Hello everyone! So I decided to put I in a quick AN to just explain some things

In this story Marinette and Adrien are roughly 17

Adrien likes Marinette before he finds out Ladybugs identity

Marinette had depression, anorexia and possibly bulimia

This chapter focuses more on Marinette's eating disorders because eating disorders are generally a lot easier to spot than depression and cutting. I am thinking about turning this into an M story because it could get a bit…

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Gypsy

Marinette's pov

At 6am Marinette woke up. She stretched, desperate for more sleep since she only had a few hours of sleep. She wasn't stupid (actually yes she was) and she knew that sleep wouldn't come. She looked at herself in the mirror and saw an ugly, obese girl staring back at her. She had been planning on eating this morning but decided against. Slowly she got dressed her movements almost zombie like. As she brushed her hair a few more threads than normal came out but she was to tired to notice it properly. Marinette left her hair out these days, she liked it more that way. Walking downstairs she grabbed a croissant her mother had left out for her and waved it at Tikki. The small kwami shook her head and replied,"Marinette please eat it". The kwami was very distressed, she couldn't have imagined this happening to Marinette a few months ago.

"Tikki are you joking! Look how fat I am. Consuming this thing should be like illegal, there's so many calories in it". Marinette scoffed at her kwami as she threw the croissant in the bin. She stuffed a few cookies into her purse for Tikki, not herself unfortunately. Upstairs the yelling started. Marinette sighed. Her parents fought a lot now. It happened around two months before Marinette became like… like this. Marinette continued to get ready for school and walked out of her house, arriving fifteen minutes before school started another new habit of hers. She just couldn't stand to be at home anymore. She greeted Nino and Alya with a fake smile plastered on her face."Mari you look tired, are you sleeping properly?"asked a concerned Alya.

"Yeah of course I am, just lots of homework and stuff you know", she told the duo with a few easy lies. Marinette hated lying but when she became Ladybug lying became easier but now this had happened (Marinette refused to say depression and anorexia) she had become even better and she found her lies piling up more and more. Thankfully no more than questions were asked as the bell chose that moment to go , just as Adrien burst through the door. Without another word the students filed into the classroom.

Marinette could barely pay attention in class she was so tired. Chloe's taunts which at this point should've been making her run to the bathroom, didn't affect her anymore. They were all true anyway. The teacher looked at Marinette thoughtfully. She recognised the symptoms it. Being a teacher for young teens she had lots of students who had it. Even she had it when she was younger, so she cut Marinette a bit of slack because she knew depression only to well.

Finally the teenagers were released from class. Marinette was to absorbed in the voice whispering horrible things to her to notice Adrien smiling a Chat like grin at her as the group consisting of the two miraculous holders and Alya and Nino. "Aren't you hungry?"asked Alya suspiciously because it was the second time Marinette had missed lunch this week. "Yeah you should eat something Mari"agreed Adrien, the worry evident in his eyes. "I'm not hungry but thanks", the skinny girl replied quietly so her voice almost faded to a whisper at the end. "Please Marinette", begged Adrien. When she looked into his eyes she gave in and slowly chewed a sandwich. She smiled thinking maybe she could go back to normal eating , and then she thought of all the calories this had in it and all the weight she'd put on from it. "I need to go to the bathroom", she said hurriedly standing up and sprinting to the bathroom where she ran into a cubicle and locked the door. Then hardly believing what she was doing she made herself throw the sandwich up. When she had finished she felt better. None of her friends ever knew about her purging the sandwich up. They thought they had gotten her to eat something. They were oh so wrong.

Adrien's pov

Chat waited for Ladybug on the schools rooftop. He watched as Ladybug swung her yo-yo towards him. Normally he would have had a big dorky grin on his face at her presence, tonight though well tonight was different. He hadn't seen Ladybug in a week, well he had as Marinette but that was different. She was shy around Adrien and he didn't know why. Her mask covered up the shadows under her eyes but Chat knew they were there. The skin tight suit showed how thin she really was. He had noticed she had lost a bit of weight when she was Marinette but this was a lot of weight. He recalled how she didn't eat as much at school and he began to worry a bit. When she landed beside him he wrapped his arms around her and held her for a few seconds. She felt to frail and bony in his arms which he didn't like at all. "What was that for kitty?"she frowned at him.

He turned to her, a serious look crossing his face before it was back to his trademark smirk," because everybody needs a hug sometimes",he responded his heart aching for her. Before she could reply he took off starting the patrol.

They were nearly finished when her foot slipped. He saw her falling and he grabbed her in mid air and shot his baton out to save them both from the rest of the fall. That was when he noticed it. Holy Shit she weighed nothing. As they both stood on the ground her still shaking slightly he commented casually,"you're light".

A few seconds of silence before",stop it".

He didn't though. How could he? He was worried about her, "like really light".

She took a shaky breath before replying,"stop teasing me Chat. I know I'm not skinny so don't rub it in".

He couldn't believe it. She thought she was fat?"You know I'm not joking", he told her.

She was crying now and it took every ounce of strength for him to not hold her and tell her everything would be alright. "Wow, just wow. I thought we were friends". Then she swung her yo-yo and left her blond haired green eyed kitten staring after her.

It was worse than he first thought he realised as he stood there, and he realised he had no idea what to do about it