Chapter 9

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lil-fledgling

Alya was mad.

"You never told me you danced!" Marinette cringed, picking at the edge of her notebook.

"I know but-"

"And you came into school with Adrian! You were talking to him! Not stuttering or looking like an idiot, actually holding a conversation with him." A genuinely hurt look came across Marinette's best friends face. "You have some serious explaining to do. I thought we were best friends, that means we don't keep secrets."

You have no idea. Marinette thought sadly.

"It just kinda happened yesterday," She said truthfully. "Chloé and I kind of had an unfortunate run in with each other and Adrian happened to see the whole thing. He…comforted me. We came to a sort of understanding and ended up hanging out. I was going to tell you today, I swear! And about the dancing…" Alya glared, her arms crossed firmly.

"I didn't tell anyone about that, I was embarrassed!" Marinette blurted out, twisting the strap of her purse between her hands. "I didn't want people like Chloé to destroy something I loved." She said quieter, reaching for her friend's hands.

"I know that I should have told you, I know that now and I'm so sorry I kept it from you." She clasped Alya's hands between hers. "Forgive me?" For a second Alya's face remained stony and Marinette was afraid that she wasn't going to except her apology. But then the corner of her mouth twitched and she pulled the dark haired girl into her arms for a hug.

"Thank you for apologizing. I forgive you." She pulled away and the two girls grinned at each other for a minute before Alya burst,

"Now tell me what happened with you and Adrian!"

LB&CH

Adrian, Marinette, Nino and Alya sat together in the park after school going over math homework and laughing as Alya practiced her talent show skit.

"Whoa, whoa," Marinette gasped between giggles. "You think Ladybug would say that to Chat Noir?" Alya pouted, cocking her hip out jauntily, thrusting the script at Marinette.

"Excuse me, but who is the one with the blog here? Who follows Ladybug's every move and has had exclusive interviews with her?"

"You have," The other three said in unison.

"And who remains pitifully uneducated on the ways of our great hero and is always MIA when Ladybug's around.

"Me," Marinette said sheepishly, glancing at Adrian out of the corner of her eye. The boy was struggling to hold in laughter as he watched his lady get chewed out by her best friend.

"Correct!" Alya said, plopping back down into the grass. "So you, Marinette Dupain-Cheng, are not one to talk." There wasn't really room to argue there.

"So Nino, how's your music piece coming for the show?" Marinette asked, leaning back in the warm grass as she listened to Nino excitedly talk about turn tables, mixers and something called a D.I. box.

"It's going to be this really sick remix actually of Avenir by Louane, you know the girl who made it to the semi-finals on The Voice: la plus belle voix?"

Alya nodded enthusiastically. "Oh yeah I remember her! She was really good. Doesn't she do that song… oh what is it again…"

"Maman?" Adrian offered. Alya snapped her fingers, recognizing the name he supplied.

"That's it, Maman, I love that song!" Alya turned so she was looking at Marinette, who was twirling a daisy between her fingers eyes unfocused deep in thought.

"Earth to Marinette, come in Marinette! This is your best friend speaking!" Blinking the girl turned to look at her friends who were all looking at her with bemused expressions.

"Sorry," She said. "I was kinda spaced out. What were we talking about again?"

They all laughed at the sheer ridiculousness of their absent minded friend, Alya through her self at Marinette who consequently tumbled into Adrian who finally landed in Nino's lap and the four of them lay giggling in a puppy pile of limbs and loose hair.

It had been so long since they had all hung out as a group, no awkwardness and strange encounters. Adrian and Marinette were so used to running around, ditching their friends at the last minute in order to protect them. They had forgotten how nice it was to just be…

Normal.