❛ ▌┊𝐑𝐄𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑 : marinette ( @yinbug ) .
❝ Excusez-moi? Did you have a traumatic brain injury in the last few days or did I just hear correctly that you lied to Adrien about his father?! ❞
𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐀𝐘 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐂𝐇𝐋𝐎𝐄́ 𝐈𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐑𝐘 𝐖𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐁𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐘. She can feel her old self returning — nasty, venomous words on the tip of her tongue — threatening to return Chloé to ground zero in her redemption progress.
❝ What were you thinking, Marinette?! ❞
It takes tremendous effort not to immediately revert to calling Marinette by the old, crude moniker of 'Marinella' in her ire, but she is just so ridiculously upset. At Marinette for lying to him. At Kagami for her complicit silence. At Hawk— M. Agreste—for starting it all. Even Nathalie knows the truth. They may be okay to keep Adrien in the dark, but Chloé can't. She won't.
❝ You have to tell him. He deserves to know the truth! ❞