Rose, Mylene, Juleka, and Bloom are modeling some hats for the B&M brand - because, Bloom, you are absolutely gorgeous, and could easily make it as a model! - and everyone's having a good time as Alya Cesaire takes pictures of the lot of them. As Alya uploads the pictures onto Marinette's computer, she asks "What do you two need the photos for, anyway?"

Bloom and Marinette give matching smirks, and Bloom says "A project of ours. Why?" Same reason there's a bunch of magically-made mannequins in Marinette's closet, which Bloom expanded to have extra space behind the clothes in the back - inspiration taken from Harry Potter and the Chronicles of Narnia in equal measure - they started up a brand and are in the process of setting up a website complete with pictures of their stuff.

Not that they want that to get around just yet, B&M is going to be anonymous for a while until they can really gain some traction - it's all too easy for big companies to take out the competition when the competition is a pair of teenage girls making stuff on the side of homework and fighting Akumas.

And then suddenly Mylene, Rose, Alya, and Juleka all get invites to a party at the Grand Paris Hotel. From Chloe. Bloom and Marinette trade glances, and Bloom says "Bets are somebody hacked her phone." After the fiasco at school, she figured Chloe 'I'm-a-witch' Bourgeois would be gloating to Sabrina and taking stupid selfies up in her hotel.

Marinette nods, saying "There's no way this is real. 'Chloe' and 'nice' don't go together in the same sentence unless it's along the lines of 'Chloe is not nice.'" And then Bloom and Marinette each get invites as well. Marinette promptly drops her phone in disgust, saying "Ew, she invited me!" She gets the urge to disinfect her hands and phone right then, honestly.

Bloom sighs, then says "Guess we'd better go just to humor her. And maybe see what the party is actually about."

Marinette whirls around, horror written all over her face, and asks "You're not actually going to attend?!" Who is this girl, and what has she done with the Bloom she knows, loves, and fights Akumas with on a daily basis?!

Bloom shrugs, and says "Unless something comes up, my evening's free." Translation: if there's no Akuma, I'll just be hanging around my lonely warehouse for the night. "'Sides, I can't deny being curious about her sudden change of heart from this morning."

She saw Adrien talking with Chloe after they were all punished, but she was too far away to hear what they said - but, whatever it is, it resulted in everyone getting an invite to a party Chloe's throwing.

At Marinette's stubborn expression, Bloom shrugs and says "I'll tell Adrien you say hi, then."

Marinette's expression turns to shock, and she asks "Adrien?"

Everyone else trades smirks, and Alya says "Nino texted me. Adrien's going with him." It's like a spell was cast, as Marinette's instantly agreeing that going to the party is a good idea.

Marinette whispers to Bloom "This whole party thing is way weird."

Adrien turns around, saying "I've known Chloe a while, Mari. She can actually be really cool when she's not-"

Bloom clears her throat and says "Um, you might want to brace yourself."

Adrien immediately does so, even as he wonder wh- oh, that's why. Chloe just tackled him from behind in a full-body hug, wrapping around him a bit like an octopus does with all limbs. And then he's spun around and a kiss planted on each cheek so fast he didn't even have time to blink, Chloe standing there with a beaming smile on her face as she gestures around emphasizing how nice the whole party is.

And then Rose, Kim, and Max all greet her, pressing a kiss to each of her cheeks - a French way of greeting, one Bloom doesn't quite get even now. When Chloe walks over - rather, moves away from the barrage of greetings - Bloom steps between Marinette and her, plasters on a smile, and quickly says "Hi, Chloe, thanks for the invite. Not to be rude, but do you know where some drinks are? We're kinda thirsty, you see."

Chloe just points them in the right direction, accompanied by a faint sigh of relief from both Chloe and Marinette. As they're holding cups, Marinette whispers "Thank you, Bloom! You've just saved my dignity!"

Bloom smirks, and says "I also spared everyone in eyesight an immense amount of pain, watching that would've been agonizing." Or hysterical, but they'll never know.

Marinette shrugs, and asks "You figure out why Chloe's throwing the party?"

"To please Adrien. She was hoping Adrien would like it all as she was showing off." Marinette's just about to scoff, saying she knew it, but Bloom adds "There's something more going on, though, Mari. Adrien's convinced that there's something underneath her usual behavior, and he's making her show it tonight somehow. How, I don't know yet, but I'll find out." Bloom gets a grin that would send an actual dragon running, then adds "At the very least, it's set to be an entertaining night."

Marinette groans, then says "Just eat enough for the night, Bloom. I'll grab some cookies for Tikki, she's probably drooling already."

Bloom snickers, then says "Longg will probably go swipe some food and eat it behind a plant or under the table. Have fun."

Chloe rubs at her cheeks with a napkin beside Butler Jean, and irritably asks "There, Adrien seems happy, are we done yet?"

Butler Jean says "If I may be so bold, to reaffirm Adrien of her kindness, Mademoiselle might make sure her guests are having a good time?"

Chloe asks why she would do that, then quickly shoves Mr. Cuddly out of sight while hastily agreeing to do as much. She slams her hands down on the bar counter Nathan's leaning against, and borderline-yells "Having a good time?"

Before the nervous boy - she just yelled at him after loudly announcing her presence out of nowhere, his heart's about to beat straight out of his chest after that! - can respond, Mylene dances over and says "All this dancing's made me thirsty, do you know where the ice cubes are?"

Chloe snaps "How should I know, I'm not your servant! Go find them yourself! And if you're so hot, why don't you take off that fake sheepskin sweater? Throw it in the trash where it belongs!" There's a cough from under the counter, and then Chloe sees Butler Jean with Mr. Cuddly. And then she sees Adrien standing there next to Bloom, a shocked expression on his face while Bloom's got one eyebrow raised.

Gotta be kidding, Adrikins, this is like torture…

Quickly backtracking, Chloe laughs, says she's joking, and goes to get the ice cubes. Dammit, being nice is hard - she hasn't put this much effort into anything other than making her hair behave and trying to impress her mother in years!

Juleka, Luka, and Rose are sitting at one of the tables, Rose facetiming Prince Ali and saying she wishes he could be at the party since he'd probably have a lot of fun - and using her phone to show him the party itself, much to the sheltered prince's delight - and Juleka sees her brother's gaze is fixed on one point in the crowd. On a specific red-head he's been getting more and more interested in ever since the Horrificator incident.

He's even tried to write down what he describes as her 'Heart Song' - he says he can hear a different song coming from each person, and his descriptions of people based on their songs have never been wrong yet so she's inclined to believe there's something special about her brother. But he's never tried to recreate and play the songs he hears before.

Raising one eyebrow curiously, Juleka quietly asks "Are you…interested in Bloom?"

Luka promptly blushes brightly, which Juleka takes as a yes - Luka's always cool, calm, and collected, he just doesn't blush uncontrollably. She's asked before if he was interested in girls, and he's always said no - no blush, no stammering, no hesitation. So for him to suddenly start doing all those things…it says a lot. About as much as him humming a tune and trying to write it down to play it on his guitar, actually.

Oh, Luka, you've got it bad, don't you?

Bloom watches Chloe in utter confusion - one minute she's snapping and snarking at people more than ever, the next she's gone suspiciously nice even as it seems to physically pain her to do so - if she didn't know any better, and she does, she'd swear she's under some kind of spell that's slipping. As it is, she knows Adrien's basically strong-arming her into being nice for the night…but she's yet to figure out the split personality that seems to be going on…or what her mother, someone Bloom didn't even know was still around given the detail that there was no blonde woman striding around the hotel or the office at any point she's been there, has to do with any of this.

And her ghost isn't helping matters, constantly saying what her mother would do and how that's not what Adrien wants, and how her friendship with Adrien is in danger if she can't do this…whatever 'this' is.

And then she starts slow-dancing with Kim, making Bloom all the more confused.

Deciding to go tread some more familiar ground, Bloom heads over to Marinette and says "Go ask the resident ball of sunshine for a dance, Mari. He won't say no."

Marinette immediately quietly freaks out - she's been getting better about Adrien, yes, but her crush is still the size of the school and has no plans on going anywhere - and asks "Are you crazy?!" She'll probably slip on the floor or trip over her feet, take Adrien down with her, give him a black eye and broken nose, and he'll never want to see her again!

And then Bloom hip-chucks her, sending her stumbling straight into Adrien…who asks if she wants to dance. And then she's dancing with Adrien, moving around the dance floor…or Cloud nine, maybe, she can't really tell. She's dancing with Adrien! And then Alya Cesaire and Nino dance over, with Nino grinning and moving Marinette and Adrien's arms so that Marinette's are resting at the back of Adrien's neck and Adrien's holding her by the waist. And then the happy couple keeps dancing, leaving Marinette and Adrien staring after them in shock.

Shrugging it off, Adrien and Marinette keep dancing, Marinette resting her head on Adrien's chest and Adrien letting his chin rest on top of Marinette's head gently.

And that would be when Chloe goes off, marching over to separate the two of them…until Butler Jean gets between them, inadvertently revealing her teddy bear to everyone on the dance floor.

AN: Oh, Chloe, haven't you heard? No pain, no gain. And I can promise you, it's gonna get real painful for her before it gets better. Girl needs a wake-up call, honestly. Luckily, I've already figured out how to give her one...better than simply stumbling across a lost Miraculous, anyway.