Chapter 6
In the afternoon Nathaniel stood in his bedroom zapping his zipper up of his black trousers. On top of his bed lied a white shirt folded, which belonged to Nathaniel and he grabbed it opening it up, then looked at the front of the shirt to see the top button and the third button counting from the first one which he opened and pulled it behind his back to put it on and stuck his arms inside the sleeve then put the front of the shirt together starting to close the buttons of his shirt.
At the door appeared his mother, which observed Nathaniel trying to adjust his collar without the help of a mirror, then she chuckled entering into the bedroom and placing her right hand on his left shoulder.
"It would be easier for you if you stood in front of a mirror, so you could see how you're doing it," Miss Kurtzberg said as Nathaniel folded the collar down, awfully.
"It's fine, it is down like it should be...well not that good..."
"Let me help you," The raven-haired woman said adjusting the collar around Nathaniel's neck correctly, then she took a look at him smiling at how gorgeous her son looked like in the clothing.
"You look beautiful, my son" The mother complimented stroking with her hand under his bang, then ran her hand down on his cheek.
"T...Thanks, mom" Nathaniel said then was hugged by his mother.
"My I feel like it was yesterday, that you had your first day at the elementary school and met your very first friend"
"Well Rose and Juleka made the first step, I didn't know how to start a conversation in the first place" Corrected the redhead.
"I know"
The doorbell of their apartment rang, then both rolled their eyes at the corridor of their room.
"It must be Lila," Nathaniel said walking at the corridor followed by his mother, afterward he opened the door and in front of him stood the driver of Lila's family.
"Good Afternoon" Greeted the driver. "Miss Rossi is awaiting you"
"Okay, I'm coming" Nathaniel answered, then before he left he looked up at the mother, which looked at the well-dressed driver.
"Is it possible, that I could take a picture of Lila with Nathaniel before they head to the prom?" Questioned Miss Kurtzberg earning a nod from the man.
"It should be possible" The driver answered to the mother of the boy, then the three walked the stairs down and left the main entrance of the building walking to the American-made SUV, then the driver opened the door, where Lila was sitting.
"Mrs. Kurtzberg would like to take a picture of you and Nathaniel, is that okay for you?" Questioned the driver earning a nod from the brunette, which released her seatbelt of her, then got out of the car standing in a red gown with one shoulder strap covering her left shoulder and red lace passing from the strap down to her taille, from there down to her knees the skirt had vertical wave-like form.
"Whoa!" Nathaniel said astonished as he saw his girlfriend in her prom outfit.
"And how do I look like?" Asked Lila holding the skirt a little closer to her waist, so Nathaniel had a sight at her tan-skinned legs and a pair of red ballerinas.
"You're…..you're fantastic…..just wow...it's indescribable" Nathaniel complimented making Lila chuckle.
"You're very sweet Nathy," Lila said watching Nathaniel roll his eyes down embarrassed. "And look at you, very handsome,"
"Thanks Lila"
"So get closer to each other" Questioned Miss Kurtzberg watching the driver close the door and open the front door of the SUV taking out a professional photo camera.
"If you don't mind Mrs. Kurtzberg, we could take a picture at the front of the vehicle, if interested" Suggested the driver.
"I think that would make a better picture" The boyfriend added earning a nod from the Italian girl.
"Sure, good idea," Nathaniel's mother said walking at the front of the car followed by Nathaniel and Lila, therefore the two teenagers stood in front of the SUV covering half of the cooler and only about a half of the crest symbol and license plate. The driver held out his camera at the youngsters while Miss Kurtzberg held her smartphone, waiting for Nathaniel and Lila to get ready for the picture. Nathaniel held his right arm behind Lila's back, while she placed both her hands over Nathaniel's shoulder leaning close to him and looking along with the Jewish descendant boy at the photographers.
"Say cheese," The mother said at the two, that smiled for the picture and the pictures were taken one after the other.
"Molto bene," The driver said showing it to Nathaniel's mother, then Lila and Nathaniel came closer to them to get a look at the pictures and they smiled about how the picture looked.
"It's great," Lila said while Nathaniel just nodded in agreement with the girl.
"It looks amazing mom" Nathaniel told his mother following her behind the driver, then the man opened the door up for Nathaniel, then the boy waited for Lila and held his hand out for Lila, making her giggle and take his hand to get helped by the boy to step on the running board of the SUV and enter into the vehicle, then Nathaniel stepped on the board and sat down on the seat right next to the entrance, afterward the driver closed the door, then walked around the vehicle to enter to the driver seat, then started the engine of the car and left Miss Kurtzberg back, which waved with her hand at the inmates of the vehicle.
Meanwhile, at the manor of the Agreste's, Adrien stood in front of the mirror in the bathroom of his bedroom checking himself out on the mirror. Plagg the kwami came from his bedroom flying towards the boy, while holding a slice of Camembert on his hands.
"You're nervous?" Questioned the dark creature levitating closer to Adrien's face.
"Couldn't you wait for your Camembert after the prom?" Questioned Adrien. "I don't want to smell like cheese tonight at the prom"
"Didn't you just put Gabriel No° Five over your neck before?" Questioned the kwami sniffing on him.
"Yeah but now with the smell of your cheese it will turn into Camembert No° 5!"
"Be happy, then you get a brand-new fragrance"
"Yeah right," Adrien said then heard somebody knock on the door, then the blonde boy looked at the entrance of the bathroom to see his mother standing there in a pregnancy clothing, where it was notable that Emilie was in the last month due to the large size of her belly.
"Hey maman," Adrien greeted the woman, which entered into the bathroom walking at the boy, which moved to her direction quickly stopping in front of her. "Wait maman, you don't need to walk that much to me"
"You're just like your father, Adrien," The mother said with a giggle, making Adrien smile a little abashed.
"Father says it otherwise"
"Well you're more like half from both of us," Mrs. Agreste told her son, which nodded at the mother.
"How do I look like?" Asked Adrien presenting himself to the adult, which took a look on his dark brown suit. "This is father's favorite suit"
"You look gorgeous" Emilie complimented her son while grabbing Adrien's tie gently to loosen it a little bit. Adrien observed his mother's face turn a little sad, then Adrien's smile went away and he placed his hand on her mother's cheek.
"You're okay maman?"
"It's just hard to believe, that I missed the last few years a part of your childhood….I missed your first day at the school, all your birthdays, your fencing competitions, everything"
"But now you're here, maman," Adrien comforted his mother patting her on the cheek. "We won't let anyone come near our family again, right Plagg?" Asked Adrien looking at his kwami, which was playing around with his Camembert distracted from Adrien and Emilie. "Yeah…..but I promise that to you"
"I know you do," Mrs. Agreste said kissing her son on the forehead, then at the entrance stood Gabriel together with their bodyguard, which was a little emotional about Adrien and Emilie's bonding time.
"I think we should go, Adrien. You know the Tsurugi's don't like delays" Mr. Agreste said earning a nod from the son, then he followed his mother along to the father leaving the bedroom and closing the door behind them.
At the Françoise Dupont school, most of the students had arrived and were dancing inside at the school court. At the other side at the front of the entrance to the wardrobes was a DJ mix table, where Nino Lahiffe was running the songs for the next hour before he could change shifts with the next one. Over the court on the sides stood various tables with various aperitifs and cold summer drinks brought by a caterer of two students' families.
A few more students arrived along with Juleka Couffaine and Rose Lavillant walking both hand in hand at the dancefloor followed by Juleka's older brother Luka.
"Marinette is still at the bakery, right?" Questioned Luka gazing at Rose.
"I think so" Responded the short blonde. "I think she had to fix something on her dress" Explained Rose looking at Luka's blue tie over the black suit. "Hey the tie suits your eyes"
"Oh thank you Rose"
"No problem Luka," Rose said watching Luka walk towards Ivan and Myléne, which stood next to the buffet drinking a glass of lemonade.
"Should we wait for the others or serve us at the table?" Questioned the raven-haired girl looking down at the petite girlfriend.
"I think we can wait, Lila said she was about to arrive here"
"We could wait for them at the entrance?" Suggested Juleka earning a nod from Rose.
"Good idea" The small girl agreed walking together with her tall girlfriend at the entrance passing by three other students, then they watched on the road a red Sedan stop, followed by a white limousine behind it.
"Chloé's here too," Rose said sad, then observed both back doors of the two vehicles open from the side.
Down at the streets from the limousine left Chloé Bourgeois, the daughter of the Parisian mayor followed by her best friend Sabrina.
"With that dress Chloé, you're definitely going to become the queen of the prom," The girl in a turquoise dress said looking at the yellow-nearly golden dress of her friend.
"Of course I will" Responded Chloé cold. "My mother's a style queen, she knows what's the most perfect dress for me to use to win at a competition," The girl with the blonde ponytail said watching from the red car a girl with short blue hair leaving the car wearing a white blouse and a black skirt. Around her neck her collar was about 5cm wide than one of a regular European blouse, was colored black and lying over the shoulder of the girl and in front of her breast, she wore a red ribbon resembling from Japanese school uniforms.
The Japan descendant girl closed the door, then heard Chloé laugh, then glared at her annoyed.
"You know at a prom you have to get dressed beautifully, not like an anime schoolgirl," The blonde said making Sabrina giggle.
"Well at least my dress doesn't look poorly designed as yours," Kagami said crossing her arms, then three guys screamed as they witnessed Chloé getting roasted by Kagami. Chloé looked around angrily to see there Kim together with two other boys looking at the blonde.
"What are you looking at? Just move!" Demanded Chloé as the three boys stood there and walked away heading to the school building. Kagami looked back then realized the car of the Tsurugi's was gone, making Kagami sight as she had forgotten something.
"What did you forget? Your silly fan?" Asked Chloé starting to laugh, then behind her appeared Adrien Agreste looking confused at Chloé's laughing.
"Good evening girls" Greeted Adrien shrieking Chloé.
"Adrikins, when did you arrive?" Asked Chloé turning around to look at him. "And your suit is amazing, is it from Gabriel?"
"Like everything I wear Chlo" Responded the childhood friend.
"Good, hey there will be a vote, for who's going to become the king and the queen of the prom. Don't forget to vote, I'll be voting for you"
"I'll take my time to see everyone else first," Adrien told her friend, which nodded at the boy, then looked at Sabrina, which looked at the entrance at the school and back to her.
"Should we go in?" Asked Sabrina, then Chloé walked off leaving Adrien back with Kagami, while Sabrina followed her.
"Why is Sabrina still around Chloé, when she's always being used by her?" Questioned the Japanese girl making Adrien shrug his shoulders.
"I don't know it either. Once Marinette tried to befriend her and in the end, she came back to Chloé again, because Marinette lied to her about not helping her with the homework….in that time she was Ladybug and I had to stop along with her Evillustrator from going behind Chloé"
"Evillustrator is a funny akuma name," Kagami said walking together with Adrien at the entrance.
"Can you guess, who it was?" Questioned Adrien looking at Kagami, which thought on all her classmates, who could have been most likely been akumatized into that Akuma villain.
"Was it Nathaniel in some way?" Questioned Kagami earning a nod from Adrien.
"Bingo!"
"And what were his powers?" Questioned the girlfriend. "Something related with drawing I guess"
"Pretty similar to him as Super Nathan, besides Super Nathan's more complex and advanced compared to the ones of Evillustrator."
"You fought once Lila too. She had told me about it"
"Yes as Volpina she had like Miss Vixen the power of the illusions. Just the differences are Miss Vixen actually does have the super strength and the ability to fly unlike Volpina."
"And she's got the fox scream too?"
"Yeah" Adrien answered entering along with the Japanese girl at the school court to see all the students dancing to house music.
"Didn't you brought your jacket you said you had bought in Japan?" Adrien asked Kagami.
"During the ride, I took it off and placed it on my seat, then out I met Chloé and got distracted by her. Sorry, that I couldn't show it to you"
"It's alright, another time," Adrien said looking at the table with the aperitifs along with Kagami, then he felt Kagami grab him on his hand afterward he rolled his eyes down at her. "Let's get a snack?" Offered Adrien earning a nod from Kagami, then the two made they way together at the table, then from Kagami's blouse from behind the neck Tikki looked out at Adrien to see Plagg sticking his head out of the pocket of Adrien's dress jacket looking at a plate full of chäschüechli. Tikki flew out at the black kwami hitting him on the head, shrieking him, then she landed inside his pocket and pulled him down deep in the pocket, which Adrien had felt then he stopped and used his left hand to open the pocket to see Tikki holding the annoyed kwami of destruction away from flying out of the pocket.
Adrien looked at the tables to see a plateau filled with the Swiss pastries, then grabbed a plate placing five pieces on it.
"Are those for Plagg?" Asked Kagami looking at Adrien placing them on the white porcelain plate, therefore the blonde nodded and Kagami looked around the table for other pastries, then found various types of cookies spread on different plates, then took from three different plates two cookies and gave it on the plate of Adrien.
"I got alfajores from Argentina, Vanilice from Serbia and Norwegian butter cookies for Tikki"
"Good, I will lie it inside my locker, will you wait here?" Questioned the blonde earning a nod from the girlfriend, then the blonde made his way to the wardrobes passing by Nino, which did a peace sign to the best friend as he passed by.
Kagami took from a table with different variations of bagels and donuts a ladybug-themed Donut and took a bite, enjoying the flavor of the fried dough.
A while later almost all the students had arrived and were on the dancefloor dancing while others were eating at the buffet the free snacks.
Nathaniel and Lila had arrived a short while ago and danced together the same way as the others, just failing at certain steps the others made.
"It looks awful, the other's are all so good," Nathaniel said observing the others moving their bodies to the sound of the music.
"Well, it's not easy to find the rhythm to the song like in the traditional music genres" The brunette admitted stopping to dance along with Nathaniel. "But the good thing is, no one's gonna judge us for how we dance"
"If that was the case, I would be the worst dancer"
"No, you wouldn't. You did just fine"
"Well I think waltzer or any other dance as a couple would be difficult for me, cause I never did that"
"I didn't do either, but I might have an idea how it works"
"Good," Nathaniel said seeing behind him pass Alya Césaire looking around for someone.
"Are you looking for Marinette?" Asked Nathaniel getting the attention of the Martinic descendant girl, which walked closer at the two friends.
"Hey Nath, hey Lila. No, I'm looking for Luka" Responded Alya. "I had seen him before here and wanted to tell him, that Marinette was on her way"
"I can send him a message" The redhead offered taking out his smartphone unlocking it up, entering to the communication app, scrolling down to Luka's name, then typed down a short message and sent him to Luka. Seconds later Nathaniel received an okay back and he put the phone back in the pocket of his pants.
"Thank you, Nathaniel," Alya said, then heard some people whistle and they looked at the entrance to see a girl with long blue hair in a long pink dress with flower-shaped laces on the end of the gown and a line around the edge of it. Her top had two straps over her shoulder also with a small black line going around both sides of the strap and over her belly the top had various pink flowers resembling the ones, she had on her self-made purse from home and next to her on the taille of the dress she had two faux flowers sticking on her dress.
"Oh my god," Alya said stunned as she recognized her best friend in the dress, then held her phone out to film her entering while other students stood around her admiring the dress. Marinette felt embarrassed as everyone was checking out her dress, then next to her appeared a boy in dark pants and a white shirt tapping on her shoulder.
"Would you like to dance?" Asked the tan-skinned boy earning a head shake of the girl.
"Sorry Justin, I'm at the moment not available to dance with anyone," Responded Marinette making Justin Extra sad, afterward Marinette walked to Alya, which had filmed her coming up to her.
„How do I look like?" Questioned Marinette.
„Fantastic!" The three classmates responded at the same time.
„Did you made the dress all by yourself?" Questioned Nathaniel. „It looks so professional"
„I had help from a tailor, that works here in Paris. He had the right materials to use for the dress and….I've been working on this dress for years, it was supposed to wear this at the prom if I and Adrien would have gone together" Marinette said.
„You started to make a dress for a prom, that would happen years later and believed Adrien would be the one going out with you?" Asked Lila confused.
„Years ago she had an Adrien-agenda, where she could see when he had fencing and other activities, " Alya told making Marinette turn red.
„Alya!" Shouted Marinette making the others laugh.
„Don't worry Marinette, all people do mistakes. I stalked Adrien and Nathaniel around too, which is also creepy"
„You stalked me?" Asked Nathaniel looking surprised at Lila, which nodded at him. „Woah,"
„And you stalked Marinette when you were akumatized,"
„Hey I was akumatized, I couldn't help myself!" Nathaniel said crossing his arms annoyed with Marinette's friend.
„It's okay guys, it's all in the past now, " Marinette said looking at the three classmates, then behind Marinette Luka approached slowly, which Alya saw and just smiled normally at Marinette like it was nothing.
„Who's going to dance with you, Marinette?" Alya asked making Marinette roll her eyes.
„Hahaha so funny, I just came, because you and Luka told me to come and have fun, "Marinette said. „Luka even said it would be the best night of my life"
Luka slowly placed his hands on Marinette's shoulder, then whispered into her eyes.
„And it will be, " He said causing Marinette to shiver, then she looked back to see Luka there in a black suit and a blue tie, suiting his eyes. „Luka?"
„I asked Principal Damocles if I could be present tonight to be with my girlfriend and he didn't mind it" Luka explained Marinette, which smiled lovely at the older boyfriend's deed.
„That's really sweet from you Luka, " Marinette said grabbing his hands.
„Also I never saw you with open hair before. You look stunning" The French boy commented making the half-Chinese girl blush.
„Merci" Marinette said making the three students next to the raven-haired couple smile.
„Shall we go dance, my lady?" Asked Luka moving his right arm to the side, earning a nod from the blue-haired girlfriend, then he took her hand and both made their way to the middle of the dancefloor.
„Isn't it strange, that you end up with the people you expect the least?" Questioned Nathaniel making Lila shrug her shoulders.
„Well Trixx made me believe harder, that you and I would get together at some point, but yeah since that little fight I had with you because you didn't help me to deal with Chloé I never thought about that you would be the one, not even anyone else of our class"
„I thought before I met you it would either be Juleka or Marinette. Juleka I knew she had fallen in love with Rose at some point and Marinette only talked about Adrien and no one else. But now we see how it ended up for everyone. We're both together, Juleka and Rose are together, her brother is going out with Marinette and Adrien found in Kagami his other half"
„This sounded adorable, were you trying to be poetic?"
„Uhm no, does poetry sound like that?" Questioned Nathaniel and Lila shook her head.
„No, but it made me think of that"
„Ah uh I didn't mean to sound like that," Nathaniel said, then rolled his eyes away from Lila as he noted Kagami walking a little strange, then he narrowed his eyes and noted Kagami was wearing high heels, while Adrien walked beside her a little confused about it. „Why is Kagami wearing high heels, if she can't walk properly with it?" The redhead asked glancing at his girlfriend, which turned her head around to see her best friend being guided by her boyfriend.
„Kagami told me last Tuesday, that she needed to wear something, so when Adrien was going to dance with her he wouldn't have to lean down to her, so I borrowed her a pair of high heels from my home" Explained Lila. „I thought she knew, how to walk on them, " Lila said observing her friend lost her balance and fall into the arms of Adrien, which caught her and helped her up again.
„Okay"
„I think it wasn't a great idea, " Lila said sad, then Nathaniel caressed Lila on her cheek to cheer her up.
„You just wanted to help her, you couldn't know she would have trouble with them, " Nathaniel said followed by Lila leaning her forehead on Nathaniel's, then she pecked him on the lips, then held her head on Nathaniel's enjoying their moment together.
Alix Kubdel passed by carrying a white drone, making her way to the apero tables, where a few students stood eating aperitifs, they grabbed from there.
„Yo Matt, where's Alex?" Questioned the pink-haired girl.
„The Lavatory," Responded the brown-haired boy.
„Okay, you know how to use a drone, right?" Questioned the French descendant girl watching the teenage boy nod. „Look I and Max planned to use the drone and fly it around to record various couples from here. On the screen there at the DJ table will appear the recording with a kiss-cam frame and the couple, that appears there has to kiss when they show up there. You're our man to use this and pick up the couples you wish"
„Agreed!" Responded Matt picking up the drone and the remote of the device, afterward observed Alix unlocking her phone on the head of the drone, then looked at Nino behind the table and she saw the screen was working and it showed the half of the court with the dancing crowd.
„Start it" Alix demanded, therefore the boy pressed the A button for the drone to start rotating the rotor blades, then used the joystick to guide it up in the air and fly the small vehicle around the court. The drone passed by Alya, that watched the various couples dance, then the Martinic girl looked around to see, who was steering the drone and saw Alix waving at the girl, then she waved back at the short girl and observed Alix's drone head to Luka and Marinette, which were dancing together. As the drone arrived Luka looked at the device interested, while Marinette smiled at looking at the apparatus of Alix Kubdel.
„Luka, Marinette that's the kiss-drone, you two gotta kiss!" Alya yelled from the middle of the court, making Marinette look confused and Luka looked around for anything and realized, that Alya meant a kiss-cam he had seen the word on the screen in front of Nino's DJ table. Luka showed Marinette the screen, then she wide her eyes embarrassed and looked up at Luka. Luka smiled and patted Marinette on her shoulder assuring her, she didn't need to do that, if she didn't want to. Marinette smiled at the boy, then went on her tiptoes planting a kiss on his lips, which was recorded live by the camera and appeared on the screen in front of Nino Lahiffe.
Alya clapped at seeing the two kissing, then the drone moved away from them searching for the next two candidates and caught Kagami dancing with Adrien, then she tripped over her shoe falling on Adrien's arms again, making him chuckle and help her up again.
The drone approached the two fencing stars, then they glanced confused at the drone recording them, then Kagami saw far away behind the drone the screen showing the two on the kiss-cam.
„Hey we're on the kiss cam" Kagami announced looking at her boyfriend.
„What's that?" Asked Adrien feeling unfamiliar with that theme.
„Someone films random couples around an event and if a couple is filmed and shown on the kiss cam, which is that flatscreen down in front of Nino, we have to share a kiss" Explained the Japanese girl looking with Adrien at the screen showing the two looking away from the drone at the TV screen.
„Ah I saw this in a movie, " Adrien said realizing, what it was exactly. Kagami smiled leaning closer to the blonde sharing a long kiss with the French boy. Near the TV stood Kim Chien Le watching the two fencing students sharing a kiss, then Kim had an idea and ran at the boy Matt, then tapped him on the shoulder.
„Hey dude, can you make sure I get shown on screen kissing a girl?" Questioned the Vietnamese boy earning a nod from the British boy, then Kim ran to the other side of the court, where Chloé leaned against a table eating a canapé with salmon topping.
„I'm still hoping Adrikins ditches his sushi-girlfriend and goes out with me instead." Chloé said taking a bite from her canapé, then Kim stood behind her and winked at the drone, then tapped Chloé on the shoulder and closed his eyes pointing his lips going in for a kiss, making Chloé look disgusted and look at the other girls, then beside the girls appeared a boy in black trousers and red vest and Chloé grabbed the boy on the arm and pushed him towards Kim and the Vietnamese boy ended up kissing the short boy, making him turn red like a firetruck.
„Hey Kim, I didn't know you liked Marc" Chloé said starting to laugh, then Kim shrieked opening his eyes and seeing Marc Anciel stand in front of him instead of Chloé, then stopped kissing the short boy spitting on the ground in disgust.
„Eww!" Kim said passing his hand in front of his lips, then noted red lip gloss on his hand and widened his eyes in shock. „What the fuck?" Kim asked watching Marc's eyes get teary at this humiliation in front of the camera, then he ran out of court at the outside of the school.
„Chloé, look what just happened, now Marc is going to be a joke for the rest of the school year"
„Hey you're the one, who kissed and got disgusted by it, " Chloé said crossing her arms and turning her back around to the tall boy. Kim rolled his eyes and left Chloé back and the drone flew back to Matt, landing on the hands of Alix.
„Okay, maybe that's enough for today, " Alix said taking her phone away, then walked away with her drone.