Are You All That Bad? |Miraculous: Enemies to lovers|

C H A P T E R ~ T W E N T Y - T H R E E ~ P A R T : T W O

MARINETTE POV:

~Still flashback~

I had been just sitting at my desk for the past few hours, contemplating about everything shitty going on in my life: Ladybug, Chat Noir, Adrien, Hawkmoth, and the list goes on!

Just then, I heard a knocking on my trapdoor, interrupting my train of shitty thoughts.

"Marinette! It's time for dinner, Darling!" My mom called up to me.

I sighed, and reluctantly went down for dinner.

Once I got downstairs, I grabbed a bowl, and filled it up with my dad's famous Onion Soup, yum! Although the yummy food brought up my spirits a tad, I still didn't feel like dealing with human interaction at the moment, so I started to make my way up to my room.

"Marinette, where are you going, Sweetie?"

I froze on the stairs, and looked back at my concerned parents, "Um, well, I-uh, have physics homework! Yeah! And it-um, can't wait!" This wasn't completely a lie!

My dad looked over towards my mom. She nodded and he let out a sigh, and looked back at me, "Alright, as long as you bring your bowl back down, and clean up."

I gave him a slight nod, and continued up to my room.

Once I had my bowl of soup on my desk, I just let the flood gate of my emotions open, no holding back. I let out my anger towards Adrien and Chat Noir, I let out my guilt on letting Paris down, I let out my anxiety over school, I let out the disappointment that I had for myself. They emotions just wouldn't stop coming.

I just sat there and cried for a good minute or two.

I was glad that I had let myself release all these emotions, because it gives me a fresh slate mentally and start over. I was just something that you have to do every now and then.

I had finished my detectible dinner and my homework. I cleaned my bowl as I was instructed and headed up to bed.

I had just laid my head down on my pillow and felt sleep starting to take me. As this was happing, involuntary tears ran down my sullen face.

What have I done...

~Next day~

I had woken up early (Surprised? I know, me too!) and had gotten my Sunday chores done. I had then felt particularly creative today, so I sat down and started to design some new outfits for school and other casual events.

I was in the middle of designing a cute mini skirt, when a news notification appeared on my computer. I hesitantly clicked on it.

"Don't be bemused, it's just the news! I'm Nadja Chamack, and it has been brought to our attention, that the stone-like beings have come to life!" I was looking at the montage of the stone beings coming to life, one by one!

In one clip, it showed Chat Noir fighting off half a dozen or so by himself! He looked stressed and exhausted from fighting off so many.

I felt a pang of guilt in my chest as I watched him. As much as I hated that damn cat, he was all alone out there, fighting off akuma after akuma.

As much as I wanted to make him pay for everything that he said to me in our battel, I knew that wouldn't be a very heroic thing to do.

I opened my vanity drawer, where I stashed the Miraculous box. I picked it up and went to open it, but I hesitated. What if I fuck this all up again? Paris will be in shambles! Everyone on this planet will hate me, I will spend the rest of my life in a jail cell, and probably die there! What if- No!

I'm going to fix my mistake, and smooth things over with Chat Noir!

I opened the box and covered my eyes, as Tikki flew out in an orb of blinding light.

"MARINETTE!" She screamed in excitement.

"I knew that you would make the right decision! Well, I didn't know...but I had a really strong feeling that you would!"

I giggled at her little rant, "Y'know, I think it's time we give the hero-thing a second chance!"

I picked the earrings out of the box, and placed then in my ears. I took a confident stance with a determined look spread all across my face.

"Tikki, spots on!"

After the first few tries, I had mastered the art of swinging with a yo-yo, and made it to the Eiffel Tower to see dozens of Stoneheart clones, surrounding the base. At the top, hanging off the building like King Kong, was a much larger version holding my classmate, Melyene.

I looked back down, and saw the crowd of copies, and saw Chat Noir struggling at the center of it all.

I swung dwon to his side. He looked unhappy, but a bit surprised to see me.

"Look who finally decided to show up!" He sarcastically stated. I scoffed in reply, and managed to get him out of the mess he was stuck in.

"Look, " I started to explain, "I'm sorry for all the shit that happened last time, but it was my first time being a superhero, and I was really stressed with all the pressure that was put on us to save Paris. I know that our first meeting situation wasn't ideal, but you had no right to treat me like a piece of shit on the sidewalk."

He just looked at me in plain shock.

I let out a sigh, and placed my hand on his shoulder, "But with all that said, I'm prepared to put aside what happened last time and forgive you. That is, if you are willing to forgive me in return."

He looked at my hand, and shrugged it off his shoulder, " Look, if the greeting was the only thing that happened last time, we would've been just fine." I stared at him in confusion, what was he getting at?

"But all throughout the battle we had with Stoneheart, you were really slow and you were making mistakes left and right. If it wasn't for your little 'Miraculous Ladybug' trick, you would've caused Paris to be millions of dollars in debt!"

I was just shocked at what was coming out of his mouth, "But the biggest mistake that you made, was not capturing and purifying the Akuma."

I had a look of disbelief covering my entire face, "So, no, I won't be able to forgive you..."

With that, he walked right back into the crowd of copies and continued to fight.

I was frozen in shock.

But slowly, that shock melted into anger and hatred.

From this moment on, that Alley Cat was now my enemy, and always will be...

~Flashback ended~

Bringing back all those memories caused me to wake up.

I looked around and Chat was nowhere to be found, but this was probably a good thing: even though all those things happened years ago, they still hurt like it was yesterday,

I needed time to cool down, but something deep down inside of me  wanted him to come back soon...

A/N

Wassup Bugaroos! I hope you enjoyed the second half of the Twenty-third chapter! This wasn't my favorite chapter to write, but it gives you an insight on why Marinette hates Chat so much. So I hoped this helped!

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