And here is chapter 3, it is a bit longer than the previous chapters, but I got a bit carried away :). Thanks for all who commented, I'm really thankful for the constructive criticism, I will try my hardest to take that advice! Anyway, I hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Miraculous Ladybug, I'm just a huge fan with a big passion for writing

Alya's POV

I knew that Nino and Adrien were friends, but something was up. First Nino put on his thinking face, and then lied to me, before telling me it was private. Then Adrien came in looking like a total mess, and they both vanished in an instant. And now, Nino turned our date into a social gathering.

I didn't want to be mad, but I was getting the feeling that Nino was hinting at something. I pushed the thoughts out of my mind. I was just being a drama queen. So, as I walked next to Marinette, behind Nino and Adrien, I listened intently to my best friends blabbering.

"And then I cut the fabric but I cut it wrong and I had to unpick the entire sleeve because I had sewn it at a weird angle and it was a total disaster!" She looked at me and I laughed, but I had hesitated, and she knew it. "Are you good?" She asked.

"Yeah, just tired." I said, making up an excuse on the spot. I yawned for extra effect.

"Haha, of course you are!" Marinette laughed. Phew, she had bought my lame excuse.

Marinette's POV

I did not buy Alya's lame excuse. Not for one second. But, if she didn't want to talk about it, she didn't have to, and I knew there was no way of me convincing her to. So I let it slide and moved on.

"So, how are things with you and Nino going?" I asked curiously. I pretended not to notice when she clenched her jaw and inhaled sharply.

"Fine." she replied. The single word was full of so many emotions. She was hurt, surprised, jealous, torn, but most distinctly, she was confused. If we weren't right behind the two guys, I would have talked it through with her. But the risk of them overhearing was one I was not willing to take.

We arrived at Nino's house, and raided the pantry for snacks. We played on the Xbox, watched movies and mocked our teachers. When it began to get dark, we convinced our parents to let us sleepover. Alya and I were in the lounge room, and they boys were in Nino's bedroom. I could tell this would be a sleepless night full of deep conversations, just by the looks that Alya was giving me. So, when we finished watching the 3rd movie of the day at 10:00 pm, we decided that it was probably time for bed. And by bed, I mean lying down, not the sleeping part.

I was already in bed when Alya finished brushing her teeth. She plonked down and lay her head on the Ladybug print cushion her parents had dropped off. We both stared at each other when I decided to break the ice.

"You want to tell me what's up with you and Nino?" I asked her. She shuffled in her air bed, obviously uncomfortable.

"Its nothing." She said.

"Liar!"

"Fine, I'll tell you. But not a word to Nino." She warned. Finally we were getting somewhere.

"I promise!"

Nino's POV

"Is it bad the way he is treating me? Like, I get that it is bad but is it really bad bad?" He asked nervously.

"Yeah its bad bad, look at how its changed you!" I said gently. "Look," I began. "I think you should tell someone about this. Not just the feeling useless stuff, the fact that this model diet is wrecking you!" As I said it, Adrien's words echoed in my head.

"He wants me to be skinnier, so I eat 3 meals a day, breakfast is a protein shake, lunch is a salad, and dinner...it always changes. If I told him I has snacks toady, he would have been super mad! The thing is, I'm really underweight, and I'm always tired and out of energy. I told him that and he said it was just my imagination. But I don't think my imagination can be this close to reality."

"I did!" Said the blonde. "I told you!" I shook my head.

"Dude, you know that's not what I mean. I don't know what to say all the time, and I'm not always around. What about Marinette, or Alya, or-"

"Ladybug!" He exclaimed loudly.

"Shhh! You'll wake my parents!" I whisper screamed. "But yeah. Tell Ladybug. I know that she will be able to listen and help." As his eyes opened wide I knew I had said to much.

"How do you know?!"

"I, um, just expect that someone as nice as Ladybug would be a good listener." I stammered.

"Liar! I can see right through you Nino! Tell me the truth." He pleaded, glaring at me slightly. I let out a long sigh.

"Fine, okay, okay, so I saw who Ladybug was just before the battle, so I know her identity! And no, I am not telling you!" I told him.

"Hmph. Fine. But can we change the topic now?" I rolled my eyes.

"Whatever!"

Marinette's POV

We both heard Adrien yell "Ladybug!", so immediately Alya was interested.

"Let's go listen to their conversation!" She whispered excitedly. I nodded, wanting to hear what the boys thought about me when I was under the mask. However, when we got there, they had changed the subject. To a much better one.

"On a scale of one to 10, how much do you love Alya?" We heard Adrien ask. Alya had to clamp her hand over my mouth to stop me from blowing our cover by laughing.

"Dude, 11!" It took every ounce of energy to hold in my laughing explosion when I saw the color of Alya's blushed cheeks. I gave her the 'I told you so' look which made her cheeks go even brighter. It took us about 10 seconds to calm down, and when we did, the boys were going deeper and deeper.

"What about you?" Nino asked. "This mystery girl who you won't tell me the name off?"

"Well," Adrien began. I could picture him rubbing the back of his neck nervously. "The reason I didn't tell you is because it wasn't a mystery girl. It was two. But now, I figured one was kinda a celebrity crush, and I think I've fallen for the second girl."

"Ooh, tell me tell me tell me!" Said Nino, who was almost as excited as Alya and I.

"Ok, but no telling!" Said Adrien seriously. "Its...Marinette."

I literally yelped and shot towards the door frame, but Alya pulled me back. Unfortunately she pulled to hard and we both fell over with a crash. Not loud enough too wake Nino's parents, but definitely loud enough to startle the boys.

"What was that?" We heard Nino ask.

"Come on!" I whispered to Alya as we picked ourselves up to make a run for it. We were up on our feet in no time, but in the same amount of time the boys were peeking out the door staring at us. They both looked shocked. Adrien's cheeks went bright red, and he rushed back into the room, obviously upset. I internally punched myself for being so stupid. Nino just stood there giving us the "I'm disappointed" face. Finally he broke the silence.

"Not cool dudes!" He said, then followed Adrien.

"Oh what have is done what have I done?" I whimpered to Alya.

"Go talk to him!" She said, loud enough for the boys to hear. "Tell his that you like him back!"

"Alya!" I cried. I knew the boys had heard, heck the whole neighborhood had heard.

"You'll thank me later!" She said. I was so mad I didn't know what to do. Alya was supposed to be my friend, and now this?

"Not cool!" I said, feeling that quoting Nino would get the message through. And with that I stormed out and locked myself in the bathroom.

Nino's POV

I was so mad at the girls for making Adrien feel like this. I was giving him encouraging words when we heard Alya yelling at Marinette.

"Go talk to him!" We heard her say.

"No no no don't do that." Adrien mumbled

"Tell him that you like him back!" Adrien jerked his head up at this. The poor dude was at his limit. We barley cared about what happened after, I was more concentrated on calming Adrien down. He was breathing rapidly, short sharp breaths.

"Dude, its Ok, I'm here, don't worry, just slow your breathing." I said, trying to calm him down. I did not want him hyperventilating.

"Its just too much," He spluttered. "All too much."

"Dude, I need you to slow you breathing!" I said, letting urgency lace my words. I squeezed his hand which for some reason seemed to help. I don't know how long we were on the floor for, but gradually Adrien seemed to calm down. I brought some pillows over, and Adrien hugged one tightly to his chest. I didn't care that it was being soaked in tears, all I cared about was Adrien.

"Feeling any better?" I asked him. He shrugged.

"Not really. I don't know how I will be able to even look at her without breaking down." He said. His sobs had now turned into small hiccups.

"I'm sure it will all work itself out." I said comfortingly. He nodded half heartedly. "Hey, how about we get some sleep!" Without a word he made his way to his bed, as did I. It was only minutes later that he was sound asleep, snoring away. I checked my clock. 12:03. I quietly made my way out of the room and down the stairs to the girls area. Alya was lying on her bed, eyes open staring at her phone. She noticed me and gave me a nod. I looked around and saw no Marinette.

"Where is she?" I asked.

"In the bathroom," Replied Alya, obviously annoyed. "She wouldn't come out, so I gave up trying. She's been in there for over an hour now." I didn't bother saying bye to Alya, I went straight to my bedroom and rummaged for a key in one of my draws. Careful not to wake Adrien, I exited the room and praying that Marinette was presentable, unlocked the door of the bathroom. At first I saw no Marinette. Then, I moved in and saw she was in the bathtub. Asleep. In the bathtub. She was using towels as blankets, and her hands were above her head acting as a pillow. I couldn't leave her like this.

I scooped her up as gently as I could and carried her too my room. Adrien and I couldn't decide who got the bed, so we both slept on air beds on the floor. This left the proper bed free for a sleeping Marinette. I lay Marinette on the bed and she stirred.

"Shhh." I whispered. Its Ok go back to sleep." She rolled onto her side and continued snoring softly. I smiled to myself. Were all my friends snorers? I saw it was 12:15 and decided to get some sleep myself. My head hit the pillow and all if a sudden I was taken into a world of dreams.

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"Nino, Nino wake up!" As I opened my eyes I was blinded by the sunlight flooding through my window.

"What time is it?" I asked Adrien still half asleep.

"8 o'clock." he said. I shot up.

"Dude schools in - "

"Dude it's Saturday! No school!" I breathed a sigh of relief. "But, um, Marinette snuck into our room and is asleep on your bed!" I yawned and smiled at the same time.

"Dude I brought her in." I told a very confused Adrien. "She was sleeping in the bathtub!"

"Oh," Adrien said softly. "Okay then, I guess that's fine then. Um, I'm not ready to have breakfast with the girls yet." He said, obviously embarrassed. I felt so sorry for the guy.

"Hey, dude that's okay. We can have it in here if you want?" I offered. He nodded.

"Yes please, thanks Nino!"

"All good dude. I'll go get the bowls and cereal." I said making my way down to the kitchen.

Adrien's POV

I looked nervously at the bluenette sleeping in Nino's bed. She lay on top of the blanket on her back, her facial expression - anything but peaceful. She wore a loose pastel pink shirt with a love heart, and black and white striped shorts. She looked kinda cute.

I was instantly overwhelmed with emotions so I moved back to my bed and lay down. This whole thing was so messed up, and I didn't know what to make of it. I was distracted of my thoughts as Nino brought in the breakfast kit. As I saw the wide range of cereals, I knew my stomach would be satisfied. I wasn't supposed to eat them, but I was going to, because I knew that my father was wrong! I pushed down all the anger, and grabbed a bowl and the pack of cornflakes. We poured our cereal in at the same time, making a large pinging noise. I froze as Marinette stirred and murmured to herself "Where am I?" I scooted back to the corner of the room as Nino gave me the "I'll deal with it" look.

"Hey Mari," Nino said soothing.

"Where am I? Is Adrien okay, where did Alya go?" She spluttered.

"Wow wow wow questions later, you're in my room on my bed. You had fallen asleep in the bath, so I brought you here. But, I need you to go back to Alya now." Nino explained. She seemed fine, until he mentioned Alya.

"No, no, no, I'm not doing that!" She said, getting up and running to the other side of the room.

"Come on Mari," Nino urged, beginning to get frustrated "You need to go down to Alya!"

"No I don't!" Marinette yelled. "I won't!"

"This isn't about you Marinette! This is about Adrien, who doesn't want to be around you anymore!"

You know how they say people explode when they are angry. Well, right now, we had just seen Nino explode, and it was contagious.

"What?" I shouted, emerging from my corner. "I never said that!"

"If I had gotten the chance to talk I would have but when I was going to, Alya ruined everything!" Screamed Marinette.

"For heaven's sake Marinette this is not about you! Not everything is about you!" Yelled Nino.

"Hey Nino that's not fair to say, she's just been hurt by her best-" I didn't even bother finishing, they were already exploding at each other.

"I'm not making everything about me I'm explaining myself! And if you has any respect, you would understand that and give me a chance!"

"I'm sorry respect? Respect has to be earned! And by the way you acted last night, I don't think you have earned any respect!"

I was so done with this. I ran out the door without either of the two noticing and rushed downstairs. I found Alya watching the news on the TV, so I sat down next to her. I could still hear the two loud and clear, and so could Alya. Without a word,she put her arm around me, just like Nino had done on many occasions.

"I'm such a horrible friend," She mumbled. "I just...lost it, I guess." I rested my head on her shoulder.

"You did a dumb thing," I told her. "But everyone does dumb things. Can you hear those two? But I know Marinette will forgive you. Eventually." I felt myself blushing, and tears stung my eyes, but Alya didn't care.

"Thanks bro," she said. She paused for a while, then began an explanation. "Last night, I heard you yell out "Ladybug", so of course I was interested. It was my idea to go listen to you guys, and I convinced Marinette to follow. Then when we got there, you guys were talking about something else. Marinette got so overexcited that she blew our cover, but then I got overexcited and blew our friendship. She doesn't want to be anywhere near me any more, you heard her." she said sadly. We were silent as Marinette and Nino's squabble continued.

"You hurt my best friend, and I'm not Ok with that!" Nino said, sounding exasperated.

"Well you hurt my best friend without even realizing it!" Marinette threw back. Alya's eyes opened wide. I could tell just by the look on Alya's face that Marinette has just blabbed a secret. I put my arm around her.

"Tell me about it." I told her encouragingly. She shook her head.

"You're his best friend." she said sadly.

"What's wrong with that?" I asked. She obviously couldn't come up with an answer.

"Fine," She said. "It all stared this morning..."

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Alya's POV

I don't know why I decided to tell Adrien. It just felt right, I guess. I don't know how, it just did. As I blurted out my side of the story, his green eyes stared at me intently, soaking in every detail. When I was done, it was obvious that it was his turn to start talking.

"Its not his fault Alya." he said. I must have put in my shocked face, because he continued to explain."I dragged him into this. My Dad is...well, he's my Dad. I needed someone to talk to so I told Nino. Its been getting worse so he invited me over. I didn't know that originally it's was a date, I'm really sorry for intruding." I was stunned. I definitely had not seen this coming.

"I guess it was just a...misunderstanding." I said. Adrien smiled.

"You guessed right," He said. "Do you want to crash their party?" He asked

"Party?" I asked raising my eyebrow. "Not the word I would have used, but sure!"