Save Me From Myself

Embarrassment

Adrien woke up with the sun shining through the giant windows in his room and his small fluffy white kitten, Charm, nudging his arm.

"Plagg, wake up." Adrien said with a yawn, rubbing his eyes.

"Five more hours." Plagg yawned and snuggled closer to his cheese.

"Charm's a better alarm clock than you and my alarm." Adrien said with a chuckle. He stroked Charm's fur as he walked past her to the bathroom. Charm jumped onto her cat tree house thing which was huge, multiple climbing shelves, hiding spots, and scratching post. Not to mention a litter box that changes itself. But it basically was a cat mansion.

Adrien did his daily routine then went to school. He walked into class and was surprised to see Marinette there so early, well she was asleep but still. Alya walked to the room looking at her phone, not paying attention. She bumped into Adrien in the doorway and fell back.

"Oh, sorry Alya." Adrien said helping her up.

"No prob. I wasn't paying attention, the LadyBlog is blowing up." Alya said walking around him. She looked up from her phone for a second to see her sleeping friend.

'Ten minutes till class, I'll let her sleep a little longer.' Alya thought. Then Chloe walked in. (The bitch came back, the very next day, oh the bitch came back, thought she was a goner, oh the bitch came back, she couldn't stay away, oh no look the bitch is back🎶!)

"Ew, drooly over their looks like a corpse. Someone wake her up." Chloe gagged.

"Leave her alone!" Alya snapped coldly a little too loudly. Marinette's eyes fluttered open and she looked around the classroom.

"Oh. I forgot I was already here." She mumbled.

"Ugly, fat, and an idiot. What a great combination." Chloe laughed. Marinette rolled her eyes.

"Hey, Marinette." Adrien said with a warm smile. Marinette gave a small wave.

"You ready for the presentation?" He asked. She went pale and her eyes widened. She forgot all about that.

"The essay parts in my locker!" Marinette gasped jumping out of her seat. In a flash she was out the door. Adrien looked back at Alya and they both shrugged.

'Gotta get the paper, gotta get the paper, gotta get the paper.' Marinette repeated in her mind, running down the hall. She stopped at the lockers as she saw someone at her locker.

"Snow?"

"Oh, Marinette. I was a- just a - cleaning your locker off..." Snow said holding up a bunch of sticky notes and torn off silly string in her hand with a sad smile.

"Oh, thank you." Marinette thanked.

"No problem. Want to walk to class together?" She asked.

"Sure. I just got to get my part of the project out of my locker." Marinette opened her locker and started rummaging through it. Thinking she grabbed her paper, she pulled it out only to see a picture of Adrien.

"You love him, don't you?" Snow asked looking over her shoulder.

"Uh...n-no. Why would you say that?" Marinette stuttered.

"Because you're holding a picture of Adrien with a heart on it? Look, Marinette, you don't need to be ashamed that you love someone. I was in love once too." Snow smiled.

"Who was he?" Marinette asked curious.

"Doesn't matter." Snow sighed

"Thanks, Snow."

"No problem. We should get to class though so let's get that paper and go."

Marinette found the paper and walked to class with Snow making small talk.

Madame Bustier came into the room and announced, "You all have ten minutes to make any final touches to your projects and then we will start presenting."

Alya sighed in relief because she didn't finish the poster completely, but ten minutes was enough for her to complete it.

"Two more minutes." Mme. Bustier informed. The group of five passed the report part around to put their names on it. When Snow was done writing her name on the paper she passed it back to Nino.

"Dudette, you forgot to put you last name. What is it, I'll write for you." Nino said holding his pen ready to write. Snow's eyes widened slightly and eyed her project partners with panic.

"Oh uh," Snow tried to think of a last name she could remember. If she revealed what her last name was, her cover would be blown. The perfect fake last name came to her. "Blanc."

Nino blinked a few times. "So wait, your name is literally Snow White?" Nino asked.

"Yep. That's my name. Write it down, don't wear it out." Snow said with a nervous laugh. Nino wrote it down and passed the papers to Marinette and she stapled them.

"Times up. Group one, you may go first." Ms. Bustier stated. Chloe and the people that actually did the project presented and then group two went up. Finally, group three went up which was Marinette, Alya, Adrien, Nino, and Snow. Marinette put on a smile for her classmates. Everyone fell for the mask.

They were doing good presenting until Chloe spoke up.

"Marinette, actually help them. I hate to see Adrien and his friends doing all the work." Chloe said like she cared.

"Ms. Bourgeois, please be respectful." Ms. Bustier said strictly.

"You're right. I wouldn't want to embarrass her in front of her crush who she is overly obsessed with." Chloe said with a smirk sarcastically. Marinette's eyes widened. 'No. No, no, no! Don't!' Marinette thought pleadingly.

"Chloe, stop." Alya demanded.

"Why should I? I think Adrien should know. Oops." Chloe laughed as she really embarrassed the girl. Adrien looked at the blunette who had tears about to fall down her pale face. He was flattered. She a great girl who cared about everyone around her.

Marinette ran out of the room in the blink of an eye, sobbing.

"Chloe, go to the principal's office." Ms. Bustier barked. Adrien realized how upset she looked and what she might do. He ran out of the room after her before Chloe even stood up to go to the Principal's office.

Marinette finally made it to her hiding spot behind the school. She hid her face in her knees sobbing. She peeked at the broken shard of glass beside her and picked it up with a shaking hand.

She rolled up her sleeve and and sliced the skin on her wrist. The sound of footsteps made her drop the glass and roll down her sleeve. She looked up to see just as Adrien round the corner of the school. There eyes locked on each other for a second, green on bluebell. She looked down at her feet and hoped he would go away. Yeah, he didn't. He walked up to her and sat right beside her.

"Are you okay?" He said after a few uncomfortable seconds of awkward silence.

"I'm fi—" Marinette couldn't even finish her sentence before she choked on tears.

"Chloe was a real jerk back there." He said.

"And she didn't have the right to say that. You should have said it when you wanted to." He continued.

"Y-You probably think I'm a freak." Marinette mumbled, wiping away tears.

"No, I don't. You're a great girl, Marinette, and have always been a great friend. So how about we go to the movie's together, tomorrow after school?" Adrien asked with a charming smile. Marinette was shocked.

"Oh-eh-uh, sure." She stammered. But she was honestly trying not to pass out.

"Great! Come on, let's get back to class." He said standing up. He held his hand out to help her up and she accepted. They walked back to class together and sat in their seats, seeing Chloe wasn't there.

Alya tapped her friend's shoulder, getting her attention.

"We got an A. And, Ms. Bustier gave us extra points for Chloe's outburst." Alya informed trying to cheer her up. Marinette smiled at her friend, a real smile.