The Salt Files: Additional Cases (MLB)

First Burn (Song Request)

Requested by LeeJones019263

Marinette burns the love she had for Adrien along with other girls. They move on as Adrien realizes he made a terrible mistake

I saved every letter you wrote me
From the moment I saw you
I knew you were mine
You said you were mine
I thought you were mine

Marinette was a hopeless romantic, and everyone knew it. And by everyone, that includes staff, students, family members, friends, kwamiis, even pets knew. It seemed like everyone knew, except the crush himself.

And who is this boy you ask? No other than Adrien Agreste.

Marinette will admit, their friendship started off rocky at first. Marinette thought Adrien was like Chloe, but he proved that he was different.

Too bad he changed later. And all it took was one girl with many lies to drive a wedge between them.

Lila Rossi was her name, and along with her came her lies of utter bullshit. Why would you claim that you're best friends with a famous superhero? Doesn't she know how dangerous that could be if Marinette WASN'T Ladybug?

The worst part was that the lies kept going. Lila even threatened Marinette when she said she was going to expose her for the faker she was. The threat became real, and the baker girl began to lose her friends.

The first one to go hurt. It was Alya, the one person she thought would never leave her. She's studying to be a reporter, so it's her job to know the facts and know when someone is lying! So why couldn't she so clearly see that she was being lied to?

Eventually, there was no getting through to Alya. Now matter how much evidence she brought, the blogger refused to believe Marinette and even cut off their friendship. When Marinette talked to Adrien about it, he ended up scolding her about trying to expose Lila and her lies.

"We would be destroying her lift around her lies. Sure, they aren't the best, but she's just trying to make friends." Adrien said confidently.

"Threatening me and destroying my friendships isn't how you make friends, no matter what way you look at it." Adrien shook his head and put his hand on her shoulder.

"As long as you and I know the truth, what does it matter?" That one sentence was all it took for Marinette's love for him to fade. She knew he would never see it like she did, so why bother?

After that day, Marinette stopped trying to show her ex friends who Lila really was. She was just going to let them find out for themselves the hard way.

But through all that darkness, there was one person who was her rock. Someone she never expected.

Chloe.

Do you know what Angelica said
When I told her what you'd done?
She said, "You have married an Icarus
He has flown too close to the sun"

Chloe actually came up to Marinette one day and formally apologized. After Sabrina was taken away from her, the mayor's daughter felt the most alone that she had in a while. It made her realize that she was doing something similar to what Lila was doing, and that didn't feel good to her. So she apologized to Sabrina before Marinette and was able to catch her afterschool.

The old Marinette would have never forgiven Chloe, not in a million years. But in the past few weeks, Marinette has seen the changes Chloe has gone through. Both as Marinette and Ladybug. So Marinette decided to forgive her, and even invited her to her new lunch group.