She could play with others yet never interact with them. She could laugh but never have an expression. Tears as beautiful as pearls could fall like a waterfall down her cheeks but no one could see.

She was Marinette.

She couldn't be real. Yet she was. She hadn't been real before yet somehow she was now as mortal as you or I.

Before the incident that made her 'real' Marinette had been an imaginary friend. There are many imaginary friends, but the only one that Marinette has ever seen other than herself had been cold and distant, never trying to associate herself with her.

You see, when a child is very young and lonely it pretends that it has a friend. The child will then 'play' with that friend, talk to it, and maybe even pretend that it is eating with it. Soon, that friend gets a name and maybe even a personality, if the child had a big enough imagination.

But there is a little bit of magic woven into the connection between the child and its friend. You see, magic is not something that someone can do or summon, it is a part of nature just like everything else. It is the part of nature that cannot be explained.

And so, that imaginary friend becomes real in a sense. It becomes real to one person, it's creator. The child.

The imaginary friend has a mind. It can think, feel, and touch. But only a few people can see it. The child that it is friends with, and a few humans born with a gift.

But the problem is that as the child gets older the more people tell it that there is no friend. That their friend is only in their head.

And so, by the time the child has grown up it's friend is no more. For when you don't believe that it is real, the imaginary friend becomes just what you believe it is: imaginary. It fades away from existence.

That was Mother Nature's rule. That was the way of the world. Until one imaginary friend broke the chain and became real. For good.

Marinette.

Hello dear readers! Before you jump into this story be warned. This is a few years old and I just remembered that it existed so I thought that I would let people read it before I completely rewrite this thing. Just kidding, I'm just gonna do TONS of editing. I was pretty young when I wrote this so please read with an open mind. Thanks!