Marinette glanced back at the mirror on her wall, aware that it wouldn't help.

Dear class 1b,

I'm sorry to say that it's time for me to go.

I don't know if you still remember who I was before you changed,

The class had changed since time passed... they'd gotten cruel.

While they were demanding before, they weren't mean, and they were oblivious..

Now..

Both statements are false.

And I sure as hell have changed since that first few months of realities paradise,

Not anything like you want me to be.

Marinette knows the pains and truths of the years will never fade.. no matter how much she wishes they would.

I remember the girl I was, I know the people we were, I know that the sweet girl you always wanted to be your friend, wasn't entirely real.

Marinette remembers the softness and the imperfect kindness of the start of it all,

I was always your "sure" friend, wasn't I?

The one you could count on to be alright?

Well I wasn't, I wasn't alright.

Marinette knew her standards for herself were impossibly high, but she didn't care.

It was my fault, I should've gone for help.

But I didn't.

I should've known it was me changing, not you.

Perhaps the akumas were to much?

Marinette had been impacted majorly, the Akumas had changed her from the sweetest girl to a harder soul,

And although you were great friends, there really isn't a way to cure loneliness is there?

Marinette tilted her head up, as so that her tears would not mix with the ink on the page, so that they would not soften the sentiment.

With everything, and the Akumas, and being Ladybug.. sometimes it got to be to much for me. Doing a thankless job you never asked for? Is a lot. I know that life has a way of slipping in when you aren't paying attention, has a way of Che aging things, people.

Of course Marinette is a different person because of the Akumas, the trauma changed her, however much she wishes it didn't.

She doesn't know who she'd be without it.

When we started this year, I was having a blast, enjoying myself, and your friendship. Where did I go wrong? You hate me now, so don't tell me I didn't.

As much as she hates to admit it, Marinette would trade everything that had happened this year for a chance to re do it.

Im sorry it didn't go the way we wanted it to. I wish we had the chance to start this all over again.

Marinette pulled the squad photo from the early days off the wall.

She remembered being that happy.

If only she could have that again.

Although it was never your fault, I learned to exist through the pain, never knowing that just because I could keep going doesn't mean I should've.

Marinette knows that her crush will never love her the way she loved him once.. the way she desperately clings into holding on to what remains of her love for him.

The strength of the day will never be changed. Always remember to fight for who you want to be, not for who your forced to be.

To bring back passion she once held, Marinette knew she had to leave.

So she was.

Marinette closed the door lightly behind her, locking it.

It's time for me to say goodbye, to all of you lovely people.

Perhaps someday our paths will cross again.

With all of my love,

~Marinette