I quickly look at my clock.
"Oh no! Tikki! Why didn't you wake me up? You know I wanted to get there early today!" Tikki quickly flies over to me, eyes wide and filled with worry.
"I'm sorry, Marinette... I didn't realize the time." She looks away from me as I quickly get dressed and ready for school. Grabbing my shoulder bag and phone, I rush down the stairs, almost falling on my face in the process. I hear maman chuckle.
"One of these days, you're actually going to fall." She says with a soft smile.
"Thanks, maman. I'll be okay, though!" I say before quickly giving her a hug and a kiss on the cheek. "I'm hanging out with Alya today after school for homework and some girl time, so I won't be home until later." Sabine meerly nods, while she hears Tom call out from the bakery.
"Tell Alya and her parents we said hello for us, will you?"
"Sure thing, Papa!" With that, I rush out the door and hurry for school.
On the way, Tikki gets out of my bag and onto my shoulder.
"Maybe you should stay home today, Marinette..." I stop and look at her questioningly. She seemed surprisingly worried about something.
"If I don't go to school, I won't be able to see Adrien before the weekend! Besides, there's a test today, and I can't miss those! Now hurry and hide, Tikki, before someone sees you!" The dark pink goddess just look down at the ground, and then flies into her spot in my bag.
"I wonder what's wrong with her.. Maybe I'll take her to see the Guardian after school!" I smile at the thought and quickly go towards the school.
As I'm about to reach the school, I smile seeing Alya and Nino standing in front of school, knowing I was still early. Nino point me out to Alya, who then runs; and I mean RUNS towards me, grabs my hand, and takes me somewhere secluded from prying ears. She stops and quickly turns around, looking at me with more worry in her eyes than I have ever seen her with... kind of like Tikki's earlier "You didn't respong to my text this morning!" she says, almost yelling.
"I haven't even looked at my phone yet, why what's up?" I could hear Tikki gasp at the mention of my phone, but I ignored it, trying to read Alya's face on what she meant by that. She stares into my eyes for what seemed like an hour, then sighs and grabs to get her phone out.
"Now, I'm warning you, this is big. I don't want you to freak out too much, okay?" When Alya said that, it sounded almost motherly. She hands me her phone with a two photos on it.
"What am I supposed to be looking at he-" My words were lost by the photos. I couldn't believe what I saw. They were photos of me; one with me it looks as if I was buying or selling marijuana, then the other was me smoking it with a man in an alleyway. I quickly look back at Alya, not knowing what to say. She looked concerned and pissed at the same time, wanting to know the truth like the lovely reporter she is.
"What the hell is this?!" I practically screamed.
"I was hoping to find out from you. We don't know who sent them, but the photo's don't need explaining..." Alya says, eyes going towards the ground.
"I don't even do this kind of stuff! I've never seen any type of drug in person! You know me better than anyone!"
"I figured it was photoshopped. We need to try and figure out who did this. This is a problem.." I look up at her worriedly at what could be any worse than that. Before I could even ask it, she said the answer I did not want to hear.
"They sent it to everyone in the school."
"T-the... WHOLE SCHOOL?! My friends, Nino... OH NO!" I grab her phone quickly look at the group message names to look for one name. Surely enough, Adrien's name was there. "This is a disaster!"
Holdinh my shoulders tight, Alya said one sentance that gave me a little courage to face the school.
"Calm down, girl, we'll figure this out and clear you're name and make them apoligize."
I nod slowly, with eyes watering. I felt Tikki give me a slight hug through my bag, now realizing what she was so worried about this morning and wanted me to stay home.
Today is going to suck. I just want to go home and pretend this was just a terrible dream and it didn't happen. Only when I walked into class did I realize it wasn't. I follow behind Alya as we head towards class, and right as we enter the room, everyone went silent and was looking at me. I look around at them, and when my eyes hit those hypnotizing green eyes filled with concern, I almost cried again. As I turn around, I close my eyes again to fight the tears and walk to my seat. As I open them, all I see a sunflower hair and next thing I know *SLAP*