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Marinette POV:
“Oh, Alya, the worst thing happened yesterday! Marinette… ”
Ugh. This is how everyday would start. Lila would spout some ridiculous lie about how I would ‘hurt her’. Don’t they ever get tired of her voice?!
Hi. If you don’t know who I am, I’m Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Paris’ heroine, Ladybug, rising queen of fashion and protégé of Style Queen, MDC, former member of the League Of Assasins, Sabine Cheng’s—Lady Shadow—daughter, and the victim of Lie-la Rossi’s lies.
Many of you know me as Alya’s best friend, Adrien’s girlfriend and many other ridiculous lies. Sure, that may have been how it was in the past, but it all changed when Lila Rossi entered my life.
It was a beautiful Monday morning, the sun was shining, the birds were chirping and I even woke up early for once! Everything was going well… until Lila Rossi entered Françoise DuPont.
“Oh, you’re Ladybug’s number 1 fangirl? I’m actually her best friend.”
“You want to become a professional swimmer? I actually know Micheal Phelps. He says that he wouldn’t have done so well without me. I can talk to him about training you if you want.”
Lies. All that spouted from her mouth were lies. Lies about being Jagged Stone’s niece, lies about introducing Max to Allan Turing, lies about recommending Alya to Louis Lane. Pathetic. And that gullible class even fell for it. As Chlo would say, ridiculous, utterly ridiculous. And I’m so ashamed that I even trusted them.
But it’s not as bad as you think. Luka, Chloé, Nino, Kagami, Juleka and I grew up together, and they’re all still on my side. The didn’t fall for Lila’s lies because they were trained not to.
And I never actually had a crush on Adrien. Alya my ‘best friend’ saw me looking at Adrien’s photoshoot once and BOOM—I have a wallpaper of his images, his whole schedule and the limited edition of ‘Adrien the Fragrance’! They even set us up on a date when Adrien confessed to having feelings for me so that I would stop targeting Lila. Apparently they all thought it was an ‘win-win’. Ugh.
I only put up with all of that because my mother said that I needed to ‘act like my age’. At least now I don’t have to fake it. Alya and Rose broke up with Nino and Juleka because they were on my side, not Lila’s. They were fine though, they never liked their respective others. Alya and Rose just assumed they were dating after they confessed.
A few months after Nino and Juleka broke up with Alya and Rose, they began dating. They had feelings for each other all along but couldn’t act on it until after the ‘break up’. Luka and Kagami began dating as well. Chloé and I feel like third wheels sometimes, when they go all lovey-dovey on each other. It’s kind of disgusting.
It’s already been a year since Lila brought almost all of my ex-friends to her side, but I don’t care. Sure, I was heartbroken at one point, but I grew up in the League. I can control self and hold in my emotions. But sometimes I wish Damian was here. Everything was better with him.
I sometimes wonder where I would be now if I hadn't left the League. But I guess it would have been pretty boring without Damian. He's gone to live with his father now. I hope I'll meet him again soon and he wouldn't have changed. But it's been 8 years. What do I know?