Bonjour my little coccinelles and minous. Like what I did there? I called ya'll ladybugs and kitties. Anyway, I'm trying to make it up to you for that large break between chapters 5 and 6 and the break between this chapter and the last, so I'm making it a bit longer chapter than normal. This chapter is a little weird with how I made the whole point of view thing go. I had it as Marinette's point of view then Alya's, then a little bit as Nino. And how could I forget some for Adrien? The point is, I have been rewriting this all month, and I wanted to finally post it, so everything is a little wonky, but I will do my best to keep it organized for the next chapter. Maintenant, nous allons passer à l'histoire ! (I used google translate, since we didn't learn how to say this in my French class. It says "Now, let's get on with the story!")
Chapter 7
Beep! Beep!
Marinette groaned and rolled over, pulling her pillow over her head. The blasting sound kept going off, the pillow covering Marinette's ears having no effect on the sound.
The alarm suddenly stopped and Marinette's death grip on the pillow loosened. A weight landed on the pillow, bouncing up and down.
"Marinette. You have to wake up. It's time for school." Tikki's voice went straight through the pillow and into Marinette's brain, making her body jump. She sat up and knocked the kwami off of her, causing her to complain.
"Sorry, Tikki." Tikki responded by saying, "No problem. Just try to warn me next time, please."
Marinette nodded and started getting ready for school. She rushed around, getting changed and and thinking about her eventful day yesterday.
She stopped dead in the middle of her room as realized how she had ended her conversation with Chat yesterday. Ugh. Marinette has to find a way to keep both her kitty and her kwami happy, and it wasn't going to be easy.
She groaned then grabbed her purse (which Tikki flew into), slung it across her chest, and walked downstairs, to her parents bakery. She said hello to her parents, grabbed her breakfast of a buttered croissant, and started her trek to school.
She didn't have to rush like yesterday, thanks to Tikki, so she was walking at a normal pace while eating her croissant. She thought about normal things, like how she loved the look of Paris in the morning. The sunlight reflected off the buildings to make the city streets look beautiful and calm. This was her second favorite time of the day to walk the streets of Paris.
Though now that she thought about it, it was her favorite time to walk around Paris, since she her favorite time to move around Paris is when she is vaulting across the city's rooftops, which isn't walking Paris's streets. But whatever, technicalities.
Her thoughts wandered to her, as Ladybug, vaulting over Paris's rooftops. Then, she thought about Chat Noir and him running with her. Then, she thought of what she was going to have to do tonight and she groaned.
Marinette felt Tikki pushing against the inside of her purse, as if wanting to be let out, so Marinette unclasped it and Tikki stuck her little head out. Tikki gave her a curious look and tilted her head.
"Weren't you trying not to think about him? As in not getting worried about what you promised to talk about with him tonight? LIke, maybe thinking about what you are going to talk to Alya about when she starts to tell you about the akuma attack yesterday, that will change the topic so you don't have to think about Chat?"
Marinette rolled her eyes as her kwami continued on, oblivious to the fact she was making her more uncomfortable.
"Or maybe Alya will just decide to talk to you about Adrien instead." At this, Marinette froze, while Tikki smiled at her and continued talking, as if she enjoyed making the girl freak out.
"After all, you did tell her you didn't like him yesterday, while she has thought you were in love with him for the past year and you started liking Chat Noir-Hey!" Tikki was cut off when Marinette pushed her back into her purse and closed the clasp.
She sighed, knowing that the second conversation Tikki mentioned was the one that was probably going to occur. She had to think of a way to make ALya happy, yet not reveal too much about her actual crush. She had to think of a way fast, since she was less than a block from school and she could already see Alya talking to Nino, smiling broadly.
On the inside she smiled, she knew it! Alya liked Nino. At the same time she didn't want to talk to Alya at the moment. So, she slipped past her best friend and made it inside without being detected, using some of the speed and grace she got from being a Miraculous holder.
Marinette checked her phone and saw that there was seven minutes until class started and a plan entered her mind. She smiled.
When Alya entered the classroom, thinking that Marinette overslept so she was going to be late, she was shocked to see her best friend sitting in her seat. Marinette had a language arts book open, giving off the assumption that she had been studying for a while.
Marinette knew that Alya came to class everyday exactly four minutes before class starts. So, she just decided to seem busy so her best friend wouldn't try to interrupt her. Plus, then she had a good reason for not being outside.
Alya stood in the doorway, staring, until Nino bumped into her from behind. She stumbled a little, but then righted herself and scurried to her seat. She sat down beside her best friend and gave her a look that said 'how did you get there?'
Marinette was looking down, so she didn't see Alya's questioning look, but she did feel her friend's eyes on her. She had to fight to keep her head down while not looking at her best friend.
Had Marinette looked up, she would have seen a confused Adrien walk into the classroom. Nino looked up at his best friend and saw that he had a mix of emotions going on right now. He looked both happy and sad, along with curiosity and frustration.
Alya and Nino stopped studying their friends as Madame Bustier walked in.
Marinette put her book away immediately and took out her pen and notebook, completely focused on the teacher.
Adrien put his bag on the floor next to him, pulling out his pencil and notebook, and tried to focus on the teacher's lesson.
The teacher finally stopped taking after an hour and let the students have some free time before lunch. She only said to keep the noise levels down.
Marinette froze and could just imagine the evil smile on Alya's face right now. She slowly flipped to a blank page in her notebook and drew one curved line in the center of the page before "Oh, no you don't! You aren't getting away with escaping our conversation that easily." Her notebook was ripped out of her hands, making a line go across the paper where the pencil had been lightly resting on the page.
"Alya!" Marinette's exclamation of surprise drew the attention of the two boys that sat in front of her.
"What's got Marinette shouting when she has been more quiet than usual?" Nino directed the question at Alya, slightly nodding her head towards Adrien, knowing about her feelings for him.
Alya shook her head at Nino and mouthed 'I'll tell you later', which Marinette saw and repeated "Alya!"
That made the two turn to look at her and made the blond model more confused than he already was. He looked between the three, sensing the tension between Alya and Marinette. He asked, "Did I miss something?"
Alya and Marinette seemed to have just realized he was there and said simultaneously,
"No" Marinette.
"Yes" Alya.
Adrien tilted his head in confusion, there seemed to be a lot of this going on with him today.
Alya and Marinette glared at each other, having a very quiet raging and screaming match that made them look like they were insane to the two boys sitting only a few feet away from them. All done so only they could hear the conversation.
"Really?" This came from Alya.
"It doesn't involve him." This was from Marinette.
"Yes it does, Marinette! This is about you moving on from your crush on him."
"That doesn't mean he has to get involved! He didn't know I had a crush on him in the first place. If he found out now, it would be awkward when ever we would try to talk."
Alya opened her mouth to respond, but upon not having any words come out, closed it again. She didn't know how to respond. Her friend was probably right. If Adrien found out what they had been talking about last night and what they were arguing about now, he would most likely freak out. Then, Marinette wouldn't even have him as a friend, which would be like torture to Mari.
Alya looked Mari in the eyes and nodded.
Marinette smiled. Alya was going to back down a little bit. I'll probably have enough time to figure out a good story for how I don't like Adrien anymore (Well, not not like, just not like, like like. That makes sense, it means she doesn't have a crush on him anymore.), who I like now, and why I didn't tell her any of this was happening.
Ugh. It was going to be an extra long night.
PLEASE READ!
Thank you, dear readers, for reading another chapter of this story. I just have a few quick things I want to talk about. One, I know the point of view was weird this chapter, but I am going to fix that. Probably by having it mainly Marinette's POV, but having Adrien/Chat's when I think it fits. Along with a few other's that will add something to the story...hopefully. Anyway, the second thing is, I feel extremely bad for such a long wait between chapters, but I am going to have a lot of free time for the next few weeks, so I'll try to post whenever I can. I'm going to tell you now, it may occasionally be chapters daily, but it will not be like that the whole time. So, until July, it's gonna be weird for the end of school and tests and somehow having more free time now then ever (I honestly don't know how this happened, but I'm gonna appreciate it and write as much as I can). Then, it's gonna be summer break and I'm going to have even more free time, and now I'm confused. The point is, I am going to do my best to have more frequent updates that have less confusing content. So, what was I going to say next? Oh yeah, I am proud to announce we have reached over 4,000 views, 27 favorites, and 48 follows! Yay! This being my first fanfic and all, I never expected such an interest and liking to this story, so THANK YOU to all of you who have read this and followed and faved and what not. There is one more thing I wanted to mention, I have a bunch of ideas for the next chapter and my fingers can't stop moving, so there will probably be an update in the near future. The thing is, even though I have a bunch of ideas, I don't want to only have what I want to happen in this story happen (this is for y'all after all), so pm me or put in the reviews what you want to happen and I'll do my best to incorporate it into the story.
(Just realizing how long I've been typing and wondering how many of you are still reading)
Until next time, my dear readers, au revoir!
