Broken Melody

Speedster

Marinette tiredly blinked awake as the ringing of her alarm sounded.

Sprawled out on her bed, she stared absentmindedly at her ceiling. She had stayed up late in order to finish Alix’s banner and it was a miracle that she even finished it with how distracted her mind was.

Yesterday’s event just wasn’t leaving her mind, but she had to put it behind her.

Move on.

That was what she needed to do.

As her alarm from her phone continued to ring, Marinette began to tiredly reach for it with her tired eyes, scrunching them shut at the noise.

“Marinette, your phone.” Tikki sleepily spoke from her curled-up position on Marinette’s stomach, too comfortable to move.

“I know.” Marinette sleepily replied. Finally finding her phone, she lazily smacked her phone off, and picked it up after a moment of silence with a groan. Groggily opening her eyes to look at the time, they shot open, the sleep gazed eyes fully awake now as she shot up with a scream, unintentionally flinging off Tikki from her stomach.

“I’m late!” she quickly shot up, sliding down her banister in a rush, almost stumbling on her landing, her arms flailing about, clumsily regaining her balance, “I’m late! I’m late! I’m late!” she panicked, moving around, quickly going through her morning routine and changing.

Grabbing her purse, her eyes shot around the room, “Banner! Where did I leave the banner?!”

“Here! I have it, Marinette.” Tikki flew up to her, holding the finished banner to her.

Marinette quickly thanked her, grabbing the banner from her and checked it over before rolling it up.

“You'll never make it to Skatepark de Bercy on 25 minutes, it's way too far!” Tikki pointed out, flying after Marinette who froze at the trapdoor.

It was currently 9:35am and the competition started at 10.

Marinette was really panicking, there was no way she was going to make it to Alix’s competition at Skatepark de Bercy in time. She wasn’t that familiar with the place, so she had done some prior research. It took about more than one and a half hour on foot to get there and even if she ran, she’d still miss the whole thing. If she took the train, it would take just a bit over half an hour, and she would have to change trains before she reached her location.

However, her face perked up when she realised that there was another way to get there on time.

Turning around to face the little god, Marinette smiled, “Not too far for Ladybug.” She winked, “Tikki, spots on!” turning into Ladybug, the spotted heroine headed out through her skylight with the rolled-up banner in her and swung away to the Skatepark de Bercy.

Sitting on the edge of the grass some ways behind the spectators leaning over the railings that overlooked the skating ramps, Alix was staring at the blue hologram of a woman holding a clock with the current time from her pocket watch, a frown on her lips as there were only a few minutes before her competition started. She looked up with a frown, she couldn’t help but furrow her brows when she noticed that Marinette wasn’t here yet. The last time she saw her was on Friday and she hasn’t heard from her.

No group text or a text from her. Just messages from the other girls.

Granted, she did say that she was going to give Marinette some space, but she couldn’t get rid of the memory of her looking down. She didn’t think she was upset because of another failed attempt with Adrien. She knew that she was upset that Alya had told a poorly kept secret to Lila, but she couldn’t help but think it was more than that.