Where did you go?

14~ Is this karma?

(Marinette's POV)

Adrien and I end up leaving a couple of minutes earlier than we have to. We are walking down the hallway of our floor, heading for the elevator. We haven't spoken a word to each other since he saw me in my towel. Why are we making this so awkward? It's just a towel.

What if the towel dropped and he saw you naked, Marinette?

Not a chance.

We reach the end of the hallway and I press the button for the elevator. While awkwardly waiting for the doors to open, Adrien breaks the tension.

"Look, I'm sorry I looked at you while you were in your towel, I didn't know and I didn't mean to be rude", he says while looking embarrassed.

"Adrien, it's okay. It was a small incident and I was covered up, the most you saw was my shoulders. You don't have to apologize", I say back.

He nods and scratches the back of his head. The elevator doors open and we head to the lobby, in which our class is meeting up. When we arrive, Alya and Nino are already there and slowly the rest of the class is slowly gathering up too. Adrien and I wave to the two of them and we walk up to each other.

"Hey, girl! So who did you get your room with?", Alya asks me.

"This one", I say pointing to Adrien.

Alya makes a surprised face and Adrien gasps playfully.

"Hey! I have a name", he says.

I laugh and continue to Alya.

"What about you? Who's your roomie?", I ask.

"I got Rose", she says. "I don't mind sharing a room with her but it's weird how they didn't put us according to our partners like they did last time."

We all nod.

"Yeah, I agree. It's weird, but I'm cool with it", Nino adds.

The rest of our class joins us and Miss Bustier claps her hands to gather our attention.

"Okay, everyone! I hope you got settled in and are happy with your roommate for the next 2 days. Our trip for today was supposed to be a surprise, but I can't help myself from telling you all. We are going to go to the Santa Monica beach! I hope you all packed swimsuits and beach wear!", she says.

The whole class cheers and I do a little happy dance. I love the beach. Santa Monica also has a pier with a bunch of rides on it. This is going to be great.

"If you don't have your beach stuff with you, we'll give you all 10 minutes to go grab them!", she adds.

About half of the class goes back to their rooms. We four stay since we already prepared and are wearing our swimsuits. Adrien and Nino wearing swim shorts with regular shirts and Alya and I wearing ours under our clothes. While waiting to go, we're talking about the pier at the beach until Lila comes to grab Adrien's arm, taking him away while he was in the middle of saying something. Nino makes a face and looks at us confused.

"What was that?", he asks.

"I have no idea", Alya and I respond in unison.

(Adrien's POV)

Lila comes to pull me away right in the middle of when I was talking to my friends. This girl will be the absolute death of me.

"Adriennnn", she says. "Who's your roommate?"

"One of my friends", I reply.

If I tell her that it's Marinette, she's going to go ballistic.

"Who? Tell me."

Ugh.

"Marinette. She's my roommate."

"What?", she almost yells. "This is so messed up! I'm going to go talk to Miss Bustier right now to have her switch your room-"

"Lila, no", I interrupt. "I'm fine with it. It's only for two days"

She scoffs and makes a face at me.

"Why are you mad at me like I was the one who chose my own roommate?", I question.

"Because we should have our room together. You should get away from her. She is a bad influence on our relationship, Adrien. Think about it. She'll ruin us", she says.

I sigh and shake my head. I'm going to do it. I don't care.

"Lila, the only thing that is ruining us right now is you", I say. "You get jealous of everything I do around another girl! Do you not know how tiring and draining that is? Do you think I'm going to cheat on you or something?"

"No, but I-"

"Then what? If you're worried about another girl hitting on me, I'll ignore it! That's the morally right thing to do when in a relationship! I'm tired of you snapping at everyone that comes near me. It's come to an extreme that I don't want to deal with anymore."

"But, your father put us together, we're destined to be together Adrien", she begs.

I sigh and rub my temples.

"If we were destined to be together I wouldn't feel like this. My father brought you on our trip because you were assisting my photoshoots with me. I decided to give you a chance", I say. "It was only a couple of weeks ago that I realized that wasn't a good idea in the first place."

A scowl starts to form on her face. Oh no, it's about to start. The wrath of Miss Lila Rossi, who's death note is longer than her hair.

"Does this... mean you're ending it with me? Now? Here?", she demands.

"Yes, I'm sorry Lila. I really am. I just couldn't do this with you anymore", I reply.

I can see her body tense up and her hands start to form fists. Is she going to hit me? That would be a little funny.

Be serious Adrien, this is someone's feelings we're talking about.

She looks behind me to look at my friends, specifically Marinette. Oh hell no, please no.

"This... You're ending it with me because of her? Huh?", she says.

She stomps over there, not giving me enough time to respond or react. I turn around and follow her.

"Lila, no!"

It's too late.

Smack.

Her hand flies across Marinette's face.

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