Broken

Normal P.O.V

Marinette entered her room and closed the door behind her and slid down to the ground. She hugged her knees as she began to cry.

Tikki flew out of her hiding spot from Marinette's purse trying to provide comfort to the blunette.

"Its okay Marinette." The kwami said in a soothing tone. "I'm sure it wasn't what it looked like."

Flashback

"Bring in le other model." The photographer ordered.

A tall and slender brunette walked in the room. She was gorgeous but due to the amount of make-up you couldn't tell whether or not it was natural beauty.

Adrien gave a confused look. No one told him this was going to be a two-person shoot.

"This is Veronica." The photographer stated. "You'll be taking the remaining shots with her."

Veronica stood next to Adrien. She was almost his height due to her heels, but Adrien still had her beat by an inch or two.

She was pretty Adrien had to admit. but she wasn't as beautiful as Ladybug or even Marinette who always manages to look beautiful without make-up or fancy heels.

They posed together for a dozen more pictures. Some where Adrien had his hands on her waist, some where her arms were draped around him, and others that just screamed COUPLE.

Marinette was watching from the side as Gabriel spoke to Natalie. She tried to fight the jealous feeling crawling in her gut as she saw them look so perfect together.

"Its just a photoshoot" she tried to convince herself "It doesn't actually mean anything...right?"

"Excellent!" The photographer "Simply Magnificent. Like eating Mama's speagetti!"

Adrien smiled as he let go of the female model. Now that's over he could go home and relax a little. He wondered if Marinette would mind coming over in his room to watch another flick.

"Not so fast Monsieur Agreste." The photographer shouted. "We still have a few shots more to take."

The photographer sounded to happy saying this.

"What kind of shots." The blond had to ask.

"I want you two to kiss."

Adrien eyes widen and looked at the brunette next to him. She was currently having lipstick applied to her lips.

Should he really do this? Should he agree to this? It wasn't like it was his first kiss but did he really want to kids THIS girl who he barely knows?

He looked back at his father who was looking at him expectantly and Marinette who was currently occupied with something.

Something told him that if she HAD been looking he wouldn't have been able to go through with this, he looked back at the model.

"What's wrong handsome?" Veronica teased with a flirty tone. "Nervous?"

Adrien sighed as he pulled her in towards him.

"Its not like its the end of the world right?" He thought.

Flashback end

Marinette remembers turning away from Adrien for a moment to go over some designs a few more time.

When she turned back that's when she saw. A part of her knows that the stunt was simply for the camera but it just hurt to see him with another girl like that.

The girl was a model, she was very pretty, gorgeous even. How was she supposed to compete with that?

That kiss might not have been real but with Adrien's profession she won't be the last female he works with and eventually one will catch his eye.

She came to a conclusion. Adrien was definitely out of her league. He was a great friend but he'll never see her fir more than that.

A friend...

"I think...I think its time for me to move on Tikki."