Adrien needed to get back to reality, because right now, all he was doing was thinking of every possible thing that could be wrong. Did Lila find out that he told Alya about everything? But he finally forced his lips to form some sentences that people could actually understand. "Is she okay?!" 

For the past two minutes and thirty seven seconds, all Alya has been doing is watching Adrien pace around the room, mumbling some incoherent words to himself. So when he finally decided to say or rather yell something at her, she almost fell out of the chair she was sitting in, taking in the smell of Adrien's weirdly clean floors.

"I don't know, she only said to come over there." 

"I'm coming with you." Adrien knew that Marinette didn't really like him at that moment and that he shouldn't be there, but right now, he didn't care about that. All he cared about was seeing his lady okay.

Alya hesitated, but nodded none the less. "Okay fine, but let's get going." Alya grabbed her bag and they ran out of Adrien's house with the route of the hospital in their mind.

---With Marinette---

Alya and Adrien were running through the hospital after they got permission. They were in the hall dodging cursing patients, and running into doctors.  They got to her room to see her holding a mirror. She looked their way and frowned upon seeing Adrien. "What's he doing here?"

Adrien sighed, at least she was alright. "You are right, I shouldn't be here, I'll go."

"Adrien."

"It's alright Alya, she's right. I'll talk to you later, about the project." Adrien said trying to keep his cool, he hated lying to her, but he didn't have a choice if he wanted to keep her safe. 

"Were you with him?" Marinette asked after Adrien left her room.

"Yeah, I was trying to get the reason why he broke up with you." She stopped talking after that and there was silence for a while. Marinette broke that silence though, because it was getting awkward. "And?..."

"Oh, no luck, but that's not important, what is the emergency?"

Marinette had kinda forgotten why she had invited Alya over until that moment, but that didn't really matter anymore now did it? She moved her hair out of the way so Alya could see a scar on her neck. Her eyes widened. 

"Do you know what this is?" Alya shook her head instantly, it was pretty clear to Marinette that she was lying but she let her keep talking anyway. "It looks like it's just a scar." 

"But I have never seen it before now." Marinette was getting more and more worried with each second that was passing by. "Well, you could have gotten it when you fell."

"From where." Marinette never told Alya that she fell from the Eiffel Tower, mostly because she would have a cow.  But she has a feeling that she already know.

"From the top floor of the Eiffel Tower." And that confirmed her suspicions, Alya knew why she was in the hospital, but there were still a few questions in her head. Who told her? Though she thinks she already knew who told her. 

"Let me guess, Adrien told you?"

Alya cringed. "Yes."

"How much did he tell you?"

"I know that he's Cat Noir, and the whole Lila situation."

Why would he tell her that? Man, when you are in the hospital you miss a lot of stuff. "Why did he tell you?"

"I saw him and Lila, and I demanded and explanation."

Lila? What did she have to do with this? Every answer she got from her, it just raised even more. "What was he doing with Lila?"

"You don't know?" Okay, now she was officially curious.

"Know what? Alya what is going on?!" She shouted, making Alya almost cover her mouth to keep her quiet, she was being too loud.

"I, um..." She sighed, "Adrien should really be the one to tell you." Marinette's jaw dropped into her lap and she looked at Alya like an alien just popped out of her body and started eating her face off. (A/N That was oddly specific)  

"Alya, he dumped me. I don't want to talk to him." She crossed her arms and looked in another direction. Alya rolled her eyes and Marinette thought she heard her say something like 'you don't even know the whole story.' but she just blamed it on her concussion.

"If you want to know then you are going to have to." Marinette looked back at Alya and sighed. She knew she was right, it's not like she didn't want to talk to him. She still loved him and  that was a fact, but she was afraid she would brake down into tears if she so much as looked at him. 

She groaned, "Fine." 

When she turned around, she saw Adrien being dragged into her room by Alya. She looked at Alya, but she only waved and walked out of the room, closing the door as she left.

Marinette looked back at Adrien, who was only looking down. Why did he look so... guilty? "Why am I here?" Adrien said in such a weak voice that Marinette just wanted to hug the life out of him.

"What's going on between you and Lila?" That question made him as stiff as a board. He looked up at her, but he just didn't look her in the eye. He didn't feel like he was aloud to. He felt ashamed. "How much did Alya tell you?" 

"She knows who you are, and she saw you with Lila outside of my room." 

He looked back down at the floor, "Okay? So, what do you want to know?"

"Well, one, what is going one between you and Lila?" She heard him scoff and she was almost ninety five percent sure she heard him murmur, 'where do I even begin'... Okay, eighty five percent sure.

"Nothing." She didn't believe a word he said.

"What happened to us?" She said with a shaky voice, she could feel the lump in her throat rising. She would not cry in front of him, not again. She had already cried by herself after Adrien left for hours, she had done enough of the, she needed to be strong. Not just to Adrien, but to herself.

"Nothing, I love you, I really do, but I just can't risk hurting." This conversation was really starting to confuse her. Hurt her, why would he be worried about hurting her? "What are you talking about?"

Adrien pointed to his neck, "The scar on your neck, it is a mark from when..." Why did he stop talking?

"What?" If he knew the reason, he needed to tell her right now.

"...From when you fell off the Eiffel Tower."  She didn't believe that one bit. Why was everyone saying that to her? "I love you, but I can't be with you. I'm sorry,  can we still be friends?"

She hesitated, "Adrien, I'm not sure I am there yet, We'll see." 

"No, I get it." 

---Time Skip to the Next day at School---

Adrien was walking up the stairs with Nino, talking about him unlocking new characters in Ultimate Mega Strike three, When he heard a crying voice behind him. 

"Are you cheating on me?!" Lila screamed, causing everyone to stare at her weirdly. Adrien turned around and groaned at the sight, but one look at everyone around them got him to calm down.

"Lila, you need to keep your voice down, people are staring." He knew Lila wouldn't listen to something like that, she loved the attention. She smacked his hand away and covered her eyes. He saw tears coming through her fingers. Not only was she an amazing  liar, she was a pretty great actress too. "I can't believe you would do this to me Adrien. I thought you loved me." He grabbed he hand from her face and dragged her somewhere private.

Once he shut the doors to the locker room and made sure nobody was around to hear them before turning back to Lila who was just giving him a blank look. "What do you think you are doing? 

Lila just ignored his question and asked one of her own, with a hint of threat in her voice. "What were you doing with Marinette yesterday?" 

...How did she even know about that?! How has his life become like this? He hated it and loved it at the same. It gives him that rush of adrenaline that he desperately needs, but he also has to worry about things like this happening. 

"What, now you're following my every move?" She glared at him and he looked down. "Adrien, answer me." She was getting angry with him. She thought about taking out the detonator, but she knew that wouldn't work forever, so she just waited for him to answer. And she is a very impatient person. "She was asking where the scar on her neck came from." 

Lila squinted her eyes, "And what did you tell her?" She said in a low voice as she started to walk closer to him, which he stepped back to. "Chill, I just told her she got it when she fell."

"Are you lying to me?" 

He rolled his eyes, "No, that's usually your job."

That pushed her over the edge, she was getting really tired of this and just wanted to end it all together, it would get Marinette out of the way, and Adrien all to herself. "I forbid you to see her." She said through clenched teeth.

"You forbid me, what is this the 1900's?" 

"Don't forget who was the power in this situation Adrien."

He sighed, "Whatever you say Lila."

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That was the longest chapter I have ever written. I am so proud of myself. 

1,607 words (Not counting this)

Next Update: 8/7/2020