Mari lays back down. "One night..." Mari stops again.

"One night what? Go on." Mari shook her head no. "Mari continue what happens that night. Mari trust in me remember that I just want to help you tell me what happened that night." Adrien said softly.

Mari took a deep breath. "I was in a field...and I felt someone close to me...it was a man...I run away but the man chased me, and I tried to run faster but I always felt him close...he held me forcefully...he started kissing me...I didn't want to and stab his arm with something." Adrien's heart stopped hearing the last part. "But I didn't achieve anything he harmed me a lot."

Adrien stood up and turned around so his back was facing her. 'it can't be."


Maya went inside Mari's room and walked over to Teddy. "How are you Teddy? Are you alone missing Mari right? Well, I care for you too that's why I came to visit you. I would take you to the garden, but grandma Audrey is here. I'll stay with you instead, I'll look if there's something to play with if not I'll tell Ruby to buy me a ball." Maya looked around the room for something to play with.


"Later, I came to this part of the city, and I continued living in the streets. Fu found me one day sitting against a door, I was hungry and sleepy and had a hole in my heart, and I still do. I try to forget, but I can't." Mari said softly.

Adrien wipes a tear from his eye. "Mari...do you know who he is?" Adrien looks at her. "Do you know his name? Is he the man of your nightmare?"

Mari stood up and walked closer to him. "Yes I see him but not his face...I can never see it."

"Is your nightmare the same?" Adrien asked curiously. "Of that moment."

"Yes." Mari said starting to cry and hugs him. "I dream exactly what happened." Adrien puts one hand around her. "When I'm about to see his face, I wake up screaming." Adrien tries to hold his tears. "You are kind Adrien help me see his face."

Adrien breaks the hug and turns around. " I wish I could Mari."

"I know that you can. I want to know who he is. Just in case I find him one day. If I do I'll give him a piece of my mind." Mari said harshly as she wiped her tears away.


Since Maya couldn't find anything to play with Teddy, she decided to take him to the secret garden, so he could meet grandma Emilie. Emilie was delighted to see him, and Emilie told Maya to always care for the animals since they are creatures of God too.


"Don't cry anymore Mari." Adrien said softly.

"You wanted to know you asked me about it." Mari replied.

"Yes I wanted to know." Adrien replied tearing up.

"I haven't told anyone except for father Carlos not even Fu who took me in but the one to blame for everything is the one who abandoned me at birth my mother." Mari said sadly.

Adrien looked at her for a moment. "No Mari we are all to blame." He looked away again.

"What's wrong Adrien?" Mari asked concern.

"Nothing." He said hoping his voice didn't break.

"Why are you acting so weird?...Why aren't you facing me?" Mari asked sadly.

There was a knock on the door before Edward walked in. "Oh you're busy Adrien sorry." Edward started to walk out of the room.

"No wait Edward." Adrien replied.

Edward walked inside. "Hi Mari."

"Hi." Mari replied softly.

"What's up Adrien." Edward asked curiously.

"I need you to do me a favor take Mari back to my house. I can't do it." Adrien answered.

Mari looked away. 'God why did I tell Adrien the truth he despises me now.'


Lila paces around her room. "Call him on the phone again." Isabella replied.

"Why? He has it off, he's probably with the street rat." Lila replied crossing her arms.

"We don't know if he's with her." Isabella replied.

Lila sits on the bed. "Sometimes I wonder if it's worth fighting so much. Worrying and being anxious just to have the grand life that doesn't belong to us. This is going to be the end of me."

"Have you forgotten what we have been through?" Isabella asked sternly.

She shook her head. "Of course not that's why I don't want to loose Adrien. If the truth comes out one day at least we will be saved by the marriage. I can't let anyone steal him from me, especially that street rat."


"Father." Adrien said as he walked into the office of father Carlos.

He looked up. "Adrien come in."

Adrien walked over and sat at a chair across from him at his desk. "Father it's urgent for me to talk to you."

"Did you finally talk with Marinette?" He asked curiously.

"I did talk with Mari." Adrien replied.

"And did she tell you what happened?" He asked again.

"Yes she told me although in the young innocence that she was she thinks a lot more happened than what actually did." Adrien said softly.

"Now you can understand Marinette a little more." Father Carlos replied then he noticed the sad look on his face. "I see that Marinette's tragedy affected you a lot."

Adrien starts tearing up. "Father that man...that man is me."

"That can't be." Father Carlos said surprised.

"I wish it wasn't father, but it's the truth, I'm that man whom she despises and hates with all her strength." Adrien said crying softly now. "I would never have imagined it. I knew that I deserved a punishment but not this one."

Father Carlos stood up. "Adrien." He said in a stern voice.

Adrien looked up at him. "Father I drank a lot that night...my mind was scumbled and...Mari was my...I never knew what happened to her or where to find her."

"And now you bumped into her." Father Carlos finished for him.

"Yes father of every woman in the world it had to be her. This is a punishment that only God could give to me with justice and rage. That the woman without desiring to harm was Mari." Adrien said softly.


Mari walked into the house with Edward behind her. Audrey walked down the stairs and stood in front of her. "Wait. Where are you coming from? Where were you?" Mari stays silent. "Where did you go with Adrien? Can't you hear that I'm talking to you?" Mari starts to walk away, but Audrey grabs her arm. "Answeer don't stay mute. Why did you return with Edward?"


"Are you trying to say that if it was someone else what you did wouldn't be as bad?" Father Carlos asked. "The blame is the same."

"No father it's not that it's not how you or her imagine." Adrien said sadly.

"What do you mean?" Father Carlos asked confused.

"Because now...now I'm in love with Mari." Adrien confesses as he cries harder. "I love Mari with all my soul."


"Let her be Audrey." Edward said stepping in between the two.

"She's a street rat she doesn't even look at me or answer me." Audrey said angerly.

"Maybe she can't let her be she's very altered." Edward looked at Mari. "Go to your room Mari." Mari walked up the stairs.


"You love Marinette in what way?" Father Carlos asked.

"I love Marinette with total love. With a love that has passion and sweetness that's complete and pure that I forbidden for myself. Because after what happened, I didn't deserve a feeling that could give me happiness." Adrien replied.

"Were you already married when it happened with Marinette?" Father Carlos asked.

"Yes I was already married with a woman whom I felt a limited love. We fought we didn't get along that's why I drank like crazy that night." Adrien replied.

"And you loved Marinette since the moment you met her?" Father Carlos asked.

Adrien nodded. "Mari woke up the feeling, and one day I understood that I was in love with her."


Mari walked to her room crying, and Ruby saw her. "Mari what's wrong?" Mari didn't answer and just went to her room crying. Ruby went over to her and hugged her. "What happened why are you crying?"


"I was afraid to loose control being near her; I even went on a trip to escape from her." Adrien admitted. "But the feeling is so strong that I found that I couldn't defeat it if I didn't put a barrier between us."

"From my understanding, you are engaged to the daughter of the Judge." Father Carlos stated.

"Yes father that's the barrier. A woman whom I can feel the owner of myself. That I don't need to reach full happiness but with Mari, it would be different it would be true love, and I don't deserve Mari. God put her in my path again to punish me." Adrien stated.

"No Agreste it's not a punishment the countary it means that God has forgiving you." Father Carlos replied with a smile.


"Where did you go with Adrien?" Ruby asked Mari once she calmed down.

"You will also ask me?" Mari asked sadly.

"Well we are friends I have so much to thank you Mari. Thanks to you I met Mathew, we are a couple now I have never been in love before, and now I'm happy." Ruby said happily.

"I'm glad." Mari replied sadly.

"Did my brother do something to you?" Ruby asked worriedly.

"He took me to his clinic and asked me questions he told me to tell him everything, and I did now...now he despises me your brother despises me." Mari replied.


Father Carlos put a hand on Adrien's shoulder. "You regret what you did and when it's sincere the guilt is wasted off. God put Marinette in your path not as a punishment but as forgiveness for your regret. Go look for Marinette and tell her the truth."

Adrien stands up. "To tell her the truth?"

He nodded. "Yes the horrible truth of what happened and the beautiful truth of your feelings"

"Father Mari despises that man who humiliated her as a woman." Adrien said gently.

"That man and the man who loves her now are the same person." Father Carlos replied.

"If I tell her the truth, I will never win her heart." Adrien said softly.

"Do you think that she loves you?" Father Carlos asked curiously.

"She shows adoration towards me. Of graduate of independence or it could be love." Adrien replied.

Father Carlos smiled. "Well you need to find out. You need to be honest with Marinette and achieve for her to forgive you. If she cares for you, she will it will be like a love test."

"Thank you father." Adrien said before walking out and walks back to his car before heading home.

Audrey was waiting for him when he arrived. "You finally appear I know that you left with Mari, and I need an explanation I have the duty to keep the morality in this house."

"Why do you think that anything to do with Mari is immoral?" Adrien asked sternly. "What do you know of Mari to judge her like that?"

Audrey smiled. "I know plenty of that girl's unorganized behavior, and I won't argue with you so you can defend her. All I want to know is. Where did you take her?"


Mari holds Teddy when sitting on her bed and sighs. "I need to talk to Adrien to know what will happen to us Teddy. If he hasn't arrived yet I'll wait for him." She gets up and walks out from her room.


"I took Mari to my clinic." Adrien replied. "She has traumas. I wanted to find in her childhood the things that harm her and what influence her to be rebellious. To know the origin of her nightmares."

"And that lasted hours?" Audrey asked.

"I don't limit the time to my patients. It's something private like a confession." Adrien starts to walk away.

"Lila is waiting for you to call her. Let's see if you tell her the same story." Audrey said. Adrien looked at her before walking up the steps. Audrey grabbed the house phone and dialed Lila's number. "Lila it's Audrey, I want to tell you that the street rat and Adrien have returned."


Adrien walks into his room and is surprised to see Mari sitting on one of the chairs. "What are you doing here?"

"Waiting for you." Mari replied.

"For what?" Adrien asked confused.

Mari stands up. "So you can tell me directly what you will do with me."

Adrien walked up to her. "Why do you think I need to do something Mari?"

"Because after everything I told you, you won't be able to see me the same. Well, I was the rebellious girl, but I was clean but now you know I am stained and dirty."

"Don't say that." Adrien said softly.

"Why did you make me go through the embarrassment?" Mari asked sadly.

"You have nothing to be embarrassed of. You did nothing wrong. You are above horrible things of this world. It's that jerk who should beg you to forgive him on his knees." Adrien replied.

"To forgive him? You can't imagine how much I hate him." Mari said sternly.

"You wouldn't forgive him, even if he was really sorry?" Adrien asked.

"No because thanks to him." Mari looks away. "Now you despise me."

"Mari I don't despise you." He gently moves her chin, so she looks at him. "Mari I like you."

"Like a friend." She stated.

"No I like you. I'm in love with you Mari." They were so close that they could kiss, but Mari moves back and walks out from the room. Adrien sighs and walks after her to the frount garden and sits next to her on the porch. "Please listen to me Mari. I really am in love with you."

Mari stands up a bit unstable. "T-that can't be."

"Why?" He stands up too. "Is it that you don't feel like same way?"

"I-I...I'm afraid...that you love me. That always happens to me. Once Nino kissed me, and I beat him up...and Roland." Mari said panicking.

"And that day that I kissed you? Did you also want to beat me up?" Adrien asked. Mari didn't say anything as she was calming down. "Do you want to test it again?"

They were so close to kiss when they heard clapping and looked to the side and saw Lila standing there. "How romantic just what I suspected. You are cheating on me Adrien."