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Disclaimer: I do not own Miraculous Ladybug…

"I'm leaving!" I exclaimed as I was coming down the stairs from my room.

"Marinette, wait. I need to talk to you." A short woman with black bobbed hair said, standing next to the wooden dinning table.

"Oh, Maman, I promised to meet up with Alya before school." I replied, my hand already on the handle of the gray door.

"Marinette." Mom's voice was stern, which was very much unlike her. "This is serious. Come here."

I let go of the door handle and walked over to my mother. "What is it?" I asked, taking a seat at our small table. Mom looked down to the floor in thought, then directly into my eyes, her hair framing her face perfectly.

After a while of an awkward silence, she finally spoke. "Where did you go last night?" This question, although I was expecting it sooner or later, caught me off guard.

"W-what do you mean?" I replied, trying to play innocent.

"Marinette, tell me. I won't get mad." Mom placed a hand on my shoulder and smiled gently. "I was a teenage girl once too, after all. Now, tell me, did you sneak out to see a boy? Adrien, perhaps?"

"M-maman!" I exclaimed, jumping out of my chair, my face burning.

She laughed.

"Judging by that reaction, it wasn't Adrien!" She said.

"I'm leaving!" I said quickly grabbing my bag and walking back over to the door.

"Marinette, we aren't done talking about this."

"I'm sorry, I won't do it again. I just needed to go for a walk is all." I turned the handle of the door.

"Then why didn't you leave through the front door?" I opened the door and walked out.

"I didn't want to wake you, bye!" I quickly closed the door and let out a sigh.

"That was close!" Tikki said, sticking her little head out from my purse.

"Yeah, no kidding." I replied, walking down the stairs.

"But, going for a walk at eleven o'clock at night? Is that even practical?"

"Well, what was I supposed to tell her, Tikki? 'Oh, yeah I was out because I'm Paris's number one superhero and I was on patrol with my cat sidekick?' I don't think that would go over too well." Tikki giggled.

"Yeah, you're right!"

I opened the front door and immediately felt a chilly wind brush against my face. I shivered a little.

"Winter is definitely coming soon, huh?" I said. I took a step onto the sidewalk and began to walk to the school. Luckily for me, I lived incredibly close to the school. As I approached the main entrance I saw Alya waiting by the stairs.

"Alya!" I exclaimed. She turned to me.

"Where have you been? I thought we agreed to meet up early today."

"I know! I'm sorry! My mom had to talk to me about something." I replied, as we climbed the steps to the school.

"About what?" She asked.

"Oh, nothing important! I just went for a walk pretty late last night and she thought I was sneaking out to see someone."

"Someone like Adrien?"

"A-Alya!" She laughed.

"Well it would make sense… Considering you guys are working on that physics project together." I stopped dead in my tracks. Alya looked at me. "You DID start that project we were assigned, right?"

"WHAAAAAAAA!" My screams echoed through the empty school yard, as I collapsed to my knees. "How could I be such an idiot?!"

"Calm down, girl. It's not that bad-"Alya, began.

"What do you mean?! It's awful! I was so busy with other things that I forgot all about the project!" I exclaimed. "I didn't work on it at all last night! The first project I get to work on with Adrien and I go and mess it up! Now he's going to hate me!" I whined as Alya gripped my arm and pulled me to my feet.

"Pull yourself together!" She placed her hands on my shoulders and shook me lightly. "Do you really think Adrien's going to be mad? The project isn't due until Monday! You have all weekend to finish it. Now, take a deep breath, and relax." I sighed heavily, feeling my heartbeat slow down a bit. "Better?" I nodded. "Good. Now, get a grip on yourself and turn around."

"Why?"

"Hi, Adrien!" Alya said. My eyes widened in horror as Alya gave me a devilish smile.

"Hey, girls." I jumped out of my skin at the familiar voice coming from behind me. I unwillingly turned around, and felt my heart rate increase again as a pair of bright green eyes met my blue ones. I jumped backward and would have fallen over if it wasn't for Alya standing directly behind me. She gently pushed me back up so I was standing upright again.

"A-A-A-Adrien! H-Hi!You're -ah- here early today!" I somehow managed to stammer out. Adrien held his chin and raised an eyebrow at me, something he did often when I spoke to him.

"Well, yeah. I suppose I am." He replied, as I mentally beat myself up.

"Where's Nino?" Alya asked, attempting to prevent me from saying something stupid, again.

"I'm sure he's on his way." Adrien replied. He then turned his attention to me. "So, Marinette" He began. My heart was beating so hard, I was sure he could hear it."I was wondering, how much of the project do you have done so far?" My breathing hitched.

"P-p-project?! What project?" Another raised eyebrow in response. "Oh...OH! THAT project! Well I-I, uh, I-"

"Haven't started?" I could feel the worry fill my eyes. Adrien chuckled, then continued, "That's okay. I haven't either, so don't worry about it." His eyes darted away from me as he admitted this. "Anyway, since neither of us have started yet, do you want to schedule a time after school or this weekend we could get together and work on it?" My heart practically exploded when he asked this. I could feel the blood rush to my face and my lips quiver in anticipation as i ran through the potential responses in my head. However, my voice betrayed every one of those ideas.

"Y-yeah! I-I-, ah, love you-I MEAN- love TO! I-"

"She'll do it." Alya butted in, giving me a sympathetic smile. "You guys can do it at her house tomorrow."

"Okay... So, tomorrow at noonish then, Marinette?" Adrien replied, not seeming to be phased by my nonsense stuttering. I nodded to him in response. "Great!" Adrien quickly pulled out his phone and started to text away on it.

It was then that an arm snaked around Adrien's neck and pulled him into a headlock.

"Gotcha!" Nino exclaimed with a grin plastered on his face. He then proceeded to ruffle Adrien's hair. Adrien laughed and tried to pull away from Nino.

"Okay! Okay! You got me!" Nino finally let him go.

"Oh, hey girls." Nino said, acknowledging us.

"Hi, Nino." Alya replied, placing a hand on my shoulder "Well, it's about that time we head to class, don't you think, Marinette?" She asked.

"Yeah I think so too." Alya and I turned away from the boys and began to walk away. For one reason or another, I looked back to them. "See you later, Adrien!" I exclaimed with a smile.

He stared at me wide eyed, obviously just as shocked at my actions as I was. His expression slowly turned into a tender smile.

"Yeah. Later, Marinette."He replied. I turned my head back around and blushed intensely.

"Where in the world did that come from?!" Alya whispered as we continued to walk to our class.

"I-I have no idea!" I admitted, my face still red. Alya laughed wholeheartedly.

"Geez, you're just full of surprises, aren't you?" She continued to laugh as we walked to class.