Summary:
Marinette is uneasy, and she has every reason to be, Lila has set her sights on her, and Marinette becomes painfully aware of how the Rossi girl acts when she's 'interested'.
Chapter: Impel
It's subtle at first.
The way their hands would 'accidentally' touch, the way their knees would brush against each other sometimes, the way Lila always sat too close.
The coy flirtatious looks Lila would give her when no one was looking.
Marinette brushes it off at first, shaking her head whenever the thought that Lila could possibly be interested in her, entered her mind. As she allowed herself to process the thought the first time she thought it, she merely laughed at herself for thinking such a thing.
And that's how Marinette handled things the first few instances.
But just a few days into Lila's sudden odd behavior change towards her, it happens, and by it, the subtle touching became very less subtle. It happens during one of their 'study sessions'.
Lila sat close to her like usual, opening her book up first. The girl turned her head a bit, not so subtly looking around. Marinette doesn't pay much mind to it, taking out her own things to start their study session. Until she feels a warm hand placing itself onto her right knee, the touch sends goosebumps over her skin. She almost yelps but stops herself by taking her bottom lip between her teeth.
"Well, you certainly have some cute reactions.", Lila's tone comes out flirtatious, her lips curled in a coy smile, and her gaze is hooded.
Marinette feels her face grow uncomfortably hot, she swallows thickly as she breaks her gaze from Lila's own, desperate to look elsewhere, anywhere butLila. "U-Uh, U-um we should start on today's topic", the ravenette stuttered, ignoring what Lila did.
And maybe that wasn't the best approach.
Because flash forward to today, a week after that whole thing escalated, Lila's grown somewhat more physical with her. Touching her legs, her hands, her lower back, whenever no one was watching. Marinette managed to mentioned it once, a little upset, Lila merely shrugged her shoulders and just laughed it off, clearly not taking her serious. She'd swat away Lila's hands, tried her best to keep a distance but ultimately found it almost impossible to make it through the day without Lila having touched her somehow.
She swallows her frustration when the touching stopped suddenly. Thinking it was over, maybe Lila got bored, maybe Lila wasn't getting what she wanted out of her?
She feels relief when the Rossi girl stops showing up to their study sessions and stops showing up to class all the time. A part of her is glad, the other part of her is a little upset. Tikki helps her of course, the little kwami is angry, upset and sad. Marinette tells her everything's fine.
Until suddenly that changes again.
Marinette is just about ready to head home, eager to actually have a girls night with Alya, Rose, Juleka, Alix and Mylene, she feels like it's been forever. Ever since Lila appeared, it was like the students were put under some spell, and the affect was undone whenever Lila would disappear. It was weird.
"Finally.", Marinette sighs out as she grabs her bag from the inside of her locker, she smiles softly at the kwami inside her bag, Tikki grins at her happily. She's giddy. She zips the bag half way closed, and closes her locker and just as she adjusts her bag on her shoulder, she's pushed against her locker, eyes screwed shut, through the material of her shirt and jacket she could feel the cool surface of her locker. She snaps her eyes open, prepared to meet sapphire colored eyes, prepared to yell at Chloe for pushing her. But just as her eyes fly open and her pink lips part, she finds herself staring into emerald.
And all words die in her throat as the world around her suddenly seems to still
Hands on either side of her head, emerald eyes staring so focused and intensely into sapphire.
Marinette stands still, her eyes searching those cold detached eyes that seemed to be scrutinizing her.
There's this unsettling moment of silence between them, neither speaking, their just stuck in this odd staring contest Marinette wanted no part of what so ever. It's like that for what seems like forever, until suddenly, Lila breaks the silence.
"No one will believe you.", She says in a dark tone, her expression matching the tone.
And before Marinette's lips part to speak, Lila presses her own lips against hers. Hard.
The ravenette freezes, she feels her heart drop to her stomach, she feels her stomach get all knotty and her throat contract slightly.
Lila only kisses her harder.
What was happening?
Why was it happening?
The ravenette suddenly comes back to life again, she drops her purse and brings both her hands up to Lila's shoulders and pushes away, succeeding. The sound of their lips breaking off of each other echoes in the spacious locker room. Marinette stumbles forward slightly, she didn't push the girl too hard or too softly, she pushed just hard enough to break the unwanted physical advance.
"What the fuck.", Marinette says a bit breathy, a look of bewilderment on her face, she steps back against her lockers, her face flushed, her heart racing in her chest, she swallows thickly, "What the fuck?", she says more loudly as her puzzled look melts away into a full glare.
The girl's smirking at her, seemingly content with herself, amused even. "Well, Dupain-Cheng's got some fight in her after all.", she says as she reaches a hand up to wipe her lips.
Marinette growls, she raises her arm up and also wipes her mouth, albeit, more aggressively. "What's with you?!", The teen yells as she slams her free hand back into her own lockers, she feels anger beginning to boil inside of her, an anger she's never known she was capable of feeling.
Lila merely laughs at her.
The ravenette huffs, glaring daggers at the brunette standing across from her.
"Oh grow up, it was just a kiss.", Lika teases.
The ravenette doesn't take Lila's comment lightly, she clenches her jaw shut and bends down to quickly grab her bag, and she leaves, storming out of the locker room, slowly starting to pick up her pace, she breaks out into a run, holding her bag against her chest tightly. Her body feels shaky, and her legs feel wobbly, she manages to make it to a bathroom, collapsing onto her knees as soon as the door shut behind her, the sound of the door shutting behind her echoes inside the empty bathroom, or at least, what she thought was an empty bathroom.
She breaks. Crying softly, before the sobs start escaping her throat. She brings her hands up to her face, burying her face into her hands, muffling her cries.
Her purse was somewhere on the floor, she was too busy crying to hear the sound of her purse being picked up and placed onto the sink.
She feels a mix of emotions flooding her, helplessness, shame, anger, sadness and loneliness. Lila's words suddenly echoes among her many thoughts.
"No one will believe you."
Marinette's ugly crying is heartbreaking.
That's how a certain blonde will later describe it.
"Dupain-Cheng?", came that very familiar voice.
Marinette freezes, somehow swallowing whatever sobs she had left, she feels fear fill her to the brim, she's too afraid to look up, wanting to avoid those sapphire eyes. Not feeling strong enough to handle Chloe's snarky insults or remarks. She stilled. Like an opossum playing dead when a predator approached. Hoping the heiress would get the message and just leave her alone.
But nothing of which Marinette thinks Chloe was going to do, happens.
"Marinette?", another voice joins in.
And Marinette prays to every god out there, that this is just some sick twisted nightmare.
But alas, it isn't.
This is very much really happening to her.
"Marinette.", Comes that other voice. A voice that belongs to none other than Sabrina. "Marinette.", the girl says her name again, slowly walking towards her.
The sound of footsteps draw closer and closer to Marinette. The teen swears she could hear her heart thumping in her ears. She stiffens when she feels two hands suddenly touch her, one hand on her back, the other on her shoulder.
She's reluctant, thinking of just pushing the two girls away, grabbing her bag, and bursting out of the bathroom. But just as she finally looks up, she meets the most softest gaze she's ever seen on Chloe's face, and she crumbles all over again, but this time, she nearly tackles the girl closest to her, burying her face into Chloe's chest, wrapping her arms around, holding onto her for what seems like dear life.
Sabrina and Chloe both gasp.
Marinette's cries are muffled.
Both Chloe and Sabrina say nothing, listening, watching. Both only sending each other confused sympathetic looks. It was clear they felt bad.
Chloe doesn't complain about the Marinette crying into her or clinging to her, the blonde merely sits there, awkwardly wrapping an arm around the trembling teen, her other hand settling on top of Marinette's head. Chloe wasn't good at these things, she merely did what was done to her as a child whenever she cried after getting hurt. Of course it wasn't her mother that did this for her, rather, it was Adrien's mother, Emilie.
Sabrina sat idly across from the two, she wore a glum expression.
They sit there for what seems like forever. Until finally Marinette's whimpers start to die off, she remains clinging to Chloe. Her breathing relaxes, she slowly collects herself, relieved that Chloe and Sabrina stopped pressing her.
Chloe sighs softly, she finally speaks as she notices Marinette's body relaxing. Her tone is clearly filled with anger, but fairly quickly Marinette realizes the anger isn't directed at her.
"You better tell me who did this to you."
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