The Convenient Marriage (MLB Fanfiction) COMPLETE✔

Chapter 26

Marinette flinched, her eyes trailing off as she recalled the door slamming as Kagami stood awkwardly on the other side.

   She wasn't sure what had gotten into her, but she was sincerely thankful that it had kicked into her.

Marinette wasn't always the confrontational type, and it proved as such since she had only ever ran away from Kagami when she started her shit. It also happened the moment she saw Nick in the hotel lobby, she simply hung up the phone and ran for the hills.

   Granted, Marinette ended up alone with Adrien, but it wasn't like it didn't happen before. At least then, she'd get some sleep knowing that she told Kagami off.

   That was until Kagami catches her alone and beats the living snot out of her.

"I'm surprised you aren't mad," Marinette replied, her voice quivering as she sat on the edge of the bed. The blunette glanced up, her heart squeezing in her chest as Adrien lay against the bed beside her.

   The blonde tensed, his fingers lacing into the bedsheets underneath him and clutching on to them painfully.

   "Do you think she deserved it?" Adrien asked, his stomach tensing as he struggled to keep his mind preoccupied on other things so that he wouldn't be sick.

   Marinette pressed her lips together, completely stunned by his response. She almost expected him to think of her as a nuisance. She almost expected him to reprimand her, scream at her, glare at her in a negative light. She almost wanted him to.

   She was a bitch.

She got too carried away.

But that was a title she was okay with.
If Kagami saw her as a threat, then so be it. Marinette couldn't have cared less.

   She was finally on top, she had kicked Kagami off the throne, even if she was the one who held Adrien's heart.

    Marinette exhaled, her cheeks growing warm as what she wanted to admit sounded entirely too callous, even for her.

   "I...I feel like she did..." Marinette replied, her words emanating from her lips a lot more softer than she had initially anticipated.

   Her heart squeezed in her chest, her voice fading out into the empty space between them and for a short moment, there was nothing but silence that had enveloped them both in rapid succession.

   "Did she do something to you earlier, Marinette?" Adrien asked, his voice cutting through the silence between the both of them. "I know you wouldn't say something while she was there, but we’re alone now. You know you can tell me if she did something."

   Marinette widened her eyes, her bottom lip quivering as she recalled the moment Kagami cornered against the island table.

    She felt guilty for hiding it from Adrien, but she knew she would be able to handle this on her own.

   For now, she was finally standing up to Kagami, and Marinette wanted to keep that persona. She wanted Kagami to know that it was not okay to fuck with her and she didn't need Adrien to do that.

   "Nothing happened..." Marinette deadpanned, her eyes growing empty as she glanced down at her lap. "It was how she said. I tripped over my own feet, she reached over and stopped my fall."

  There was another moment of silence and only then Marinette was finally able to close her eyes. The young woman exhaled, curling into the bed with a grimace as she wanted nothing more than just to forget the menacing look in Kagami's eyes when she had cornered her and demanded that she was ejected from their lives.