Marinette's P.O.V

"Marinette?"

I spun around so fast I think I heard my neck crack.

There stood a wide-eyed Alya, desperately clutching onto her phone like it was some sort of lifeline. "A-alya" I tried to get out

"Y-you're Ladybug," She said with a hint of sadness in her voice

I whipped my head around to make sure no one could hear our conversation, seeing as we were still in the club "Can we maybe talk about this somewhere else?" I said with a pleading look

She looked around and seemed to realize where we were, then nodded at me briefly, before following me into the locker room.

I closed the door to the locker room then did a quick scan to make sure we were alone. I sat down on the bench closest to me and looked down at my feet.

Oh my god. Alya's gonna hate me forever, isn't she? She's never going to want to have anything to do with me ever again and I'm going to be all alone, and she'll tell Adrien I'm desperately in love with him, and then he'll think I'm a weirdo and then he'll date Chloe, and my life will be ruined!

"Marinette," She said, and I realized I hadn't been listening to her, as I was far too busy drowning in the possibility of losing my best friend

"S-sorry" I stuttered

"Why didn't you tell me?" She frowned and crossed her arms over her body

"I-I don't know" I started. And I really didn't know why I didn't tell her when she told me she got an invite "I guess I got scared" I said looking at me feet

"Scared of what?" She asked, and I could hear the hurt and confusion in her voice

"Well you just kept going on about how great Ladybug was," I said finally meeting her eyes "And I guess I thought that if I told you that I was Ladybug, you just wouldn't think that she was anything special anymore," I said shrugging

It was the truth.

Alya had talked about Ladybug like she was some hero saving people. I was scared that I would lose her if I told her it was me. I mean what can I do? Dance? Ladybug wasn't me no matter how much I wanted her to be. She was just what I wished I was.

"Oh Mari," She said finally, taking a seat next to me. She put a hand on my shoulder and made me look at her "I would never, ever think any of those things" She said sweetly

"In fact" She continued, a smirk making its way onto her face, "I think that you are soooo much cooler now that you're Ladybug" She laughed, making me let out a sigh of relief I didn't know I was holding in

"Really?" I asked laughing with her now

"Really." She said smiling at me "And, I heard a certain blonde talking to our friend with a red hat about how much he admires a certain spotted bug" She winked at me

No matter how misleading that sentence may have been for anyone else, I understood it perfectly "ADRIEN WAS TALKING ABOUT LADYBUG?!" I shrieked jumping up in pure excitement, and shock.

"Mmhm" She nodded her head, crossing her arms, with her signature smirk

"Wait," I said dumbfounded "How does Adrien even know who Ladybug is?" I said confusion overtaking me

"Oh my god." Alya said looking wide-eyed at me "Do you think he dances here?" She asked

"Alya there's no way" I snorted "I know just about everyone here, plus why would he ever go against his father. He was the one that banned breakdancing from the studio" I said pointedly

"That's a good point," She said, confusion was still written across her face "But everyone here is in disguise, he could just be really good at hiding who he is" She pointed out

"Maybe," I said considering it for a second "But wouldn't we have seen someone who looks similar to Adrien if he really was dancing here?"

"You would think" She snorted "I don't know, your little kitty friend has blonde hair and green eyes" She pointed out

"Chat?!" I whispered shouted, half appalled, half shocked because she was right "It 100% is NOT Chat Noir" I said with confidence "I would know by now. I mean I have to dance with him tomorrow" I said

"You and Chat are dancing tomorrow?" She asked excitedly

"Yeah, why?"

"Okay don't get mad," She said, I looked over worried

"Alya what did you do?" I said bringing a hand to my forehead

"In hindsight, I didn't know it was you at the time, but I made a fan page for you and Chat Noir," She said bringing out my phone so she could show me "It's called the Ladyblog, and I have all of your dance battles up on the sight since you've started dancing here. I have weekly updates, and a column trying to guess who you really are..." She chuckled awkwardly at the last part "But I'll stop updating that part"

I laughed "Alya you're the best," I said throwing my arms around her neck in a hug

She returned it instantly "And you're the bug!" She laughed at her own joke

"Haha," I said rolling my eyes, only then did I glance back down at her outfit "Hey, what's your name?"

"What?" She confused

"No" I snorted "Like your 'stage name' as Plagg would say"

"OH," She said, her eyes lighting up "LadyWifi" She smiled shyly

"It suits you," I said with a smile of my own

"Thanks!" She beamed

"Alright," I said as I clapped my hands together "How about we head home?" I said, stifling a yawn at the end of my sentence

"Wait," She said, "Is this why you're always late?"

I laughed "As of recently yes, but no I just like to sleep," I said, as we both laughed

Together, we headed out of the locker room, but when heading up the stairs I stopped us, so we could go say hi to Tikki.

We walked down the hallway, and to the back of her little office. The door was open just a crack, but it was enough for us to see a light shining in the otherwise dark hallway.

I was about to knock on the door but then I heard an all too familiar voice ring through the silence, and I stopped myself.

"Kid, you know I can't give you any information on her" I heard Plagg say through the door

"Wh-" I slapped a hand over Alya's mouth, then brought a finger up to my own, signaling for her to be quite

"Come on Plagg, please"

Chat?

"If you really want to know so much about her, then why don't you ask her" I could hear Plagg getting more irritated

"Don't you think I want to?" Chat said matching his tone. I heard Chat groan in frustration "Look, s-she's different, okay? I don't know why but she is. I just need to know"

Need to know what? About who? What was going on?

"I can't tell you. You know that" Plagg said, his voice softening "How would you feel if I told her some quite personal things in your profile, about you"

I could practically see the way Plagg would raise his eyebrow at Chat.

"Okay fine," Chat said, I thought he was about to give up trying to get any information out of the man until I heard him say "What can you tell me then? As her partner. As her friend. As resigned champion?"

Wait.

Partner? Friend? Was he talking about me? What could he possibly want to know?

I heard Plagg sigh "The only thing I can confirm, is that you were right when you guessed that she dances at your studio." Plagg said stretching out the word confirm

So if he is talking about me, that means Chat goes to my studio.

WAIT CHAT GOES TO MY STUDIO.

I looked over at Alya and she seemed to be thinking the exact same thing as me.

HOLY SHIT.

I heard shuffling of feet and realized that the conversation would soon be over, and we had to get out of there.

Me and Alya quietly crept back down the hallway, towards the staircase, and as soon as we got there, we booked it all the way out of the studio.

We both looked at each other wide-eyed, slightly out of breath from running up all those stairs.

"Did you hear that?" I questioned, not sure if my ears were playing tricks on me

"Every word" She panted out

This was going to make tomorrow very weird...

so i made it so alya found out early bc you'll see how later having her for ladyblog and and other stuff is important.

that's all i can really say rn without revaling too much about the plotline

hey guys i'm putting this in right before i post. sorry i didn't post yesterday but i was traveling allllll day cause me and my family are in HAWAIIIIIII. YAYY. IM SO EXCITED. OKAY LOVE YOU BYE️

lemme know what chu think so farrrr

bye lovies

-TOL3