I can't breathe, can you help me

Chapter 4

When Manon was picked up by her mother, Alya left for her own home, and after dinner, Marinette walked up to her room then her balcony, she breathed in the fresh air, everything was fine until she started coughing again, when she stopped coughing she threw the red carnation petals off the balconies edge.
"Hello purrincess."
Marinette jumped when she looked beside her and saw Chat Noir, she guessed she was so distracted that she hadn't noticed his arrival.
"Hey kitty." Marinette said.
"I came by to check on you....I was worried." Chat said.
"Thanks......I'm....I'm fine." Marinette replied.
"But?" Chat asked.
"But I could be a lot better." Marinette answered.
"I'm sorry, I didn't see you get hit." Chat apologized.
"It's alright, for right now, I'm fine." Marinette said.
"Maybe, but later-"
"I don't want to think about later kitty." Marinette interuppted him.
"Alright purrincess." Chat whispered, Marinette smiled but it quickly faded when she started to cough again, when it ended Marinette threw the flower petals off the balconies edge.
"Another bad thing about this, is that carnations aren't even my favorite flower." Marinette said.
"What is your favorite flower?" Chat asked.
"Not tonight kitty, I'm getting tired and I have to deal with school tomorrow." Marinette said, instead of answering.
"Alright, goodnight purrincess." Chat said.
"Goodnight kitty." Marinette replied, before heading back down to her room, once inside she laid down on her bed.
"You look really tired Marinette." Tikki commented.
"I am Tikki." Marinette said.
"Then get some rest, if tonight is anything like last night, you won't be getting much of it." Tikki replied, and true to the kwami's words Marinette kept waking up from coughing fits, when it was time for her to get ready for school, Marinette felt like she barely slept, once she was ready and Tikki was hidden in her pocket book, she walked downstairs.
"Are you ok Marinette, you look like you didn't get much sleep?" Sabine asked, as Marinette grabbed some food to eat on the way to school.
"I'm alright, I'll see you later." Marinette answered, before leaving for school, by the time she got there she had finished eating.
"Hey Marinette."
Marinette looked behind her and saw Adrien walking up the stairs towards her.
"Hey Adrien." Marinette replied, she mentally high-fived herself for not messing up the sentence even though it was only two words.
"Did you get any sleep last night, you look tired?" Adrien asked.
"I....um sleep...not....I didn't get much sleep." Marinette answered.
"I'm sorry." Adrien apologized, Marinette shook her head with a gentle smile.
"You don't have to apologize, now let's get to class." Marinette said, Adrien smiled and nodded his head, as they walked Marinette would glance over at Adrien, sometimes she would catch him looking at her with worry in his eyes but nothing else. Eventually they reached their classroom but before they could walk in Marinette started to cough, as she coughed Marinette saw that Adrien was looking at her, the worry in his eyes was more intense than it was a second ago, a minute later the coughing stopped and Marinette was now holding a handful of flower petals while some fell to the floor.
"Do you need anything, Marinette?" Adrien asked, Marinette was gratefull that he didn't ask if she was ok.....she wasn't....she wouldn't be for a long time and everyone knew that.
"No, I don't need anything, but thank you." Marinette answered, giving Adrien a small smile, Adrien returned the smile with one of his own and they walked into the classroom, before Marinette walked over to sit next to Alya, she threw away the flower petals.
"Marinette, you're here early....unless Adrien is just late." Alya commented, as Marinette sat down.
"No, I got here on time for once." Marinette said, before Alya could say anything Chloe and Sabrina walked into the classroom.
"Adrien, why were you walking with Dupein-Cheng?" Chloe asked, as she walked over to where Marinette, Alya, Nino and Adrien were sitting.
"We happened to arrive here at the same time and she's my friend so I'm going to walk to class with her." Adrien answered.
"Why, she's not worth being friends with, he's just pitying you." Chloe looked at Marinette as she said that last part, Marinette slowly stood up, everyone thought she was going to argue with Chloe instead Marinette ran out of the classroom, eventually she ended up in the locker room. Marinette sat down in front of her locker and began to cry as well as cough.
"I hate carnations." Marinette said, looking at the flower petals around her and on her.
"I'm starting to hate them as well."
Marinette looked over at the door and saw Adrien, and Marinette began to cry again despite the fact she didn't want to.
"Hey, you know Chloe's lying right, you're worth being friends with and I really am your friend." Adrien said, as he helped Marinette stand back up, he winced at how much flower petals fell around them.
"I know, but it still hurts." Marinette replied, she started coughing again and when it ended she sighed and threw the petals on the ground.
"I really hate carnations." Marinette whispered sadly.
"Me too." Adrien said, then he hugged Marinette hoping it would make her feel better, it took a couple of minutes but Marinette returned the hug, after another couple of minutes their hug ended.
"Feel better?" Adrien asked.
"Well, I'm not going to burst into tears again." Marinette answered, with a tiny smile, Adrien chuckled a little and nodded his head.
"Then let's head back to class." Adrien said, Marinette nodded her head in agreement.
"Oh, and this is the first time I've had a conversation with you, where you haven't stumbled over your words." Adrien added, as they walked out the door.
"I...no...maybe..I....yeah guess I did." Marinette said, she started to blush when Adrien chuckled with a shake of his head.
"Let's get back to class." Adrien said, Marinette nodded her head, when they got back Chloe wouldn't even look in their direction.
"I let her have a piece of my mind once you were out of the classroom, everyone else did too." Alya whispered, when Marinette sat down.
"Thank you." Marinette whispered back, Alya smiled and gave her a thumbs up.
"Now, shall class begin?" Ms. Bustier asked, everyone nodded their heads....half-way through the school day everyone heard a scream from outside, everyone ran to the windows to see what was going on...it was another akuma attack. Once Marinette figured out what was going on she backed away from the window and without anyone noticing she left the classroom and hid somewhere, Marinette opened her tiny pocketbook and Tikki flew out.
"There's been another akuma attack Tikki." Marinette said.
"But Marinette, you're sick." Tikki replied.
"And Chat can't take on that akuma alone, Tikki spots on." Marinette said, a few seconds later and Ladybug was headed to where the akuma was at, when she got there Chat was already dealing with it.
"Nice to see you m'lady." Chat said.
"No time for small talk kitty, let's deal with this akuma." Ladybug replied, Chat smirked and nodded his head, it took them about ten minutes to deal with the akuma and luckily for them it wasn't another love themed akuma.
"While I would love to stay and tell you all the cat puns I know m'lady, but I have to go, until next time." Chat said, before leaving.
"It's for the best I need to get back to school." Ladybug said, then she used her yoyo to get her back to school, once she was there she found the nearest bathroom, making sure no girls were in there and hid in one of the stalls.
"Tikki, spots off." Ladybug whispered, a few seconds later Marinette was walking out of the bathroom but she immediantly fell to the ground coughing, it felt as bad as the first time this happened and her coughs were so bad her shoulders were shaking.
"Marinette!"
Marinette looked up and saw Alya, Adrien and Nino running over to her, but she couldn't answer them.
"Try to breath Marinette." Nino said, then he and Adrien helped her stand back up but they still had to keep a hand on her shoulders to keep her from falling down, what seemed like forever Marinette stopped coughing.
"You guys can let go of me, I'm not going to fall over now." Marinette said.
"You sure?" Nino asked.
"I'm sure." Marinette answered, Nino and Adrien let go of Marinette.
"Let's get back to class." Alya said, all of them nodded their heads in agreement.
"I don't know where you four have been but sit down, that includes everyone else." Ms. Bustier said first looking at Adrien, Marinette, Nino and Alya then she looked at the rest of the class, everyone quickly sat down and they went back to work. Once school was let out for the day Marinette decided to go home and get some rest, her friends understood, besides Adrien had fencing practice, Nino said he had other plans and Alya needed to babysit her sisters, when Marinette got home she told her parents she was tired and that she was going to lay down then she went to her room.
"Tikki, I didn't feel sick while I was Ladybug, why?" Marinette asked, looking at the kwami, said kwami was eating a cookie.
"I'm only guessing Marinette, but since this disease is caused by the after effects of an akuma, your ladybug powers were surpressing it." Tikki answered, after she finished eating her cookie.
"That does make sense." Marinette said.
"Now, are you actually going to get some rest?" Tikki asked, but Marinette was already asleep, Tikki shook her head then flew over to Marinette and laid down on her shoulder, using Marinette as a bed.