The broken girl couldn't stop the pain of worthlessness from consuming her. Everything thing ached, and she could barely move. After everything she had done, all the courage she'd built up, only to be thrown in the dirt by Chloe and Sabrina. She was on her way to ask Adrien out to lunch, a simple thing, not much to worry about, when the blonde stood in her way, breaking just about every inch of her body as she was shoved up into a wall.

She knew Tikki was worried sick, but she couldn't do anything about the pain she'd caused. For all she know, that liar Lila could be playing on Adrien heartstrings right at this very moment. She had most likely ruined her reputation with Adrien when she told off the foreign exchange student for lying about practically everything she had said. Adrien probably despises her at this point. She had caused enough pain within Lila, to get her akumatized multiple times.. And she wasn't about to cause it again. She can go ahead and have the boy of her dreams, as long as she treats him with respect and as long as Adrien is happy.

Happy. The word struck her like a lightning bolt as she groaned within the pain of her bruises, both from Chloe and akuma fights, moving from the floor of her room where she'd collapsed when she had returned home, to the cushioned window seat. Happy, the word, the meaning had drifted away slowly over the past year or two. Sure, her heart would flutter endlessly with her short held, one sided conversations with Adrien, or she'd giggle at the many dirty jokes that Alya would come up with on the spot. But was that truly happiness? After her many failed attempts at asking Adrien on a date, the girl sobbed softly into a pillow, accepting the rejection she had not even received. Chloe had made it clear that way worse could've happened today and Marinette wasn't willing to test that theory.