Marinette Dupain-Cheng holding onto the hand of Manon Chamack who she was babysitting for the afternoon was walking with her best friend Alya Cesaire to the park. Alya had came to her house and asked if they wanted to hang out at the park together and Marinette at first said that she had to look after Manon but Alya said she could help watch her and Manon decided that she wanted to go to the park when she heard it. Marinette shook her head at the sight of Adrien doing a photoshoot, he was being nice enough but she was just thinking of the first impression of him but Nino was saying that he was cool so she wanted to give him a chance.
They hard music and saw Luka on a park bench playing guitar and Marinete jumped holding back an excited squeal, "Hey Marinette, Alya." Luka greeted them with a smile as Alya had a satisfied smirk and Marinette noticed this wondering if Alya knew that he was going to be here and that was why she asked for them to go the park.
"You are the boy whose photo is on Marinette's wall..." Manon spoke walking up to him as Marinette was embarrassed taking as she got a hold of Manon, "You smell like terrible cheese..." Manon said as Marinette's embarrassment grew but she could feel the smell as well.
"Sorry about Manon; she is normally an angel and I don't think she meant it like that as I doubt you could ever smell bad..." Marinette said apologetically but Luka chuckled.
"Don't worry; she speaks the truth... I have been trying special cheese lately and well... Juleka had enough of the smell and kicked me out of our home; she suggested that I come here..." Luka explained as Marinette noticed Alya's smirk grew.
"Juleka texted me about sending Luka to the park and suggested that I get you here." Alya whispered to her and Marinette thought about her being right about this being a set up. "How about I take Manon to the carasoul and you spend some alone time with Mr tall, dark and handsome."Alya suggested as Manon was excited about going there as well as getting a balloon for Mireille Caquet who had won the finals of the KIDZ+ weather girl contest against Aurore Beaureal in a landslide victory.
Marinette nervously sat next to Luka as he told her that this is the song that makes him feel as he played; Marinette smiled and was about to rest her head on his arm but then they saw a floating Akuma firing ice calling herself Stormy Weather going after Mireille. The carasoul was caught in ice to their shock as well as Adrien. They then said they wanted to go to saftey as they went in separate directions to 'hide' but in actuality to transform.
They took care of Stormy Weather and the Akuma was de-Evilized and they gave their 'pound it'. They both offered a hand to the surprised Aurore helping her up after she saw Marinette use her Miraculous Ladybug. "Ladybug? Black Feline? Did I do this?" Aurore asked nervously as they said that Hawk Moth got to her and that he was the blame. "I am so sorry; I put so much hard work into this contest and to not only lose but have that jerk rub it in how much I lost by... I was so angry at Mireille and after what I had done I don't think she will ever want to speak to me again..." Aurore muttered as Marinette and Black Feline gave her a comforting look.
"Don't worry about it; just speak to Mireille and be a good sport about losing; I can imagine how hard it is to accept losing on live TV and especially with what some idiot had to say about it. You did your best and that is all that counts." Black Feline told her as she sighed some more.
"Plus you came in 2nd ahead of so many other entrants; that is nothing to be ashamed about. You might get another chance soon." Marinette assured her as Aurore was feeling better.
"Thank you Ladybug and Black Feline!" she said waving as she went to find and apologise to Mireille. Marinette and Black Feline left to de-transform. Marinette and Luka came back to check on Alya and Manon to make sure that they were alright as in the background Aurore and Mireille were sharing a hug. "You went away when the superheroes came; I bet you are friends with them!" Manon squealed as Marinette and Luka looked nervous as Marinette said that they had better go back to her house as they had enough excitement for the day.
"You should come by the Liberty sometime if you want to hear some other songs that I have, provided that Juleka lets me back in off course." Luka chuckled as Marinette smiled saying that she would like that. Alya then started texting Juleka:
Things went well but an Akuma kind of ruined things, Luka is heading back to your place.
Great with his cheese smell :(
Luka invited Marinette to come over to your place sometime to hear his songs.
:)
Remember, I am still Marinette's best friend and I hope that you don't try to use your status as her future sister in law to take that away from me.
