Chapter 35
This will be my last chapter for this year. 2020 was a...interesting year. It really passed by so fast I barely remember anything I've done this year. Obviously, I won't make it to finish the fic this year, but the fic is getting closer to the end. I'd say at least 4-6 chapters are planned to come more or less.
A happy new year to everyone and a great start to 2021.
On the first day after the weekend Marinette was on her way to school and waved her hand at spotting Marc Anciel sitting on the stairs on his smartphone, then she entered into the court to encounter Luka at the stairs standing in front of Jin talking to. Marinette smiled and made her way towards the two boys and stung Luka with her finger on his back making him twitch as he felt the sting of Marinette's fingernail on his back.
"Morning Luka," Marinette greeted.
"Good morning Marinette," Luka responded lifting his arm to wave. "How are you doing?"
"Fine and you?"
"Same thanks," Responded Luka, then Marinette sat down on the stairs next to Jin, which smiled at her friendly.
"Hey" Jin greeted.
"You're okay with…..you know…...your heart?" Questioned Marinette making Jin shrug his shoulders.
"It's okay I guess. I…..uh feel like there was something on the other day I was out with her….at my parents house because of dinner,"
"Do both your families get along very well?"
"Yeah. You know our moms are high school friends and they haven't left each other ever since they had me and Yi. Practically because of our parents, that's why I and Yi know each other very early. We have always played together since the infant's age on the days our parents visited each other. Funny the older she got the, she earned the interest to cause a mess, mostly when we were alone somewhere and I had to stop her before she would land in trouble or even me…..most of the times I covered some of hers to spare her the detention,"
"Aww, you really did that?" Questioned Marinette making Jin nod.
"You know she grew into my heart. She was like a younger sister to me. She told me almost everything that bothered her, so I could look with her for the solution of her problems or to just be present to listen to,"
"Your relationship with her would still be like this if you hadn't moved here to Paris probably. Like she would have been wondering how to deal with the loss of her father and speak to you?"
"Maybe. I believe she would avoid me too just like her mother. If I was there I probably would be unsure how to help her with it,"
"At least she's better now than before," Stated Marinette making Jin shake his head agreeing with the blue-haired girl.
"Yes and it was great from your side to ask Luka and the others to tell her about their own families and how they dealt with it. I believe it helped her a little,"
"You're welcome," Added Marinette, then beside the stairs appeared Chloé Bourgeois and stopped in front of the two making Marinette furrow her eyebrows in confusion. "Morning?" Greeted Marinette confused.
"Is it possible for you to help me at chemistry like last time, Jin?" The blonde questioned watching Jin take his smartphone to look at the time and shrug.
"I could try," Jin offered making Chloé jump and pull Jin by his arm away from Marinette and Luka, leading him to the locker room.
"Interesting how Chloé began to question others beside Sabrina to help her at the homework…..Like real help,"
"There's nothing wrong in getting help thought. Usually, you learn better that way," Mentioned Luka sitting down next to the girl. "Juleka and Rose do the same to me,"
"Indeed," Agreed Marinette looking at the tall boy copying his smile, then she rolled her eyes down pondering on what she should say to him. "Uhm Luka?"
"Yes?"
"It's…...I've been wondering…..you like me. You know…..more than as a friend,"
"Yes"
"How is it like that, that you have an interest in me if you could have it in any other girl from your class or your age?" Questioned Marinette making Luka chuckle.
"Well, this is a really good question. I don't remember exactly when I began to feel something for you. I only remember I enjoyed your company and your infinite helpfulness. You're a really fun and lovable person, Marinette. I know you know that too," Luka commented making Marinette blush a little timid at his compliment. Luka placed his hand on her shoulder smiling at the girl, which held her face at the ground hiding her reaction. Marinette rolled up her eyes at Luka seeing him smile courteously, afterward, the girl smiled a little charmed and moved her head up at the boy to press her lips on his making him wide his eyes in surprise. The boy afterward closed his, followed by Marinette soften down as she successfully moved forward on Luka and placed her hand on his shoulder throughout the momentum.
"Yes, girl!" Shouted a voice shrieking the two, followed by Marinette jump into the arms of Luka to see Alya in front of her along with half of her classmates applauding for the first kiss she had with Luka Couffaine. "I knew soon or later you would get somewhere,"
"See, we knew you would make it…...except it was Luka, but hey he's a cool dude," Nino added earning a nod from Alya and Juleka.
"And he cherished you a lot. Isn't that what every girl wants in a relationship?" Questioned Rose with an excited facial expression seeing her friend had made a difficult move, then Marinette nodded and looked back at Luka, which was smiling bashfully at the caught surprise.
"I've been so stupid this entire time. I'm really, really stupid. I've been so blind for this entire time focusing on finding ways to get closer to Adrien, even with Luka helping me and I never thanked or apologized him for anything of it,"
"I really don't know how you could do that man, I would have given up if I saw my crush having an interest in someone else," Kim pointed out making Max chuckle.
"Says the one, who had a crush on Chloé for a year and had the childhood friend simping for him ages ago," Commented the short boy making Nino snort at the stated fact of the classmate.
"Yeah right?" The Morrocan agreed, then felt behind him someone tap on his shoulder to spot Nathaniel Kurtzberg there standing.
"What happened here?" The redhead asked watching Marinette in Luka's arms, then he furrowed his eyebrows in surprise.
"The two finally kissed and sadly my girl Alya didn't picture it" Nino stated earning a nod from the girlfriend.
"Don't worry, it's saved in our heads for good," Max assured earning a nod from Nino.
"Well, that's definitely better than seeing Mr. D'Argencourt dance with his saber from fencing as if she was Mrs. Mendeleiev," Nino commented making Kim nod disgusted.
"Yuck!"
"Please don't remind me of that, I almost puked," Nathaniel complained, then the school bell rang to advise the students to make their way to their classrooms and the class of Miss Bustier went stairs up and split away from Luka, which got hugged by Marinette afterward she followed Alya into her classroom and sat down on their seats while the others went to theirs.
"Finally you came to the conclusion, that there are more people in the world than you assume," Alya joked making Marinette fake a laugh.
"You're so funny," Marinette said sarcastically, then began to unpack her stuff from her bag pack along with Alya, then Nathaniel ran out of his classroom to the stairs and walked them down watching over them looking for something specific, then he passed by Lila Rossi and Myléne Hapréle, which were walking stairs up, then Lila looked back to see Nathaniel search on the stairs for something. She turned around seeing Nathaniel look above the court, then Lila stepped a few stairs down to stay beside him.
"Did you lose something?" Questioned the brunette girl earning a nod from the redhead.
"I had my comic notes with me before. I either lost it or Marc has them with him as I showed him it,"
"Where have you been before as you had them?" Questioned the brunette, then Nathaniel remembered and ran to the exit of the school, while Lila walked behind the boy.
On the outside, Nathaniel ran out to see Yi holding his comic notes on her hands, making him bit his lips and the raven-haired girl placed it on the column at the end of the stairs and she walked stairs up to encounter Nathaniel race past her shrieking her, which saw the boy get to his notes, which he managed to pick, but a few, that lied on there flew away with the wind making Nathaniel groan and ran behind them.
"Oh were they yours?" Yi asked watching Nathaniel run behind the papers, then encountered Lila which noticed Nathaniel running towards the road.
"I think it was better to bring the sheets into the building next time with this wind. You know his drawings are very important to him," Lila pointed out earning a nod from Yi, which looked back at Nathaniel along with Lila afterward both girls widened their eyes in shock as they saw a brown car on the road drive normally and Nathaniel, who didn't pay attention at the surroundings stepped on the road managing to catch the last sheet, followed by the car pressing the horn calling Nathaniel's attention, which froze in the middle of the road at the sight of the vehicle, which pressed the brakes hard and Nathaniel got hit by the car, landing on the windshield of the vehicle.
"Nathaniel!" The girls cried as they saw the student lying on the broken window, then Yi ran into the court for help while Lila was terrified at seeing, what happened to her friend. Lila watched the driver inside the car cover its own face, making Lila sad and head fast to the vehicle, then the driver left, which was a raven-haired woman.
"No, no, no, this is not happening right now," The woman mumbled with tears in her eyes, then she placed her hands on Nathaniel's head and began to cry making Lila feel depressed, then Yi showed up along with Mr. D'Argencourt and the school nurse, which got around the hood of the car to slowly pick Nathaniel up together.
"Miss Kurtzberg, we already called an ambulance. Your boy will be fine," Mr. D'Argencourt comforted the woman shocking Lila as she found out Nathaniel got hit by his own mother.
"That's his mother?" Lila asked quiet watching the nurse clean the bit of blood of Nathaniel's forehead, slowly perking the redhead up, which opened his eyes slowly and his mother began to cry with happiness seeing her son was alive.
"Mom, where am I?" Questioned the redhead looking at the nurse cleaning the bloond above the forehead and behind the nurse he noticed Yi along with Lila look at him hurt at his mishap.
"You will be alright baby, just stay here with me," Miss Kurtzberg asked watching Nathaniel try to get up by pulling himself up on the grill, then slipped down on the ground, then Armand lifted his hand to sign the boy to stay where he was.
"An ambulance is on the way, please let Mrs. Furtado help you," Armand advised Nathaniel, which groaned slightly in pain making his mother grab the boy's hand to show him, she was there with him and she looked at the girls, which stood there with him.
"Could anyone get my boy water?" The woman questioned earning a nod from Yi, which left and Lila observed the raven-haired girl leave afterward she glanced back at the adults around Nathaniel. Armand got up to the car, then opened the door to turn on the warn lights of the car and closed the door, therefore he noticed Lila's presence.
"Are you okay, Miss Rossi?" Questioned the teacher making Lila shake her head.
"I could have stopped him from running…...but I wasn't expecting he would get hit by a car"
"It happened, you couldn't guess that Lila. Accidents happen every day," Mr. D'Argencourt comforted the girl, which nodded and looked down at the Kurtzberg's to see the mother caress the boy on his head carefully as the boy warped his face whining. "Come on, get in, Miss Bustier must be wondering about you,"
"Yes…...what about Nathaniel?" Questioned Lila looking with the teacher to the redhead, then Mr. D'Argencourt took the papers from Nathaniel's hands to look at them and handed them out to Lila.
"If you feel okay to, explain Miss Bustier what happened, otherwise I or Principal Damocles will pass by too,"
"Sure," Lila responded, then she walked back into the building and looked back at the scene to see a red combi with the symbol of the fire department stop behind the car, then the driver left to approach the adults and enter into a talk with the fencing master.
"I'm sorry," Lila apologized disappointed, then got into the schoolhouse heading back to her class.
Later at the first break, Luka sat together with Jin in the classroom both on their smartphones, then Jin began to laugh at seeing a meme on his Facestargram account and showed it to Luka.
"Huh…..no habla ingles…..ur getting deported…..que?….u r…...oh wait…..you're el getting deportado…..," Luka read, then began to chuckle at the meme he read from the friend. "Wonder if he's going to figure out, what it means,"
"Probably it's similar. I don't know any Spanish, to be honest," Jin explained, then continued to look along his page for more posts, then he heard someone whistle and he looked up to see Alya Césaire at the entrance of the classroom and looked at her, which entered into the classroom to approach the two boys.
"Hey Luka," Greeted Alya seeing Luka wave at the girl, then Jin placed his phone on the table to look at the girl.
"Hey, you're going to interview Luka for something?" Questioned Jin making Alya shake her head.
"Not really, but it would be a good thing for another day and maybe you too Jin, what's so special about you no other knows here?" Questioned the Martinic girl, making Jin shrug his shoulders.
"Good question, I don't think I've got anything people are interested in,"
"What about your time you asked out girls every day?" Luka suggested making Jin frown and slap Luka on his shoulder making him laugh. "Just kidding,"
"It's fine, I just came here to ask you, if you knew something about Nathaniel," Alya mentioned making Luka shake his head.
"Wasn't he out there with Marc or something?" Questioned Luka making Alya shake her head.
"Oh you didn't hear what happened?" Alya questioned surprised seeing Luka shake his head. "Oh…...you know…...he is in the hospital, cause he was hit by his own mother's car,"
"Oh no. Is he okay?" Luka asked getting worried about what Alya just told.
"I was wondering if you did know anything. Apparently, none of us knows Nathaniel very well and the ones who do didn't know it either, what happened,"
"Oh boy, I really hope he's alright," Luka mentioned. "I could call my mom and ask her, if she could talk to Nathaniel's mom. Maybe she can get some Infos for us,"
"Okay, if you know something about him tell us. And if you're interested I'm buying a get well soon card for all my classmates and some of Nathaniel's friends to sign. If you want to sign too, just tell me,"
"Sure I'll do it," Responded the older brother of Juleka.
"I'll do it too, if you don't mind," Jin stated making Alya smile.
"Thanks guys," Alya responded, then ran out of the classroom and Luka sighed leaning back on his chair, making Jin feel sad for what happened to the young teen.
"This is the horror," Luka confessed earning a nod from Jin. "How could this happen to him?"
"No idea, you better ask your mother to talk to his mother. Maybe we can hear something new about him or how he is doing at the moment,"
"This is really serious, I hope I manage to talk to mom," Luka mentioned, then Jin placed his hand on Luka's shoulder to calm him down as the tall boy searched through his contacts for his mother's phone number.
"Don't worry, he will be fine," Assured Jin watching Luka hold his phone next to his ear waiting for his mother to attend while Jin got up from his chair to look at the outside at the streets to see the damaged supermini on the road with two police agents standing in front of it filling in a report, then Jin heard Luka speak on his cellphone to his mother and walk forward to the exit.
"Oh boy," Jin commented looking out of the window, followed by Plagg raising his head out of the shirt.
"Nathaniel is young. He won't have much trouble in recovering from his incident, trust me," Plagg said rolling his eyes up at Jin, which nodded.
"Such things are really horrible to know," Jin stated earning a nod from Plagg which along with his owner continued to observe the local, where a tow truck just had arrived to prepare itself to load the vehicle.
