And here you have it, the class reveal that no one asked for! It shouldn't even have been a class reveal, but Marinette's class is really dam (get the Percy Jackson reference?) nosy! disclaimer: Thomas astruc owns miraculous ladybug and I am not him.
Ladybug swung onto Marinette's balcony with a huge groan of utter exhaustion.
"Tikki, spots off." she sighed and flumped onto the floor, not planning to get up anytime soon.
"Come on Marinette!" her kwami pulled at her jacket, insisting on her getting into bed. Tikki made sure her holder was comfortable before ducking off to a corner of Marinette's room where a large amount of cookies awaited. Marinette muttered a tired grunt of thanks and glanced a the clock next to her bed.
6:00 am.
Plenty of time to sleep.
When Marinette woke up what seemed like a minute later, it was 7:30. She was officially late for school – again!
When under pressure, the human body can function better than it usually does. This does not apply when you only got an hour and a half of sleep.
Unfortunately, Marinette found this out the hard way when she arrived to school panting at 9:00, half an hour after class had started. She stumbled up the stairs to her classroom in a sleepy daze, her mind fogged over from a lack of sleep. Ladybug may have been great for the people of Paris, but she was not for Marinette Dupain Cheng's health.
Lucky for her, the teacher didn't notice when opened the door. She didn't notice when she snuck past Adrien and Nino to get to her seat. She did notice when Marinette managed to trip over Alya's bag, sending books flying across the classroom.
Miss bustier gave a small sigh of exasperation, a regular thing for her, and chidingly told Marinette to be more careful. She then proceeded to continue to teach basic trigonometry to the class. Of course, Marinette couldn't concentrate on finding the missing angle of a triangle using sin, cos or tan. She honestly couldn't care less.
After the torture of maths was over, miss bustier announced that the class would be working in small groups to put together a poster about… guess who,
Ladybug and Chat Noir.
Why not?
Marinette turned to Alya and saw with absolute horror that she was already talking to Nino. Who sat right next to Adrien.
Goddammit, Alya!
Eventually the four of them sat down together at the boy's table and got started on their project.
Alya suggested that she do Ladybug with Nino and Adrien and Marinette do Chat Noir then they compare notes and Marinette would write the actual poster since she was the best at art in their group. The others quickly agreed – it was best not to argue with Alya Cesaire.
The poster quickly progressed, certainly on Alya and Nino's side where a lot more work was being done. On the other hand, Adrien and Marinette were, well, I'll put it this way. Their heads were slumped tiredly on the desk and every now and then their pen would dance wearily across the page, as if their hands were hoping to get just something down. It seemed that even their hands were scared of Alya.
"Kitty?" Marinette asked in her half awake state.
"Yeah?" Adrien replied, equally as tired.
"Can we skip patrol tomorrow?"
Adrien slid further down onto the table with a loud thump. "Yeah sure. I'm too exhausted to even make a pun!"
Marinette shook her head endearingly. "Silly kitty!"
"Aren't my pun pawsome, m'lady?"
"Your puns are catastrophic." Marinette murmured.
Silence.
Their heads shot up.
Marinette stared at Adrien.
Adrien stared right back.
The rest of the class, who had been watching the exchange in hushed awe, glanced between them.
It was Marinette who moved first. One finger slowly lifted to point incredulously at the boy in front of her whose mouth was wide open, gaping like a fish out of water.
Marinette hardly dared to speak at first, with the whole class watching them. She had no doubt Alya was filming. "Chaton?" she mumbled so that it could barely be heard by anyone except Adrien. He nodded slowly.
"And you." He said, and it should have been accusing, but it wasn't. "You're m'lady."
Marinette confirmed the fact shyly.
The two stared at each other again, neither one knowing at all what to do. they didn't even notice the telling crash of an akuma until Alix roughly pulled them apart and smirked.
"I'm not sure what just happened, but there's an akuma and Paris needs its superheroes. I'm sure miss bustier will let you leave?" she turned to the teacher, glaring. Miss bustier gave a smiling nod which was all the two needed for them to transform and jump out of the window. "You two are so on my team in gym!" Alix yelled after them, followed by Kim who echoed her.
The athletes turned on each other. "I want them!" Alix shouted.
"No, I do!" Kim protested indignantly.
Alya walked up, still in shock but laughing at Kim and Alix's antics. "Why don't you have one each?" she asked. "Alix, you have Adrien and Kim gets Marinette. If there's any of them left after I've finished that is." She threw a glare out of the window in the direction of two black and red blurs and stalked off, her phone in hand.
Nino glanced over his shoulder at the teacher who sighed and nodded. "I'll try to get her back."
I love Kim and Alix and their constant competing. and Alya is the greatest! hope you enjoyed. I would appreciate prompts or requests too because I am slowly running out of ideas.
