A Welcome Rain

CHAPTER - 1

《~Time skip brought to you by your one and only LyricIrony19~》

The bell rung signaling the school day to be over . Marinette got up from her seat and picked up her bag . Finally she thought . She started making her way down the stairs .

Marinette came out of the class . She sighed . Nothing is going good in life . She checked the time 2:50pm . The ravenette pulled out her phone to check her schedule.

3:00 to 5:00- studying
5:00- help her parents
7:30-eat dinner
8:15-patrol
8:45-study
11:00-sleep

The ravenette sighed . She had to go and study now . She had taken a break from her commissions for the finals .
Then she had to help her parents

Marinette put her phone in her backpack and went towards her house .

《~5:15pm~》 《In the bakery》

Marinette worked around the counter giving the customers their orders.  Marinette wasn't very good at baking . Sure she made the most basic bakery items like cakes , cookies , cupcakes , bread and souffle.  But she wasn't an expert at it like her parents and someone needed to run the counter while they baked some of the orders which needed two people .

Marinette worked everyday to help out her parents and she was also getting paid for it , what more could she ask for . Everyday at the beginning of the month Marinette would spend her money to buy fabrics for her clothes , she spent her money carefully , being the calculated person she was . She also knew that if she were to ask her parents for more money one more to buy materials they'd outright refuse to help her .

" I think that's enough for today sweetie . I think you should go and rest.  You deserve it . And go and study as well . We have dinner at 7:30 ."
"Okay , mom " Marinette replied taking off her apron and heading upstairs.  Marinette opened the trap door and entered the room . She looked around , so much has happened in the past month .

Her room's decor was a bit different from the last time . It wasn't fully pink anymore rather a mixture of various colors.  Her walls were pink , yes but her furniture was now complimenting the pink room . He bed was covered in lavender sheets and had the signature flowers on it just like Marinette's shirt .
Her chair and desktop were white . Her chaise was still pink though.  You can say her room was less pink now and definitely more herself . It showcased the maturity Marinette had attained while growing up though their were still times when  she acted like a kid . For example when she gets sick . It was nice to not see only pink all day .

Tikki zoomed to Marinette and perched on her shoulder . Marinette saw the board in her room which was once covered in Adriens pictures but now covered with her achedules and designs . Thinking about the blonde boy made Marinette sad . Marinette had slowly let her crush on Adrien go .

Marinette's crush on Adrien was somewhat obsessive. Okay fine not somewhat but a whole another level of obsessive . Marinette sighed . She did many things while trying to pursue Adrien which she wasn't proud of . She had basically stalked him and invaded his privacy . Marinette internally cringed at all the things she did but she was only 15 at that time and after realizing her mistakes she had decided to let go . But it wasn't until recently that the fire she had for him dimmed down . It wasn't completely gone , no but it was still there.

Adrien had told her to take the high road and not expose Lila . It hurt her , keeping quiet . The high road was apparently a lonely road . It reminded her of the time when she wasn't ladybug and had no one to defend her by her side when a bully attacked her . But Marinette couldn't blame Adrien as she knew about his lonely upbringing he hadn't ever had any friends and had just joined school about 2 years ago , so she didn't expect any better . But keeping silent hurt her more than she'd like to admit .

Everyday watching your classmates get manipulated was torturing . She felt an eerie feeling of helplessness surround her everytime she encountered Lila . Adrien knowing about all this didn't help as he had also taken the high road.  Whenever she tried to show him the error in his judgement someone would always cut in and the fact that she had a crush on him and stuttered around him didn't help either .

Though Marinette still liked Adrien but  it wasn't as strong anymore . She wanted to let go of her feelings but feelings just don't dissappear overnight.  She was desperately trying to be just a friend . But her heart still beats a little faster whenever she talks to him . And he is also dating Kagami . The last thing Marinette wanted was to lose her friend . And with her hands now full as the guardian it was no use pining after someone who was already taken .

"A friendship has to be two sided . It can't be just one sided with you doing everything ." Tikki's words echoed through her mind while she knitted . An activity she does which calms her . Tikki had said that when trying to convince her to stop worrying about her friends when they had gracefully thrown her out of their friend group . Marinette had thought about it a lot and had slowly started to see why that statement made so much sense the moment she had heard it . Looking back at everything it made sense . 

Marinette sighed . Life just wouldn't go according to her, would it?

A/N
Word count : 2410( including this )
This is my first story . So please excuse my mistakes .  All the characters don't all actively hate Marinette.  They just don't talk to her often and ignore her most of the times . And alya and Marinette aren't very close anymore , but she doesn't hate her or anything. Lila has created a rift between them and slowly wants to ostracize her . And in no way am I making Adrien the bad guy here . He's too good for this world .

Healthy and constructive criticism is appreciated.