My Girl (updated)

Chapter 6

Adrien's P.O.V.

Sitting in the waiting room, I was so worried about Marinette. I've known her for so long. When I first met her, I was a fool. I was blinded and thought I only liked her as a friend. But then more and more people crowded around her, and I discovered these new feelings, but by that time, it was already too late. She had asked me out, but I turned her down. I said I just wanted to be friends. Every day I think about that, and I feel like punching myself for being such an idiot.

I miss her. It's only been a couple of days, but I miss her. And I'm so worried. After seeing all that blood that was on the ground around her, my heart dropped, and I felt so lost. And when I heard that Lila was the one who tripped her, I wanted her to pay; I wanted to make her suffer. The only time I've ever had such dark thoughts before was when I found out my father was the one who put my mother in a coma. It wasn't on purpose, but that day I lost both of my parents, and Marinette was the only one who pulled me out of that darkness. I said just friends because I was scared if it didn't work out, I would lose her, so I tricked myself into believing I didn't like her like that.

But now, seeing all these people waiting to see her with me, all-loving her the way that I do, makes me sick with jealousy. "Hey, Adrien, let's talk." I turned around, broken from my thoughts. My scowl grew more profound when I saw who it was. I was able to be friendly with everyone, but I hated him. I watched as Luka's smile grew when he saw how upset I was. "What do you want Luka, I don't exactly have time for you right now." He laughed, and I felt my blood start to boil. "Oh, Adrien, you should learn how to control your anger. This is a hospital waiting room. If you're going to see her and her family, at least have the common decency to pretend like your buddy-buddy with everyone."

My fists clenched up, and my anger started to grow. "Who the hell are you to be telling me any of this. Just fuck off and go away." I could see him holding in a laugh, and I almost lost it, but then he turned, patted my shoulder, and leaned in next to my ear. I heard him whisper, "Marinette will only be bothered and concerned by that look on your face. She only just woke up and is probably in pain. If you can't control yourself out of courtesy for everyone else, do it, at least for her. I don't want to see her hurt by you again." I was taken aback by what he said, but by the time I had registered what he said, he had already walked away. I scanned the room and saw him standing in a group surrounding a nurse. He was with Alya, Nino, and Chloe.

I wanted to confront him but stopped when I heard what the nurse was saying. "She is ready to see people; however, only about five people can go see her. Since you four-" She stopped talking and noticed I was here. "Oh, actually five. You five are here first, so you can go back, but everyone else will need to go home. Let me let the family and patient know, and I'll come back to show you to her room. If you'll excuse me." The petite nurse rushed out of the room, and we were left standing in silence. One of us needed to tell everyone to go home, but I didn't feel like it. I didn't care what they did. I just wanted to see her.

We all stood in silence for, I don't know how long. I didn't even notice Nino and Alya leave to go tell everyone else to go home. I didn't hear Chloe brag about the get-well-soon gifts she got Marinette. And I especially didn't hear Luka pretending to be a nice guy and chatting it up with everyone except me in our little group of five. I could care less about what was happening around me. All that mattered was I would get to see her soon, and then maybe I could finally push away the dark thoughts I kept having and the 4k pictures of her laying on the ground motionless with blood pulling around her head.

I finally snapped out of it when the nurse approached us again. "She's ready now; please follow me to her room." She walked us over to an elevator, and we went up to the fourth floor. She stopped right outside the door and turned to face us. "Before you go in, we kindly ask that you don't make too much noise and disturb the neighboring patients. This is her room, so please knock before you go in. And whenever you're ready to go, if you need assistance, then the nurse's station is down the hall to the right. Enjoy." She walked quickly away to go back to work, and by the time I turned back around, everyone else was already inside.

Walking in, I expected, well I'm not sure what I expected. But I know I didn't expect Marinette to be out of bed, wearing a loose babydoll blue dress, with Chloe and Alya grasping both of her sides. Besides a wrist brace and a bandage around her head, she was looking completely normal. I exchanged a quick greeting with her parents and rushed over to her. I pushed Chloe and Alya away from her and wrapped my arms tightly around her. She let out a slight sound of shock and hugged me back. I wanted to keep hugging her, but she made it awkward and evident that she wanted me to let go by giving me two quick pats on the back.

After I begrudgingly let her go, everyone else hugged her just as tight and just as long as I did. I couldn't mask my discontent when Luka walked up to hug her. "Marinette, I was so worried about you. It's only been a couple of days, but I missed you." My anger grew when I saw her blush and look down. I was about to pounce on him when he hugged her, but Nino stopped me. "Not cool, bro. No need to worry about the bluenette. She's got enough on her plate as is. If all your anger ends up affecting her, I won't hesitate to kick you out. Consider that a warning, man."

I couldn't believe everyone was treating me like this today. I knew I was probably acting selfish, but I didn't care; I only wanted her to look at me. And if showing my anger will do that then I didn't care about the consequences. As long as I was the only one on her mind. While everyone crowded around her again I decided to stay back and made sure I looked upset. I wanted to see if it would work if I could steal her attention even when others surrounded her. My thoughts broke when she spoke, and my heart melted. "Adrien, is everything okay?"