I will always be here for you || Marichat ||

Chapter 2

a/n alya pulled marinettes hand under the desk but between her and mari

Alya looked down at Marinettes bandages with wide eyes and she looked as white as a sheet while Marinette just sat there frozen and pale.

"M-marinette? What is this?" Alya asked her voice slightly cracking and unshed tears in her eyes, wondering how she had failed her bestfriend so horribly.

Wondering how she didnt notice how much her bestfriend was suffering or how she hadnt atleast noticed these bandages.

"U-uh I-um fell you know how clumsy I am so I tripped and fell and got these cuts on my wrist yea!" Mari exclaimed trying her best not to run out the classroom.

Alya grabbed Marinettes hand and went outside the classroom knowing that if what she thought really happened was true Mari wouldnt want anybody knowing.

"Marinette I need you to tell me the truth how did you get those cuts?" Alya asked with the most stern voice she could muster up

"I already told you Alya I tripped and fell and thats how I got those cuts" Mari explained lying through her teeth

If Marinette was being honest with herself lying to Alya felt a little bit too easy and it scared her that she felt this way because usually lying to Alya would feel like she was taking a  jab at herself.

"How? Because from what I know when you trip and fall you would usually get scraped if you did get cut they wouldnt be like the ones you have. You have a clean cut which means that it has to be self-inflicted unless you got mugged or something and the mugger cut you, but either way you wouldnt have this many cuts" Alya wasnt sure about the last part but she was desperate for her bestfriend to tell her the truth

"Look Alya can we talk about this later, at lunch, I dont feel comfortable talking in the halls of the school where anybody can hear our conversation"

Alya relented but gave in nonetheless knowing that if she wanted Marinette to open up to her it had to be on Marinettes own terms and it had to be Marinettes choice.

As they were about to head back into the class Mari stopped Alya and told her asked if they could just wait 5 more minutes not wanting to go in the class yet.

"Alright lets go in"

When they went back in the class they saw the last of their classmates running back to their seats. Alya and Mari shared a look both utterly annoyed with their friends.

Class' POV:

After Alya had pulled Marinettes arm, she looked like she was going to cry and she looked pale

Alya barely cries about anything unless its really bad, so they knew that that whatever was going on under that table was horrible

After Alya asked Marinette about it they heard Marinette exclaim about how she tripped and we believed it seeing as we didn't see what the wound was, but when Alya pulled Mari out of the class we all locked eyes with eachother and Kim broke the silence and decided that we should listen in on their conversation just so that we know if Mari is okay.

After they heard what Alya said everybody paled and Adrien decided he didnt want to listen anymore, but as he turned around he couldnt help but notice Marinettes bags front zip was open but he didnt pay any mind to it that is until he saw a glint of silver, the rest of the class was staying at the door just incase Marinette or Alya said anything else

Adriens curiosity got the better of him and he found himself right at Maris bag

'Stop it Adrien this is her privacy you shouldnt invade it' Adrien thought to himself but somehow curiosity got the best of him.

Adrien paled dramatically at what he saw.

A razor blade, it looked clean and it had a no blood on it that brought a small bit of relief to him and then he saw a bunch of bandages.

Somebody had whisper shouted "THEY ARE COMING"

Adrien put everything the exact same way he found it and got to his seat which wasnt hard seeing as his seat is right infront of Maris.

When Adrien got to his seat he started to think about how he could ask Mari about the razor and bandages without being caught out that he had went through her bag.

2 minutes later ms bustier came back in with Chloe and began her math lesson

~time skip brought to you by me not doing my homework~

3rd person POV:

When lunch time came Marinette had already packed all of her stuff and she sprinted out the class and went straight to her bakery across the school

As she ran she made sure that Alya or anybody for that matter wouldnt be able to catch up to her when she got home she greeted her parents quickly and ran up the stairs and locked her trap door.

Many things in Marinettes room had changed there werent nearly as much pictures of Adrien up on the walls just enough to convince you that hes just a friend and there were some more of her other friends and their whole friend group.

Mari had repainted her walls, they werent the same bright pink they used to be but they were more of a flamingo pink.

The wallpaper of her computer screen was one of Ladybug and Chatnoir and her the chaise was still the same.

not even 3 minutes after she locked the door she could hear Alya knocking rather loudly

"Marinette?"

no reply

"Marinette come on I know your in there!"

no reply

After 20 minutes it was time to go back to class and Marinette had thought that Alya had already gone back to class

She was dead wrong

When she went out the room she saw Alya standing there with her arms crossed over her chest looking at right at her

Marinettes eyes widened in surprise but she quickly said

"Well would you look at the time, looks like its time for us to go back to class, lets go Alya, but first lemme get my coffee!"

Alya just sighed not knowing if she should talk to Mari now or at the end of the school day

When they entered the class everybody except for Chloe looked at Alya questioningly. Marinette and Alya just shrugged off their stares and went to their seats

As soon as Marinette sat down, Adrien looked at Nino and nodded.

"Hey Alya can Adrien and I talk to you outside?" Nino asked suddenly

"Uhh sure?", Alya said unsure what they wanted to talk about

-outside the classroom-

"Well? What was it you guys wanted to talk about?"

"How did your talk go with Marinette?" Adrien asked almost immediately

Alya sighed before replying "It didnt happen she ran away and locked herself up in her room until break was over"

Adrien bit his lip deciding that a visit from a certain black cat should visit her this morning.

"I have never ever seen Marinette looking like this usually she is always happy but now I'm realising how overlooked her pain is and how have we not noticed this? We are supposed to be her closest friends and we still hadnt noticed that she was in pain? Who knows how long she has been suffering in silence" Nino questioned blaming himself for not noticing how his childhood friend had been suffering. Nino was supposed to be her bestfriend and he was supposed to notice these things but he hadnt.

So was it that Marinette was good at hiding her pain, or was it just that they were not noticing any small changes in her demeanour

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hiii im so sorry i made everybody so intrusive but it needed to happen for the sake of the story