Amnesia

Chapter Twelve - Will she find out?

Marinette's POV

"Whatever they tell you, just ignore them."

"They're not worth your time, girl!"

"Oh, please, she's the one who's not worth our time!"

"She's a bully! She's not worth anyone's attention."

"And if you two are on her side, that makes you bullies too!"

"You're a failure, a disappointment! You hear me, Marinette?!"

*****

There was it again. The nightmares. Similar to the ones I've been having the past few days. Ever since Lila told me the truth and opened my eyes, to be precise.

I have been seeing these nightmares more often than I did when they started. They felt so real. Like it had happened before. And the voices... they were really familiar. At least, that's how I felt them. Like I heard them before. But after I woke up, I couldn't remember them again.

'It doesn't matter. Calm down, stop thinking about it.'

I tried to convince myself not to think about it. It couldn't be true or have happened anyway, right?

With that thought, I prepared myself to go to school and meet up with Lila again.

She was really amazing! I was really lucky to have a best friend like her. She told me she had traveled in so many places and met with celebrities and people of high status.

Yesterday, a group of people surrounded us, and she told us stories about it. Everyone adores her, me included. I mean, who wouldn't? Only our class, of course.

I don't know why they don't like her. She doesn't know either. They are probably from that kind of people who bully others without any particular reason. I truly hated that kind of people.

And liars. They were liars, too. They lied to me from the moment I woke up in the hospital. If I hadn't met Lila so soon, they might have tried to do what they did back then. Bully me. And I didn't want that. I didn't want people like them in my life.

I couldn't do anything about my parents, though. I don't know why they did everything they did, but I couldn't do anything to get away from them. I just tried not to interact with them too much. At least they didn't poison my food or something.

Finally arriving at school, I saw Lila being surrounded by a new group of students again. I swear, that girl became famous from the moment she came here. I could see some students shooting something that seemed like disgusted glares, or something like that, in her way, once in a while, every day. They were probably the same as our class, and we decided to ignore them.

I walked towards her, and when she saw me, she dragged me all the way where she stood with the other students and introduced me.

She told them how she went to the Achu Kingdom and met Prince Ali and how she met Jagget Stone.

Not gonna lie, I did feel a little left out every time I saw her talk to all the other students except me. But I knew that I was her best friend. And she, of course, had the right to have more friends than me. Even though I had only her.

"Hey, it's almost time for the first lesson. Should we head to class?"

I snapped out of my thoughts when she called out for me.

"Oh, sure."

The class was always too silent. And it had me wondering if it was always like this. They kept stealing glances at me as if they cared or something. It was all part of their pretense, I guessed.

This whole thing was really stressing me out. Lila had said that when they finally understood, they couldn't fool me they would take drastic measures. Like bullying us, threatening us, and stuff like that. And I really had no intention to deal with them. I didn't want to. I've had enough on my mind for now.

At least today was different. Different in a good way. They didn't bother to try to talk to me today. And I was glad. I didn't want to talk to them again. Seems like they finally figured it.

Another difficult thing for me was being Ladybug. Yeah, sure, Chat and I had become friends by now, and I knew I could trust him, but Rena tried to get me to talk to her most of the time. Whenever Chat had already left, of course.

Then there were the akuma attacks. Ever since I became Ladybug again, we didn't have as many as Chat had mentioned we used to have in the past, Hawkmoth had akumatized only four people. That was not too much for him, but for me, it was. I wasn't experienced yet. Well, more like forgot how to fight, but it didn't matter how you called it. But I had Chat's help, so I was fine. And as much as I didn't want to admit, Rena was a big help as well.

The thing I liked the most was when I hung out with Lila. Despite her being my best friend and that I knew that I should be calm and reassured with her, I didn't always feel like that. Something inside me told me not to. And that was the weirdest thing. After the nightmares.

My thoughts were interrupted again by the bell, indicating that it was lunch break.

My days went by like that, more or less. It started to make me feel a little bored and maybe stressed. What was I doing before I ended up in the hospital anyway? Not even Lila told me when I asked her. Well, if no one was going to tell me, then I would have to find out by myself.