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The two little devils

"We're finally done!" The four roommates leave Neo Akuma with faces of relief.

"I hope they didn't mind that 'our accounts' have similar concepts." Alya says once they arrive at the entrance to the university. "Although I don't think they realize."

"I don't think they care. In any case we can say that we are roommates in the uni." Chloè answers. "But that doesn't matter anymore, do you want to go eat somewhere? It's on me since I'm feeling generous."

"Ohhh! How about barbecue? I already have several days with the craving" says Rose.

"Marinette, are you coming?"

Marinette seems to think a little until a thought comes to mind. "I'm going to have lunch later. I have tutoring with Manon and I have to get there a little sooner."

The group says goodbye to her and they go by different ways. When Marinette arrives at Manon's house, he meets Théo at the entrance waiting for her arrival.

"Thanks for letting me come."

After the commotion of the photo and the confrontation, Théo called her the next day to apologize and ask permission to take her a photo with Manon to upload it in the university forum and clarify the misunderstandings. She accepted on the condition that he would not cause problems again and gave a couple of language classes to Manon.

Marinette goes to the door of the house and rings the bell. In seconds, the door is opened by one of the household employees and tells her that Manon is in the main dining room waiting for her. Both young people enter and go to the indicated place.

"Marinette!" When they both arrive, Theo sees a small girl with dark brown hair tied in two low tails with a big smile on her face.

Sitting in a wheelchair.

Without knowing how to react, Théo turns to see Marinette, who is not surprised at all. The blue-haired girl approaches the girl and bends down to be at her height.

"How are you today?" Manon responds by saying that she is good and she mentions that she managed to finish the homework she left her last week.

"Who is he?"

"Oh, right." Marinette asks Théo to introduce himself. After he introduces himself, Manon continues with a face of disapproval.

"I don't like foreign languages. Let's ignore him, how about we play Miraculous for a while?"

Marinette reproaches her. Although she was about to laugh at the little girl's comment, she has to correct her. "Studying languages is important, if you want to study in a good university another language can help you. Let's study first, if we finish early, I'll show you some tricks for the game." Just then another child arrives in the room.

"Marinette, Manon! And… who are you?"

Mari lets out a sigh. These children, some respect please! Chris is a boy of the same age as Manon and they are neighbors since his family moved when they were about four years old. They both met at the nearest park and quickly became friends. The kid with glasses has the habit of visiting her every day after school, something that Marinette always finds extremely sweet.

Once Théo is presented again, the two children settle on opposite sides of the table to begin the tutoring. While Théo teaches Manon some basic exercises, Marinette helps Chris with some exercises of his homework.

After a couple of hours, Manon and Chris begin to tap the table softly with the back of the pencils.

"Manon, Chris, stop talking please. We're almost done." Marinette says without looking up from the notebooks.

"Oh? Talking? "Théo asks confused. The kids were somewhat distracted but hadn't started any conversation.

The little ones laugh at each other, leaving him more confused.

"You don't know about the Morse code?" Chris tells him teasing him. "You're supposed to be good at language!" Manon laughs after the comment.

Théo on the other hand, blushes slightly because of the shame. "O-of course I know what the Morse code is! I was just a little distracted."

"Yeah sure…"

Théo was about to answer again, but Chris stood up from his seat and moved Manon in the wheelchair to the exit of the room. "We are going to bring something to eat!" Says Chris while Manon laughs.

While the two go to the kitchen, Marinette smiles for a moment. "You're not going to argue with ten-year-olds, right?"

"Of course not... I'm not that rude."

When the two return with some bags of snacks and boxes of strawberry-flavored milk, Marinette decides that it has been enough study for that day. Once those two began to eat they could no longer carry out the study.

"Then, can we play Miraculous now?" They both ask Marinette with the eyes of sad puppies. How could she reject them?

While the three start playing on Marinette's computer in Chris's account, Théo takes the moment to start taking some photos. What else could he do? Those two little devils were ignoring him.

A few minutes later, Théo asks permission to go to the bathroom and leaves the room. The two younger ones take their eyes off the game and this time they look at Marinette.

"Marinette, that's not your boyfriend, is it?"

"Manon!" Marinette exclaims more because of her manners than embarrassment.

"Of course it's not, Manon. Marinette wouldn't go to that level. "

"Chris!" Marinette cannot help a slight blush. Luckily the two did not notice it.

At that moment, Manon leaves the game and opens another window on the computer. "It's true Marinette, that boy doesn't seem so smart. I don´t want him to continue teaching us."

Marinette gives them a little knock in their heads. "Stop talking like that, he's still older than you two. You don't need to worry about the classes, he just came today."

"But... he's not your boyfriend right?" Manon asks again.

"What is happening today with you? He's not my boyfriend, he's just a college buddy."

"It's that we test him." Chris replies and changes his expression to one of dissatisfaction. "He's not a big deal."

The young woman rolls her eyes and decides to follow their game. "Ahhh ok. If one day he confesses to me, I'll make sure to reject him."

"Yes, just like that!" Manon tells her with enthusiasm. "But I think you should have a boyfriend already... And we've found you one! Look..." Manon shows her a page on the computer. Even though Marinette was following their game, when she saw the page that Manon had entered, she could not help but recognize the logo in the article: Lucky Charm Tech, the company of...

"His name is Adrien Agreste." The kids explain her enthusiastically. "Doesn't he deserve a ten out of ten? He goes to the same university as you, he's smart and he's very handsome. Have you seen him before?"

How could she not have seen him before? Adrien's face is known throughout the campus. Yes, she had also shown some interest in the young man, but it was more admiration; after all, they had never spoken to each other.

"Well, I can't deny that you have good taste, but he is the prince of the campus. I can only see him in the distance."

The two friends didn't give up. "You're not bad either, Marinette. You're the best." Chris tells her.

"Yes! You can't give up." Manon follows him.

After that, Théo returns from the bathroom and collects his things.

Marinette sees the time, gets up from the seat and says goodbye to the two. When she is about to leave the house she manages to hear some 'Good luck! You have to make an effort!' On behalf of the two little ones.

Outside of the Chamak house, Theo talks to her again. "Marinette... I'm really sorry. I already deleted the article and the phots from the forum. I shouldn't jump into conclusions so quickly with just seeing someone getting out of an expensive car. I'm truly sorry."

Marinette smiles. The truth is that Théo is not so bad, he simply rushes too fast and assumes things without thinking. She doesn't hold a grudge and smiles at him, in the end that's the way humans are. They make mistakes and learn from them.

"Also..." the boy speaks to her again. "What happened to Manon?"

"Oh... it was a car accident."

"An accident?"

"Yes, in that accident she lost her father." Marinette begins to tell him in more detail "I've known Manon practically since she was born, our parents were close friends since school. It was a few years ago when the accident happened. Since then, she can't move her legs. The doctors assure that she can walk again if she continues the rehabilitation every day in the mornings, so she can't have a normal schedule at school. I offered to teach her a couple of courses in the afternoons, but his mother insisted on paying me. She knew I was looking for a job... Despite all the complications, Chris is always with her, so she doesn't feel lonely when her mother goes to work."

Théo listens calmly and waits a moment before speaking. "She is a very happy girl. Who would say that she has gone through all that? Although you shouldn't teach them to play so much on the computer, they can develop a vice."

She smiles with melancholy. "In that you're wrong. They were the ones who taught me how to play. "

"They... taught you?"

"Yep. I also had prejudices against online games, especially role games, which are the ones that consume the most time. But they changed my way of thinking. When Manon was in the hospital for a few weeks while resting, she played online with Chris. That helped her feel better. Mrs. Chamack in fact asked me to take her away from those games, since she didn't want her to be addicted, but in the end I also ended up playing. It is true that there were days when I did nothing but play, but if you organize well and impose a schedule, playing is not bad. I thought if I played I could understand what they felt, who would say that I would end up liking it?"

"So now you love games?"

Both continue walking. "The games allow you to transport yourself to another world. It's not that it's good or bad, it's just different. There are several people with similar situations as Manon, thanks to the games they can see another world and interact with other people without having to leave their houses. I'm not saying it's good to isolate yourself completely from the outside world, but an hour or two a day doesn't hurt. Not only that, both kids have shown an interest in studding technology and they put more effort into the school study, with the desire to study that in the future. Me too. At first, I was only interested in design, but video games design caught my attention, and now I am studying to become an online game designer."

Marinette arrives at the dorm and meets Chloè, Rose and Alya on their computers... playing online?

"Are you playing MV?" She asks surprised.

"Yeah. If they accept us for the job and they ask us about the game, it is better to know more." Alya answers for all three. "Although we are on the new server, we don't want to meet as many expert players as you."

"Besides, the outfits are prettier in this one." Chloè speaks. "But Alya and I are still with the same alias (ID). Rose changed it."

"It's to never make a mistake again! PinkUnicornPrincess is much better, besides I can't use the name of Ladybug, that's Mari's and I feel bad for lying today. "

Marinette laughed. It was strange that all three were playing role-playing games. "You need help?"

"Not for now, we are in the tutorial. If we don't understand then we'll call you."

Marinette decides to enter her account. Watching them play has made her want too.

While waiting for the game to load, Marinette enters to check the game forum. There is no many news about the PK couple competition. When will it officially start?

While watching the news in the forum, she found another event: MV Video Story Contest. It seems that the event had started today. Seeing the names of the accounts that had uploaded video, she was struck by a familiar name: RainyWeather.

Without thinking, she clicked on the video. Once the video was finished, Marinette felt a mixture of confusion, bewilderment and anger. What did she just saw?

Author notes

Yep, I left it there. Sorry for the delay, I hope you're enjoying the story. Thanks so much for reading!

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