Marinette wasn't late for school for once.

Luckily she had managed to get some sleep over the past week due to lack of akuma attacks, meaning her nightly patrol around Paris with Chat Noir took about 10 minutes instead of 2 hours. Even though she had sat up at her sowing machine late at night until her mum had to come up to her room and make sure she was asleep. It was Adrien's birthday within the next few weeks and this time she decided to go so far as to make him a whole outfit, spending hours drawing in her sketchbook, tearing one page after another and putting it in her bin, claiming it wasn't good enough, no matter how much Alya protested. She eventually settled on a switched version of his everyday outfit with an inspiration of Chat Noir as she discovered he was quite a big fan of the Paris superhero duo, particularly Ladybug; a black jacket, white shirt with a yellow, purple and green stripe, deep green jeans and dark black sneakers with deep green laces and cat paws. She told Alya that 'because his dad is a fashion designer she wants to make a good impression'; Gabriel Agreste, as she had seen on countless occasions, was hard to please.

As she sat talking with Alya about her latest project, she heard Max state loudly,

"I saw with a new girl earlier, I am 88.65% sure she will be in our class"

The whole class turned towards the back, now focused on Max, no one made a sound. And then an uproar...

"What did she look like?"

"What did she wear?"

"I hope she likes pink!"

"Well," Chloé huffed loudly, "I hope she understands my authority, and sees how truly terrible Maritrash is at designing. My hat was so much more divine, don't you agree Sabrina?" Chloé snapped her attention towards the shy redhead, who nodded hurriedly.

"Reality check, Chloé!" yelled Alya, eager to defend her BFF, "Marinette's designs are off the chain, unlike your stolen designs!"

"Yeah," Mari piped up, "And you even stole my designs Chloé, proving that they are good enough for even you. And my name is Marinette not Maritrash, so know your place in this class, just because you have your daddy the mayor doesn't mean you have more authority over everyone than anyone else here!"

"Ooh BURN CHLOÉ!" Nino, Kim and Alix yell at the same time.

The angered stare off that had begun between Chloé, Alya and Marinette ended when the door opened abruptly, revealing and the new student. The cheers from the rest of the class for Mari and Alya died down as everyone turned their attention towards the new girl. The vast room we completely silent.

The girl had curly dark blonde hair and chocolate brown eyes, dressed in lilac jeggings and a white and rose pink line checkered shirt with plain white ballet pumps. She smiled around at everybody, earning a glare from Chloé, annoyed at the fact that the new girl was getting all the attention.

"Students, this is your new classmate Cate, I hope she will have many friends in our class."

The last thing Marinette remembered was Cate snapping her fingers, and then it all went black.