Hey guys this story was inspired by the song Rockabye. To be clear this is NOT inspired by its music video (I haven't seen it nor do I want to), but rather Miraculous Ladybug-Rockabye, a music video thing that I saw on YouTube. Highly recommend it.
So. Marinette is a single mom and is trying to take care of her daughter, but is struggling. And everything changes when she meets a young rich boy who needs help. I hope you enjoy!
Chapter One: Single Mom Going through frustration
"Wha…" Marinette said sleepily, feeling the morning sun on her face. "No… morning. Why morning? Boo morning." She sat up slowly and stretched. She yawned and climbed down the latter. She went over to her chaise lounge, and began to gently shake her little girl. "Manon, it's time to get up sweetie."
The little girl opened her eyes slowly. "Momma," Manon whined rolling over.
"Come on," Marinette said. Her daughter pulled her blanket over her head. 'Ugh, she takes after me too much!' Marinette thought with a laugh. Then she got an idea. "And up!" she grabbed her up out of bed, blanket and all. Her daughter squealed and giggled as her mom twirled around. She set her down. "Are you a wake now?"
"Yeah," she giggled.
"Come on, let's get you ready for school." Marinette went over to the wardrobe and got out some clothes, and handed them to Manon. Then got some clothes for herself. She got changed and then began to get breakfast. She poured cereal into a bowl. She went to pour some into her own bowl when she realized the box was empty. "Pff," she huffed throwing the box away. 'I'll just have some milk.' She went over to the fridge and got out the milk. She sighed seeing the almost empty fridge.
She poured the milk into the bowl and into two cups. She sat down with her daughter in front of the TV. While her daughter ate and watched cartoons, Marinette fixed her hair. "Momma?"
"Yes sweetheart?"
"Why don't you go to school?"
"Why do you want to know?" Marinette said hoping that she wouldn't have to answer. Hoping her daughter would get distracted or something. "Hey, look what that little singing purple thing is eating. Music notes!"
"You didn't answer my question," Manon said with a pouty face.
"Not the baby doll eyes! Fine, I'll tell you if you answer my question." Marinette sighed.
Manon shrugged. "Aunt Alya goes to school so does Nino, and all your other friends like Rose. You're the same age as them, so why don't you go?"
Marinette gave her daughter a small sad smile, "I'm busy looking for a job," Marinette was struggling to find one, it seemed no one wanted to hire a sixteen year old mom. "and I'm… afraid of something."
"Why are you afraid?" her daughter asked, confused.
"I'll tell you when you're older." Marinette begin to fix her own hair. She stared out the window and shuddered remembering the worst thing that had ever happened to her. Something that happened five years ago. There was a knock at the door. "Coming," Marinette called. She got up and went to the door. She peered through the peephole and saw her best friend Alya. She opened the door.
"Hey girl!" Alya smiled. Manon jumped up from where she had been buckling on her shoes and ran over to hug her. "Hey Miss Unicorn." Alya gave the little girl hug. She was one of Manon's favorite people, besides her mom. "I thought I'd walk with you guys to school."
"That sounds great," Marinette said. She slipped on her own shoes and got Manon's backpack.
They sat out from the apartment. They walked to the elementary school and dropped off Manon, "BYE MOMMY! BYE AUNT ALYA!" she yelled as she went into the school. They laughed and continued on their way.
"HEY!" yelled serval excited girls running over when they reached the high school. It was the "girl squad" aka Marinette's friends; Alix, Rose, Juleka, and Mylene.
"How have you and Manon been?" asked Rose.
"Good," said Marinette. It had been a month since she had last saw them, and it felt good to see all her smiling friends, well except Alix wasn't smiling. She gazed around anxiously, and looked really nervous. "You okay Alix?" It was odd seeing the tough skater girl looking so uncomfortable.
Alix jumped a little. "Yeah." Marinette wasn't convinced, but she didn't have time to think about it. The cruel voice of Chloe Bourgeois was right behind them.
"Well well well. If it isn't Mommy Marinette," she sneered, "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be at home looking after your mistake?" Marinette looked down blushing. She was angry though, she despised anyone who called her daughter a mistake. As if her life didn't matter. The way she was born should never have happened to any girl but her daughter was precious to her and she loved her very much.
"Leave her alone!" Mylene said coming to Marinette's defense.
"What will you do little Ms. Scaried Cat, be afraid of your own shadow?" Chloe and her friend Sabrina laughed. They wouldn't have been laughing if Ivan, her boyfriend, was here. Though he was a gentle giant, Chloe was afraid of him because he could get violent if pushed.
Chloe walked away laughing cruelly. Alix, losing her anxious look, glared at Chloe. "Why I ought to pound her." She start to skate towards her. Marinette put her hand on her shoulder and said it wasn't worth it. Marinette looked down and noticed Alix's old forest green skates that had been fixed up more times than Alix could count, were replaced with brand new black, green, and pink roller blades.
"Nice skates!" Marinette said trying to distract her from the bully.
"Um… thanks! My, uh, dad got them for me, because my last pair finally broke beyond repair." Alix said with a quick look left.
"Cool, I better be going home," said Marinette, giving the girls a quick hug before they went to school. Marinette sighed and stared longingly at the school. Just then a small limo pulled up. A young teenage boy with blond hair and green eyes stepped out of it. He walked over to Marinette.
"Excuse me," he asked, "is this Collége Françoise Dupont?"
Marinette became very shy and looked at her shoes. "Yeah."
"Thanks," he said smiling. Marinette gave him a small smile in return and began to walk off. "Aren't you coming in?"
"Uh… no." Marinette began to walk faster.
"Why not? Don't you go to school here?" He asked confused.
"I used to." She quickly walked off and headed home. She stopped by the store to get some groceries, she was rather upset when just buying some milk, bread, cheese, and cereal left her with only 20 euros. When she got back to her apartment building the landlords wife in the lobby.
"Hey I've been looking for you. Your rents due."
Marinette sighed. "How much is it?" The woman looked at the bill and made a face. She handed it to Marinette. Her jaw went slack as she saw 100 euros. "I can't pay this! Only have 20!"
"I'm sorry Marinette, that's the lowest rent here. We lowered it recently when we found out you had no job, but that's as low as we can go and still make a profit." Marinette gave a panicked pleading look. "Give me the twenty, and just pay us the rest when you get a job," she sighed.
"Thank you," Marinette sighed.
"Your welcome, just make sure and give that baby of yours a hug for me okay?"
"Okay," Marinette laughed. She went up to her apartment and got out the newspaper. She flipped to the job advertisements. She looked over them. There was one for a waitress, but the hours were too long. There was a job for a worker at a pet store, but only 18 and up could apply. There was one for assistant manager at Le Grand Paris Hotel, but you had to have a high school degree. The only jobs she could do were do was a factory work, but for that one they'd have to move and she couldn't afford that and personal assistant to the Bourgeois family, that payed less than minimal wage, and she had too much integrity to run errands and do simple task for her childhood bully. Marinette huffed and threw paper. She face planted into the table. "Uggghh!" she moaned. She need to get some money. 'Maybe I could barrow some money from Alya's parents. No. Marinette, you've got to stop taking handouts. You've said yourself, YOU need to be able to take care of your kid.' She was too stubborn to except anymore help.
While all this was happening, the school was welcoming a new a student. "Class we have new student today," Ms. Bustier said after getting her class's attention, "Please welcome Adrien Agreste. He's-"
"ADRIENKINS!" squealed Chloe running up and hugging his arm. "You didn't tell me you were coming to school today," she said with slight pout.
"Uh, hi Chloe," he said with a small uncomfortable smile looking slightly embarrassed.
"Ms. Bourgeois, please sit down," the teacher said with the slightest hint of annoyance. "As I was saying, Adrien has been home schooled all of his life, so I want you guys to make him feel extra welcome. Adrien I want you to sit by… Nino." She pointed over at the front seat, where Nino sat. Chloe glared at Nino as Adrien took a seat by him.
"Dude, how do you know Chloe?" Nino asked.
"She's been my friend since we were little."
"I feel so sorry for you." Adrien laughed until he release he wasn't joking.
"She's actually a really great friend." Nino looked at him as if he didn't believe him, but they couldn't continue their conversation because class was starting. Class went by smoothly, but Adrien couldn't help but notice that one girl seemed a little odd. She seemed extremely distracted and nervous. Class was soon over and it was time for lunch. Adrien was heading out, but then he thought he saw something strange. He saw a blonde girl going into a room with a large sign that read; TEACHERS ONLY No Students Allowed. No Exceptions!
Adrien was confused. Did she not read the sign or something? Or was she just ignoring it? He decided to investigate. He was just about to open the door when he felt someone linking arms with him and pulling him away. "You can't go in there, didn't you read the sign?" said a brown haired girl in a sweet voice. Adrien was just about to ask who she was but she seemed to already know that was what he was going to ask. "I'm Lila Rossi. You're new here right?" Adrien nodded. "Well, let the last new student help you out. No students are allowed in there."
"But I just saw someone go in there."
She laughed. "Everyone knows that place is off limits, it must of been your imagination. Look, any kid that gets caught going in there gets detention for a week, and a ragazzo carino like yourself doesn't want that, do you?"
"No, but-" Adrien decided not to press the subject. "Thanks."
She gave a small giggle. "Don't mention it." With that she took off, at a slightly suspicious rate. Adrien ignored it though and was on his way out again when he was pacing the door again. He jumped slightly when he heard voices coming from inside. Something was definitely up. He went over and tried the door. It was locked, and the room was silent.
'This is going to take some investigating, and I'm gonna need some help.' Adrien, now with a plan in his mind, he went home for lunch.
Alya was just coming back from lunch and was talking to Alix. "I don't get why you're so jumpy today," Alya said with a shake of her head. "Are you feeling okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine," Alix said with a dismissive wave and a shrug. "It's just nerves I guess. I forgot to study for that test in Ms. Mendeleiev's."
"Oooh!" laughed Alya, "Well you better go study. Class starts in 10 minutes." With that Alix took off. Alya noticed that Nino was talking to the new boy, Adrien. Adrien seemed to be thanking him for something. He was heading over here.
"Hi! Nino tells me that you're a pretty good detective and I was wondering if you would help. You see, I have a mystery on hands, and I need someone who knows more about the place I do. Would you please help?"
"I don't know…" said Alya.
"Oh come on. I'll pay you."
Alya perked up hearing that. "I think I know someone who'll help you."
Okay guys, I've been working really hard on this and I've been really looking forward to this. Real quick I wanted to tell you two things. 1: Her apartment looks like her room, plus a TV, fridge, microwave, and table. And 2: She is not Marinette Dupain-Cheng. MIL (more info later). It's Marinette Lee. Okay BYE!
Oh! And it's rated T because I have to follow the rating rules. But I promise it has no dirty language or dirty scenes. Trip to China is rated T and I'd read it to my little cousin whose 7 (And I might read this to her if she was 8). So don't judge it as PG13 or up okay. Have a great day.