Chapter 2: New Friends
Marinette's POV
I walk around Paris for a few minutes trying to find the right place to start photos. I put in coordinates back to the hotel so I wont get too lost. I walk around and find myself at Notre Dame. it's so much prettier in person. Even if it's just a bell tower. Which would only make it an hour walk to the Eiffel Tower, or a 20 minute bus ride. Taxis are much too expensive. It took me almost an hour to get here. I left just before sunrise. I showed up around sunrise. And the pictures were perfect. Pink and Orange sky. River below rippling the reflection in the perfect way. I decided to go to the Tower. "Beautiful pictures" I tell myself. I look at the time "6:40. Hm. i'm getting hungry but i don't think any cafes or bakeries are open now." I take a few more pictures as the sun slowly rises higher. "Well these look perfect." I look at my pictures as I feel my stomach growl quietly. "Hm." I pull out my phone and see the time. "8:00! I've been taking pictures for the last 2 hours at most… Pictures" I tell myself shrugging. I look for the closest cafe, bakery, or something. "The closest thing I could find was a Starbucks 16 minutes on foot." I mumble to myself while I walk. I walk into the cafe, geez there are a lot of people here at 8 in the morning. "Hm." i look at the board deciding on sometime to get when a girl rushes into the building. She comes in and knocks me to the ground. "OMG, i am so sorry miss." she tells me. She has two little girls hanging on her arms. "My sisters wanted to get sometime from here and they just ran in. I am so sorry." she says this while she pulls on one of the little girls backpack. I look at her a little confused. "Oh um, je suis vraiment désolée de t'avoir frappé." she says "I am so sorry for knocking into you." I stare at her. "Alya? What are you doing here? Aren't the little ones supposed to be at school?" I turn around to a boy. He was at the party last night, hanging out with Adrien in the back. "Oh um nino, yeah, they wanted to stop in here to get something." this alya girl says. "Who's this?" he asks looking at me. "Oh wait she's the girl from last night." he says "Hey, qu'est-ce qu'il y a. Je suis Nino", 'Hey, What's up. Im Nino.' Nino. hm that's a weird name. "Oh um, Hi. Um Im Marinette." I say just then realising that they won't understand English. "Well it looks like we have someone from the states. Are you new here." Alya asks me. How did she know I was from the states? Wait. She speaks english. "Oh um yeah." I tell her. "Nino! What are you doing.?" someone behind the counter asks. "I'm sorry dude. Alya just got here and knocked over the girl from last night." Nino tells whoever is behind the counter. "Marinette?" they ask. Crap. It took a minute to find out who it was. Only one person here knows my name. "Yeah!" he yells back. "Oh i see you've already met our friend, Adrien." I smile and nod. A few minutes later comes Adrien, Apron and messy hair. As he runs his hair bounces, it takes all my willpower to not stare. "So, you work here?" I asked him. "Um yeah." he says. I look at him with no emotion. ``Then I would like a small Strawberry Frappuccino with whip cream, and two egg Mcmuffins. "I tell him. He looks at me. "Look. i'm sorry about last night. I don't want you to feel like I was irritated at you because I wasn't ok? Is there any way I can get you to not be mad at me?'' I look at him and smile. "Buy me dinner."