Marinette walked into the bakery to be greeted by a very angry blonde.

"MARINETTE DUPAIN-CHENG!" she screamed shrilly, "YOU HAVE A LOT OF EXPLAINING TO DO!"

"Chloe! Not so loud, sheesh it's barely even eight in the morning." Marinette grumbled, crossing her arms as Alya walked up to them, "what do you want?"

"what do I want?" She snarled, "don't act like you don't know! What are you doing, on this video, getting proposed to by Adrien, MY ADRIEN!"

"he's not an object that you own," Marinette said, "and you two were never dating! He's free to see whoever he wants."

Chloe narrowed her eyes at Marinette, "what are you blackmailing him with?" she growled.

"I'm not you Chloe, I don't blackmail people with anything." Marinette said, "how hard is it for you two believe that me and him just genuinely like each other?"

"Very," she snapped, "you're plain, klutzy nobody who's name isn't even worth remembering! Why would he ever fall for you when he can fall for me, beautiful, regal mayors daughter!?"

"because you're a bitch." Alya said from beside Marinette.

"Stay out of this Cesaire!" chloe said.

"No," Alya said, walking towards Chloe, "you've been a vindictive bitch ever since I met you, you can't even be happy for others, just nothing but plain, nasty, evil! I will not let you shit on this beautiful time for Marinette and Adrien." As she spoke she drove Chloe back to the door, her words and demeanor actually scaring the other girl, "I won't threaten to post this conversation online, even though I could do it in a blink, no, instead, I'll give you a promise, you try to step in between Adrien and Marinette, you try to start up false rumors, you try to make Marinette's life any harder than it already is, then I will personally hunt you down, and kick your ass, and your daddy wont' be able to save you from the down home ass whoopin' that I will be delivering, nod if you understand."

Chloe nodded numbly, before quickly running away.

Alya smiled and turned around to Marinette, who had watched the confrontation with wide eyes, "that…was awesome." She whispered.

"Certified best friend here." Alya said smugly, throwing an arm around her best friend's shoulders, "I'll take a baseball bat to someone's knee's for you."

Marinette smiled, wiping away a small tear.

"I get the feeling that we're going to be seeing a lot of friends today." Alya said as they started walking up the stairs.

"it's going to be a long day…isn't it?" Marinette asked as her phone beeped, she pulled it out and found several texts from almost all of her friends, most of them stating that they would be going by the bakery soon. "it is." She groaned.

"I'm sure they just want to see you." Alya said, "and congratulate you."

"I know…I just don't think I can handle Rose squealing today."

Alya laughed, "well, you better prepare yourself, Alix just texted me and said the girls are headed over."

Marinette groaned slightly, "let's go get ready."

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Gabriel woke up with a pounding head-ache, "ugh…" he muttered, sitting up slightly.

"Monsieur Agreste?" Natalie called from his door, "are you up sir?"

"yes Natalie," Gabriel grumbled, slowly getting out of bed, "what's on the agenda today?"

"more meetings with the board today, the Mayor would like to have lunch with you today, and Madam Cheng called wondering if you would like to get together with her and Monsieur Dupain and discuss the engagement."

Gabriel scratched his head, "tell the mayor that I am far too busy to have lunch with him today, and try and schedule a lunch with him within this week, and tell Madam Cheng that I would be delighted to speak with her about the engagement."

"yes sir, your first meeting is in an hour." And with that, Natalie turned around and started to walk away.

"and Natalie." Gabriel called, making her stop in her tracks.

"yes sir?" she asked.

"you will be accompanying me to the meeting with Madam Cheng and her husband," he said.

"sir?" she asked in surprised.

Gabriel walked out of the room, now completely changed in his usual business suit.

"is there a problem Natalie?" he asked her.

"N-not at all sir, no." she said, tapping away on her iPad, "I'll get everything prepared."

"thank you Natalie." He said, walking towards his office, "Is Adrien awake?"

"yes sir, he just left to drop by the bakery." She said, "I believe he wanted to go see his betrothed."

Gabriel nodded, "be sure to remind him that he has a photo shoot this afternoon."

"yes sir."

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"I can't believe you're getting married!" Rose squealed, making Marinette wince slightly.

"yeah, it's amazing." Juleka said with a slight smile, "when's the wedding going to be?"

"um…we haven't exactly talked about it." Marinette said, "I mean, he just proposed last night, so I don't know…maybe in the summer? After graduation…or after…"

'after what?" Alix asked, the pink haired girl was sitting on Marinette's bed, leaning against the wall as she threw a tennis ball at the adjacent wall.

"Well…" she looked at Alya, who nodded encouragingly, "I um…I recently found out that i…well, I'm pregnant."

Alix looked at her in surprise, "What?"

"No way." Mylene whispered.

'You're pregnant!?" Rose gushed.

"you're kidding." Juleka said, her eye widening slightly.

"not kidding," Alya said, "I was there when they found out, god it was angsty."

Alix laughed, "with those two, I believe it." She grunted as she jumped off Marinette's bed, "I gotta go, congrats Marinette."

"We gotta go too," Rose said, standing up, "me and Juleka are going to go meet Ali, see you at school Marinette! Bye Alya!"

the two waved them off, then looked at Mylene, who was still looking at Marinette with surprise.

"pregnant…' Mylene whispered.

"yeah," Marinette said with a nervous chuckle.

"Pregnant…" she said again.

"yeah," Alya said cautiously.

Mylene stood up and walked up to Marinette, carefully putting her hand on Marinette's stomach, "you're pregnant…" she said softly.

Marinette giggled, "yeah."

"oh my god," Mylene said, her eyes widening, "you have to let me and Ivan babysit!"

"you're going to have to fight Alya for that." Marinette said in amusement.

"oh yeah, I'm the baby's aunt and godmother." Alya said, "I get to babysit."

"godmother?" Marinette asked.

"Sssssh, let it happen."

Mylene laughed, "I have to go, but congratulations Marinette."

"thanks Mylene," she said, watching the other girl leave.

"So," Alya said, jumping up, "I've got a date, but when it's over, I'm totally gonna come over."

"uh…why?"

"So we can start planning girl!" Alya said excitedly, "put together the Wedding of the Year!"

"Alya, it's probably going to be a small event, nothing to even sniff at."

"uh girl…the entire schools going to want to go to it." Alya said, "and if I know anything about Adrien's life, it's gonna be covered by a lot of people."

Marinette groaned, "this is going to stress me out."

'that's why I'm here." Alya said, hugging her, "super maid of honor, at your service, see you later girl."

Marinette waved good bye and started to climb the stairs towards her bed.

"Marinette!" Sabine called from downstairs, making Marinette groan.

"yes Maman?" Marinette asked wearily, walking towards her trap door as Sabine peaked her head in.

"just making sure you're still awake, Adrien's in the living room, waiting for you."

'he is?" she asked in surprise, slowly walking down the stairs and peeking into the living room, Where Adrien and her dad were sitting on the couch, uncomfortably looking anywhere but each other.

"Adrien? What are you doing here?" Marinette asked in confusion, looking at her father nervously.

"I came to see if you wanted to go get something to eat, maybe talk about the wedding?" he said, carefully standing up, still glancing nervously at Tom.

"um…I would like that," she said, "if I can…" she looked at Tom, who looked at her, then at Sabine before standing up,

"I'm gonna go man the cashier." He mumbled, waking downstairs while Sabine sighed.

"go ahead honey," she said with a smile to Marinette, "and when you get back, I want you to tell me everything you two have decided on."

"Okay Maman." Marinette said dejectedly as Adrien walked up to her, carefully intertwining his hand with her.

"we'll be back soon Ms. Dupain." Adrien told her with a smile, gently walking Marinette down the stairs.

"take care of her Adrien," Sabine said, "and make sure she eats semi-healthy."

"Will do."

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"you can't keep pretending she's not here,"

Tom looked up from the register to glance at his wife, who was busily icing a cake, she wasn't even facing him, but he knew she was mad at him.

"I'm not pretending she's not here." Tom said quietly.

"then what do you call not looking her in the eye when she talks to you?" she asked, an edge coming to her voice, "what do you call walking out of a room when she walks in? what do you call making up an excuse to walk away when she tries to ask you a question?"

Tom hesitated, then sighed, "I'm just…I don't like this." he said, 'She's growing up too fast…I mean a baby and she's getting married? That wasn't supposed to happen for…well, not this soon at least!"

Sabine stopped working and walked up to her husband, wrapping her arms around him, "she isn't going to stay our little girl forever tom, and if you keep acting the way you do, she won't even stay our daughter, you're driving her away, and it kills me to think that you're doing it on purpose for something so meaningless."

Tom relaxed slightly, "I'll…I'll try and talk to her when she comes home…

"that's all I ask," Sabine said, kissing his cheek, "Now get ready, I told Monsieur Agreste that we'd go speak with him about the engagement tonight, and I won't be going alone."