Broken Melody

Destructo

Marinette opened her eyes to see her room enveloped in darkness.

Groggily sitting up, she placed a hand to her head, feeling a bit disorientated.

She must’ve fallen asleep at one point.

Squeezing her eyes shut for a moment, Marinette sluggishly shifted back to leaned against her pillow, mindful of Tikki curled up to the side of her pillow. She tiredly opened her eyes, adjusting to the darkness.

When she tilted lolled her head to the side, she caught sight of her wall and flinched when she saw her empty corkboard.

That’s right, I took them off.

She had taken them down so she wouldn’t be reminded what had happened in the classroom.

What good that did.

Pulling her legs to her chest, Marinette listlessly leaned her chin on her knees and moved her arms to cradle them, staring blankly at her empty corkboard.

Not a single picture was left, just the pins and some sticky notes with hearts drawn on them.

Closing her eyes again, Marinette nuzzled her head onto her knees.

Now that her mind was cleared up from that unplanned nap, she should use this quiet time to reflect how all this had happened.

Remembering what had happened today – or yesterday, whatever time it was, Marinette had involuntarily flinched at the memories but forced herself to calm down and continue.

Lila had won, but while it wasn’t exactly what she had planned, it was half-successful.

Lila didn’t take all her friends away and forced her to end up all alone.

She was still considered a friend to her classmates.

It just that her classmates believed in Lila more and took her side instead.

Lila didn’t exactly take Adrien away from her (She was moving on from him after all).

But somehow, she had gotten Adrien to take her side, even getting him to help her lie in front of his friends and classmates.

Overall, Marinette felt like she had lost.

However, she had to look on the positive.

She was still considered a friend to her classmates and if Marinette didn’t want to end up completely alone, she’d have to do something.

Her friends hadn’t trusted her completely.

But it made sense why they doubted her and believed in Lila instead.

Alya had seen her jealous side, knew she had stolen Adrien’s phone once.

Of course there was doubts.

During akuma alerts, she would have to abandon her friends, or make up some lame excuse that were obvious a lie.

Of course they couldn’t trust her completely.

She was clumsy and could be forgetful at times.

Of course they believed that she could’ve stolen the pendant, even if by accident.

Marinette couldn’t blame them, it was her fault why they believed in Lila over her.

She gave them so many opportunities for them.

And now that Lila had won, she had to prove to her classmates that she wasn’t what they thought of her.

Not giving Lila any more fuel against her