My New Year's Resolutions

By Alya Césaire

Resolution I: Go to holiday parties more often

Resolution II: Get 200 more followers on the Ladyblog

Resolution III: Have a personal interview with Chat Noir (she already had several with Ladybug, and was curious about the cat-like partner)

Resolution IV: Be the perfect wingwoman

Resolution V: Learn more about Adrien Agreste to fulfill Resolution IV

Resolution VI: Try to help her younger sisters get along ('try' being the key word)

Resolution VII: Have a date by Valentine's day (Marinette laughed at this one)

Resolution VIII: Save up money for a better video camera

Resolution IX: Get a summer job to help with Resolution VIII

Resolution X: Help Marinette get excited about the little things in life, like cupcakes with extra frosting ("It is possible to have too much frosting, you know!" "Too much? Never!")

Marinette's New Year's Resolutions

Leave the house (more often)

Complete an entire coherent sentence in front of Adrien Agreste

Learn how to make the perfect buttercream frosting

Help Alya relax when it comes to fighting crime (Alya agreed with this one – being trapped by a car once was enough for her)

Stay positive and don't stress so much about the little things


There is another list that I would love to share with you, but it appears I already have. This young blond didn't write his resolution down; by the time he thought of it, he acted on it (with great success) in less than 12 hours.

It started as thoughts of 'I wonder if she'll be there' and spun outward from there. He thought up several goals for his Paris-saving persona, but a) he couldn't write them down in case someone found them, and b) he needed one for his normal self, too, he thought. He pondered on the coming year while he got ready for the party, and even on the ride to Nino's, his mind was churning.

Get along better with Father? Help out Nathalie? He glanced forward at the driver. Run away from bodyguards and security less often? Gorilla glanced back, as though he knew what the teenager was thinking.

Finally, he settled on a resolution that was fairly vague, hoping that it would be fulfilled when the time came (whenever that would be). Little did he know, the presence of a blue-haired girl and the adrenaline of a Mario Kart race did wonders for speeding things up when it came to fate. And so it happened, on the stroke of midnight, that they were in the perfect place at the purrfect time, and he completed his New Year's Resolution in the very first moment of the year. It was this resolution, along with a thousand other thoughts that crossed through his mind as he kissed her, that carried him into the next year of his life – and it promised to be much more exciting than the last.

If you want to know what his Resolution was, I'll give you a hint: it is italicized in the first chapter. Love you all, and have a good week!