Marinette entered the school with Alya, being chewed out for bad grades not really paying attention, thinking more on the akuma last night, and how she lost some sleep.

"I'm telling you girl, we're two months into this school year and you are already behind, at least last year you were able to keep your grades up till half way through the school year and the year before that your grades never went down!"

"Alya you weren't here two years ago."

"I know that but that's what you parents told me."

They continued their conversation all the way to class and only stopped when the teacher, miss Bustier started to talk.

"Good morning class, today we have two new students with us today, Lily and Maxwell Delgato." Next to her was a girl with blond hair, green eyes, and white skin, she was wearing a shirt with a cat on it and a knee length skirt. The thing that stood out the most though was the absence of the other kid, and when miss Bustier looked over that's what she noticed. "Lily, where's your brother?"

Lily was about to answer when the door flew open. "I'M HERE!" the person yelled as they came through the door, tripping on their own feet and almost kissing the floor but then Lily caught them. "Sorry I'm late, the bathroom stall tried to eat my hoodie." With a sudden shock, the class realised that Maxwell was a girl.

"I'm sorry," miss Bustier said, "but the paper says your name is Maxwell, why don't you tell us your name so I can tell the office."

"No need, that is my actual name, Maxwell Maximus Maximilian Delgato, but you can call me Maxie." She was short, about 5 foot by Marinette's guess, she had on a jade green hoodie, neon yellow tennis shoes, the biggest black backpack you can imagine, and bage cargo pants that went halfway down her calves. She had skin similar in color to Alya's, green eyes, and glasses that took up the majority of her face. But the thing that stood out the most was her hair, it was a gigantic curly mess, in other words, a vary large afro, the brown locks swishing when her head turned.

" Well it's good to know you don't go by Max because we already have a Max."

"Cool. Hi other Max!" she said as she waved at the class, smiling the biggest smile ever, "I've never met another Max before so this is cool."

"Well since you girls are new how bout you tell us a little bit about yourselves if you don't mind"

"Gladly, my name is Maxie and her name is Lily, we moved here from Hungary, we are twins, and before you say twins are supposed to look the same not all do, it's called fraternal twins, our dad died when we were little, we never knew are mom because she died in childbirth, our mom's parents were the only relatives we had that cared about us, but the couldn't take care of us all the time because of health problems, so for the other half of the time we lived with our dad's parents, who are demonic dictators, then our moms parents died, and our dads family treated us like the plague, so we had to move, we have lived in 15 different places in the last five years, I like to invent and draw, and Lily has the best singing voice you will ever hear. Any questions?

The class was silent, partly because of what they just heard, and partly because it was one of the longest run on sentence they had ever heard in their life. Then Chloe spoke up.

"Why do you wear your hair like that?"

"Well it would take to long in the mornings to brush it, and i have to brush it to do anything with it or wet it down for an hour and a half to get it untangled enough to braid it or something and since I can't get the bathroom until literally 10 minutes before school starts, it's stuck like this till i get more time."

"Why do you talk so much?"

"It gives people less time to put in their own input, so if you're a debbie downer, good luck being pessimistic around me, and also I just like to talk."

"Well that's really nice Maxie but why don't we let Lily talk?" miss Bustier said before any more questions could be asked.

All heads turned towards Lily, and she just stood there, staring looking like she wanted to disappear, but after five minutes she said, in the quietest and softest voice Marinette had ever heard, "Hi."

"Well that was fun let's go sit down now." Maxie said immediately after Lily had spoken, and ushered her to the two empty seats in the class. As Lily neared the back of the class she tripped and dropped her stuff, and Nathaniel was the first to go help, an unspoken invitation to be friends. To Lily, it was one of the happiest days of her life, getting a friend so soon, but to Nathaniel it lead to one of the most scariest moments of his life, the death glare that could dissolve into nothing in 0.000000000000001 seconds flat, the glare of Maxie, that clearly sent the message, 'if you hurt her, I will break every bone in you body 10 times over and then some.'

And so, the two sisters sat down and sealed the seating chart for the rest of the year as follows, from left to right looking from the front of the class, Sabriena, Chloe, Adrien, Nino, Alix, Mylene, Marinette, Alya, Max, Kim, Maxie, Ivan, Juleka, Rose, Nathaniel, and Lily. Class went on with not much changing, and then the bell rang and they all went to the next class, Chemistry. When they walked into class and sat down, Maxie pulled out some food and Ms. Mendeleiev was not happy.

"Miss Maxie, and don't know what the policy on food was at your last school, but here we do not eat food in the chemistry lab."

"I'm sorry about that, but i have to eat right now, you see i have a really high metabolism and diabetes, so I have to eat constantly and give myself the insulin shots so I don't pass out from lack of energy in my system, and before you ask, I have a doctor's note, here it is."

The teacher must have read that note five times over before she seemed satisfied that it was indeed a doctor's note and not a trick from a clever kid.

"Vary well, alright class today we start are group projects, but first let's review, what is the chemical structural backbone of a nucleic acid? Yes Maxie?"

"The Structure of Nucleic Acids. DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, and RNA , or ribonucleic acid, are polymers of nucleotides linked in a chain through phosphodiester bonds, in biological systems, they serve as information-carrying molecules or, in the case of some RNA molecules, catalysts."

"Very good Maxie, now the proiect will be on nucleic acids. Now here are your partners, Chloe, Sabrina, and Alix, Mylene, Kim, and Max, Ivan, Nathaniel, and Lily, Adrien, Marinette, and Maxie,and Rose, Juleka, Alya, and Nino. You will not have class time to work on it, so I suggest you get together after class and figure out how you are going to accomplish this."

Marinette could barely focus, because the prospect of working with Adrien was just so exciting she could barely contain her excitement. The rest of the day till lunch passed by really fast, that's when Adrien went to talk to her.

"Hey Marinette, I was thinking maybe we could go to your house to work on the project, is that okay with you?"

"Yah, thats fine my parents won't mind, but we need to check with our other partner, I think her name was Sam?"

"I'm pretty sure her name was Maxie. Anyway I saw her heading to the cafeteria, so let's see if we can find her."

"Mari, Adrien!", they heard from behind them and when they turned they saw it was Alya, "Best of luck to both of you, I saw that new girl, Maxie, giving Nathaniel a death glare, and telling Ivan that if anything happened to her sister while they were working on the project, he would find himself in an early grave. That girl is more threatening than Hawkmoth and a serial killer combined."

"I'm sure she's not that scary."

"Did you not hear her response to almost every question the teachers have asked today, dead on correct. And every time she talks it's always one sentence, with one hundred words in it. And she eats like there's no tomorrow. I think she's got like, super powers or something, and I'm scared of what'll happen in gym."

"You're just overreacting, she's not that bad, just excitable, and enthusiastic, and really, really talkative."

"If you say so. Well if you're gonna go talk to her you better do it know before she teleports half way across Paris."

With that Alya left, and Marinette and Adrien headed towards the cafeteria. They spotted Maxie at the food line, earbuds in music blasting out of them. She was grabbing as much food as possible, her plate piled high with french fries. When they got to her, Adrien put his hand on her shoulder to get her attention, but in the nxt second she had him in an arm lock, his back facing her. When she saw who it was she let go.

"Sorry, reflex, although next time it would be beneficial if you just say my name."

"When someone puts their hand on your shoulder your reflex is to put them in an arm lock?"

"Yes, your point is?"

"Nothing, but we need to get together sometime to work on the chemistry project." When he saw the confusion on her face, he explained, "We are your partners for the project."

"Oh, well hi there, your name is banana hair, your name is pigtails, and my name is Maxie, Now you have nothing to worry about with the project one bit I've got it all taken care of, I've made the slide show, the script, a list of videos we could show, the order of the presentation, who says what, and the interactive test for the class, both before and after the presentation, all that needs to be taken care of are the model and the reactive experiment to show the class, which i can take care of in 20 minutes, tops, your guys's thoughts?"

"I don't think we need that much on the project."

"All of that stuff is necessary pigtails, necessary to keep me busy and to keep the class entertained, now to work on that stuff and to practice the presentation, where do you want to do it, your house, or your house, or my house, it doesn't matter to me, so whatever you guys want is fine by me."

"It'll be at Marinette's house, it's just around the corner from here, we'll meet their after school, is that okay?"

"Ya that's fine, now let's go eat, but first the most important question is, are you two dating?"

"What! No, no, we're just friends."

"Well are you at least best friends, or really, really close friends?"

"No we're just friends, acuantances."

"Well, I need to fix that, come along Ponds, let's go eat some fish fingers and custard."

"Wait, did you say…" Adrien got cut off when they noticed a commotion in the cafeteria, and what was being said put Maxie on edge.

"What do you know about singing?" Chloe said, quiet sharply in fact, to Lily.

"Alot actually." Lily replied, her voice as quiet as ever.

"Well can you sing for us then?'

"I don't really want to..."

"Then you can't prove anything, for all we know you could be as bad as nails on a chalk board."

When maxie finally moved it was with rage in her eyes, then she handed her food of to Marinette and her backpack to Adrien, the pulled a guitar, which obviously could not fit in there, out of her backpack.

"Hold, My , Bag."She walked right up to Chloe, the guitar slipped on and ready to play. "Yo blondie, you want to hear her sing, then prepared to eat your words, Lily, Little Toy Guns."

She handed Lily headphones with a microphone attached and cat ear speakers on top. Then she started to play, and then Lily sang, and blew the crowd away, and Chloe ate her words. When they were done, the assembled students were speechless.

"Well that was fun, I'm gonna go eat and then find out where my next class is so I can get there on time, see yall later, and banana hair I can see you eyeing my food, leave it alone."

Adrien looked away from her food, a blush on his face from being caught wanting to eat her mile high stack of food. Maxie walked over, put her guitar back in her backpack, put her backpack back on, grabbed her food, and headed to a random table, expecting Marinette and Adrien to follow. When she sat down she looked at the two friends she had just made, then she got up and went somewhere else. When she came back, she was dragging Alya and Nino behind her and sat them down. Then she counted and left again, when she came back, she had Lily and Nathaniel behind her.

Then she counted again, sat down and started to eat.

"Why do keep on grabbing people?" Marinette asked, weirded out by Maxie at this exact moment, maybe Alya was right about her.

"Every place i live I try to have eight friends, sometimes I do, most times I don't but it's always good to know i tried, this time though it was easy to get the first six, I was partnered with you two, and you guys were hanging out with them, and I don't trust my little sister alone with tomato boy, so all I need know is two more." By the time she was done talking, she had finished her food. "Welp, we'd better head to our next class, I have gym next, and Lily you have choir, see yall later."

Then she left the others to finish their food. When lunch was done they all went to their next class, which for Adrien and Marinette was gym, like Maxie. Once they were done changing they went into the courtyard.

"Have you seen Maxie? She said that she had gym, but I didn't see her in the locker room." Marinette asked Adrien when she saw him, looking a little worried.

"I'm sure she's here somewhere."

"Alright students, today we will be doing an intense workout that includes laps, jumping jacks, push ups, pull ups, weighted squats, bench press, and the rock wall." the coach said, followed by a collective groan from the class. The rock wall was considered the devil of all gym equipment, it had no harness, had cryptic climbing difficulty levels defined by shape and color, and was really, really tall. The only thing keeping you from hurting yourself if you fell was a three foot tall mat that was wide enough to reach the edge of the wall. There has been no major injuries, but they all knew it was only a matter of time before someone fell from the top, and something told them that it would be sooner than latter. "Stop your complaining, or all you're doing today is climbing up the wall and running five laps alternating, now let's get to the field." They headed to the field at the back of the school. When they got there they stopped in front of the rock wall. "Now, we'll start with the laps, five laps then three rounds of 10 push ups each…" he trailed off as his eyes looked to a specific student, and when Marinette looked to see who he was looking at she saw it was Maxie, and the reason he was looking at her was because she had no gym clothes on, just her hoodie and her cargo capris. "Delgato, why do you not have gym clothes?"

"I didn't know i needed them today, since it is my first day."

"That is no excuse to not have them you should have figured you would need them, now you need to do the Make-up."

"Sir," Adrien said out of nowhere. "She's new here, she didn't know the consequences, she shouldn't have to do the Make-up."

"I don't care, those are the class rules, if I make an exception for one person then all the others will say it's not fair and complain and I'll get in trouble. She has to do the Make-up."

"Hate to interrupt the party, but what is this dreaded 'Make-up' is it book work, 'cause I can do book work, or is it something more physical like running laps the entire time, or maybe sitting in the corner with a dunce cap on so all of the other students can point and laugh at me, or…"

"The Make-up is climbing the rock wall as fast as you can, no shoes, just up and down as fast as you can, and you will be timed, the faster you go, the higher your grade is."

"That's all i have to do huh, well I don't see eney harm in that, tell me when to start." she said as she took of her shoes. And got into a starting position that you would see 2nd graders in before a game of tag or hide n seek starts. When coach blew the whistle though, she shot of like a rocket, and before they knew it, she had jumped a good six feet up the wall without the use of the mat, just jumped up right before she reached the mat and got up six feet, and was over halfway up the in about a minute. When she got to the, though, she stopped, turned so that her back was up against the wall and her hand where clutching two of the top holds, and lept from the wall, did five flips at least, and landed right in front of coach, arms up and legs together, like an olympic gymnast, then she put her arms down at her side. The entire class was stunned, in fact none of them had expected someone that short to scale the wall, which is easier for taller students more often than not, in less than five minutes. The fact the she had willing jumped of the wall scared everyone, a good portion of the class, including Marinette and Adrien, had tensed, ready to go catch her.

"DELGATO!" Coach yelled, anger obvious in his voice and expression.

"What, you told me to get up and down the wall as fast as I could, and I did, by the way that was four minutes and six seconds, in case you lost count."

"It's not that you didn't do what I wanted you to do, which you did, but that you willingly, willingly, jumped of the top of a three story tall rock wall. Three stories tall, it's a miracle that you didn't hurt yourself."

"I was fine, I had to clean the gutters and the roof for my grandparent's all the time when I lived with them, four story house not including the roof, and I would play on the roof at night, I'm a certified roof master, in fact I used to make mini snowmen on the window seals to freak out my grandfather, it was funny."

"You're telling me that your grandparents would have you clean the gutters and the roof of their four story house when you were six and you did nothing about it?!"

"I was four when they started having me do it, but yes I did nothing about it, I didn't know I could do anything about it, and anyway if I even felt like I wasn't going to stick that landing after I jumped, I would have used the lasso I have conveniently placed in the pocket of my hoodie, I'm always over prepared, can I put my shoes back on now?"

The class looked at her stunned, half wondering how the neighbours didn't notice a four-year old on the roof next door, the other wondering how she was still sane, and how the heck she was so happy all the time to have had to deal with that sort of thing from such a young age.

"Many have said that if I had super powers that they would an insane amount of joy and defying gravity, and they're probably right."

The rest of the day the whole school was talking about Maxie and her stunt at gym, Kim had even named it 'The Fall' and then everyone started to call the stunt that. But the weirdest thing was that no one knew what Maxie looked like, in fact, she joined in on many of the conversations and pretended that she was a different person just to troll the student body, and Adrien decided to play along. The conversations that had the both of them in it where always the craziest, the exaggerations of the event reaching levels of wing sprouting and angels flying her down. Even Chloe was caught saying something good about her.

At the end of the day, Maxie, Adrien, and Marinette were heading to Marinette's house when from out of nowhere, a flying chariot pulled by dears flew by, the driver yelling something about Artemis and girls joining her hunt so they could turn boys into hunting game and hunt them for sport. When Maxie looked away from the threat she saw that her friends had disappeared.

"Really," she thought out loud "did you really have to scare my new friends away, and on the first day?" then she ran towards an ally and took off her backpack. "Well, Norra," she said looking inside her backpack, "charge on."

AUTHOR'S NOTE

Thank you for reading my story, it means so much to me to know that my work is being appreciated. I'll try to post each chapter often, send me ideas if you have any.