"Ok, we need to lay some ground rules here," said Ladybug. "First off: no nicknames."
"What?! But why? What do I call you?"
Ladybug and Cat Noir had just exchanged phone numbers. Wanting a greater variety of people to talk to, they swapped numbers.
"Simple: you don't use any name. When we're texting each other, we don't need to directly address each other. Try explaining why you're calling someone your other friends don't know about 'milady'."
"You have a point. I tell my best friend everything, so explaining would be hard."
"Same here."
"So, if we can't use our names, what will we save our contact as?"
Ladybug thought about that. She thought and she thought and she thought and she thought, until she finally said, "Y'know, it'd be pretty helpful if you thought about this too."
Immediately, Cat Noir replied: "We can pretend that we dialed the wrong number amd became friends that way."
Ladybug was unsettled by his prepared answer. It was almost like he had the idea the entire time yet elected to say nothing of it.
Gosh, how many times had he done this?
"So that'll be how we met," she replied. "That doesn't answer what we'll save our contract as."
"We can just not save a contact. Or we can do something like 'wrong-number guy'."
"Okay."
It has been a month and the super duo was glad to say that no rules had been broken. They would text each other and nothing came of it.
Until the Universe found out.
"Damn," said Yahweh. "There's a secret they're actually good at keeping.
"Yeah, I'm actually quite impressed," agreed Anhilare.
"...We need to fix this."
About a month later, Alya and Nino wanted to go to the movies together. Normally, they'd go alone, but for some mysterious reason,they decided to drag their best friends along.
So they texted their respective friend the date, time and place, except both of them conveniently made a typo and typed '2' instead of '3'.
And all of them were dumb enough to not realize it (that part required no intervention).
So Adrien and Marinette, friends in name but acquaintances in fact, arrived over an hour early, greeted each other awkwardly, and proceeded to sit down at a convenient bench and wait for what they thought would be 5 minutes but was really 13 times that amount.
A full baker's dozen (that's a pun).
Adrien wanted to talk to Ladybug as much as possible, so he proceeded to text her nonstop.
Meanwhile, 1 decimeter away, Marinette's phone was just vibrating without end, to the point of her phone heating up.
Marinette was not in the mood to deal with this, especially with her antsiness around Adrien.
Her cool was at 10%, and her phone wasn't helping.
So, she pulled out the thing and typed these words:
'Can you not text so much? You're such a catterbox.'
She hit send. And it said catterbox.
Adrien reacted viciously when he saw it, causing Marinette to groan and uncharacteristically say to Adrien,
"My God, the most bizarre thing is happening. I'm texting this one guy I know because I entered the wrong number, and he loves puns. Can't get enough of 'em, especially cat puns. I accidentally texted him a pun, because typo, and now he's hysterical. Well, he stopped now, but before..."
Marinette, crucially, handed her phone to Adrien for him to see, and boy, did he see.
Adrien swallowed and said to her, "Funny story, I'm texting someone, too. I think you'd want to see it."
He also, crucially, handed her his phone.
Both of their faces paled, and Marinette let out that ridiculously fake laugh we all make when we're uncomfortable.
"Well, now we know what to set our contract information as..."