What I should be writing: Miraculous Heroine

What I'm actually writing: THIS

I've been at a loss for inspiration for MH lately and until I can get up off my sorry butt and finally finish it, I was hoping to get some feedback on this other story I've been thinking about for a while and finally wrote down. So please leave me some feedback in the comments and I will try to upload the next chapter as soon as I can.

Thank you as always for your continued support as I travel forward with wherever I'm headed! Here's for the best!

Chapter 1

Marinette stood outside the student council club room door and tried to control her breathing. She could physically feel her heart pounding against her rib cage and she wouldn't have been surprised if those on the other side could hear it as well. She griped her binder and papers tightly against her chest while she mentally went over her checklist.

It was her first student council meeting as class president and representative, and she was beyond nervous. The other representatives were older, and therefore much smarter, than her. A cold sweat began to form on her brow and she quickly wiped it away.

It was too early for panicking, she told herself. She only knew the faces of the older students after stalking through the yearbook, which she would never admit to doing, but she was sure they would know everything about about her, especially after all the drama that had happened that year.

She was the girl who attracted the great Gabriel Agreste's attention in the derby hat design competition, who saved her class from certain disaster during Dark Blade's attack on City Hall, and who successfully took down the famous Chloe Bourgeois and had overtaken taken her title as freshman class representative.

"Don't you worry about a thing, Marinette!" Tikki encouraged from her purse. "If you can take down akumas without breaking a sweat, then you can easily conquer a simple meeting like this!"

Marinette smirked down at the spotted kwami. "You can say that because you're not actually going to be participating."

Tikki rolled her large orbs for eyes and zipped back into her hiding spot.

Marinette really hoped the other representatives' perception of her wouldn't be ruined because of Chloe's previous actions. If that was the case, her chance at making a good impression was already ruined the moment she was elected. This could be really bad. She could always bail and cut her losses before things got really ugly…

Suddenly the metal handle she had been staring at for the past few minutes turned on its own. The door swing inward and before her stood the silhouette of a boy looking down at her.

Marinette blinked to adjust to the lights in her eyes, but when her vision cleared, she instantly felt so much worse. The boy standing in front of her was at least two years older than her, maybe older. His cute curly brown hair, light hazel colored eyes, the various freckles dotted all over his face gave him the looks that could honestly compete with Adrien. She didn't want to admit it, but he really was...

Gorgeous.

He smiled down at her and chuckled. "Well, thanks."

Her eyes widened in horror. She said that last part out loud. She didn't need Chloe's previous impression as representative to ruin her own image. She managed to dig her own grave deep enough on her own. She needed to say something to get her out of this stupidly embarrassing situation now.

"I-I'm Marinette, the new representative for the freshman class. It's nice to meet you." Her voice shook, but she held out a firm hand after clumsily shifting her papers to her other arm.

The boy hadn't stopped smiling and took her hand. "Nice to finally meet you, Marinette. I was just about to go look for you. I think the others are really excited to meet you too, so you want to head inside? The meeting is about to start." Even his voice was handsome.

No, she thought. She was already after Adrien. She would absolutely not fall for this guy.

She nodded and followed her fellow council member inside the meeting room. Inside, there was a long rectangular table where she counted five obviously older students staring at the two of them.

Marinette felt the boy rest a hand on her shoulder and a hot blush made it onto her cheeks. "Everyone, this is Marinette, the new representative for the freshman class that'll be taking over Ms. Bourgeois position. Let's welcome her and make her feel comfortable, yeah?"

A student at the other end of the table placed his hands behind his head and sighed in relief. "Thank God that blonde idiot isn't here anymore. Maybe we can actually get stuff done now."

The girl sitting next to him scowled and smacked him upside the head. "You idiot. She's probably already nervous and you're just making it worse. Watch your mouth, stupid."

"Well, he's right actually," Marinette reassured, waving the girl's concern away, "Chloe has always been difficult so I understand completely. I just hope I can be a better help to you than she was."

The guy with his hands behind his head opened an eye. "Trust me, you're already better than her. The first day she 'blessed' us with her presence she ordered me to go get her a drink from the coffee shop down the street. When I said 'no way', she stormed out and never came to another meeting." The entire room nodded and hummed, confirming his story. Yeah that definitely seemed like a Chloe thing to do if Sabrina wasn't currently acting as her personal errand girl.

Marinette felt the weight lift from her shoulder and she silently wished it would return. "Okay, okay. Now that we got that out of the way," he started, "I think some introductions are in order. Alice, why don't we start with you?"

The short blonde haired girl from before smiled at Marinette and she couldn't help but smile in return. "As he said, My name's Alice and I'm the sophomore representative, and this idiot here," she jetted out her thumb at the boy with his hands behind his head, "is my incompetent vice-rep, Henry." Henry soundlessly removed a hand to wave at her before putting it back and leaning into his leather chair. He nodded at Alice's accusation as if saying, "Guilty as charged."

A dark skinned boy with a cool pair of Ray Bans sitting on the other side of the table across from Henry smiled and introduced himself next. "I'm Nicholas, but they usually just call me Nick. This is my vice-rep Ren," Marinette turned her attention to the dark haired Asian boy sitting to his right and found herself staring at his pretty blue eyes. "We're the Junior representatives. Let's work together, okay?" Marinette smiled and nodded.

The presence beside her moved forward and the boy- who could honestly compete with Adrien's looks- sat at the head of the table. "Looks like I'm last. The name's Curtis. I'm a Junior with Nick and Ren, and I'm the student body president, but you probably already knew that." The expressionless look on her face made Henry laugh.

"Oh my gosh, she totally didn't know! Haha!" he said leaning back further in his chair filling the room with his laughter. Marinette looked away, trying to hide the embarrassing blush taking over her face. She honestly hadn't expected Curtis to be the student body president, but it did make sense.

Alice punched Henry under his ribs and he immediately lurched forward with a painful grunt. He glared back at her and Marinette was feeling more and more uncomfortable by the second.

Curtis cleared his throat and waved the matter aside. "It's fine Henry, at least she knows now. Anyway we've stalled long enough. We need to get the ball rolling with this meeting now that introductions have been made."

"Hey Marinette, there's an empty seat over here. You should sit by me." Alice called, waving to get her attention.

"Oh, okay." Marinette said accepting the offer and slid into the large leather chair that seemed to swallow her presence. After looking around, she laid out all her papers and things onto the table like most of the other members, except for Henry who had brought nothing. Marinette silently pitied Alice, who seemed to pull most of Henry's weight. Curtis began speaking while Alice leaned closer to Marinette and raised her hand to whisper in her ear.

"We're the only girls here so we gotta stand up for each other, right?" Marinette noticed she held out a fist under the table and Marinette complied to the fist bump, nodding curtly.

"Okay, now that's all settled, I think this is a good place to close the meeting." Curtis concluded just over an hour later shuffling and organizing his papers, and everyone else followed suit. "Good work today, everyone. Let's schedule the next meeting to be mid-next week."

All the chairs wheeled backwards and the student council made their way outside the meeting room and into the empty commons area. Marinette was grateful how smoothly the meeting had gone after all the drama at the beginning. For the most part, it was uneventful and Marinette felt that everybody had been given a good enough impression of her.

She was able to bring up Nino's request to be able to listen to music in the library and was thankful how much Henry sided with her argument, considering how laid back he acts. "This Nino kid obviously knows what he's talking about," he had told her, "I could see us getting along."

The other members had some suggestions as well so she wasn't able to add any more of her own to the table, but luckily her opinion on matters seemed to have as much value as the other members'. She was relieved they had accepted her so openly.

"Hey Marinette, you wanna go grab something to eat?" Nick asked. "Usually at the end of meetings we go get dinner together."

"Oh, well, actually my family owns a bakery just down the street. I could treat you guys with some homemade croissant sandwiches, or something." She could feel the hard stares causing the hairs on her neck to stand on end. "But if you guys already had somewhere in mind that's cool too!"

They all looked at each other with wide eyes before bursting into laughter. Marinette felt an embarrassing blush take over her face. Boy, she must sound like a child.

But then she felt a heavy weight across her shoulders and found Henry leaning on her. "Dude, if you're offering food, you're automatically promoted to 'best friend' in my book. Which way to the free food?" Something pushed his head down and he grunted. Marinette nearly lost her footing, but quickly regained her balance. Looking over her shoulder, she wasn't surprised to find Alice harshly grabbing a fistful of her vice-rep's curly hair with fury in her eyes.

"Keep this up, and I'm going to make you write up all the reports next week. If Marinette is treating us to dinner, the least you can do is act respectful for once!" On the last syllable she shoved his head forward one last time before releasing her iron grip.

"I swear I'm actually gonna kill you one of these days, you animal." Henry muttered under his breath next to Marinette's ear before removing his arm from her shoulders and giving her back her personal space.

"What was that?" Alice questioned with unnatural sweetness, cracking her knuckles.

"Okay, okay you two, settle down. You're going to make Marinette worry." Nick intervened, pushing the two apart before things got messy. Marinette quietly giggled and pointed down the road that led to the bakery.

"It's about two blocks this way. If we hurry, we can beat the dinner rush." Marinette informed while pulling out her phone to text her mother that they would be having some surprise guests. When she opened her purse, she got an encouraging wink from Tikki and she instantly felt better. Did Tikki have that kind of calming power? She wasn't sure. Suddenly a notification popped up with 'new text message received' taking over the screen.

"Is that your boyfriend?"

Marinette twirled around and found Curtis looking over her shoulder with a smirk. Oh no.

In her nervousness, Marinette laughed way too loud before finally regaining control. "Haha, uh no. It's probably just my acquaintance, I mean f-friend Alya." Dammit, why was she so nervous around Curtis? It was almost as bad as her trying to form words in front of Adrien! "She's actually my vice-rep but she couldn't make it to the meeting because of family conflicts. I mean conflicting family schedules! Her family's fine! I-I didn't mean it like that!" Marinette wanted to slap herself. Family conflicts? Really?

Luckily Curtis didn't seem to notice and turned back towards Ren. "You usually don't come to dinner with us, Ren. Already finished all your homework?" Ren glanced up from the sidewalk for a moment before nodding. Now that she thought about it, Marinette had yet to hear a word from Ren. He seemed to be a man of very few words.

"Hey Marinette, how much farther is your place? These two lovebirds are starting to become hard to handle." Nick was obviously starting to lose his control over Alice and Henry from trying to attack each other.

"WE ARE NOT LOVEBIRDS!" they shouted in unison taking a second from attacking each other to scream in Nick's ears.

Marinette smiled. She totally shipped them. "Not far at all." she answered, "It's just up ahead, and my mom texted me back saying she's already got the sandwiches made." The hungry looks on her new comrades' faces made her laugh.

The next day when Marinette met up with Alya outside the school by the front steps, she couldn't keep the smile off her face. Alya lifted an eyebrow.

"What's got you in such a good mood? Usually I have to drag you to school."

Marinette folded her arms and casually glanced off to the side. "Oh nothing special, really. Just recalling how amazing yesterday went after my vice-rep left me to fend for myself at the student representative meeting and had the best time ever."

Alya rolled her eyes and shook her head. "All right, all right I get it. But you know how often my parents are out and I'm forced to babysit! It was an emergency and I had no choice. Mom's making me babysit again today, but I'll make it up to you next time, okay?"

Marinette waved her best friend's concern aside. "Don't worry about it Alya, I was just teasing you. Curtis said the next meeting isn't until next week so there's no need to fuss about it."

Alya let out a sigh of relief, "Thank goodness. But I'll remember this the next time you malfunction in front of Adrien." The two minute bell interrupted their morning conversation and the two teens bolted inside in order to make it to class on time.

Alya made it to the door first with Marinette right on her tail. Out of the corner of her eye, Marinette noticed a head of curly brown hair and turned to see Curtis watching her from the first floor. He smiled and waved, but Marinette only had enough time to smile back before Mme. Bustier swiftly shut the door behind her.

"Glad to see you two actually can make it to my class on time, girls."

Not a long chapter, I'll admit. Just a teaser.

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