Miraculous: Marinette's Promise (Book Three Of the "Marinette's Baby" Series) ✔

Chapter 14

Needed some Luka and Mari time.
Unbeta'd sorry for any grammatical errors.
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  "A reject? She really said that?"
Luka asked, taking a seat beside Marinette's desk.

"Seems a little...bold. Don't you think?" He asked, reaching into his lunch bag to pull out an orange.

Marinette sighed, her eyes glancing down at the Orange as he began to peel with his thumbs.
  

  "Yep...straight from the hip." The blunette stood up and crossed her arms. She leaned against her desk, staring out into the window.

"She didn't even sugarcoat it..." she blinked, looking over to Luka with a grimace. "And I thought Chloe was mean....at least you expect it from her."

   Luka nodded, opening his orange to pick at the pieces in the inside.

"She said Louis was Nathan's....Louis looks exactly like Adrien for Christ's sake. Blonde hair and everything." Marinette chewed her bottom lip. "As if I fuck every guy I hang out with..."

Luka shook his head, popping an orange slice in his mouth.
  "Her name is Lila for a reason. Literally says she's a liar in her name. She's a master of manipulation. Everyone knows that."

Marinette looked away, her eyes glaring down into the floor. Her stomach felt heavy and turned. She couldn't tell if it was because of anxiety or pregnancy, but she really wanted to puke.

"The tabloids don't know that..."

Luka paused, looking up at Marinette as she muttered under her breath.
His brow furrowed and he carefully unfolded his legs.
"Tabloids? What do you mean by that?" He questioned, perking a brow.

Marinette sighed, closing her eyes as her head throbbed. Her feet had started to throb too.

"I'm saying....that she is the one leaking those stories to the tabloids." She opened her eyes, looking at Luka again. "And they aren't always true. She threatened me, told me that if the papers somehow caught wind that I was pregnant, she would tell them it's yours."
Her heart raced at the thought.
She didn't want to think about how much of a hassle it was for Adrien and his father.
Adrien's father ran a business, a very successful one, the last thing she wanted was to ruin that.

Her words left Luka completely flabbergasted, his mouth was left agape.

"Marinette...I don't recall ever being intimate with you..." he breathed, his face flushed at the statement, attempting to brush it off. "We dated when we were what....? Fourteen?" His brow furrowed, before he looked down and began to pick at the fruit he held in his hands once more. "I didn't even know what sex was."

Marinette reached up to pinch the bridge of her nose.
   "The media doesn't know that..."

Luka shook his head in disbelief.

"And what about the pregnancy? Is that something she made up too?" He asked, placing his peels to the bin beside him.

Marinette felt her stomach drop.
In a few months she was going to grow bigger and bigger.

"No...She overheard me talking about it..." Marinette whined, leaping away from her desk and pacing back and forth.

Luka paused, his hands dropped the slices of oranges on to his lap before he quickly picked them back up.
"Wait...you're pregnant?" He asked, furrowing his brow.

Marinette reached up to grip her hair. She breathed softly as she softly tugged at it, anxiety sweeping over her in large increments.

  "Yes...and in a few months I'm going to get bigger and bigger. The tabloids will go insane with the photos, and it the time of pregnancy will line up perfectly with Lila's fake story. Everyone will think that I had an affair with you and the child belongs to you. It'll cause so much controversy, I could ruin Gabriel's business, ruin Adrien's reputation...." she bit her lip as she fought back tears. "Lila was right...all I do is cause problems..." she began to dig her palms into her eyes. "I don't know why Adrien picked me. I'm not good enough, and I am going to be the reject."

Luka blinked, his mouth agape as he couldn't believe what he was hearing.

  "Okay..." he uttered quickly, placing his food to the side, and standing up.
"First off....congratulations on the new baby. Second off, you should not let Lila make you subjectable to her manipulation. You're a smart girl, you are also pregnant, and you don't need anymore of this extra stress." He reached over and placed his hands on her shoulders.

"Adrien didn't just choose anyone. He chose you. Some people like Lila are stingy and want that for themselves. If Adrien didn't want to be with you or didn't think you were enough, he wouldn't have put that ring on your fingers..." Luka reached under her chin, making the blunette looked him in the eyes.
"I spoke to him a few days ago...before I had that tender moment with Nino." He chuckled.

Marinette managed to crack a smile.
   "You and Nino did have a broment..." she sniffled, looking back up at him.

Luka smile, slowly pulling away.
"Adrien is genuine about you. I think you're more than enough. I feel he sees it the same way..."
Luka kept a small smile on his face in hopes to keep her spirits enlightened.

"You can't keep doubting yourself Mari. Thats what Lila wants, it's why she told you what she did. Plus...thats blackmail. I'm pretty sure that's illegal."

He gently booped her nose and then he let her go, returning to where he had placed his lunch.

"The day is almost over...lets just stick it out, don't worry to much about Lila, and then go home and relax. This much stress and anxiety can't be good for the baby..." he pursed his lips and looked up at her.

Marinette shrugged, reaching over to twirl the earrings in her ear with a grimace.
   "I-I guess..."
She sighed. She listened to Luka's words, she knew he was right.

But Lila had this way of getting under her skin...
Her words repeated in her mind, over and over again

And she did have to face truth. The lie was that words would never hurt her

But they had hurt...