A/N I call this masterpiece, what I do when I'm abroad for two weeks with no internet. It kinda focuses on Alix more than Marinette, but I promise you it's worth giving it a read. Anything you wanna say, the review button is right there. And now, I behold, Secrets Revealed!
Marinette woke up and yawned. She'd passed out after too many drinks with her friends at the sleepover she was hosting. Her parents were in Calais at a convention, so Marinette decided to use the summer holidays to spend more time with her friends. And by spending time, she meant getting flat-out drunk and talking about boyfriend troubles. She slept in the bed, while Alix and Alya shared a queen-sized air mattress. They would rotate each night to make it fair.
Marinette checked her phone to see two texts from her boyfriend Adrien. One was to wish them a good time and the other was to say goodnight. She sent a text back and saw that it was heading to 9.
"Alya. Alya." Marinette started to shake her. "Al. Wake up. Nino's here to see you."
"What?" Alya stirred. "Why? What does he want?" She sat up.
"Nothing. Just needed to get you up."
Alya gave Marinette a death stare and threw a pillow at her as Marinette laughed.
"Can you guys keep it down? Some of us are trying to sleep." Alix mumbled.
"Sorry, no can do. We gotta get up anyway." Marinette said before sitting down and holding her forehead. "My head's pounding."
"Probably because of the alcoholic rampage you went on last night." Alix said as she stood up and stretched. "Hey, Al, can you toss me my bra over there?"
"I did not go on an 'alcoholic rampage'!" Marinette said.
"Mmhm. Tell that to the twelve shots of tequila you had. I'm surprised that you aren't hugging the toilet by now."
"It was not twelve shots!"
"And denial is not just a river in Egy- ow!"
Marinette had grabbed the closest thing to her, which happened to be a book, and chucked it at Alix's head.
"Hey, Alix, this your bra?" Alya held up a leopard print bra.
"Yeah." She rubbed the sleep out of her eyes.
"Why is it so big?"
"Just pass me my bra, Alya."
"Hold on, I wanna check the size."
"Alya!"
Alix got up and tried to grab the bra back from Alya. However, being short came with its disadvantages as Alya held the bra high above her head.
"32DD?! No way!"
Alix finally jumped up and grabbed the bra back. "And what exactly do you mean by 'no way'? Can't I have boobs too?"
"Well, yeah, I just didn't expect them to be so big. That's Marinette's size."
"And you know that how?" Marinette asked.
"Girl, I'm your best friend."
"Fair enough."
"I got the croissants and milk!" Alya shouted.
"I got the spreads!" said Alix.
"And I got the cookies!" Marinette grabbed the batch of cookies her parents had made beforehand.
Alya laid the table as they brought out the food and drinks on the table. While they were eating, Marinette noticed that Alix had a glass of orange juice instead of milk.
"Don't you like milk, Alix?" She asked.
"Lactose intolerant. It sucks. Can't have cheese, yogurt-"
"Oh my god, you can't have milk!"
Alix rolled her eyes.
"Gee, Alya, I had no idea." She said sarcastically.
"No, I mean, how do you have cereal? Please don't tell me you take cereal with wate—"
"Gross! No, I use oat milk. It's not as good as regular milk as it doesn't taste good on its own, but it gets the job done."
"Wait, so you've had regular milk even though you're lactose intolerant?"
"How do you think she found out she was lactose intolerant, Alya?" Marinette said, also rolling her eyes. Alix made a 'there you go' motion with her hands.
"I can have a little bit so that I still get natural benefits from it and stuff, but I can't take large quantities like full glasses of milk or cheese sandwiches. Mostly I take a couple vitamin supplements every few days. I got diagnosed when I was 10, so I can still remember what it was like to have food like grilled cheeses. Man, I miss grilled cheeses."
"Do you ever wish you weren't?"
Alix nodded.
"Like hell. My mom used to make bread and butter puddings a lot, and they were great. She had to stop once we found out as some of the main ingredients were milk and butter. I'd kill just to try another spoonful again."
"So, what happens if you do consume any dairy?" Marinette asked.
"Mostly I just get bad stomach aches, kinda like cramps, though sometimes I get a severe case of diarrhoea, flatulence, twice I even threw up. It's not nice."
Marinette wrinkled her nose. "Ouch. I feel sorry for you." Then she thought. "Wait, is that why you didn't eat the quiche at the summer party?"
"Yup. Most people just thought I didn't like quiche. They didn't know that I can't have cheese."
She smiled at the memory.
"Hey, remember the jump for doughnuts contest?"
Alya laughed. "Oh boy, don't get Alix started. I still can't believe they made you do it."
"It was embarrassing! They put the shortest girl on the team to jump up and grab a doughnut. I can't even reach the top shelf in my house!"
"It was kinda funny."
"People called me 'short of a doughnut' for weeks!"
"I mean-"
"I'm 5'4. That's not that short. I know many people who are shorter."
"Like who? Papa Smurf?" Alya said.
Marinette sniggered. Alix ignored her.
"You guys are not that much taller than me. Alya, you're what, 5'6?"
"5'7."
"Whatever. Still not a big difference."
Later that evening...
The girls were all sat on a circle on the air mattress. Marinette placed a box in the middle with the words 'Truth or Dare' on the front.
"Truth or Dare with a twist, anyone?"
"What's the twist?" Alya asked.
She opened the box. Inside was a spinner marked with the alternating words 'Truth' and 'Dare', and two decks of cards also marked the same.
"It's like regular Truth or Dare, only you don't get to choose which. You spin the spinner, and whichever one it lands on, you pick a card from that pile and do what it says."
"You go first." Alix said. She had no problem with dares, she and Kim would do them all the time. It was the truth that she was worried about.
Marinette span the spinner, which landed on Truth. She picked a card from the pile and stared at it with worry.
"'Share a secret that nobody knows'." She read aloud.
She started to panic. The only secrets she could think of were her stealing Ms. Mendeleiv's phone (long story) and about her romance life with Adrien.
"Well? Spill the tea, sis!" Alya said.
Marinette took a deep breath. She was mentally regretting all her life choices.
"I'm not a virgin!" She blurted out loudly.
There was a split-second of silence.
"Wait, what? You've had sex? With Adrien?!" Alya tried to stifle her laughter.
"No, with Santa Claus. Yes, with Adrien!"
"Wow, M, didn't know you had it in you." Alix said.
"And what's that supposed to mean?"
"Nothing! Just that, you're so innocent and a goody two shoes."
Marinette scoffed.
"Actually, my cherry was popped a loooooong time ago-"
She slapped her hand over her mouth.
"Wait, WHAT?!" They both shouted.
"I wasn't supposed to tell you that."
"OK, now I gotta know." Alya said, leaning in and staring her blue-haired friend in the eye.
"If I told you you'd laugh at me."
"We're your friends, Marinette," Alix began, "of course we'll laugh at you."
Marinette glared at her but then cleared her throat.
"Well, it was 5th grade. I went through a phase when I was really into sport, so my parents set me up to play on the girls' soccer team (where I live in the UK it's called football, but I'm just going to keep it as soccer to avoid confusion) so I could get more active."
"Yeah..."
"Well, during a practice game, I had the ball, and some girl came and tackled me on the ground."
"Yeah..." Grins were starting to appear.
"She fell on top of me, and then suddenly I felt pain between my legs, and it was bleeding. When we went to the doctor, she discovered that my hymen had ripped clean in two. We still don't know how the impact split it, just that it did."
There were a few stifles, then giggles, then they started laughing so loudly even the Mayor from across the city would file a noise complaint.
"See! You're laughing!"
"So, your first time didn't hurt then?" Alix said between snorts. "Lucky you. When Kim and I decided to take things further it hurt so much we had to-"
"La la la! Not listening!" Marinette covered her ears as Alya and Alix just sniggered.
"OK, your turn, Alix."
Marinette pushed the spinner towards her. She span it and it landed on Truth.
She drew a card.
"'What do your friends not know about you?'" She said. "OK, this shit is rigged. Can I please change my card?"
"Nope! Come on, Alix, I spilled two very embarrassing secrets. Now it's your turn."
She exhaled.
"Fine. But you cannot tell anyone, and I mean anyone in or outside our class about it, nor may you say it in front of people. Deal?"
"We cross our hearts." Marinette said, and they all did so.
Alix sighed.
"Alexia."
There was some confused silence.
"Come again?"
She sighed again.
"Alix isn't my real name. It's... Alexia."
More silence.
"Alexia?"
"Please don't say it."
"I'm so confused. You mean to tell me that you aren't called Alix?" Alya questioned. The three had been friends since freshman year, and now was the time that Alix was telling them?
"Well, I am, but there's a little bit more to that."
There was stunned silence for what seemed like hours.
"Why aren't you called that then?"
Alix took in a breath.
"I never liked that name. My mom chose it after her grandmother, but when I was 5 I thought it sounded too girly. So my mom started calling me Lexi, because she thought I didn't like Alexia because it was too grand, but it also sounded too girly. Truth be told, my own grandmother would shame me for acting so 'tomboyish' when I had such a 'pretty girl's name' and so I should act like one. So my dad suggested the name Alex, but I decided to spell it with an 'I' when I was 10 so that people don't think it's short for some silly girl's name like Alexandra."
Even more unbearable silence.
"Wow. That's actually kinda cool. So..."
"I was born Alexia Kubdel, that's what it says on my birth certificate, but when we register at schools we just put Alix."
"Wow." Marinette said. "I think Alexia is a pretty name."
"So does everyone else. I hate it though."
A few hours later...
Marinette opened the storage room. She moved stuff aside and a secret door was there behind the coats. She took the key from one of the coat pockets and unlocked the door. Going inside, she told her friends to follow her as they entered a large room. She hit the lights.
"What. The. Fuck."
Inside was a huge bar room with round wooden tables and chairs, complete with a counter, a shelf full to the brim of alcohol bottles and a jukebox machine in the back. On the wall there were the letters 'TSDC' in gold lettering.
"This is my parents' bar room," she explained, "it's for special occasions and afterparties and such. But when I'm older I'm going to inherit it."
She grabbed a cardboard box labelled 'MDC' by the door and asked Alya to help her carry it as it was heavy. They brought it out as Marinette locked the door and set it down onto the kitchen table.
Marinette smirked and opened the box. Inside there were bottles after bottles of alcohol, from vodka to tequila to beer, as well as an assortment of fine French chardonnays, wines and rosés.
"Woah." Alya's eyes widened. "Do your parents know you have this?"
"Half this stuff was my parents'." Marinette confirmed. "They're not alcoholics, but they allow me to keep a few bottles for parties and friends coming over."
She picked up a bottle of wine.
"Midnight wine and dine anyone?"
4 hours, two and a half bottles of wine and two snack platters later, the girls were lounging on Marinette's fold out couch watching movies.
"Anyone down for some horror?" Alya asked.
"Horror's good."
"I'm down."
The movie played as the girls watched and ate, occasionally commenting on the movie.
"Why do they never go the first time they hear something suspicious? If I hear some loud ass noise I'm obviously gonna check it out." Marinette said.
"Finding a realistic horror movie is like finding no crowd at a Black Friday sale." Alix said dryly, reaching for another baguette slice.
A/N So, what did you guys think? There definitely will be a second chapter, but I'm not sure past that. I don't want to make any promises since I have left a couple stories unfinished, but I'm already working on chapter two. I'd like it if you could review, but if you're too lazy to I understand, I'm a lazy ass myself.
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