"I'm not sure going to school today is safe." Plagg said as Adrien began packing his bag. Adrien gave him a confused look, not knowing what he was talking about. With a roll of his eyes he responded with, "Cat pheromones."

"I don't see what the big problem is, nothing's happening to me yet." He said as he placed Plagg into his shirt pocket. "I have enough things to worry about right now anyway. So, to shut you up, I got you some cheese for during class today."

"Camembert?!" Plagg said excitedly.

"Of course, I'm not an idiot." He said. He felt slightly ashamed at that comment. He did seem to be an idiot lately. First with accepting a stupid dare, then with Marinette's crush, and last night with Ladybug. God, what did he do wrong? Or right?

He began to head downstairs and towards his ride to school.

Did he do something to set her off? Was it even because of him in the first place? For all he knew something might have happened between them. She was acting weird. Acting weird?! That was an understatement. He mentally slapped himself, he'd been doing that more often lately. She was acting much weirder, flirty really. She went so far as to try to take his suit off, he didn't even know it could come off.

He made it downstairs where Nathilie, as usual, was doing work at the front desk. This time however her head jerked up.

"Good morning Adrien." She said noticing he was heading out the door.

"Uh, good morning to you too." He said awkwardly, not sure how to react.

"Do you smell that?" She asked, he stopped in front of the door not expecting her to continue to talk. He sniffed and shook his head. "It smells nice." Confused by this, Adrien quickly made his way out the door and into the car.

That was, also weird. Adrien thought. At least I can relax on the way to school.

Adrien stepped into his homeroom classroom immediately noticing the dashing yellow blur that was approaching him. Once again Chloe was about to shower him with attention. It was kind of nice that she focused on him. He was glad to have at least one childhood friend with his class.

"Adrikins! You're here early. What happened yesterday? I had no idea where you were!" She said in her loud squealing voice. Surprisingly, it didn't irritate his ears like it used to. "I didn't even get to show you my new phone!"

"I'm sorry about that, I was out with-"

"Do you smell that?"She said cutting him off. He was about to respond again when she lifted her hand to his face. She began smelling the air around her, eventually leading her head close to Adrien's neck. "Are you wearing perfume?"

"Uh, no." He said confused. Was this part of the Pheromones, smelling nice?

"Well I have to admit, it is the nicest perfume I have smelled in a long time. Where did you get it?"

"I'm not wearing any perfume." He said defensively.

"Fine, don't tell me. What were you about to say? Something about where you were?" She said placing her hands on her hips. A blush slightly showed itself at this action.

"Right well, I was out with Marinette. She had asked me out on a date." Adrien could visibly see Chloe tense when he said Marinette's name, and even more when he mentioned the date.

"Sabrina isn't here yet, want to sit down to talk about this?" She asked jabbing her thumb in the direction of her seat.

"Um." He hesitated, she didn't seem like she was actually in the mood to talk. What's worse is that his face was becoming even hotter and more red by the minute. He didn't know why but it didn't make him feel comfortable. Maybe he should have listened to Plagg and stayed home. He didn't feel like being around others right now.

"We never get time to talk to each other anymore. It'd be nice to, uh, sit down with you for a minute." She said awkwardly. She even breathed a large sigh afterwards, usually she was more confident. Especially around Adrien, he knew she just wanted to receive praise from him, or Ladybug.

"Uh," Adrien started, unsure of what to do, the situation being weird to him. But it would be nice to just sit down with her. "yeah, why not?" He said as he began walking towards the seat.

He was abruptly stopped when he was grabbed by the shoulder forcefully. Not expecting this, he turned around confused, forcefully turning to get the hand off him.

It was Nino, but why would Nino get his attention so forcefully. They were friends, maybe something happened.

"Dude." Nino started, not seeming upset at him, maybe he wasn't having a good start to the day. "You have to tell me what happened yesterday!" He was clearly more excited about the 'date' that he had gone on.

Adrien was about to go sit down with Nino when he was once again stopped, this time by the wrist.

"Adrien was about to sit with me." Chloe said aggressively yanking Adrien back to her, her lack of upper body strength didn't help her in this endeavor. "You can talk to when class starts."

"Sorry, I did say I would sit with her." Adrien said, dismissing Nino. He mouthed 'sorry' to his friend and headed over to Chloe's desk.

Adrien made a small toss of his stuff to his seat upon sitting down. It was odd sitting closer to the window. Not that he felt awkward sitting there, just that the difference of sunlight was significant. It'd be easy to get distracted by the light during class, it was a wonder how Sabrina was a top student. But doing two people's homework would make having to remember things easier he guessed.

"So!" Chloe said sitting down, once again her movements awkward. She seemed to have her arms tensed and restricted, she was usually very relaxed around him. "What's this about a date with Marinette? She didn't force you did she?" Chloe asked trying to place her arms on the table to support her.

"No she didn't force me." He said calmly trying to make her more calm as well. She wasn't acting normal, her breaths were a lot deeper. And it seemed that she was sniffing the air with every breath. "I just went to her house and we hung out, kind of like what we used to do." She folded her legs, her eyes slightly widening as she tilted her head back. "I take it that you really like that smell?"

"Oh yes! Is it that obvious?" She said with a large exhale.

"It's pretty obvious, but I can't smell a thing." He answered.

"It is just heavenly! Whatever it is, keep using it." She said with a chuckle at the end of her sentence. He let out a small chuckle as well, not wanting to be left out. She brought herself to the conversation at hand. "So are you dating Marinette now?" She asked with a smile. She must really be liking this smell, she smiled when she said Marinette's name.

What exactly did Plagg say again? Looking for a mate? He really hoped that didn't mean what he thinks it means.

"No, we aren't dating. We're just friends. It was a casual date to say the least." That sounded like the nice way to put it. He really didn't want to talk about it. It wasn't something he felt comfortable talking about in general.

"Class starts in ten minutes, I still have work to grade!" The teacher half yelled across the classroom. He didn't even see her come in. nor did he see the empty rows behind him fill up almost completely.

"What were you saying?" Chloe said with a roll of her eyes towards the teacher.

"How I'm not dating Marinette?" He said slightly disgruntled. Chloe responded with a flick of the wrist that insinuated 'go on'. "Well we have another one planned after school today, I'm going to try to make it clear that I don't want to date her. I think she might have the wrong idea."

"Oh that poor girl." Chloe said in a happy tone, he wasn't sure if it was because of her getting dumped by him, or if it was the smell.

He noticed the door open to have Marinette walk in. that's odd, normally she's late by a few minutes. Guess she set an alarm. She was followed by Alya who tried to get a sneaky kiss from Nino as she walked by. He could even see Sabrina getting to the top of the stairs.

"I should go." He said pointing to Sabrina. Chloe hardly noticed and continued to smile and agree. If Marinette was going to act like this it's going to be harder to talk to her.

"Hi Adrien!" Marinette greeted. Sounding less enthusiastic than usual. He could tell why, he knew all too well. She stayed up all night, that's why she was early. Still not technically early, class was delayed.

He sat down and was about to start talking to Nino so he could get the questions over with. He noticed a bit of a glare coming from both Alya and Nino. Maybe they knew what he was going to tell Marinette. He was about to start the conversation when the teacher decided to cancel the delay, finishing early.

That day of school had to be the most awkward. Knowing that everyone could smell the same smell that made Chloe putty. This caused him to be tense when he could hear everyone shifting, coughing, and worst of all, the smell made the teacher sit down to teach class. Or he was over analyzing everything. Something not helping his case was the fact that he was part of the awkwardly shifting crowd.