Chapter 36
- Happy 2021 everyone!
After school as the bell rang Luka got up along with Jin and the rest of the class, ready to leave, and at the exit of the classroom Luka's phone beeped and he took his phone out to see a message from Marinette.
"Hey if you and Jin want to sign your name on our letter for Nathaniel, met us in the classroom,"
"Jin, do you want to come to sign the letter for Nathaniel?" Questioned Luka earning a nod from Jin.
"Yes sure," Jin responded following the raven-haired boy along the second floor seeing Armand D'Argencourt leave the classroom, then Luka entered into the class to see everyone around Alya's table everyone queueing behind Nino, which was the first one to sign.
"Get well soon, my 6th-grade brother," Nino read as he signed under a sentence he wrote his name, then looked up at Kim, which was the next one in the line.
Luka approached Marinette, which smiled as the boy came to her.
"So as I see you all already know about Nathaniel," Luka asked earning a nod from Marinette.
"He's got out of an operation shortly according to Alix," Marinette answered. "His right leg got broken and he's got several bruises on his back, which are from the broken windshield,"
"My mom just knew about the injuries and received a message as it was over. Thank goodness he's better now," Luka commented, then heard Kim laugh as Max made a math pun on the letter making Luka shake his head amused knowing Nathaniel disliked math.
Alix received a message on her smartphone and widened her eyes, then left the line to get closer to Luka and Marinette to show them the image she received.
"Look, Nathaniel won't be coming to school for a while because of this," Alix stated showing an x-ray of a pair of legs and the bone under the right knee had an orthopedic bone screw attached to it.
"Are those screws?" Questioned Marinette earning a nod from Alix.
"Those are orthopedic bone screws to help the healing process of his bone," Jin explained. "They're usually in there for a few months until the bone is fixed,"
"Looks like Nathaniel isn't going to be around us for a while," Luka mentioned earning a nod from Alix.
"But at least he's recovering," Stated the pink-haired girl, which returned to the queue to show the class the images.
"Yes," Luka answered, then felt Marinette grab him on his hand and pull him to the end of the classroom, so the two would be alone.
"What's wrong?" Luka asked glancing at the blue-haired girl.
"You don't know that, but Nathaniel is the one I gave the snake miraculous to help me and the others out and now he can't help us out anymore with his injury," Explained Ladybug's alter ego making Luka nod.
"I can take the miraculous if you want. I have used it plenty of times before," Offered Luka seeing Marinette shake her head.
"I know, but I can't let you use it with Hawk Moth knowing your identity. It already is dangerous enough for Nino who Hawk Moth confirmed to be aware of his side as Carapace,"
"I was under the impression everyone knew," Luka pointed out. "Or it wouldn't matter, cause Hawk Moth didn't really see, who Carapace really was,"
"Yeah, I've been thinking that the whole time, but on the night we fought Cattura he somehow had gotten Lila's phone number from somewhere and used it to get into her head including mines. This is when I figured out I had let Nino keep the miraculous instead of giving it to someone else,"
"Oh and now he gave it back to you?"
"At the moment he has it with him, but Onyx has given his contact to Nino in case something happens and so do I," Mentioned the girl. "For now on we will see how we make it through without him first,"
"Okay, but you know I would help you out at any costs, Marinette," Luka promised placing his hand on Marinette's shoulder making her smile.
"You're the best Luka, that's why I don't want to put your life in danger because of my mistake," Stated the short girl placing her hand on Luka's cheek looking up at his face. "I don't want to lose you too after Adrien, not the way I lost him, worse that can happen,"
"You won't lose me that easy," Luka promised leaning his forehead down to Marinette's.
Jin, who stood behind Juleka and Lila in the queue looked back to see Luka together with Marinette gazing into each other's eyes, then looked down at the ground neutral and moved further as the fifth person from the class got its turn to sign on the sheet. Plagg raised his head out of Jin's pocket and spotted Yi entering into the classroom walking to Miss Bustier, which pointed at the students standing in line and Yi walked towards Jin, which looked at Yi curious at her appearance.
"You heard about Nathaniel too?" Questioned Jin earning a nod from Yi.
"I even saw it happening," Stated Yi surprising the tall boy.
"For real?"
"Yeah" Yi responded. "If I knew the sheets were from him I could have just asked him or just bring them into the school instead of leaving them on the wall. Just because of this Nathaniel had to run behind them as the wind blew them away to the road,"
"Hey you don't need to feel bad for what happened, it wasn't your fault. Nathaniel was unlucky to step onto the road as his mother appeared with the car. According to Alix, he will need a bit of time to recuperate. The most important part is that he's alive and deliberate," Explained Jin. "That could have happened to any one of us. A little distraction somewhere and something bad happened…..hey remember a couple of years ago I didn't pay attention too and fell off the roof?"
"Yes I do and stop remembering me of it," Yi complained nudging him playfully making Jin chuckle. "This with Nathaniel made me think on that evening,"
"Well, I believe you that,"
"I could have reacted and stopped him, but I…..just didn't do it," Complained the girl earning a nod from the friend.
"There's no need to feel bad about it. You'll be on alert the next time and able to help. But there's no need for you to put yourself in danger,"
"Yeah," Yi responded coming along with Jin to their turn to sign for their redhead friend. "You go first, you were here first,"
"No, no go ahead I don't mind waiting,"
"Alright….let me think of what I should write," Yi asked herself looking at the various used options of the classmates of Nathaniel.
"Get well soon, Nathaniel. We're all praying for your quick recovery," Yi dictated as she wrote it down herself, then passed the pen to Jin, which bowed down to sign beside Yi's phrase.
"I'm Luka's friend Jin and I hope you get well soon after this incident. When you need help in Math or any other subject, I'm here to help," Jin wrote afterward he signed his name on it and placed the pen on the table.
"Well done," Complimented Alya grabbing the card to see the names, that were all signed in. "What about Marc?"
"He would come later, he had to finish something," Yi answered.
"Okay I will wait for him, thank you," Alya responded, then Jin sat on the bench along with Yi.
"Have you got a lot of homework to do from Mrs. Mendeleiev's class?" Yi asked looking at Jin, which shrugged his shoulders.
"The same amount I'd say. Can't tell it exactly," Jin responded. "Have you got?"
"Just Chemistry and the topic is kind of complicated," Yi pointed out.
"Do you want me to help you out?" Suggested Jin watching Yi shrug her shoulder unsure about what to answer.
"I don't know, maybe I'll try it out first on myself. When I need help I ask you tomorrow. I got a week time for it,"
"Okay, but if you need my help, I'm here to help,"
"Thanks, Jin," Yi responded with a smile.
In the evening at the hospital, Alya stood at the entrance of the building with a small wrapped up box and the get well soon card she used to have the classmates sign in for their classmate Nathaniel.
"I'm here Alya, wait!" Shouted a voice, then Alya looked away from her gift to see her best friend Marinette ran towards her with a small bag from her bakery with Nathaniel's name on it and stopped by the friend.
"I wasn't expecting you would want to visit him" Alya mentioned. "Is it because of Luka?"
"He mentioned he was here so I thought I could pass by and give Nathaniel some of his favorite cookies," Marinette explained holding the bag up, then Alya smelled the scent of the cookies and licked her lips. "Fresh off the oven….well for about 15 minutes," Marinette mentioned earning a nod from Alya.
"Good, come we gotta ask them for the room number," Alya stated making the blue-haired girl shake her head.
"He's in room 221 on the east side," Marinette told making the Martinic girl nod. "The west side is the maternity only so far I know,"
"Okay, then we better make our way up to the rooms," Alya said walking into the hospital along with Marinette, then disinfected their hand before moving along the corridor to reach the middle of the building and encountered at the elevator Marc Anciel walking out along with Lila Rossi.
"Sorry I thought the numbers weren't the same in each building," Lila apologized, then she spotted along with Marc Alya and Marinette there.
"Hey, you're looking for Nathaniel's room per coincidence?" Questioned the Italian girl earning a nod from Marinette.
"Yeah, did you two get lost?" Questioned Marinette making Lila shrug her shoulders.
"I think we went the wrong way," Responded the brunette, then Alya looked at a guidance map on the wall to see, where to go and looked back at the group.
"Hey, we have to pick the elevators on the other corridor next door," Alya warned. "These ones lead to the north and west side,"
"Okay and that must be this door, that leads to the other elevators" Marinette mentioned walking along with Lila and Marc to the door, then passed through encountering a man and a child, which held a bouquet of flowers waiting for the elevator. Alya joined her friends, then looked down at the boy and went down on her knees to talk to him.
"Hey little guy, are you going to give these flowers your mommy?" Alya asked earning a nod from the boy.
"It's a gift for my mom because she gave me a little sister," The boy answered making Alya smile enchanted.
"Aww what a cute little idea," Alya complimented, then heard the elevator open doors and the teens entered into the elevator along with the father and son, then Marinette looked at the elevator and noticed the buttons of the levels were missing besides the door and alarm button.
"Uh why are the numbers missing?" Marinette asked looking at the others in the elevator making Marc shrug his shoulders and Lila sigh.
"Oh I think it's one of those elevators, where you have to press the level you want on the outside," Explained Lila. "Some airports have this system and it's horrible for the number of people that want to use it,"
"Okay?" Marinette responded watching Lila get out to press number two on the outside, then the door of the elevator closed leaving Lila back.
"They really need a little workout," Lila mentioned waiting for an elevator to come down. "I just take the stairs, it's just two levels," Lila said leaving the room, a few moments later the teens returned now with the father and son gone from the elevator, but a senior on a rollator and a nurse, which accompanied the senior out slowly.
"Where's Lila?" Marinette asked looking out at the corridor making Alya shrug her shoulders, then Marinette pressed on the outside the second-floor button and entered into the elevator again until the senior left along with the nurse and the door closed.
"It didn't move yet again or am I wrong?" Marinette asked as Alya hummed wondering if the elevator had done something.
"I think not. It still says 0," Alya responded then the door opened up again and a woman got in, which was on her smartphone and the elevator door closed moving up at the first floor, so the woman with the smartphone left immediately and Marinette did the same and pulled Alya with her.
"Come on we're just wasting our time here," Called the blue-haired girl, which got followed by her friend and the raven-haired boy to the stairway, so they could get to their level and they encountered Lila leaned against the wall waiting for them.
"Oh you took the stairs too?" Lila asked surprised earning a nod from Marinette.
"Yes. Could have done it before,"
"I think the elevators are programmed like, that you use the buttons from the outside and observe from the outside, which elevator has the level you want and that's the elevator you should pick," Marc mentioned.
"That's kinda weird system thought," Alya noticed making Marc shrug his shoulders and the group went to the next narrow corridor to follow the numbers until they came across the woman, which had hit Nathaniel with the car.
"Hi Miss Kurtzberg. We're here to see Nathaniel," Marinette began. "We're his friends,"
"Hello everyone. Nathaniel is lying in there talking with Luka," Mentioned the woman. "At the moment only two persons are allowed to be in there as there's another patient present,"
"Okay, any one of you wants to go first?" Marinette asked and Alya extended her arms at the door signing Marinette to go first making Marinette put out her tongue and moved further to open up the door slowly to encounter Luka standing in front of Nathaniel, which lied in the care bed wearing a patient nightgown.
"Hey Nathaniel," Marinette greeted closing the door behind her back leaving her friends out.
"Isn't that the girl my Nathaniel is in love with?" Miss Kurtzberg asked making Alya shake her head.
"Nope I sent her in there because of his friend Luka," Alya stated earning a nod from the mother.
In the room, Marinette stood in front of Nathaniel's bed and watched Nathaniel yawn, then he looked up at Marinette, which was a little sad about Nathaniel's state.
"How are you doing now?" Questioned Marinette making Nathaniel shrug his shoulders.
"Well I will be for the next week lying here on the bed, then I will be for a few more weeks at home resting my leg until my next appointment," Explained Nathaniel, then his stomach began to growl making him wide his eyes.
"Wow haven't you had dinner yet?" Questioned Marinette.
"I had it at 6 pm" Nathaniel answered. "That was almost two hours ago and I'm still hungry,"
"Wow, what did you have for breakfast?" Questioned Marinette.
"I just had a soup, because I need to eat light food for the rest of the day," Explained the redhead, then Marinette took out of her bag the box with cookies and handed them out to Nathaniel.
"Looks like I brought you the perfect gift to help your recovery," Marinette said watching Nathaniel opening the box to see butter double cookies filled with double chocolate cream and vanilla.
"Thank you, Marinette. Those are my favorites," Nathaniel answered making Marinette smile, then she looked up at Luka, which copied her face.
"No problem. At least you can entertain yourself a little or watch TV while eating them," Marinette said. "Well…..if something decent airs,"
"I've got Wlan here, I could try to use Nyetflix to see shows if the WLAN is good enough,"
"Or someone could rent for your movies or shows from the library to watch it here," Suggested Luka. "Tell me some and I'll bring them to you,"
"That would be a cool idea," Nathaniel said earning a nod from Luka.
"Is anyone else here to visit Nathaniel?" Questioned Luka earning a nod from the short girl.
"Alya, Lila, and Marc are here too," Marinette responded. "You know what? I and Luka leave so the rest can get to see you too,"
"Okay, thanks for the cookies," Nathaniel said, then Marinette walked along with Luka, which patted Nathaniel on his head before leaving with his romantic interest and they stepped out and made space for the three remaining students.
"Okay only two of us can enter, who will go last?" Alya asked watching Marc raise his arm up first.
"I need to write a message to…...my mom. You two can go first and I go alone," Marc stammered a little making Alya furrow her eyebrows in confusion.
"Okay then….let's go, Lila," Alya announced entering into the patient room along with Lila, which looked back at Marc that picked up his phone to type down a message.
"Is it just me or is something different with Marc?" The Martinic girl asked the Italian girl, which shrugged her shoulders.
"I believe he's interested in Nathaniel in some way," Lila mentioned. "At least I've caught him blushing or stammering around Nathaniel at certain comments and I felt it was a little obvious for me to know something is going on,"
"And does Nathaniel know?" Alya asked making Lila shrug her shoulders.
"I don't think so," The Italian girl responded, then Alya approached along with Lila the redhead, which was already nibbling on Marinette's cookies. "Bon appetite," Wished Alya making Nathaniel wide his eyes and look at the two girls.
"Uh hi girls," Mumbled Nathaniel swallowing down the first cookie.
"Here we got a little present for you signed in the name of all classmates and a few others you know," Alya said placing the gift on Nathaniel's hands. "It's not eatable, but you may like it,"
"Can I open it?" Nathaniel asked earning a nod from Alya, then he opened it and widened his eyes to see the gift was a table easel, which he could put on a table without any issue and paint. "Wow, this must have cost a fortune,"
"It was no big deal, everyone gave me five euros and it was enough to buy you this," Explained the tan-skinned girl, and the boy smiled gratefully at the classmate, then picked up the get well soon card to see who had signed in.
"Cool Jin and Max offered me to help with my homework when I need it,"
"Jin definitely would be a good choice. He's two classes further than you and he seems to be quite good at explaining how I have seen Chloé progressing at the school recently,"
"If that's true I could ask him in the future," Nathaniel responded earning a nod from Alya, then she looked at Lila along with Nathaniel then Lila came closer to Nathaniel's bed, placing her hands on the grid at the end of the care bed.
"Are you okay?" Lila questioned earning a nod from Nathaniel.
"For now on I've got no pain, except on my leg, but I've gotten medicine about two hours ago and have to take it for the next two weeks until it gets better," Answered the redhead. "I barely remember the day passing by nor how it passed so fast,"
"Hey I know don't really have anything to do with what happened to you, but I'm really sorry about this accident, that you had. I could have done something instead of watching you run into the car of your mother,"
"No one needs to feel guilty about what happened to me. It was all my own fault. I didn't look at the streets as the car showed up and got hit by it afterward,"
"I just wanted you to know that. You know as you're along with Marc are one of my closest friends I've made since that story with all my lies….you two gave me a second chance to show I can be a better person and without your help I wouldn't manage to get better on my own,"
"I'm good with it," Nathaniel responded making Lila smile and reach her hand out at Nathaniel, then he took it a little light to shake it.
"I'm going out to get Marc in here, he was worried about knowing you were here," Lila stated earning a nod from the redhead, then Lila walked out followed by Alya, which waved back at the friend and the two girls got out of the room to see Marc and Luka weren't around.
"Where is Marc?" Alya asked making Marinette shrug her shoulders.
"He was kind of nervous and Luka went to check him out,"
"Where did they go?" Asked Lila. "I may know what's going on,"
"Probably the restrooms, which are at the two corridors there, that cross together" Miss Kurtzberg explained earning a nod from Lila, which moved the corridor along then Marinette and Alya looked at each other. Marinette ran behind Lila and joined her, which surprised the brunette.
"Uh where are you going?" Lila asked.
"I'm helping you," Marinette said. "I know Nathaniel and you know both of them,"
"You know Nathaniel how?" Lila questioned confused. "You broke his heart on his birthday,"
"He told you that?" Marinette asked surprised at Lila's comment.
"No that was Marc, but Nathaniel agreed on it. He's just on good terms with you, cause he has no other way with people,"
"I don't know it, but I didn't mean to hurt him. He was akumatized,"
"Yes he was, but sometimes when you're akumatized you still can hear people say mean things about you. At least this happened to me when Ladybug was around fighting me those first two times,"
"Well…..I don't think Ladybug meant those words like that…..she may be…..stressed with the many akumas,"
"Thanks for trying to make me feel better," Thanked the Italian girl making Marinette smile a little, then both stopped as they saw Luka and Marc sit in a small winter garden together, Marc sat with his head leaned down and Luka sat in front of him looking neutrally at the boy with the red hoodie.
"What's going on?" Marinette asked, then Luka held up the sheet at the girl, which took it to see. "Why are you afraid to tell it Nathaniel?"
"I'm afraid to ruin our friendship with it,"
"Come on, you won't ruin your friendship. You need to tell him that, what if he actually likes you back too?" Marinette asked.
"I don't think that's possible," Marc stated then Alya leaned her back on the wall, then took a look at the images on the wall, which were all from newborn babies, and smiled as she spotted the one, that belonged to her favorite journalist.
"Hey I've found River's baby here," Alya pointed out with a smile, then saw on the corridor Adrien Agreste appear long with Nathalie Sancoeur, which stopped in the middle of the corridor.
"Move along Adrien, you're not supposed to be here according to your father," Nathalie warned earning a nod from Adrien, which walked forward on the corridor encountering Nathaniel's mother.
"Good evening Miss Kurtzberg. I'm Adrien Agreste. I used to be in Nathaniel's class before I got taken out by my father, because of…..this superhero thing," Adrien explained making the woman smile and open the door for the blonde.
"It won't be long, just want to see if he's alright," Adrien mentioned earning a nod from the raven-haired woman and Adrien saw Nathaniel look at him enter surprised about the visit of the former model.
"I did not expect to see you here," Nathaniel mentioned making Adrien smile a little.
"I just recently heard what happened to you from Nino," Explained Adrien approaching Nathaniel's bed seeing he had already received a few things from the others. "Are you better now?"
"I'm good for now," Nathaniel responded. "How is London going for you?"
"Good, so far I have made some friends there and…..a girlfriend too," Adrien added making Nathaniel nod.
"And you're surprised about it?" Nathaniel asked curiously earning a nod from the blonde. "How can you always say that with that looks?"
Nathalie chuckled at Nathaniel's comment, then noticed Nathaniel's bracelet and squinted her eyes through her glasses to see the bracelet. Nathalie took out her smartphone and held it diagonally on her hand and put her camera recording the ground and slowly moved the smartphone up so she could have the bracelet on her screen, then she zoomed it catching a few more seconds of it and pressed on the red button to stop the recording. She quickly placed her smartphone into her pocket as Adrien looked up at the assistant, which pretended to be looking around the room.
"Do you think we could buy a get well soon gift for Nathaniel too?" Adrien asked making Nathalie shrug her shoulders.
"You don't have to give me anything Adrien. Your presence was great too," Nathaniel stated, then Nathalie had an idea and placed her hand on Adrien's shoulder.
"Don't worry Adrien, tomorrow we're still around. I can see if I find you something for your friend,"
"Is it possible to pass by him tomorrow with the present?" Adrien questioned. "And is it possible for me to be here a little while with him, so he doesn't feel alone?"
"He's not alone Adrien, his mother and his friends are here,"
"Yes, but during school time I can be here for him. I've finished my homework for the end of the week anyway, I just need to study,"
"I will think about it," Nathalie answered. "If you have any suggestions for a gift, you can send me a picture"
"Great!" Adrien cheered, then Nathalie placed her hand on Adrien's back, so they could leave the patient room and they came across the teenagers from before. Adrien looked up at Nathalie with sad eyes, then Nathalie nodded making Adrien smile happy.
"I have to make a call, while I'm on it, you can talk with your friends," Nathalie suggested earning a nod from Adrien, which approached the friends and hugged Marinette first from behind shrieking her.
"Hey guys!" Adrien greeted making Marinette yell.
"Woah! Woah! Woah! I'm over you!" She shouted and shrieked as she saw how she reacted towards Adrien.
"What?" Adrien asked confused, while Marinette was as enstranged as him and looked up at Luka, which shrugged his shoulders.
"You're here for Nathaniel too?" The raven-haired boy asked making the blonde nod.
"Yes, Nino told me what happened and Nathalie allowed me to get here for a few minutes," Answered Adrien. "Also I have heard about you and Marinette,"
"What?" Marinette asked curious at his sentence.
"You two are perfect for each other. Make sure you two treat each other well,"
"Sure," Luka said looking at Marinette, which blushed a little at Luka's promise. "But we're not that far yet, "
"Take your time,"
"I heard about you and Aja. She seems like an amazing girlfriend,"
"Thanks Marinette," Adrien responded, then looked at Alya pushing Marc across the corridor making Lila look bewildered at Alya's idea, then he frowned feeling the same as the Italian girl, and looked up at Luka and Marinette. "Did I miss something?" He asked pointing at Alya, making Marinette cover her head.
"Forcing isn't going to help him, Alya," Marinette spoke, then Alya stopped and looked back at Marinette.
"He ain't getting anywhere if he keeps chicken everything out," Alya complained, then Lila placed her hand on Alya's shoulder and shook her head as she was on Marinette's side with the idea.
"Marc needs to do that of his free will. If he doesn't want to do it now, he can do it another day," Lila said.
"But I want to do it today, but I don't know how to do it," Marc said covering his head with his hoodie again making Alya roll her eyes.
"Going in there is the only choice you got. It's not like Nathaniel is in quarantine and you couldn't get in,"
"Not all people can confess people right into their faces," Marc added sad, then Lila had an idea and took out her smartphone to search for Nathaniel's number, then looked at Marc and showed him his phone number.
"That's Nathaniel's phone number," Lila said earning a nod from Marc.
"Yes, I have it too," Marc added earning a nod from the brunette.
"Why don't you try to tell him, what you wrote in the letter by phone call?" Lila suggested making Marc shrug his shoulders.
"I don't know, what if he reacts wrong?"
"Come on Marc, give it a try. You won't know it if you don't try. Trust me, he will reciprocate it," Alya added followed by Marinette waving with her hand signing Alya to take it down with her promise.
"Come I will help you with the start," Lila offered earning a nod from Marc, then Lila pressed the call button to call the redhead and they managed to get in contact with him.
"Hello?"
"Hey Nathaniel, Marc has something very important to tell you, but he's…...stuck in the elevator," Lila said making Alya chuckle at Lila's excuse.
"Okay, what does he want to say?"
"Now he has to say something" Alya whispered making Lila face palm as she made a bad excuse.
"Uh…..you know I'm stuck along with Marc in the elevator, so….he can actually tell you about it,"
"Okay, sure,"
"Come on boy, you can do it," Alya cheered earning a nod from Marc, which nervously took out his letter before reading it into the phone.
"Uh Nathaniel….I was shocked about the accident…..the accident you had. I…..I thought I would never see you again…..but….you're alive because…...you were very lucky and…..and god couldn't take such a kind person like you away fr….from here…..Now that you're here…...I wanted to say this to you, but…..I never got the chance to…..I was afraid of how you would react…..."
"Skip to the point, it's going well," Lila whispered into Marc's ear, which nodded.
"Because of your friendship…..my friendship…..our friendship… uh…..."
"I love you, Nathaniel," Adrien whispered between Marc and Lila, then Marc kept stammering and Adrien frowned as it didn't work and he leaned his face closer to Lila's smartphone. "I, Marc Anciel love you," Adrien said afterward Alya smacked Adrien on his back with a laugh.
"Great job, Adrien!" Alya cheered, then Marinette covered Alya's mouth so, they could hear what Nathaniel would say.
"Marc, why were you afraid to tell me that? We're great friends, of course, I love you too. You're like a sibling to me," Nathaniel said making Marc fell down on the ground relieved except for the rest of the group, which felt strange at Marc's reaction. Marc shut his eyes open at his deed and got up again picking up Lila's smartphone to speak to the redhead again.
"I beg your pardon?"
"I said I love you, you're like a sibling to me. I hope I didn't sound bad saying this or did I?"
"No, I…..just misinterpreted it," Marc answered sad along with the others, while Luka just did a facepalm.
"This boy is lighter than a lightbulb," Luka stated making Adrien shrug his shoulders.
"Maybe he needs to be clearer or declare it in another way" Adrien added.
"Probably Nathaniel didn't understand it correctly. We just try it again or what do you think?" Lila asked Marc, which got up annoyed and walked away annoyed, then the others looked at each other and Lila ran behind Marc went beside him. "Marc come on, you did it so well until now. You can't just give up now,"
"It doesn't matter anymore. I know there won't be anything more than just friendship between us,"
"You two need to talk again. I know Nathaniel for sure has misinterpreted your words. You know Nathaniel was raised first in German before he got to school. I believe he told you that too,"
"So what's the point if he knows German first and then French? What role does it play?"
"Both languages aren't similar. He says most of the time he thinks or counts in German, cause it's easier than in French. I believe also why he misunderstands people sometimes is because of that,"
"Lila please stop making up excuses to make me feel better. I already said it won't work out,"
"I'm not making up excuses, I'm giving you facts, that could make sense. I know how it is to speak French and somehow misunderstand something because in Italian it sounds different and you have to notice German isn't a Romance language like French or Italian…..Come on Marc!" Exclaimed the brunette watch Marc enter into the restroom of the men, making Lila groan. "Marc!"
Nathaniel's mom came from the door of her son's room to encounter the teens as she heard Lila and Marc's talk, the grabbed Marinette and Alya by their shoulder.
"What is going on? I'm hearing loud voices from the whole corridor?" Questioned the woman.
"It's kind of complicated," Alya answered, then she saw from the winder garden an akuma enter heading towards Lila shrieking her. "There's an akuma!" Shouted Alya alarming the teens, then Adrien ran to Lila and shouted a warning to get Lila's attention, which shrieked and immediately entered the restroom of the males.
"Not in there!" Adrien cried then knocked on the door, then got hit by Marc left while wiping his face with a paper towel, then Lila grabbed Marc by his shoulder, annoying him which tried to shoo Lila away with the napkins, then Lila grabbed him on his hand to stop.
"Just let him go, Lila!" Adrien ordered with a different voice due to him having covered his nose, then Lila saw the akuma approach the napkin and immediately removed her hand from Marc seeing the akuma disappear into the paper afterward she felt down on her knees sensing her losing control over herself.
"Oh no, both are getting taken by Hawk Moth!" Marinette warned, then Luka grabbed Alya and Miss Kurtzberg to guide them away, while Marinette remained back with Adrien, then Marinette took out her smartphone and typed down a message in capital letters into the chat of the superheroes.
"SOS, AKUMATIZATION HAPPENING R. NOW. NEED HELP ASAP! Marinette texted, then opened the localization app on her smartphone to send a screenshot, then as the two friends got transformed Marinette ran along the corridor leaving Adrien back, which got up seeing the two in their akuma forms.
"Not Reverser again," Adrien complained, then ran against one of the Reverser copies and pushed her down on the ground making the other Reverser smirk.
"Thanks for your help. As I see you're now useless too without the cat miraculous," Reverser pointed out watching Adrien get up and spot the fire extinguisher at the winter garden, then smirked and ran towards it to get it, while Reverser just observed Adrien removing the object from the wall, then figure out how to open it.
"Good luck with your try. I'm going to look for the others," Reverser explained, then his copy jumped at his plane to pull him on his leg causing him to fall down. "Hey!"
"This is also my plane!" Lila's alter ego warned, then the plane flew the two against the top grinding them along the corridor, then Reverser felt down and Lila's alter ego managed to fly on her own leaving the villain back, which began to pursue her.
"Oh boy," Adrien said, then Nathalie left the restroom and saw Adrien holding the fire extinguisher making her look stern at him. "Uh…...we need to hide Nathalie. An akuma just broke out," Adrien explained earning a nod from the adult, which opened the door wide for the blonde, which got into it and Nathalie closed the door behind her, then took out her smartphone to type down a message.
"The akumas are active. Soon the superheroes will be here," Nathalie sent, then looked to see from the janitor room Ladybug get out and make her way along the corridor to observe where the villains were going.
