, determined to win her heart.
"Huh?" Lila asked.
"I'd never hurt you like that." Adrien said, pointing to Nathaniel and Anna.
"I like you Lila, go out with me..." Adrien said. Lila was confused by then, and the only way to get over Nath was to go out with someone else, and fall for him.
"I-I'll try...But, can we start with friends, first? I-I want to get over him...Um...But you shouldn't ask people out...When you and Mari...It's just...Wouldn't this hurt her a lot? I don't want to hurt her, Adrien..." Lila said looking down.
"I-It's fine, we broke up," Adrien lied, rubbing his neck.
"It's okay," he added, before kissing her, much to her astonishment as her eyes widened in shock.
Marinette had watched the whole thing, from her new friend getting hurt, to herself getting hurt. Her heart sank, she fell deeper into the abyss of pain.
Mari ran into the washroom, trying to wash off all tears which had been rolling down her cheeks.
Sitting on the steps of the school's main door, Mari sighed. She forgot to bring her umbrella, which led her to this situation after it rained.
"Hey," Adrien said.
"Were you waiting for me?" He added.
"Maybe," Mari said, blushing with a broken heart.
"C'mon," Adrien said, smiling, pulling her up beside him as they shared the umbrella.
"I confessed today." He smiled.
"To Lila?" Marinette asked, faking interest.
"Y-Yeah," he said.
"Did she accept your feelings?" asked Mari, although she already knew the answer.
"Yeah!" Adrien beamed, before pulling her into the sidewalk with him as a car sped past.
"That was close!" He beamed, before seeing Mari's gloomy face.
"Why?" Mari said looking down.
"Why what?" Adrien asked.
"Why are you always like that?" Marinette finally let out the tears.
"T-There's something...I-I need to tell you.." Mari said, tears brimming her eyes.
"Yeah?" Adrien asked.
"Kitty...I like you...I-I've liked you since we were kids. But...I saw what happened, the whole thing during lunch...D-Don't get me wrong...I don't want to interfere with your relationship...I-I just wanted you to know...But you have to be happy!" Marinette cried, eyes glistening in the light, before running home in tears.
"M-Mari...Likes me?" Adrien mumbled, before going after her.
"Mari..What happened? You're drenched..." Tom asked.
"I-I'm fine, papa," Mari said, running up the stairs.
"Uncle Tom and Aunty Sabine, have you seen Mari?" Adrien asked.
"She's upstairs...But she seems a little upset, though. You might want to cheer her up.." Sabine replied.
"Mari! Open up!" Adrien knocked the door. No reply. Second bunch of knocks. No reply. Apparently, Mari had already cried her eyes out to sleep. Adrien rushed to his bedroom's window, seeing Mari sound asleep, he heaved a sigh of relief.
The next morning wasn't any better. Mari didn't tell Lila about her crush on her childhood friend, as she knew that the kind girl would break up with Adrien for her.
All morning, she didn't make eye contact with him, talk to him or even talk about him. Alya and Chloe were trying to console her. Alya was telling her to be positive and smile, while Chloe was proving her point correct about how Adrien didn't deserve her.
Every time he tried to talk to her, someone else would interrupt and Mari would run away.
"What have I done...How could I have not known that she liked me!"
A/N: Helloo! So this is not the part where Mari turns into a ghoul, aka Akuma in this context...It'll come later, all the chapters are already written and just need some editing. I hope you enjoyed it and leave a review! Thank you and have a lovely day!