"Another beautiful day in Paris, too bad this City won't be able to enjoy it." A dark voice pierced the pitch blackness of the room he was in.
"I couldn't agree more my master. May I suggest some akumatizing?" A young female voice joined her Masters.
"Yes you may. It is time. Ladybug here I come."
*A few days before*
"Marinette, I have been wanting to tell you something for a while, I think I'm in love with you. But do you love me?"
"Oh Adrien yes of course I love you, I always have and I always will."
"I'm so happy. Marinette will you….. Marinette"
"Yes?"
"Marinette."
"Yes Adrien?"
"Marinette,"
"What is it Adrien, you know you can tell me anything."
"Marinette, you're going to be late for school." Marinette woke up from her dream with a screaming Tikki in her face.
"Oh no, what time is it?" Marinette yelped while jumping out of bed and running to her phone on her desk where she had placed it last night. She pressed the button, the screen light up saying 8:50am. She now only had 10 minutes to get ready and get to school before it started. Marinette ran around her room desperately trying to get ready for school so as not to be late. Once she had changed, brushed her teeth and had her bag packed (courtesy of Tikki) she opened her trap door and ran down the stairs with Tikki right behind her. She grabbed a ham and cheese croissant before kissing her parents good-bye and sprinting out the door. She ran along the pavement channelling all the Ladybug strength she could in order to get there in time. As she ran down the halls of the school towards her first class she could hear the roll being called. Every second Ms Bustier would call out a new name that would get closer to hers. 3 names, 2 names, 1 name and…..
"Marinette Dupain-Chang. Marinette?" The teacher called.
"I'm here!" Marinette burst through the door yelling.
"Just in time Marinette. One more second and you would have been late but please try to be a bit earlier next time. You may go and take your seat." Marinette followed her teacher's orders and went and sat next to Alya, her best friend.
"Okay so spill, why are you late? And don't give me some lame excuse like 'I had to take my dog to the vet because he ate a whole sweater.'" Alya whispered with some roughness in her tone.
"Okay fine, I was up late designing a dress and then I slept in until about 10 minutes ago." This of course wasn't true, she had spent the night hanging out with Chat Noir but that wasn't something she could just tell Alya that would be ridiculous.
Alya was about to reply but their teacher finished roll call and began the class. She knew her friend was lying but why? Her story was believable so Alya let it slide but not before taking some notes on what had happened.
The lessons dragged on for what seemed like days but in reality it was barely 4 hours. Adrien was exhausted, he knew he shouldn't have spent that last hour with Ladybug but he couldn't help himself. She was so funny and she was starting to open up to him just that little bit.
"….. And then I burst through the door having to quickly come up with an excuse."
"Oh yes and what was that?"
"I said, 'I had to take my dog to the vet because he ate a whole sweater.' Luckily one of my class mates got in trouble so I could go and take my seat." Both Chat and Ladybug were almost on the ground laughing, so literally that Chat almost fell off the roof top they were on.
"I don't know about you Ladybug but I find it so hard to keep this from N… I mean my best mate. I feel like I'm lying to him every minute of the day."
"I know how you feel. I wish I could tell my best friend too but sadly we can't….."
Adrien smiled at the thought of seeing her again. She is his lady and he wish he knew who she was under the mask. He gave a quiet giggle at the thought of finding her.
Nino wasn't paying attention to the lesson. Whenever the lesson was dull Nino would often watch Adrien because it was interesting how he could change his mood so quickly. One minute he would be concentrating then would burst out laughing the next, Nino would blink and Adrien would be crying. It was rather entertaining to watch.
"Hey bud, what's so funny?" Nino asked his friend when the teachers back was turned.
"Oh nothing really. I just read something on the Ladyblog last night that I thought was funny." Nino nodded slowly not quite believing his excuse, writing it down as another thing to tell Alya about. Nino was updating on the Ladyblog with Alya last night and there wasn't anything funny put up there recently.
Nino took a sneak peek at Alya and smiled when she returned it. He thought this had gone unnoticed but sadly there were two onlookers to this occurrence. Marinette and Adrien nodded at each other and wrote a few notes down before continuing on with listening to the lesson.
