I sighed as I laid down on my bed. After I ate lunch with Alya, I just had the urge to go home and laid down until break finished. With a tiring soul, I reminded myself with the accident that happened today.

Today was kind of hectic and mostly this day had a connection with no other than Adrien Agreste, my crush.

I mean, this morning Adrien just teased me about that love letter thing. I felt a bit offended just to be clear. I didn't really clear though but he's kind of right.

Second, he saved me from a weird guy named Fluer. Alya told me when we ate that he's an upperclassmen though. That fact made my head twirl for a moment. He saved me from a guy who was older than me. Adrien Agreste saved me from an upperclassmen.

That was surprising for a person like me. It's not like every day you got saved from a model—I mean, a famous person.

"Marinette, could you get down for a minute? There's a letter for you!" Mom shouted from below. Letter? I quickly asked to myself.

I sat up quickly and wondered to myself who had gotten me such letter on a broad daylight. "Letter…" I let out a loud exhale as Tikki flew to my face. "Who would send me a letter?"

Tikki grinned from face to face. Nearly like a Cheshire grin you saw on cats. "It's no doubt, Marinette! It must be your secret admirer!"

I widen my eyes as I tried to receive the information. "This secret admirer is getting scarier. He even know my address." I let out a shocking face.

"Oh, Marinette! Everyone knows you live here."

I quickly got off from my bed and glanced at the clock. Almost school time, I guess. I took my bag and descended the stairs. I scanned the living room, searching for a letter that was supposed to be lying on somewhere, waiting for someone picking it.

I saw two letters laid down on the coffee table near the sofa. I picked up the letter and saw that both of them were meant for me. Two letters in two different colors. Red and black which we all know that they're ladybug's colors.

I looked for the sender but both of them were written with "Secret Admirer" on it.

"Do this secret admirer need to send two letters at the same time?" I mumbled and tucked them in my bag. I walked out from my house and went to school.

School turned out not as peaceful as I thought. As soon as I arrived at class, I bumped to an unknown guy and he got mad at me because I'm too clumsy. If I'm not Ladybug, I might've been akumatized at this point.

However, it's not me who was akumatized today.

"ADRIEN AGRESTE! WHERE ARE YOU?!" A shout was heard as we were studying on class. "DON'T HIDE AND COME OUT, YOU PEASANT!"

I quickly glanced at Adrien as the large shout continued its rampage. Adrien tried his best to look calm but he failed. He was nervous enough to sweat until his clothes were a bit damp.

Ms. Bustier who was realizing the situation told the students to hide below their tables so the villain won't see the students. Ms. Bustier herself was out to hide herself or maybe she could draw the villain's attention to her so the students could ran as the villain chasing her.

But the situation doesn't came as expected. The villain has totally no interest with Ms. Bustier and ignored her for good. "ADRIEN AGRESTE!" The villain continued shouting as he emerged to the classroom. "I KNOW YOU'RE THERE!"

I peeked to see a calm-faced villain. It was a bit surprising because most of the villain came out with anger when they hunted down their target. The villain was mostly black and purple—typical HawkMoth's color, I know—with his skin white as paper. His hair was pitch black, his clothes are like gangsters that you usually saw on movies and arts. Difference was, he doesn't wear a hat or something that would camouflage him.

I glanced at my friends. They were mostly scared and trembled. Alya was totally excited in the other side, filming everything she could at the villain while whispering at her phone, "This is Alya. I'm currently hiding from a gangster-looking villain which is targeting the soul of Adrien Agreste, my own classmate and Paris' number one young model."

I gestured at Alya to stay quiet but she ignored me. You can't expect Alya to stay quiet. I forced a smile to myself.

I squirmed out from my hiding place to see a better look at the villain. He was still there, leaning on the teacher's table like he was totally certain Adrien was there. He is right though. I hummed to myself.

Remembering my duty to protect my class as a class representative made me want to drag the villain out and kicked his ass off as Ladybug. Only one problem came to mind, how will I transform if I lure him out and make him chase me out?

While I set aside the possibilities, I stood up quickly and reached out at the villain. The villain doesn't react, only stared at me with a straight face. "Hello, I'm Marinette, the class representative here. Who are you if I could know?" I smiled at the villain with the warmest smile I could manage.

Surprisingly, the villain just stared at me while answering my question. "I'm Double-Cross. I'm currently searching for a guy named Adrien Agreste with the following description." He took out a poster. It wasn't any ordinary poster, it was a WANTED poster that you usually saw on deserts.

"O-Oh, I don't know this person." I gulped a lie. "H-However I saw him ditching class today—from the looks of it because he ran off from the school with a bag along with his friends."

Double-Cross hummed and reached something on his pocket. When he tugged his pocket, a bracelet came out and fell. I grabbed to it and examined it for a minute. Still playing nice-ally, I lent it to Double-Cross. "You dropped something."

The bracelet was pitch black with a tint of purple on it, so I'm guessing it would be his akuma. If I break it now, he'll probably rampage in here and the whole class will be injured. I can't risk that. Double-Cross quickly took it and slid it to his wrist.

"Thank you." He politely said—which totally surprised me. "By any chance, are you Marinette Dupain-Cheng?"

I widen my eyes and gulped my own saliva, hoping nothing bad will happen to me. "Y-Yes…"

He snickered towards me, "Perfect. I was searching you."

"A-Am I wanted or something?" I quickly drowned in nervousness and shock.

He giggled and shook his head, "No. But my friend wanted you so I'm thinking on bringing you to him if I had the chance." He grabbed my wrist violently, making me yelp and made a loud squeak until the whole classroom was filled with it.

I yanked my hand free and backed off from him a few steps backwards. I heard a few thud from behind and a girl's voice shouting, "Nathanael?" I looked behind and saw Nathanael ran towards me, gripped my wrist and made a run.

He ran outside while I heard the villain back there shouting my name. "COME BACK HERE, MARINETTE!" He ran towards me and Nathanael.

Nathanael held my hand tightly, afraid that I would slip away and got captured by Double-Cross.

I ran towards the corridor while having no idea where Nathanael took me away.

The run was long and tiring.

For once, I was amazed at Nathanael who would save me from a villain who unexpectedly wanting me to give for his friend. He ran quite far until he yanked open a door and pushed me inside.

Once we were in, it was black. Pitch black while the only light source we got is only the light from the windows. We crouched down and tried to steady our breaths. "It seems he hasn't caught up yet." He whispered and crawled through the room.

I sat still while worrying if I crawled, I might slipped at something and signal Double-Cross as if we're saying "Hey, Double-Cross. Nathanael and I are here. Waiting for your arrival while hiding on a dark room."

I heard some voices like flutters of hairs, "Thanks, Nathanael for saving me." I thanked him quietly as I heard him crouched at me again. "I'm totally grateful about it and—whoa, what is that?" I changed my sentenced as he showed me something blue on his hand.

"A wig." He quietly said. He showed to me that the wig had the same shade as my hair. He sat on the light and put it on. Then, he tied it to two pigtails, resembling to mine. "I was planning to lure the villain out while you make your run."

I widen my eyes and examined him for a second. He looked quite similar with me except that his eyes were a bit brighter than mine. "You look… quite similar with me, I guess." I giggled quietly.

"You sure? It's a big compliment because I got the chance to cosplay you." Cosplay me? I quickly thought and made a snicker. I looked deep down to his eyes as I realized that right now is the time that I first saw his two eyes without any bangs that covered one of them.

He looked cute. I blushed at the thought and lower my head.

After that, Nathanael chuckled. "I got told that a few times."

Did I said that thought out loud? I mentally slapped myself.

"Yep! You did, Marinette!" Nathanael chuckled and sat closer to me.

I groaned and put my palm to my forehead. "This is a bit… surreal."

He chuckled and stood up. He lent a hand to me, inviting me to stand up with him. I took his hand and he pulled me up.

"I guess I'm Marinette now?" He let a little laugh that made me smiled at him. We stared at each other's eyes for a moment as we studied the beauty of it. Nathanael's eyes was blue as the calm pond you usually saw on a peaceful countryside. Calm and quiet, it explained a bit about Nathanael.

I silently melted down from his gaze until a shout break us up, "MARINETTE DUPAIN-CHENG! I KNOW YOU'RE NEAR HERE!" Double-Cross.

Nathanael looked steady and made a few brushes on his wig. "Our blazers were the same shade so I think Double-Cross won't realize soon?"

I nodded at him as I gave him a hug. We're practically the same height and probably the same body size. I guess that could camouflage much.

I felt a small squeeze near my breasts as I hug him tighter. I looked up at him confusedly and he got the question from my eyes. "It's fake breasts. The drama club sometimes got these things in case they got someone to cross-dress as a girl."

"MARINETTE DUPAIN-CHENG! ADRIEN AGRESTE!"

Nathanael pulled away and gave a small peck to my forehead, "I hope you stayed safe, Marinette! Ran if you saw him away, kay?" I nodded. "Great." He reached for the doorknob and opened the door, letting a handful of light came in.

He ran away from the room. "Hey, Double-Cross!" He imitated my voice—and it's totally similar with mine—to catch Double-Cross' attention. "Don't even touch anyone! Just get me!" He ran as I heard a grunt from the other side.

Loud thumps of shoes got quieter as time flies by.

Nathanael saved me from a villain.

He sacrificed himself just to make sure I'm safe.

He might be one of the most caring person in the world. Anyone would be lucky to have him. His sweet self and his selfless side.