Marinette swears she and Chat are getting too good dealing with akumas, her argument; for the last three fights neither Ladybug nor Chat Noir have had to use their special powers.

This time was no different.

Ladybug had miraculously snatched the akuma's collar and successfully broken it, making the horrendous purple butterfly reveal itself. Ladybug said her usual 'time to de-evilize' and 'bye bye little butterfly' more gingerly than every other time.

"Pound it!" Said Chat Noir and Ladybug in unison, rather proud they terminated the akuma in mere ten minutes.

"Wow, we really are getting good at this!" Chat Noir said feeling pretty smug himself.

"Yeah," responded Ladybug brightly. "We de-akumised that one real fast!" Chat chuckled.

"How many akuma attacks have we gone through without using Lucky Charm or Cataclysm?"

"With this one?" Ladybug said. "Four."

"Ha, maybe we should celebrate the fifth one." Chat Noir grinned at her.

Ladybug giggled. "That would be fun, maybe we should!" They stare at each other for a few seconds.

"I would rather stay and chat, my lady, but I have sch- I mean, other things to attend to." Chat said quickly disappearing in some alley.
Ladybug sighed, they were awesome today, Alya surely is going to gush about this for hours.

Oh shit, Alya! Marinette still had to get back to school!
Marinette hid in the nearest alley she found in order to de-transform, coincidentally the alley was right beside her school.

"Marinette!" Alya called in the distance, Ladybug winced.

"Coming!" She answered so her best friend wouldn't be worried thinking she got injured or lost during the akuma attack.

"Alright, I'll wait for you in class!" Marinette heard Alya exclaim, noticing she got farther by second.

Damn it! Marinette better get fast to class, or else she was going to get detention. She rushed to her classroom and opened the door, entering as if nothing had happened.

Marinette promptly noticed all her classmates were starting at her, therefore she laughed nervously. Perhaps she had missed something important? She almost fell right to the floor when she noticed Adrien looking at her with awfully wide eyes.

Feeling incredibly uncomfortable Marinette walked to her desk and sat down, hoping the intense glazes of everyone in the room would stop. Marinette turned to Alya precisely to ask her what the hell was going on, but was shocked to see her mouth wide open as well as her eyes.

Marinette squirmed at the deathly silence that surrounded her. Then, Chloe, as if she had just gotten out of a shock, squealed.

"Oh my gosh!" She gushed, and practically teleported beside Marinette with a smile. At this Marinette mouthed silently something between the lines of 'the fuck?' As she starred at Chloe's odd enough, king looking form.

"L-Ladybug...?" A surprised male voice said and Marinette's heart contracted. "W-what are you doing here?"

"Dude," Nino whisper-yelled at Adrien as he hit him lightly with his hand. "Don't ask her that!"

Wait...

"L-L-L-LADYBUG!?" Ladybug herself exclaimed realizing she hadn't de-transformed. "I-I-I mean-!" She was cut of but the door opening to reveal the teacher almost having a heart attack when she saw Ladybug.

"U-umm, excuse me if I come of as rude, but may I ask why are you here L-Ladybug?" Said the teacher only composed enough to speak.

"W-well, I..." Ladybug nervously tried to formulate a believable excuse. "I came here's to-to inform you that Marinette won't be able to come since I...need her assistance?" The last part came out more like a question than an statement.

"Oh, uh...ok, thank you." The teacher said gobsmacked.

"I...will...be taking my leave." Ladybug said while awkwardly pointing at the window. "Sorry for interrupting." Then she flung herself out of the window feeling highly embarrassed.

When Marinette returned (as herself, not ladybug) the following period she was bombarded with questions, mostly made by Alya.


As soon as Marinette got home, she complained endlessly to tikki, who was the only person she could really complain to either way.

"But why didn't you drop the transformation when you saw that I was headed to my classroom without knowing I was still ladybug?!" Marinette screamed.

"Because I didn't know, besides I thought that you knew you were Ladybug at the moment." Tikki responded.

Marinette groaned.

"Umm...Marinette?"

"Yeah?" She said back, her words muffled by the pillow sitting in her face.

"It's time for you to patrol with Chat Noir."

Crap.
Marinette got up and transformed. Maybe talking with Chat would help her calm down.

"Greetings, my lady." Said Chat.

"Hello, Chat." Ladybug said.

"How was your day?" Chat asked mindlessly, even though he burned in curiosity as to what happened for her to need the help of Marinette.

"Shitty." Ladybug voiced with chagrin.

"Such profanity, bugginette." He teased.

"Oh shut up, I really did have a shitty day."

"Oh, do tell, my lady."

"Well, it all started when we parted ways after the akuma attack," Marinette started to rant. "I went to de-transform in a nearby alley, but heard my best friend's voice calling me. Then I panicked because I was late and forgot to de-transform, en-"

"Wait, you forgot to de-transform?!" Chat laughed amused, while Ladybug sent him a murder glare.

"Yeah, whatever." Ladybug continued her rant. "So I enter mi classroom and bam! Everyone is starring at me like I've grown two heads." Chat Noir was in awe, could it be that... "Then, the still obvious me, sits in my desk and everything goes to hell when this cute boy in front of me asks 'Ladybug, what are you doing here'. I fuc..."

Chat Noir stopped listening to her because, A. Marinette was ladybug, and ,B. She called him cute.

"And so I ended up telling some lie that I actually needed the civilian me for something then got out through the window and went home to die of embarrassment." Marinette finished telling the story of her shitty day.

"I can't believe it." Chat mused.

"Yeah, me neither." Ladybug shrugged. "I'm so dumb!" She covered her face with her hands.

"You know, my lady, something similar happened to me today." Chat Noir grinned.

"Huh?"

"I may or may not be the cute boy sitting in front of you." Adrien finished and Ladybug spluttered.

And that was the stupidest was Marinette revealed her identity.