Hey guys, guess who's back! This is one of the most popular stories. I've ever written, but I never finished it.

I kept thinking about writing more to this story, but I never had time with school and finals and stress and then some more personal stuff that I'm not gonna go into..

Anyways It's finally summer and I had a chance to write more!

I wrote a full chapter, this is one of my longer ones and I hope you like it.

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the next morning, Marinette opened her eyes She woke up to the smell of bread, the bustle of customers to the squeaks of Tikki,

What she didn't wake up to, was her alarm.

There was no incessant beeping, no blaring, no tick tock. There was no alarm. suspicious. Squinting, she rolled over to check the time. For a brief moment, she stared at the clock, not believing what she had seen. She tried to ignore the little blinking red numbers taunting her,but she couldn't.

7:45

She had 15 minutes to get up and sprint to class. She yawned and bolted out of bed, falling into a frantic, but familiar routine. She brushed her hair, and her teeth. She put Tikki in her purse with her phone and vookies and grabbed her schoolbag. As she ran down the stairs, her mom, laughing, handed her a croissant, which she stuffed in her face before sprinting out the door.

Marinette checked her phone seconds be for as he reached the door. 7:59. She was on time. She had barely made it, and she didn't even have time to fix her messy bun from the night before, but she made it.

As she opened the door, the bell rang, and everyone stared.

It was at this moment that Mari realized that she was wearing the same outfit as the previous day.

Everyone stared.

She rushed to her seat, face red with embarrassment, avoiding eye contact with everyone.

"You look like a mess Mari, did you sleep at all?" Alya whispered, ignoring whatever their substitute teacher was saying.

Mari shook her head. "Maybe? I was just stressed. I have to tell everyone, but I can't."

Alya shrugged, "you don't have to tell anyone if you don't want to."

"Yeah, that's the problem. If I don't tell them, they'll hate me. And Chat..." her voice trailed off.

"Who happen to be you and ladybug, so nothing is really wrong." Alya finished.

"But if they know, they'll hate me. How can they feel safe knowing that Ladtbug is a clutz who can't even go up stairs without falling." Mari shrugged. "It's a lose lose situation"

Alya smiled. "I still feel safe. Even more so, knowing that my best friends will always protect me."

Marinette tried not to laugh, "yeah, but you're Rena Rouge. Youre part of the team. Of course you feel safe with us."

Alya's face was a mask of panic. Then,suddenly she laughed. "Holy shit. I forgot you were ladybug for a second there and almost screamed." Alya shook her head. "I can't believe you kept your secret for so long. I would've told someone immediately."

Marinette winked and gestured at Nino, "so when are you going to tell someone?"

Alya rolled her eyes, "shut up Mari. I'll tell him when the time is right... and I won't fuck up by kissing him in costume." She gestured towards Adrien, "I'm smart."

Marinette giggled. "He is smart. So much better at physics than me."

Alya nodded. "Hes book smart. I'm street smart. Your sunshine boy is socially oblivious."

Marinette rushed to his defense, "he's not totally oblivious,"

"Girl," Alya started, "He expressed his love through overdramatic proposals and terrible puns."

Marinette blushed. "I thought it was cute."

"You, you would." Alya smirked, "hot stuff"

"You promised we'd never speak of that again" Marinette yelped.

Alya shook her head. "Not to mention, his only friend for 15 years was Chloe."

Marinette shuddered. "Ugh, you have a point."

Together the girls giggled. Marinette was just glad to have her best friend back... well her best friend who was a girl.

After a moment, Mari saw Adrien scribble something on a sticky-note. He watched the teacher, and when she wasn't looking, he passed the note back to Mari, with a wink that made her blush.

That boy was infuriatingly gorgeous. Slowly, she unfolded the note, and read the familiar handwriting.

Hey Marinette, I just want you to know that I can hear everything you say. Everything, and I have two responses.

1: why didn't you defend me more, I have great social skills

2: why didn't you tell me Alya was Rena? Why didn't she tell me? Or Nino? What was the plan there buggaboo?

Ps: note to Alya, Nino says "hi."

Pps: actually he's just blankly staring at me in awe because he can't believe that he's dating you and you're a superhero and its amazing, but hi seemed better than not saying anything.

Ppps: Nino doesnt blame you for not telling him, but I think you guys need to talk.

Sincerely,

Hot stuff

At the bottom of the note, Adrien had signed with a paw print, and strangely, a turtle.

Marinette read the note and chuckled, before passing it to Alya. Alya blushed, and wrote another note, promising to talk to Nino after class.

Marinette smiled to herself. All seemed right with the world. Nino and Alya and Adrien and her were in sync. They were a team, for better or worse, and they would do anything...

If only Nino were secretly Carapace. Then, everything in Marinette's world would be perfect.

Well almost everything. She still had yet to deal with the whole, problem of half of her class and the entire ladybug fan club hating her.

Ugh. That reminded her. She had to tell them.

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thanks so much for reading, especially after the huge break I took. I hope you liked it.

Please leave a review or pm me any suggestions/ constructive criticism.

Also if there are any like grammatical errors you see, please tell me so I can fix them. I wrote and edited this chapter by myself in one day, so there's probably a lot.