Friday
Third Person Pov.
To say Marinette was nervous was the understatement of the year. She was practically sweating bullets about her situation. See after the events at her old school and telling her parents everything they were able to find a school for her. Sure she would have to wear a uniform but hey at least she would be able to accessories however she wanted and that would give her practice on creating more accessories. She did freak out majorly though when she found out how quickly her parents found a school for her. But talk with her papa calmed her down. Besides, she would only have to go to classes for today and will be able to visit the campus during break though her parents did try to get her to only visit the campus she wasn't having it.
(Flashback)
Marinette had woken after a much-needed rest. Crying really takes a lot out of someone. After Marinette woke up she headed down to have brunch since it was already late in the day. Tikki was also still sleeping so Marinette had let her continue sleeping since last week they had to deal with four akumas for four days in a row. And honestly, they both needed the sleep after fighting akumas and fighting off akumas.
She got ready for that day by wearing her normal everyday clothes and put her hair in her ponytails and brushed her teeth and started to head down. As she headed down she saw the note her papa and maman left for her but considering she was hearing noises from downstairs in the bakery, that they may have returned. She headed downstairs and only saw her papa. So she asked him where her maman was.
"Oh, she went to take care of some business somewhere but for now I have news sweetheart," Tom said while continuing to make the bread for the day, "We found a wonderful school for you and sent in an application for you to go there"
"Oh what school is that," Marinette asked while helping her papa by mending the already in the oven bread.
"L'Academie Jeanne d'Arc" Her papa replied with a knowing smile of what was about to happen
Marinette's eyes widen at that, she then starts rambling, "Wait isn't that an expensive school? Isn't it a pristine school? Every person at different schools wants to know how it looks on the inside? What if I don't get in? Papa is that where you went today in the morning? How did it go? Did I get accepted?"
"Sweetheart breath," Tom said holding on to Marinette's shoulders and started calming her down before speaking to answer her questions, "Yes that's were your maman and I went this morning and yes you did get accepted. The principal has granted you a scholarship to attend though you will need to take the Métro to the school and you will need to wear a uniform."
"That's totally fine since I have gotten better in maintaining a good sleeping schedule so that should totally be fine." Marinette said exited after calming down a bit, "But omg god I actually got in"
"Yes sweetie" Tom promised
"Thank you, papa, for caring so much for me," Marinette said hugging her papa with tears in her eyes
"I love you so much honey and your maman and I would do anything to protect you" Tom reassured her, "Now the principal said you can start tomorrow if you want but you could decide to start after the break and still go during the break to explore the school"
"Though I would like for you to go after the break your gonna go tomorrow aren't you Marinette?" Sabine asked as she entered the backroom. She quickly greeted her daughter and husband before handing her daughter her purse knowing Marinette will head upstairs after she confirms her question.
"Yes maman I will because I want to at least get an idea of what the rest of my school years will be like and I also want to know the classes I'll be taking that will correspond with my field of study there." Marinette explained, "I also just want to see the school since I heard how beautiful it is."
"Alright, Marinette if you're sure," Sabine said hugging her daughter. After that Marinette made her way back up all the way to her room and began designing some accessories.
(End of flashback)
Now Marinette stood in the school's front office as they search for her schedule. Marinette was wearing the school uniform for the students that would be attending the collège classes. The outfit consists of a white collared shirt, a red and blue plaid skirt, a red and blue plaid tie, and a blue blazer with white trim. Marinette also was wearing knee-high black socks, her ballerina pink shoes, her hair was down with ladybug themed hairpins. She had her backpack she made and her purse was also with her as she kept Tikki in there along with her phone.
The front office woman had come back with her schedule and was currently phoning one of Marinettes' new class representatives. Apparently in this school, they have two class representatives for the classes, one girl and one boy to share the responsibilities in case one couldn't make it for any reason. The one who is supposed to show Marinette her classes is the guy representative because the girl had an appointment she needed to attend to.
While they waited Marinette checked out her schedule
Serilda Willet (Homeroom/French)
Carrington C. Claudine (Literature/Literacy)
Lyra Lily (Science)
Anastasia Kaiser (PE)
Lunchtime
Bella Laguna (Fashion/Home econ.)
Nelson Bones (Business)
Nash Walker (Math)
Serilda Willet (Homeroom/French)
After looking over the schedule, Marinette looks up from her paper and notices a blonde boy making his way to where she and the front office lady are waiting. By the looks of it, the class representatives wear a different uniform than the other students. He had on a white-collar shirt, a black blazer with red buttons over it, red and black plaid pants, black shoes, a black and green watch, and was carrying a black satchel.
"Good morning Mlle Bauer" The boy greeted the front desk lady
"Good morning to you too Felix" Mlle Bauer greeted the boy known as Felix, "We have a new student starting today and I know you would normally only handle the business side of being a representative but Rosemarie had an appointment today she couldn't miss"
"It's alright Mlle Bauer, I knew about Rosemarie's appointment," Felix assured Mlle Bauer, "Now where is the new student?"
"Right here" Marinette giggled. She knew she was small, her mother is still half a head taller than her.. (I recently found out Marinette is 4'11''. That's smaller than me and I'm already pretty small heck my friends tease me for being small and Felix was originally taller then Marinette by a lot so he would see her as tiny.)
Felix's eyes widen as he looks at her because he is one foot taller than her. "My deepest apologies I hadn't seen you standing there"
"It's alright, it happens all the time" Marinette reassured him, "I am 4 '11''"
"I see well I apologize again Mlle?" Felix Inquired
"Marinette Dupain-Cheng" Marinette greeted the boy and extending her hand
"Felix Culpa" Felix introduced himself taking Marinettes hand and giving her a firm shake, "Right well how about I look over your schedule and we can make our way to our homeroom class. Au revoir Mlle Bauer"
"Au revoir Mlle Bauer," Marinette said waving goodbye to the front office lady
"Au revoir Kids and have a good day"
"You too" Marinette shouted back as she and Felix already had some distance between them and the front office. Marinette turned back to looking forward to catching up with Felix as she created distance by looking back.
"So I looked over your schedule and it seems we share all of our classes but one which is Fashion since I'm studying Finance. The class we are heading to right now is only about 16-26 minutes long, depending on if we have PE or not, to give students time to do any homework they didn't do or need to finish. She also as you can see teaches French as our last class, I suggest that when she's teaching us, make sure that if you are doing something else you are still paying attention" Felix began to explain, "Now Mme. Willet is strict but understanding like most teachers here are but try not to get on her bad side, she also allows time for those who run late since some students do tend to arrive late. Mlle Claudine is more lenient on tardies considering how big the school is and she really doesn't have a bad side so you'll be fine with her. Mlle Lily is also strict but flexible but she does tend to bring up how she was in the American airforce but only when she gets homesick. Mlle Kaiser, we won't have today since it's Friday but when we do you always have to be doing something or she makes you run the mile with everyone else watching. Mme Laguna, I actually don't know since I don't have a class with her but I have two friends you do share it with that take her class, their names are Jake Stone and Terra Wood. Now M. Bones he's a particular man but he is nice, he's actually married to Mme Laguna. M. Walker is hard to describe but a word that comes to mind is old-fashion though he is open to new ways to do things. Along with that our class consist of two of my friends, Nyx Avila Nita Natalia Nuñez-Avila and Rosemarie Gomez"
"Oh, She's the other class representative right?" Marinette asked him.
Both Marinette and Felix had arrived right outside the homeroom classroom. When they enter the teacher takes note of Marinette and motions for Marinette to join her at her desk. Marinette makes her way to the front desk and everyone that's already in the classroom finally notices her. Marinette tries to ignore the staring but she can't feel to feel insecure.
"Bonjour Mlle Dupain-Cheng" The teacher greeted her, "I'm Mme Willet and it's wonderful to meet you"
"Bonjour Mme Willet it's wonderful to meet you too," Marinette said shyly, feeling the eyes of her new classmates start to affect her.
"Right, well let's get you into your seat," Mme Willet said giving her a sympathetic look as she saw how Marinette was starting to close in on her self, "You will actually sit in the back next to Felix, Felix raise your hand"
Felix did as he was told and Marinette thanked Mme Willet and made her way to the back and up the stairs, feeling the eyes of her new classmates. Felix saw her feel a bit uncomfortable from the staring so he decided to speak up.
"If you guys are done gawking at her, how about getting back to your homework that I know most of you haven't done," Felix said sending a glare to his classmates, which made them get back to what they were doing but some still occasionally glancing at Marinette.
"Thanks for that Felix" Marinette whispered to him as she took her seat next to him on his left near the stairs.
"It was nothing Mlle Dupain-Cheng," Felix assured her, "It's just that you seemed uncomfortable with everyone staring at you"
Marinette gave him a small smile, she missed smiling somewhere where it wasn't her own house in forever, "I was, thank you again for helping me"
"As I said it was nothing," Felix reassured her. The school bell rang after he said that and the rest of the class has arrived and filed in.
"Alright class we actually have a new student joining us today, please treat her as we would treat others and that is with respect," Mme Willet informed the class, "Mlle Dupain-Cheng may you please stand up and introduce yourself while telling us one thing about yourself"
With that Marinette stood up and bowed to the class as a hello, "My name is Marinette Dupain-Cheng thank you for receiving me and one thing about myself is that I like to garden"
With that being said she sat back down and class went on as usual with the other students trying to do the homework they either didn't do or are trying to finish but some would still throw small glances at Marinette. Meanwhile, Marinette and Felix were both left to their own devices since Felix had done all his homework for all of his classes and was now reading a book he brought with him. Marinette, on the other hand, didn't really have anything to do since she was new and all so she began to design some new outfits and accessories.
Eventually, the class ended and the class had to go to the next period. Marinette always being seated next to Felix, a fact that she did not mind. On occasion, she would feel the stares of her classmates but she would pay no mind to that since Felix decided that from now on she would sit in his right side to try and hide from the stares. And every so often she would start missing her old school, her old classroom, her old friends, then she would remember what they did to her and she would become sad. Felix did, of course, took note of this but didn't know what to do.
Lunch starts around 10 am
By the time their third period rolled around Felix and Marinette had hit it off and Felix declared her officially his friend. Since Marinette was an observant girl she knew that Felix had a lot of boundaries and many walls up. She was just grateful she made a friend on the first day of her new school. And in this new school, she immediately gained a protector since Marinette admitted to herself it was strange that someone would transfer on the day before the schools would go on a break from school, people talk, people stared, and people created rumors.
Then the bell rang and Felix got up and waited for Marinette to do the same. Then both started making their way to the school's cafeteria that connects itself to one of the courtyards. Since the school is so big and has many students in different grades from many places they had to build another courtyard.
Felix was leading Marinette around the people to try and get to his destination but his friends were already at their table and he very much would not like to share his new friend with them yet so he was trying to sneak around them along with trying to hide Marinette behind him.
They saw him immediately.
A boy with pink hair was wearing the same outfit as Felix shouted for him, "Felix over here"
Felix slowly made his way to the group but his hand on Marinette's wrist to make sure she was behind him and out of their view which was easy since Marinette was very small. He was still a good distance away when Felix noticed that two of his friends weren't there.
"Guys where's Harmony," Felix asked,
"Harmony went home since his mother made food and he wanted his mother's food, which is understandable" The girl whose hair was divided in the middle to divide her dyed hair. Her hair was short and her left side was dyed red and the right side was dyed green.
"Thank you for informing me, Mlle Wood" Felix said. He was still at a distance but was close enough to have a conversation with them. Marinette was quietly listening to the conversation still behind Felix who was still holding on to her wrist. The others noticed that Felix had an arm behind him.
"Felix what are you hiding behind your back," Asked the girl with blonde hair that she had in a braid.
"Nothing, Mlle Sartre-Harper," Felix said while taking a step back Marinette also taking a step back.
"See I don't think we believe you," A girl with brunette hair and a gray with black trim blazer said, "But first we need your opinion on this, Should Allegra put silver highlights in her hair or not"
"Why would I.." Felix started but was cut off
"I think the silver would blend in well with blonde hair," Marinette said from behind Felix. At this Felix let out a sigh and took a step to the side releasing Marinette's wrist and leaving Marinette exposed to the group of friends.
Everyone in the group got wide-eyed and gaped at the sight of Marinette. Marinette, on the other hand, got a good look at the people in front of her. They were all a group of colorful people as some had dyed hair and were practically a rainbow.
There was a pale-skinned boy with pink hair who seemed to be wearing a flower crown, a pink and purple pastel watch and Sports Shoes with a pastel ocean print on it. His backpack was on the floor and by the looks of it had the same design as his shoes on the table. Next to him was an almond skinned girl with brunette hair but with her tips dyed red, wearing a gray blazer with a black trim instead of a blue blazer with white trim. She was also wearing a pink and red choker that went with the earrings she had on, she also had on a pink and red bracelet on her right hand. She wore knee-high black sock and hot pink boots and beside her was her hot soft pink backpack.
After her, was the girl with the red and green hair and wow did she literally have everything watermelon themed. She had creamy beige skin and was wearing the school's class representative's outfit, which was a white turtleneck with a black corset vest over it and a black plaid skirt. She also had knee-high black socks and was wearing watermelon themed boots, watermelon themed necklace and earrings, a watermelon themed watch, and finally, she had a watermelon themed backpack, she must really like watermelons. Next to her was a blonde girl whose skin was a creamy cocoa skin tone and was wearing the same school uniform as Marinette, had on white knee-high hosiery, orange wedge shoes, and where the braid started she had an orange/yellow hair comb. Her backpack was a nice clean white color.
Then there was the boy in all blue and had a tanned skin tone. He had brown hair, his uniform was the same as Marinettes but instead of a skirt, he wore black pants. He had on blue sneakers and with him was a blue backpack. Next to him was a wonderful chocolate skinned tone boy with a green cap, the same uniform as the previous boy, he had with him orange headphones, green vintage shoes, a black and green bracelet on his right hand. He was carrying a mint green vintage backpack.
Then lastly was a warm brown skin tone boy who wore a gray with a black trim blazer. He had brown hair and was wearing black vintage shoes and had on a black watch on his left arm. He was carrying a brown backpack. The whole group was in shock.
The first to move was the boy with pink hair. When he approached Marinette he twirled her once and then kissed her hand before introducing himself, "Hello, Gorgeous, My name is Jake Stone"
This prompted the others to snap out of the shock they were in. The girl with the red tips pushed Jake out of the way taking Marinette's hand in the process also twirling her and dipping her before introducing herself, "Hi my name is Ruby Rose and ¿Te has Perdido?. Porque el Cielo está bien lejos de aquí.*"
Ruby was pulled back by the watermelon themed chick before she herself was shaking Marinette's hand and introducing herself, "Don't worry about her will keep her in check, My name is Terra Wood it's nice to m…wait a minute Ruby did you have Nyx teach you Spanish for you to say that line"
"No, I only had her teach me that one phrase," Ruby said from where she was standing next to Jake. Terra went to stand next to them as the next person gets in front of Marinette. It was the boy with brunette hair and gray blazer stepped in front of her and spoke taking her hand and giving her a firm handshake before giving it a kiss, "Hello, my lady, my name is Sébastian Delacroix and it's nice to meet you."
He leaves to stand by the others and before the girl with blonde hair takes his place and gives Marinette a hug before introducing herself, "Bonjour, I'm Allegra Sartre-Harper nice to meet you too and I am warning you that the boy you'll meet after me will be your worst nightmare"
After that, she went to stand with the others and the blue boy took her spot but just nodding at Marinette as a hello "Haha, Ignore her, she's a jokester don't worry about it. Anyway the names Pierre, Claude Pierre"
He was pulled away by the green-hat boy as who started shaking Marinette's hand, "Ignore them, their lunatics but it's nice to meet you"
After that, he stood right next to the others which gave Marinette a full view of how colorful the group really was. When they introduced themselves Marinette was smiling and giggling. So they spent the rest of the time eating and talking with Marinette just listening and making mental notes about their interests and hobbies and noted their favorite colors. Just as they were getting ready to head back to class a voice was heard behind them that made them turn around.
"Marinette?"
"Luka"
In Puebla, Mexico it was around 3:00 am
"Why the fuck did I just feel a chill down my spine," The girl asked the cards, "Oh god did Ruby use the line...Shit"
*Are you lost because heaven is a long way from here