Chapter 2
"Marinette!" Marinette's mother's voice shouted from downstairs. The sound jolted Marinette awake. She rubbed her eyes. "Coming mama!" she called back down. She slowly made her way to her trapdoor and went downstairs. Her mother and father were standing there with a girl who was about Marinette's age. She had long dark pigtails and bright blue eyes. She had on a plain white t-shirt and a short black jacket. She had on jean shorts that were rolled up and she had on brown boots. "Marinette, you're father and I have decided to adopt Bridgette. We really believe you two will get along." Sabine said. Marinette was confused. Why would her parents do that? "Hello, Marinette. It's nice to meet you. I've heard a lot about you. Mind showing me upstairs?" Bridgette asked. "Uh, sure. Not much to see. It's just my room." Marinette said back. She started walking back up the stairs. "Well, it's our room now so I want to see it." Bridgette followed her upstairs. Marinette started freaking out inside. How was she going to get out with Bridgette around now? And when would she be able to talk to Tikki? Where would Bridgette even sleep? On her chaise? Marinette pushed opened the trapdoor and climbed up. All of her art and designs were scattered everywhere. "Sorry about the mess." she apologized. Bridgette looked around. "Seems more like organized chaos to me," she said. Marinette smiled. "Actually it is. Most people would just see it as a mess though," she said. Maybe this wouldn't be so bad. "Give me a few minutes and we can head off to school," Marinette said. She walked off to get into her normal clothes. "Okay." Bridgette walked over to her computer. She looked at the walls. There were pictures of a blond boy all over it. "Looks like you've got a crush on some guy," she said. Marinette sat down on the chaise and started putting her shoes on. "Oh, yeah. Adrien Agreste. Famous model. It's a bit of a faded crush but I still hold hope. My best friend Alya still tries to get me to confess how I feel to him but I'm letting him come to me. If he doesn't by the time the year is over then I'll move on." she said. She got up and walked over by Bridgette. "Though I don't know if I'll ever fully move on. I definitely know it will go away mostly. I also know I won't have pictures of him on my dorm room wall." Marinette smiled. She started looking around. "Where is she," she muttered. "Who?" Bridgette asked. "What? Oh, nothing." Marinette said nervously. "Well, you can continue looking when we get back. We need to go or else we'll be late." Bridgette grabbed Marinette's bag and tossed it to her then grabbed her wrist and pulled her downstairs. "Bye, mama. Bye, Papa." Marinette said as the two rushed out the door. They had each managed to snag a croissant on their way out.
Bridgette dragged Marinette all the way to the bottom of the stairs outside of the school. Marinette put her hands on her knees and was breathing heavily. "You sure like punctuality don't you?" she questioned. "If you're early, you're on time. If you're on time, you're late. If you're late, you're extra late." Bridgette said back. Marinette stood up. She had heard that before. Before she could figure it out Alya came over. "Hey, girl. You're early," she said. She looked at Bridgette. "Who's she?" she asked. "Oh. Alya this is Bridgette my new adopted sister. Bridgette this is my best friend Alya." Marinette said. "Hey, Bridgette. Can you get her here this early all the time?" Alya said with a smirk. "I'll try," Bridgette said. Marinette looked inside her purse. No Tikki. It was weird and she was worried. Where could she be? "Hey Marinette, look who's pulling up." Alya turned Marinette around. Adrien's car was pulling up. "Now you'll have an actual chance to talk to him." Alya was right. "Talk to who?" Bridgette asked. "Adrien Agreste. Famous model and Marinette's crush." Alya said. "For now. I'm giving him until the end of the school year to notice me. If he doesn't then maybe I'll find a nice guy in New York." Marinette said. "That is if you'll even have time. You probably won't have any with Audrey trying to turn you into a huge fashion designer." Alya pointed out. "Why does he have to notice you? Can't you just talk to him? The guy doesn't have to make the first move." Bridgette said. Alya chuckled. "A few things you need to learn about Marinette is that it's practically impossible for her to speak normally to Adrien. Or even act normally," she said. "Hey girls," Nino said. Him, Adrien, and another boy walked up to the three. "Hey. Who's the new guy?" Alya asked. "Oh, that's Felix. Apparently, he's Adrien's new adopted bro." Nino said. "Felix, can you please throw away that sandwich? Or else I'll do it for you." Adrien said from behind Nino. "You can't force me to do anything Adri-hey!" Adrien snatched Felix's sandwich from him. Felix looked at him annoyed but Adrien simply ignored it and threw it away. Adrien came back to the group. "You're rather rude you know that?" Felix said. "Adrien you just wasted a perfectly good sandwich. Right, Marinette?" Alya looked at her best friend. Marinette was caught off guard. "Uh-" "It was a camembert sandwich. Just bread and camembert, nothing else." Adrien said. He sighed. "Sorry if I'm coming off a bit mean or rude. I'm just stressed. With this being our last year, me thinking of college, modeling, fencing, Chinese, piano practice, I'm just really tired." he said. "We get it, man. Maybe take a day to chill or something. Maybe even talk to your dad telling him that you're being overworked." Nino said, putting a hand on Adrien's shoulder. "Yeah did you really have to take it out on my sandwich?" Felix asked. Everyone gave him a look but Bridgette's was the harshest. No one noticed it though. "Come on Felix. Let's go." Adrien said. He grabbed his wrist and pulled him into the school. Nino followed after them. "I guess we should go in too," Alya said. The three girls walked in.
As they walked into class, Adrien was sitting down while Felix and Nino were arguing. "I'm his best bro, man! I've been sitting next to him for years!" Nino said. "Yeah but I'm his adopted brother now. I should be able to sit next to him." Felix argued back. Adrien sighed. "Come on guys, this is stupid," he said. Alya walked over. "Alright, boys. Let's solve this civilly ok? Since Bridgette and Felix are new and Marinette and Adrien's new adopted siblings, Nino and I will sit somewhere else. Ok?" she said. Nino was shocked but Alya pulled him away before he could say anything. Felix sat down next to Adrien while Marinette and Bridgette took their seats. Marinette looked at her purse. "Are you ok? You seem to keep on checking your purse. Are you missing something?" Bridgette asked. Marinette quickly looked up at her. "No. I-I'm fine. I'm not missing anything." she said. "Just someone " she muttered to herself. Chloe walked in. "Well looks like we've got two new students." she looked at Bridgette and scoffed. "What are you, like Dupain-Cheng's biggest fan? You look almost exactly like her," she said. Bridgette looked at the blond. "Chloe, right? You're Queen Bee also. Now we just kind of met but you don't really seem like the type of person to be a superhero." she said. Chloe was about to say something but Bridgette started again. "But Ladybug and Chat Noir probably have their reasons and I can't argue with that. I'd love to get to know you better. I hope to find out the identities of the rest of our heroes and possibly become friends with them." she said. Chloe scoffed. "I'll make sure that they don't become friends with you. But first, you'll have to find out who they are," she said then took her seat. Adrien turned around. "I think you'd probably be great friends with Chat Noir. I heard he gets along with lots of people," he said. "Yeah, I think you'd get along really well with Ladybug too. I heard that they both get along easily with people. At least nice ones." Marinette said. Bridgette smiled. "Thanks," she said. Miss Bustier walked in and started class
Class was only about halfway through when there was an akuma attack. While everyone was rushing out the doors, Bridgette pulled Marinette into the bathroom. "What are you doing?! There's an akuma attack going on, we need to get home!" Marinette said. Bridgette shook her head. "Spots on," she said. She transformed into Ladybug. Marinette was shocked. How could Bridgette transform? And how could she do it without Tikki? "But- how- I'm- you're-" Ladybug stopped her. "Marinette, It's me, Tikki. Look, I'll explain everything later I promise but I need to go," she said then ran off. Marinette's head was spinning. How was Tikki here as a human and not a kwami? How did she still have Ladybug powers? Could Marinette still transform? "Spots on," she said. Nothing happened. She sighed and walked out. She saw Adrien and before she knew it, he was running up to her. "Marinette, I saw Ladybug come from where you just came from. Did you see who she was?" he asked frantically. "I, uh, no. I didn't. S-she probably came from somewhere else actually." she said. Adrien shook his head. "I'm sure I saw her. Thanks anyway," he said then walked off. She hated seeing Adrien upset.
Did I fix the spacing well enough? Idk. I'm kinda used to writing in one paragraph. Kinda. Not really cause my chapters have multiple paragraphs. Idk why chapter 1 was in one big paragraph. It's late. I need sleep. Chapter three maybe like Sunday? Maybe next week? idk. School and my weekedn is kinda busy. The last paragraph is kinda bad by the way but I don't know really how to fix it. bye bye
