MARINETTE

"Mama..."

I find myself in a graveyard with tombstones all around me and I turn my head to see my son calling me.

"Thomas!" I happily shout out loud as I run to him. I kneel down as I hug him and he hugs me back.

"She's waiting, mama."

I look at him and he starts giggling as he strokes my hair.

"Mama, let's go already. Let's go see her now!" Thomas starts to pull me up and he drags me to follow him as we run farther in the graveyard and we reach to a big headstone that has the shape of a cross.

I stare at it, knowing that this cross is all too familiar for me.

"She's alive, tommy?" I ask my son and I see him running around the cross looking for someone. He suddenly starts to jump excitedly and looks at me.

"Mama, come here! She's here," he says excitedly and he starts to pull someone who is hiding behind the cross.

I go nearer to the cross and Tommy starts to talk again, "She is just shy, mama, but you really need to see her!"

Then that is when I see a little girl standing beside Tommy. She is using her black hair to cover her face and she was looking down. I approach her and she sensed my presence since she started to move back.

"Hey it's okay," I say as I approach her again, "I just want to know your name."

The little girl looks up at me and once I see her face clearly, my eyes start to widen and I could not believe who I am seeing right now. She looks just like me.

"My name's Emma." She said with a smile and I couldn't believe what I was hearing.

"W-what?"

"I'm Emma."

The ground then starts to shake violently and I see the the both of them struggle to keep on standing up. I see a hole opening below Tommy and I run towards him until he gets swallowed by the hole and I only hear his cries for help.

"Tommy!! Thomas!!" I cry as I try to open up the ground that took him. Then I see Emma crying and suddenly she falls down then she starts to be dragged by vines from a tree and I immediately run to her.

"Emma!" I cry out as I run after her, but she was too fast. The vines brought her up to a tree and the branches started to shake vigorously.

"Mama!!"

"Emma!!"

"EMMA!"

I wake up from the dream or nightmare I had and I couldn't calm myself down. I was shaking and breathing heavily. I find myself covered in sweat and I was feeling hot. I stand up from my bed and I get my watch to check the time. It's now 10 in the morning and today is the first day of the art exhibit.

"Oh God, what's wrong with myself?" I whisper, still thinking about the nightmare I had. Both of them were there...that was the first dream I ever had with the both of them present at the same time.

I hear someone knocking on my door and I stand to unlock it. As I open the door, I see Alya leaning on the wall looking mad and I just roll my eyes at her.

"Uh, excuse me!" She scoffs, feeling offended at what I did to her.

"Good morning to you too." I blankly say.

"Do you know that you are wasting a lot of time right now? I mean like we have to prepare for the event tonight! Do you even have something to wear for tonight?" She scolds me, as usual, and I am just there listening to her rant about everything.

"I don't know..." I say and I walk out of my room and I go straight to the kitchen.

"What do you mean, you don't know?" Alya asks as she follows me to the kitchen. "Girl, you don't know how much time it took me just to get free tickets from Nino because every time Nino would ask Adrien for free ones, Adrien wouldn't be sober! Yes, you heard me! Adrien gets drunk nowadays already! Now what can you say about that, huh?" She questions me and I just sit on the counter thinking about what she said.

Adrien drinks nowadays...why should I worry about that? I'm not anymore his wife. Our son is dead so I have no evidence that proves that the both of us used to be together.

Our son...

I saw him in my dream last night, and I also saw the little girl...

My little girl...

"I don't care."

"What?" Alya says, dumbfounded. "Mari, what the hell is wrong with you right now? You always care about other people, and even though he is your ex-husband, I know that you are still curious about his whereabouts and what he does..."

I don't speak, neither of us choose to speak. Then suddenly, Alya goes near me and she starts talking.

"Maybe we shouldn't go..."

"What?" I question her because of what she just said out of the blue.

"You're not acting like yourself right now and I know that it is because of the art exhibit. I mean, who wouldn't feel sad when they see their past lover? Marinette, the both of you were married and you had memories together. The both of you had intimate moments together and you even had a son..." Alya looked sad, guilty even.

"I'm not sad about that, Alya. Well, I'm not sad about that at the moment...I had a dream, Alya." She started to rub my back soothingly and I continue, "The both of them were there...Thomas and..."

"And who, Marinette?"

"Emma..."

She gasps and I rub my head, trying to calm myself.

"It was the first time ever I saw the two of them together..."

"When did these dreams start again? I remember you telling me about these dreams but I don't remember you feeling stressed because of them."

I couldn't hold it any longer. I burst out crying and I immediately start to hug Alya as I lean my head on her shoulder. I cry out all of what I was feeling for these past few days and what I felt when I was in the dream.

"I couldn't save them, Alya!! I saw them die right in front of my very own eyes and I couldn't do anything but to watch them die!! I don't deserve them! I don't deserve to be a mother!" I cry out and Alya starts to rub my back soothingly.

After a while, I stopped crying. I started to calm down and Alya sensed that I was somewhat okay already. She lets go of our hug and she holds me in place.

"Marinette, listen." She instructs, "The both of them would not want to see you in this kind of state and you also know that too. I want you to be strong for them. I want you to show them that you are truly their mother. Do you understand?"

I nod my head as I wipe my tears away and I get the tissue that Alya offered to me.

"Now," She continues, "Do you have something to wear for tonight?"

"Of course. I am an aspiring fashion designer, aren't I?" I reply and I start to get up and head back to my room when Alya calls out to me.

"Marinette!"

"What?" I look at her and she looked serious.

"Do you have any plans of telling Adrien about Emma?" She asks and I immediately shake my head.

"He doesn't deserve to know anything about her."

------------------------

Alya and I enter the building and we see famous people walking around wearing attires that looked like they cost more than my entire life savings. Alya and I are wearing gowns and we both have a bonnet on our heads. I know that we look so weird because of our bonnets, but we have no choice. Alya said that I have to hide my hair so that Adrien wouldn't recognize me. I guess that I am the only woman in Paris that has black hair with blue highlights on it.

I see a waiter passing my way carrying a tray with glasses full of champagne and I immediately grab one glass. I drink all of the champagne in one gulp and Alya slaps my head when I finished.

"Hey! Are you in a race or something? You should not drink everything at once! Did you forget, Marinette, that we have to blend in with the people here?"

"Sorry, sorry." I apologize, "I'm just...nervous right now." I start to fix my posture and I put both of my hands together. "Now do I look fancy enough for you?" I ask Alya.

"Meh." She says, boringly.

"Hey! That's so mean of you!" I 'gently' slap her arm and I start walking away from her.

"Where are you going?" she asks me from behind.

"I'm going to look around the place. I'll see you later!" I wave at her and I start to go farther from her.

The art exhibit is big. I can't believe that Adrien has kept these paintings and sculptures for many years. I pass by some paintings that are familiar to me. I remember Adrien working on those paintings and now the result looks phenomenal. I pass by the sculpted Anime heads and there are more than 50 of them. All of them are in one line so if you make one of them fall, the rest will follow. I hate to say this, but, I'm impressed with what he has done. But something else is bothering me right now.

After all these years, why is he only doing this now?

I walk through every gallery and I stop when I overhear a conversation between two ladies.

"When is he coming?" One asks.

"We have to be patient, and when he arrives, that is when we approach him." The other one answers.

"I can't believe that he is still single! I would do anything to bring him to bed!" One of them says and after that, I immediately turn to the opposite direction and I walk farther from them.

Oh gosh, they just want to sleep with him and I am disgusted by that idea...even if I had slept with him before...

I shake my head trying to erase my thought at the moment. I shouldn't think about my past with him. I should look towards the future.

I see a portrait of Adrien and I go near the painting. Adrien still looks so handsome even if it is just a painting. I blush just thinking about his face and the way he smiles. Oh no, I feel like a teenager again.

I walk some more and I reach a hallway with only a few people walking around. I see that this is end of the whole exhibit since the line of Anime heads ends here. I look through all the paintings until I reach the last one at the very end. It's an abstract painting and I see different shapes and colors.

"What is this painting all about?" I question myself and I examine its details again until I find something that's related to the painting. I see a head and I know that if there is a head, then it is connected to a body.

I examine it some more and I see a person, a man specifically with blonde hair.

Adrien?

I look at the bottom of the painting and I see 2 letters at the bottom right. They are initials of a person.

"M and A..." I say the initials out loud and then something clicks in my mind.

"Oh my God, it can't be..." I gasp as I start to move back. I need to see the painting as a whole and once I reach the right position, I couldn't move. I couldn't hear anything, I didn't mind the people around me. It was like as if I was the only person in this building with this painting right in front of me.

"Oh my God, Adrien. What did you do?" I whisper as I look at the painting of my family.

I see Adrien at the left side of the painting and then there's me at the right and I am holding our son.

Our son. Adrien painted our son. Adrien kept this painting from me.

I move back from the painting some more so that I can see it clearly until I hit something really hard and I hear a crash and another crash and another one.

I turn my body to see what I hit and I saw the line of Anime heads falling down like dominoes.

Oh shit!

I hear people screaming and I immediately run to the front, hoping that I can stop the heads from falling. Unfortunately, my heels decided to not work with me today so the falling heads are faster than my running.

I was just in time to catch the first Anime head in line from falling, and now I am on the floor breathing heavily, clearly exhausted from my run a while ago. I look down at the floor holding the Anime head.

Oh shit, Marinette! You just saved one head! You are so going to die!

I hear people whispering and I dare not to look up until I feel someone standing right in front of me.

"How in the world did this happen?!" The person shouts at me. I gasp once I hear the voice. I know the owner of that voice.

"Excuse me, miss, but I need to see the face of the person who decided to interfere with my artwork!" He says angrily and he grabs my bonnet and yanks it off of head. Now my hair flows from hiding under the bonnet and I immediately look up at the man in front of me. I see the face of the man change from anger to a face full of shock. He gasps as he sees me and I am sure that my face is showing a lot of shock too.

"Adrien?"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hey! I think that I didn't do well in this chapter and I feel disappointed :( But anyway, thank you for all of your support and it makes me happy everyday :) thank you so much!! I might take some time in writing the next chapter :) I want to focus first on my Jelsa book ;)

Vote?
Comment?
Thanks guys :*