Chapter 1.5: The Party
Adrien's POV
We all heard about the party Sabrina was holding for some reason. No one understands why she does these things. They are all random. Just like "Hey guys imma be holding a party tonight because Chloe just got her haircut! Eeek isn't that exciting?" we all just smile and nod. Ninos my best friend and all but… when sabrina has these parties no one can keep me from going. Her parties are bland and not at all exciting. Until the new girl moved in. Me and a few of the guys were setting up our things for the live singing, sometimes we just need more than DJ music. Sorry Nino. Alya, Nino's Girlfriend, couldn't make it to the party. Something about her parents going out and her needing to watch her sisters. So it was almost everyone from High school. Almost, The girls down stairs at the counter couldn't come up because of people coming to get rooms. So Juleka, Rose, and Alex couldn't come and kim would come unless Alex came so he hung with them whenever he showed up, and Alya. but that was everyone who couldn't come. Ivan, and Mel hung out in the corner of the room, Nathaniel came to see chloe but she just pushes him away so he hung out with marc most the time, sabrina and max hung out most of the time, Lila and Chloe continuously came to me with things like "Adrekins won't you dance with me?" and "Adrihonney, it's getting late do you want a ride?" and my responses would come like "Um im sorry Chloe, I can't, my er, legs hurt from walking here." and "Uh, Lila. it's not even sunset. And um my apartments not far so." anything to get them off me. Luka, Nino, Nath, me, and Ivan all started to get things set up while nino had the music already playing going automatically so we could get things ready faster. We were all doing this when a knock came at the door. "Hello?" Sabrina asked. Whoever was at the door either got dragged in or had the door shut in their face. To my surprise it was a girl. She was a full head shorter than me. She was getting ready for bed, you could tell because her hair was pulled up into a messy Ponytail with little to no effort to make it look nice. Oversized hoodie over very short shorts. Her Hazel eyes had the look of confusion and fear. She looks at all of us. "Um Hi." she says. We all look at her politely and smile."A group of boys and one girl. Yeah. I feel just at home." she tells herself. I don't think any of the other boys were paying attention. Nor would they understand that she speaks to herself in english and we are in france. "Pf haha" i start to laugh" she looks up at me. Her eyes look like chocolate in this dark neon lighting. The look she gives me makes me catch my breath. I had to look away before i did sometime stupid. Luka walks up to her and from what i got from their conversation she was going to sing with us. She looks at me with surprise. "Haha, yes, I speak english too.'' I tell her reassuringly. "Pf. great, i'm not alone then." she says. 'No, no your not.' i think. She looks at me through her lashes. 'Is she, is she flirting?' I sigh. "So, i presume you don't know what song we're singing, do you?" I ask her as I look into the crowd looking for Chloe and lila. Making sure they won't kill this girl for talking to me. Thankfully they haven't noticed yet. "We?" she asks. "Yeah. Me, and you." I say pointing at each of us individually. "Oh, well then. No." she says. "He. that's what i thought." I say with a smile. "Oh my. How rude of me." I say, noticing that we don't know each other at all. I can physically see her jump. "I haven't introduced myself now have I? Well im-" I bow and grab her hand "Adrien. Adrien Agreste." I kiss her hand and cringe at my last name. "Well, Sir Agreste." she says Curtsying. "It's a pleasure to meet you. My name is Marinette. Marinette Dupain-Cheng." she giggles. We stand up straight smiling. "Well, Miss Marinette. We will be singing Rewrite the Stars by Anne-Marie and James Arthur. You know it?" I ask her. "Pf. of course i do." she tells me. Hands on hips and her eyebrow raised. I raise my brow too and smirk at her. "Ok then…" I walked to the other boys to tell them we were ready. "Hey guys we're ready whenever you are." I told Luka. "Great, just give us a few minutes," Nino and Luka say. I walked back to Marinette. "Kay, you ready?" I brought my own mic and stand. "Pf, I was born ready." she tells me, turning to her own stand. "Haha, yeah sure thing." We turn back to our stands and I give the okay to start. As they start, she whispers to me "Wait, are we singing in French or English?!" I laugh "Ha, well we are in France so." I turn to her, smiling, then see her face and I freeze. "Wait. you can't sing the French version?" I ask her. "Well they are just words with a tune, so. Possibly, I don't know I just moved here!" she told me. "Crap." I whispered to myself. "Fine, we will sing in English." I can feel her looking at me "No no it's okay. I'm sure i'll keep up." she says with a smile on her face. I rub my brow. "No, it's okay we'll just do it in English." my eyes are closed. Im slightly irritated now. She rolls her eyes and whispers to me. "Have fun with that." I look at her confused. And we tell the band to start again.
We finish the song and we stand there for a minute. "Hey, you were-" I started to tell her how great she was but she just walked away. "Marinette! Marinette, Wait!" i call out for her but she just ignores me. "Adrikins! What are you doing?" Ugh Chloe. "Uh. I'm sorry Chloe, not now." I push past her and I get into the hallway. And Marinette is.. Gone. like she never existed. "Marinette! Marinette?!" I say and I rush back into the room to get my coat and I run to the elevator. 'Maybe she left.' I tell myself. I get outside and realize that she said she was new so she would have nowhere to go. I sigh. "Guess i'll just go home then." I walk the night streets of Paris. The familiar roads to my apartment.