Marinette stood there in her room wearing a beautiful carmine red dress. It had a sweetheart neckline, black straps, black embroidery the middle of the bodice, th bodice was fitted to above hips. The skirt was long and slightly puffy but had a layer of black underneath that seeped out in the middle.

"Marinette, that dress is absolutely beautiful! You look like a princess." Alya said stunned.

"Thank you, I made it myself." Marinette said proudly as she spun around so Alya could see it all.

"You are really talented Marinette. I have seen you make really pretty dresses before, but this is just on another level." Alya spoke as she examined the dress.

Marinette looked down and replied,

"You are too sweet. I honestly have no idea where I got the inspiration for this dress."

"I was about to ask, since you didn't seem super excited for the ball. I wondered why you put so much effort into it." Alya said

"I honestly have no idea either."

"Based off that dress it seems like you are trying to get the Kings attention. If you are I think it'll work." Alya teased.

Marinette rolled her eyes and said.

"You know that is the opposite of what I want."

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As Alya and Marinette looked up at the castle they noticed it looked rather antiquated.

"How old is this castle again?" Marinette asked Alya as they both observed the castle.

"Well the Agreste line has been in charge for thousands of years." Replied Alya

"Do you think we could just go in for 30 minutes then leave. I mean it's not like the King will be expecting us specifically and then we technically went. I bet he doesn't even know we exist." Marinette suggested.

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As Adrien sat staring at himself in front of his mirror dressed in a black pants, a black tailcoat, in his luxurious room. He was starting to doubt his plan to get Marinette to love him. He knew if he invited only her to his castle she'd be frightened of him. So he came up with a plan, to have a ball and make every eligible women in the land come. That that way Marinette would come and he could sweep her off her feet. But he was starting to worry if she would show at all?

"No, she doesn't seem like she would not show at all." Adrien tried reassuring himself.

"Marinette will arrive and we spend the whole night talking and then tomorrow I can announce that I have finally found a women to marry. Then Marinette would move into the castle so we can start our courtship. Marinette will fall in love with me and we can be together for-"

Adrien was interrupted from his thoughts when his best friend ,Nino, came in dressed in a dark green suit and announced

"Adrien, guest are starting to arriving you are expected to be in the ballroom soon."

A visibility anxious Adrien asked, "She hasn't arrived yet, has she?"

"No she hasn't, I'll inform you when I see her." Said Nino

"She's the only one I care to talk tonight so you better help keep all the other girls away from me."Adrien said

"You really do like her don't you? You have never been interested in a girl. What make you so drawn to her?" Questioned Nino

"In my whole life I've never seen someone so beautiful, so angelic, so pure at heart.

She is the only women I'll ever want.

That is why I"m going to marry her." Adrien spoke with confidence as he imagined him and Marinette together in his head.

"You know you sure plan a lot, even though you have never talked to the girl before." Nino whisperd as he walked out of Adriens room.

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So sorry for the late update. I honestly forgot lol

I'm still not great at writing and I wrote this at like 4am so some of it might not be super good or have typos. I have majority of the next two chapters written down so it shouldn't be long till the next chapter is out. I now think I know where I'm going with the story. I hope you have a great day.

Btw thanks for the reviews. Reading them has given me for inspiration for writing this.