OMG! I'm super sorry this took so long to get out... I was so caught up with a lot of work and I had finals... But i've already started on the next two chapters to hopefully be out very soon since i'm on holiday! Anyway thanks for your guy's patience and thank you for all the views and follows and reviews for this fic! I'm super glad that you guys are enjoying it!
As soon as Marinette got home she tossed her backpack to the side of the desk, and with spread arms, free fell onto the bed, smushing her face into the covers as deep as she was no doubt about it, she was absolutely done for.
Tikki drifted out of her bag, a little wobbly, and floated over to the bed sitting beside her chosen, "It wasn't that bad..?" There was a hint of question in her tone but she tried as best she could to cover it up with her positive thinking as usual.
"It wasn't that bad…?" The girl muffled into her comforter making inaudible sounds. Marinette gripped onto the blankets launching herself into an upright position, "It wasn't THAT BAD!? I don't know whose backpack you were in all day but it most certainly wasn't MINE!" and with that, She collapsed back onto her bed again, face first, hoping the sheets could smother her embarrassment. Marinette reached up, and grabbed a couple of pillows dragging them towards her head to cover herself, "Today freaking sucked.."
She really couldn't lie. Marinette's first day of school probably wasn't the best, but Tikki pursed her lips trying to keep a rather large smile from forming across her face, "Okay, so maybe today wasn't the best- but think I know something that would make it better.." She finally broke out into a grin.
It was almost as if Marinette could feel her ears perking. Was there really something that could make this day any better? Because, when it came to Tikki trying to make things better, her way of doing so was drowning in a pile of cookies. Marinette proceeded with caution, the look on Tikki's face didn't give that warmth that it usually had, making her eyebrows furrowed, " What did you have in mind…?"
"As I seem to recall it is a Tuesday, and you know what that means…" she began not alluding anything easy to the clueless Marinette in front of her, soon gesturing up to the clock, "And it looks like in about two hours your favorite Tom Cat's going to be waiting for you~"
Her face began heating up.
"And Chat Noir knows that you're 100% a gir-"
Quickly, hurled a pillow into her direction knocking her out of the air and onto the bed, "Shut up!" the dark haired girl shouted smothering herself with one of the other pillows against her face.
"Mari!" She heard her mother call from downstairs.
Marinette started patting her cheeks quickly in attempt to get the flushed red color out of them, "Y-Yeah?" Marinette called back.
"Alya is here! They said they needed some help with homework!"
Quickly, she scrambled for her phone.
No notifications
No messages from Alya.
Usually she text before coming over…
Tightening the small ponytail resting on the back of her head she quickly, made her way down the steep steps into the kitchen area, where her mom gestured towards the living room.
"Hey Alya, you didn't tell me you were coming ov-"
Great. I guess I should have known it wouldn't have been just Alya but instead the two boys who'd given me the tour around school earlier. Shit – I was so preoccupied through the day that I forgot their names and to top it all off: they still think i'm a guy..
"Yeah, we just needed some help with homework and we thought we could hang out for a while." Alya smiled again grabbing the two boys by their arms and dragging them towards the stairs.
"Well-" The three zipped past and ran up the stairs, "Wait! Alya!" Marinette quickly chased after them and could only feel more humiliated when she saw them staring bewildered around her bedroom.
Adrien couldn't say that it looked like how he pictured. Though- he couldn't say that this was how he pictured any teenage boy's room, and then again who was he to judge? The room looked pristine, well kept and very… pink. The only thing he could find just out of place were a couple pillows looking like they'd been tossed from the bed and a backpack hurled into the corner of the room near the desk.
Alya, without hesitation, rushed over to the bed and leapt on it flopping over onto her side with a rather large, relaxed sigh into the comforter of her friend's bed.
Marinette, still catching her breath, started to speak, unknowingly at the same time as the blonde boy who stood across the room from her shuffling through his backpack.
"I can only hang out for a couple hours, I'm busy today."
The two stared dumbfounded at each other.
"I-I've got fencing practice!" Adrien stammered out followed swiftly by a jittery Marinette,
"I have to pick up groceries for the bakery!" Ugh, what a shitty excuse… If there was anything that Marinette was more terrible at it was lying and her excessive use of the whole 'groceries' excuse was something that Alya had heard endlessly. It wasn't like she could just tell Alya something random, like she was going to practice, or work, or had too much homework, because Alya knew everything there was to know about Marinette, which kept her at a great disadvantage.
"Uhg, didn't you get stuff for them last week?" Alya complained kicking her feet up into the air.
"Well yeah but-"
"You can't expect a bakery to run without food, Alya." Nino teased pulling up Marinette's desk chair next to the bed and slinging his backpack off his shoulder, "Don't worry Marin, we'll be outta your hair in a but- Alya said you were good at physics and we're struggling with the homework."
Actually, it's Marinette… Maybe she should say something.. They don't seem that bad and she was sure that they'd understand..but yet again she couldn't buckle down and fins the courage to speak up so she ignored it and went on.
The girl looked down; there really wasn't a way she could say no to them. Now was her chance to make friends – ones like Alya had told her about, going out together to the movies, to lunches, on weekend trips together. As much as she treasured Alya there was never any hard in expanding her list of friends, "I guess I could help.." she mumbled shyly, walking over to her backpack and bringing it over to her bed to shuffle through for her folder.
Being that it had already been September, Marinette was aware that she had missed out on a lot of the material but – it didn't seem to affect her. All things considered – her parents were some of the greatest teachers she could have asked for and she believed that they were probably some of the smartest people in the world. She could only thank her mother for her knowledge in physics. Marinette took out her notebook and slid out the small worksheet their teacher had assigned and looked over it quickly.
This is what they were having so much trouble with…?
There was a feeling of an overwhelming guilt that came over her.
I learned this in middle school…
She leaned over pointing to the first problem on the paper but something caught her eye. She slowly looked up seeing the blonde boy standing awkwardly in the middle of the room. There was only had one desk chair and Alya was sprawled out on most of the bed. So she scooted over a bit and patted the mattress beside her.
He could feel his cheeks warming, why was he so nervous? Hesitating at first he slowly made his way over to the bed sitting beside Marin. The bed was extremely comfortable- he could see why Alya a beeline straight for it but there was something else. Marin given off certain warmth… almost like it emitted off his body but it somehow seemed familiar.
"Does that make sense?" She asked, looking over at the boy sitting beside her as he zoned back in from where ever he had gone off to.
"Yo, Adrien – you alright?" Nino asked leaning forward in his chair.
Adrien was his name… "Adrien," was it alright to say his name? "Do you need me to explain again..?" She questioned again, furrowing her eyebrows.
Marin's eyes… They almost reminded him of-
Alya lurched forward leaning on Adrien's shoulders, "This guy is always zoning out, and you'll get used to it, Mari."
Adrien blushed in embarrassment shoving his face back into his papers and quickly jotting down what he had recalled Marin say, "I-I wasn't zoning out I was just thinking about the answer!"
"Ugh, whatever, you know- you and Mari have the same faces when you zone out." Alya added.
"We do..?"
She shot a gaze over at Alya. C'mon… All she wanted was just to try to make friends… Was it necessary to embarrass her this early on?
"Yeah" Alya began crossing her legs pointing at Adrien, "Except you make that face when you're daydreaming about homework, and Mari makes that face when she's daydreaming about boys-"
"Alya!" Her hands flew up to her face. Maybe, just maybe this time, if Marinette couldn't see them then they couldn't see her... But that wasn't the case. Honestly this day couldn't get any worse… But she wasn't about to doubt the universe for just one second that it could make it worse.
"Hey, it's alright, dude." Nino said, with a soft smile on his face, "I get the same way you got nothing to be ashamed of." He joked nudging her shoulder.
This was going terribly. Honestly, she just wanted to get out of there and go because if there was anyone who could turn the girl's day around it would be Chat. Only an hour left – and she doubted by any force in her mind that something would go wrong. It was bound to happen.
"No really! You should see Mari when we're watching interviews and videos of Chat Noir!"
Nope, she couldn't hold it back any longer, this was it. Was she going to die right here of embarrassment? Well, if she did, it'd been a good life and now she knew for her next time around to never tell anyone anything about her life. Suddenly, Marinette launched herself, pillow in hand and hurled it towards Alya.
Adrien couldn't help but feel embarrassed, not just for himself but for Marin- he couldn't quite imagine the feeling of all this happening at once, being outed by his friend and revealing his crush- there had to be something he could do to try to get the attention away from him.
The blonde leaned back on the bed, propping himself up, "Marin, don't sweat it, Nino makes the same face when he thinks about Al-"
As soon as he felt Nino's arm wrapping around his neck in a headlock, Adrien quickly began 'tapping out' on his friend's arm
Marinette saw the blond's face go from white to red and bit her lip to hold back the laughter.
It wasn't long before Alya shot up underneath her grip and began to try to pry Nino off of Adrien, She assumed that this was probably a normal occurrence, "Nino's got a crush~" Alya taunted with a big grin up at the boy.
"S-Shut up! He was just joking!" Nino said, trying to make an excuse for the pure idiocy that his best friend was emitting.
"It doesn't look like he was jokin-"
"Adrien and Marin have places they need to be let's just get our stuff done and get out." Nino pouted slumping back on his chair.
Homework didn't last too much longer, considering that Marinette had known the materials fairly well and was able to go over it quickly and her three new friends were off on their way, and to make her day a little bit better, she had been added into her first "group-chat" she was really making friends- and despite how embarrassed they made her they didn't seem to judge her for it… Maybe- maybe they wouldn't be so angry or off-put if she told them that she was really a girl….
