"She chose him"

9 - "his breaking point."

I lay on my bed hoping that the pain will go away as I start hearing another knock. Please don't be Adrien...please don't be Adrien. I tell them to come in as I see a familiar blue shade of colour walk into my room.

"Oh, hey Marinette..."

"Hey Luka!" She comes in and looks at me. "You seem kinda down, what's wrong?"

I sigh as she sits next to me.

"I'm fine, Marinette."

"No you're not...Luka, tell me what's wrong. It's not good to keep your feelings bottled up for too long."

She notices me looking down as she makes me look at her. I look away in the fear of her knowing that I was Viperion.

"I-it doesn't matter..." I possibly couldn't tell her anyway, Adrien would kill me.

"Luka, stop being so stubborn. Just tell me what's wrong."

I don't respond. She shakes her head whilst looking around my room and seeing the open bottle of foundation.

"You do make-up?"

"Huh? What do you mea- oh...right uh ye-yea! I do..."

"I mean, you have foundation on right now." She giggles. Adorable.  "Want me to take it off?"

"NO! I'm sorry I mean, no thank you..."

She looks at me, confused. I mean, I don't blame her. She opens the bag she brought and passes me a box of macaroons. Teal macaroons. My all-time favourite.

"For me?..."

"Yup! I know they're your favourite so I thought I'd get them for you."

I smile at her and go to grab one but remind myself of the pain in my stomach. I move my hand away, eating would just make it worse...

"Y-you don't want one...?"

"I'm not really hungry...you can leave them here if you want."

"But Juleka said you haven't had anything since the morning."

"I just don't feel like eating...I'm sorry," I say whilst holding my stomach.

She gives me a small 'oh' as she puts the macaroons on my bed. She looked so upset, I possibly couldn't let her leave like this. One macaroon wouldn't hurt...right? I take one and eat it as she looks at me whilst smiling. Phew, at least she feels better.

Well, at least my stomach doesn't hur- "Ow" I say whilst holding my stomach in pain. Yup, eating definitely made it worse...

"Luka? Are you okay?" she places her hand on my stomach as I groan more. She starts to lift my shirt up as I remember that I hadn't covered the bruises there yet. I quickly pull my shirt down.

"Y-you should go..." I say whilst trying to hold my tears back.

"Luka..."

"I-i" I couldn't take it anymore so the tears started to fall as I dug my face into my hands and broke down. Hopefully, this foundation is waterproof.

Oh...Luka," She faces me towards her and hugs me.

I wrapped my arms around her and cried on her shoulder, not just because of the pain but because of holding everything in for so long. It hurt...so much. I slowly let go and look at her with tears in my eyes.

"I-i'm so sorry, Marinette..."

She hugs me tightly and puts my head back on her shoulder.

"Shhh, it's okay, just let everything out..."

And I did, I let everything out. I broke down in front of her, completely. Tears fell from my eyes like a waterfall as I held onto her. I couldn't hold it in anymore, it hurt to hold it in for so long... I really needed someone to hold and I'm so glad that it was her. I knew I wouldn't get akumatised because she was there. And she always makes me feel better. My heart ached as the tears kept falling from my face. She strokes my hair and slowly lifts my head off her shoulder.