Writing this chapter literally killed me.

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Luka had been waiting too long. He knew that he loved Marinette, and it was now or never. He had two Jagged stone concert tickets burning a hole in his pocket for this friday, and he was going to ask Marinette out.

He pulled out the tickets, and opened his mouth to speak..

"Marinette I ..."

"Hi!" Marinette chirped, greeting the new boy. Her cheeks flamed cerise, a color that he had never seen them turn before, and he knew that he was just a moment too late.

He had lost his chance.

"Hey." The new boy said, his voice filled with hope. " I'm Adrien Agreste.I'm new here. Maybe you can show me around...?"

"Of course!" Marinette answered, a moment too fast. "I mean...sure. That's cool." She checked her watch. "It's almost time to get to class. We should probably head upstairs. Don't want you to be late on your first day!" She giggled, a shallow sound that was an octave higher than it should have been. The sound cut straight through Lukas heart as Marinette walked away with Adrien, not even glancing back at her best friend.

Luka followed a few feet behind them, noticing every movement that they made toward each other. Marinette batted her eyelashes. Adrien touching her arm as they laughed at a joke that he made. Touching her arm! The dude hadn't even known Mari for a day and he was already making moves on her.

During class, Marinette chose to sit with Adrien in the front, abandoning Luka to sit in isolation at their usual seat in the back. He watched them taking notes together, doodling together, and even answering questions together. It shook Lukas core how fast the two bonded. It had taken him and Marinette 2 months to establish that kind of friendship, while it had taken Marinette and Adrien only 2 hours.

At lunch, Luka didn't even enter the cafeteria. He didn't want to watch Marinette and Adrien eat lunch together. He hid in the bathroom, throwing his lunch into a toilet because the loss of Marinette's love sapped away all of his appetite, and washing the tears out of his eyes with the cold water from the rusted school faucets.

Luka followed them the entire day, like a stray dog tagging behind his old owner. His head spun everytime Marinette and Adrien touched. How could he have let her slip through his fingers?

She wasn't his angel anymore.

At the end of the school day, Adrien pulled two concert tickets out of his pocket.

"So….I'm going to the new Jagged Stone concert this friday. Do you want to come with me?"

Luka could have sworn that he saw hearts form in Marinette's eyes. He turned around and started walking away, but not before he heard her reply.

"I would love to! That's so sweet. No one has ever taken me to a concert before."

"Oh sure." Luka thought to himself. "My hearts already broken. May as well run it over with a train as well."

Luka shoved his hands into his pockets and ambled out of the school building, heart bleeding but carrying on like a wounded soldier.

He pulled the Jagged Stone tickets out of his pocket, crumpling their violet paper in his shaking first.

Two pieces of purple paper sat in the trashcan of Francoise Dupont high school, alone with the hopes and dreams of a heartbroken goth teenage boy.