Chapter 38

In the morning Nathalie entered the office of Gabriel Agreste, where he stood in front of the painting of his wife and Nathalie dropped on the table a white bag and walked to the tall man.

"Sir, I have bought at the Intermarket a plush as you asked," Nathalie mentioned earning a nod from Gabriel, which walked along with the woman to the table and took out the plush, which was a penguin wearing a green helmet with green ears.

"Good, I will just need to insert this little microphone inside the penguin and we can listen to all conversations, that happen during this boy's stay at the hospital," Gabriel explained taking out from the drawer of his desk a small black microphone, then showed it to Nathalie.

"Perhaps behind the nose or under the head would be ideal," Nathalie suggested earning a nod from the blonde, which took the plush with him to get to work. "About Adrien, he would like to pass by Nathaniel to spend a bit of time with him. What should I say?"

"Accompany him in the afternoon, until there the plush will be ready," Gabriel responded earning a nod from Nathalie.

"Yes sir," Nathalie responded making her way out of the office leaving her boss alone.


Marinette left the bakery through the kitchen, passing by her mother at the cash register taking the money from a teenage student and Marinette embraced the mother pecking her on the cheek.

"See you later maman," Marinette said making the mother giggle.

"You're a little early for school today," Sabine mentioned earning a nod from the daughter.

"I wanted to see Luka before we go to classes," Marinette responded. "You don't need to worry, dad already gave me the croissants for the break," Told the daughter holding up the bag to show the mother, which nodded.

"Have a good day," The Chinese woman wished watching Marinette leave and ran across the zebra crossing as it had the green light on, then she came across Nino, which stood there on his smartphone and Marinette crashed into Nino, ending up hugging him surprising the boy.

"Woah morning," Nino greeted the girl, which took her arms down. "Did you put too much sugar in your coffee this morning?"

"I have no idea either. I'm just going to meet Luka,"

"Okay, that's cool," Nino stated. "I haven't seen him yet,"

"I know. He said he was in the court," Told Marinette making Nino nod, then Marinette ran upstairs to enter the school.

"Nino!" A voice shouted, then Nino looked behind him to see Alya appear and jump into his arms. "You can't believe what happened to me yesterday night,"

"Uh no what?" Nino asked helping Alya down on her feet. "Your friend Marinette reacted the same way as you as she said she would meet Luka,"

"I met last night at the wax museum River Langerak hanging out with her sister-in-law and do you know what she said?" Alya asked making Nino shake his head.

"You're gorgeous?" Nino guessed making Alya shake her head.

"Nope, she said she saw my ladyblog many times on the internet and adored the work I have put in it. Do you know how great it is to adore an idol like her and she says something like this?

"It is fantastic, babe. Has she said anything more about it?"

"She gave me this offer, when she returns to work, that if I had recorded moments or pictures of fights or the superheroes she would like to use them in the show and give me credit and 100 euros per thing she would use,"

"That's nice. Will you accept it?"

"For now on I will. Later on, I want to ask her out for an interview for our essay we have to write about something we want. If she says yes it will be perfect,"

"That's cool babe,"

"Will you go up afterward to Marinette?"

"Later, I'm waiting for Max," Nino responded making Alya nod, which left the Morrocan boy back, then Nino looked at his watch and heard another person calling his name and Nino looked up and shrieked as he saw Kim Chien Le jump at Nino's arms, causing Nino to pout at the taller boy sitting on his lap with an amused grin on his face making Nino glare serious at the boy.

"Really dude?" Nino questioned followed by Max appearing laughing at Kim's deed.


Inside the court, Marinette sat along with Luka on the stairs looking at a music note sheet, which Marinette was reading for herself. Throughout the reading, Marinette smiled leaning her face on Luka's shoulder, and wrapped her arms around his arm making Luka roll his eyes down at the girl smiling at the reaction.

"Are you liking it so far?" Asked the brother of Juleka, then Marinette glanced up at him with a curious look.

"Did you really write that during the past months as I was trying to get closer to Adrien?" Questioned the blue-haired girl.

"Yes. I wanted to make this video to help guys and girls, which are in a similar situation as I…..was and so I wrote this song,"

"This really sounds painful, if I have to be honest. I really can't wait to see you perform this song when the time is right,"

"That's cool. For the video, I still need to find someone to play the girl and the cute boy. This will take a little while though. Funny I had the other day the thought of giving Nathaniel the role, but he refused it because he was afraid of the kissing scene,"

"That's typical of him. Have you texted him yet anything?"

"No, I'll do it later. At this time he's probably sleeping,"

"Yes makes sense. Good for him he can rest longer than usual now,"

"Yes," Marinette agreed, then looked across the court to see Nino enter along with Max and Kim heading towards a classroom, then Marinette looked at Luka, which scratched his arm over the jacket shortly, and noticed Marinette looking at him.

"It's the shirt's material itching me," Luka said making Marinette giggle.

"I just wanted to ask you something, if you wouldn't mind to meet me at the bakery at one point of the day,"

"Sure at lunch or after school?" Suggested Luka.

"Maybe after school….Yes after school sounds great. I've got an idea for it afterward,"

"What are you planning, if I may ask?"

"Remember as I told you about, that I took down Adrien's posters?" Questioned Marinette earning a nod from Luka.

"Yes,"

"I thought about burning them down as a way to know I forgot him,"

"Uh I believe this is a little too harsh to do. You two never dated or he never did anything so bad, that you would have the need to do that. At least this is how I feel"

"Maybe it is. Okay, the most times I saw this was in drama movies, where couples broke up, so I guess I need to find something else,"

"I will still pass by and we can look together for a decent solution,"

"Okay," Marinette replied and embraced the boy, which put his arm around Marinette to caress her back. Marinette noticed at the entrance Jin enter the court, then she waved at the raven-haired boy that made his way to the two French descendant students and sat down next to Marinette.

"Good morning, now I understand why you didn't reply to my messages, Luka," Jin mentioned making Luka nod.

"I'm sorry. I was talking with Marinette,"

"It's okay, it was nothing important," Jin added. "Is Yi per coincidence here?"

"I haven't seen her," Marinette answered. "What about you, Luka?"

"I just saw Kagami this morning, maybe she knows something," Luka responded and Jin got up. "Why?"

"I just wanted to see her,"

"She could be on her way or you go look for her later on in the break, she could also be late or somewhere in the school,"

"Okay," Jin said picking out his smartphone to check the social media. "Anything new about Nathaniel?"

"Not yet," Luka responded watching Jin give likes on images appearing on his feed.


Later all students had got called into the class and Yi had taken her place on her desk and she took out from under her table her motivational poster and looked at the image she had stuck there with her parents and grandmother. Yi opened her pencil case and took out two photos and looked at them, afterward she took out a scissor and used it to cut out the first person on the picture, which was her new friend Kagami and she placed it on the right corner, where on the picture was Yi's hand leaning on the arm of the couch. Afterward, Yi took the second picture, which was an actual picture of Jin, which Yi took from the internet and placed it over Kagami's picture. Yi used the glue stick afterward to stick both pictures on it and she took the poster to look at it. Yi looked at the image of her two friends, then she placed the poster on the table and used a pencil to draw over Jin's head Onyx's cat ears, then looked at the image with a smile.

Her deskmate Marc sat down, then looked at Yi's poster, which she placed down and Marc looked at the image to see Jin's image.

"Is that your crush?" Marc asked seeing Yi look at him and look down in embarrassment.

"Yes," Yi responded. "We kind of…..got to know, that we both like each other more, than we actually knew,"

"At least you're getting somewhere," Marc said lying his head down on the table. "I tried to confess to my crush yesterday and I think he didn't understand it. Now I'm afraid to try it again and eventually it will end with a rejection,"

"Ouch. How did you say it?"

"My friend Lila was helping me by letting me use the smartphone, so I could talk to him without being you know very close to him without feeling pressured. I still felt nervous, but somehow I managed to say it…..well….a friend did it. He ended up replying with that he loved me like a sibling,"

"Oh…..well….and you say he had misunderstood it?"

"That's what everyone said. I kind of think the same too, but at the same time I believe it's not that,"
"Have you tried in just leaning on him to kiss?" Yi questioned. "I'm not really good at giving love advice, this is just how it happened with me and….Jin,"

"Any other ideas that could help too?"

"What about writing a letter, a poem, a drawing?" Suggested the girl, making Marc shrug his shoulders.

"I've been trying it several times out, but I never manage to express myself correctly with them,"
"Okay. Look, maybe you should take a break and take smaller steps. I really wish I could do more for you,"

"Thanks, I'll think about it," Replied the deskmate, then looked at the front at the teacher, which was going to start the lessons, then Yi folded the poster and stored it back.


Jin was during class working on a pile of sheets about history, then moved to the next page to read the next question of the task, then he sighed in love and used his pen to scribble on his hand a large hanzi symbol. Luka rolled his eyes off his sheet to look at Jin's hand and chuckled.

"Let me guess….this means love?" Luka asked, then Jin shook his head and focused on his task. Luka smirked and observed Jin pick the tablet to read the chapter of the history book, then Luka took his device and opened the translator app and changed the first language into Chinese and used his finger to draw the symbol on his tablet, then pressed on the enter button and saw the translation of the symbol.

"Yi…..happy…..oh now I get it," Luka mentioned seeing Jin write down his next answer slightly turning red on his face.

"Okay, I admit it. I and Yi came closer yesterday and she kissed me. This time I didn't cause a mess or anything else," Jin said quiet earning a nod from Luka.

"That's fantastic Jin. Now, what have you done?" Questioned Luka. "Have you two come to the conclusion of something?"

"Not yet. The only thing is our parents witnessed what happened and were excited to know what happened. Tomorrow Yi and her mom will visit my parents because they had planned it yesterday night before we arrived home. Eventually, there will be more questions about our whereabouts last night,"

"Where have you been?" Questioned Luka.

"You know…...Yi wanted to visit Nathaniel and I accompanied her and then there was anything with an akuma and we couldn't get in so we just walked around together, talked and in the end, we returned home,"

"Then she kissed you?"

"Yes, but before that, we were talking again and I got lost in her eyes and she did the same and the rest you know it,"

"As I see we were lucky with the love this time,"

"It was worth waiting,"

"It was," Agreed Luka, then the teacher knocked on the table in front of the class to get the class's attention.

"Luka, Jin, could you two be quiet please," Questioned the teacher earning a nod from the boys.

"Sorry Mr. Watts," Apologized the two teenage boys, then focused individually on the task.


Nathaniel lied on the care bed watching on his smartphone anime, then someone knocked on the door and it got open. Nathaniel looked at the door to see Adrien Agreste glimpse into the room.

"Hi Nathaniel," Adrien greeted the redhead, then walked into the room with a plastic bag, then placed it on the table. "Uhm Nathalie bought this penguin plush for you in my name. I hope you don't mind it,"

"It's fine. Leave it there next to the chocolate box there," Nathaniel said watching Adrien push it closer to the box with the name of Sabrina Raincomprix.

"How is your day going?" Questioned Adrien leaning his back on the table watching Nathaniel pause the video.

"It feels long. I tried to be creative again, but I've been having an art block for the last few hours, so I just decided to stay with watching Vortex, until I have anything in mind,"

"Okay. Have you got any idea what type of games we can play in a hospital without leaving the bed here?" Questioned Adrien making Nathaniel shrug his shoulders.

"Card or board games usually. I know there's a playroom for kids, which has bookshelves and some games we can borrow," Nathaniel mentioned. "I just don't know, which ones they have,"

"You know what, I will just go check it out and pick out one to try it out. Eventually, I might need to learn some as the only thing I could play at home was chess,"

"Games I don't understand a thing about it,"

"I can teach you if you want to" Adrien suggested making Nathaniel shrug his shoulders.

"Is it easy?"

"Yes, it's pretty simple if you know the rules. You just need to focus to prevent yourself from losing the match," Explained Adrien earning a nod from the redhead.

"Okay I give it a try if we're able to play chess," Answered Nathaniel earning a nod from the blonde.

"Cool I will see if there's any chessboard around or any other game," Adrien mentioned making his way towards the door, to get out of the room.

"Okay,"

Sass the snake kwami came out from under the bed cover and took a look at the plush and patted it making it drop down with its nose, making the kwami back off and look at his holder.

"Why do humans stuff innocent animals to gift them to others?" Questioned the kwami making Nathaniel wide his eyes confused at Sass's strange question.