Ashes of Rage: Act 1 - Change is Painful, As is Growth
Chapter 7 of the story for: @miner249er
Summary: Two individuals are faced with change and though it scares them, they are both ready to face it...for Marinette.
Notes: Sorry for the wait! I got a promotion at work and have been training! I hope you guys enjoy this chapter. :)
Change is Painful, As is Growth:
Everything had changed and Chloe was someone who hated change. Change scared her. She was five when the relationship between her mother and her father changed, next thing she knew, her mother had moved to New York and only came back to Paris when she deemed it worthwhile. She was seven when her dad changed, he was still affectionate with her, but he had become very paranoid about her safety and future. They had, by no means, been in need of money, what with the hotel and her father being mayor, but he seemed to believe they needed more. Chloe had never complained because she got anything and everything she wanted, but with her dad focusing more on the hotel and his work as mayor, he started spending less and less time with her. She was nine when she first got in trouble for bullying another student, it had been Marinette and Chloe had acted out of anger when she saw the girl and her parents when they got dropped off. She saw how Dupain-Cheng’s parents smiled at her, hugged her, kissed her, and walked off with their hands held together like some cheesy rom-com couple. It had made her heart hurt and she felt the indescribable urge to make the girl hurt. That was the day her father finally seemed involved in her life.
She was ten when she changed. If being bad is what caused her father to pay more attention to her then she decided she would be the worst she had ever been. At first she had felt bad for her behavior, but the more she didn’t get in trouble for it, the less bad she felt for her actions. There was still a small part of her that knew that what she was doing was wrong but she just did worse things in response to that small part. Every time her mother visited them, Chloe made sure to be her worst because she knew if she did, her mother had a higher chance of remembering her name. The first time her mother called her Clementine, her heart broke. It took Jean-Claude two days to cheer her up and convince her to come out of her room. Her dad hadn’t even noticed. In response to this she changed more, she decided she had to be every synonym of ‘bad’.