Marinette pulled her flute out of her case as the rest of the band members began to warm up around her. As she warmed up her flute, she couldn't help allowing her mind to drift towards Friday. The day the entire band class would get to play in the competition known as Music in the Parks, and her school was hosting it that year. She missed a note in her warm up, receiving an ugly look from her rival, Chloe, who played Clarinet beside her. Marinette just rolled her eyes and turned her attention towards the band director, Mr. Plagg, or Plagg as he prefered. He had just put his hand up which meant stop playing.

"I have an announcement." Plagg started. "This year, we're hosting the Music in the Parks competition in our school auditorium. We will, of course, have two judges and six schools competing. The schools competing are as follows: The International School of Paris, The Victor Hugo School, Lycée Janson de Sailly, Saint Michel De Picpus, and Collège Saint-Blaise."

At the sound of the school rival, the class groaned. College Saint-Blaise had been the school rival since forever, they've always competed. Sports, drama, etc. But it's all good fun, that's what Marinette believed anyway.

"And, our school, College Francoise Dupont. Alright, now enough announcements, " Plagg said as he opened his music book to their songs and got ready to conduct. "Now pull out your music, and let's begin, "

At the end of class, Marinette packed up her flute and her music and walked back to her locker on the other side of the school. When she got there, Marinette smiled as she saw her best friend, Alya, waiting for her.

"So" Alya said when she saw Marinette walk up. "How did it go?"

"Good, as always, " Marinette stated as she opened her locker.

"No way, girl. Give me the deets, "

Marinette looked at her friend and sighed.

"Fine: we're going against our school rival and four other schools here in our auditorium. Is that enough for the school paper?"

Alya laughed. "Perfect, now I have to go or I'll be late for math. See you later!"

Marinette waved and laughed as her friend walked away. Turning back towards her locker, she grabbed her bag, with all her books inside, and picked her way to class.

Once school was over, Marinette made her way home and collapsed onto her bed, flute case lying next to her. She looked up at her ceiling, then rolled over to look at her balcony.

"I could lie here forever, " she stated longingly.

Deciding she needed practice, she grabbed her music and flute and walked onto her balcony. However, her mind was elsewhere as she set up her music stand. Was the competition going to be fun? Was there going to be drama? What's going to happen between her school and their rival? As these questions soared through her head, she didn't realize that she had finished setting up and was standing in front of her chair thinking.

"Guess I better get started, " she said as she sat down.

After warming up her flute, she began to play. It wasn't anything particular, just a song she had made up. After getting to the chorus, she realized that she wasn't playing alone. Somewhere off in the distance, a trumpet was answering her melody. Together, she and the trumpetest began to make a song and it rang across all of Paris. Once they were finished, Marinette couldn't help but wonder...Who was the trumpetest that answered her?