"Akuma?"

Alya asked as I hand the paper to her. Yes, I grabbed that thing off the pole and ran!

"Yes, 10,000 dollars Alya, I could buy a ticket out of here the second I graduate, or even participate in that contest!" I said with glee.

"Girl, the Akuma is not a place for you." Alya said, and she was right. Too bad I was stupid to listen at the time. For those who were wondering, the Akuma was Paris notorious nightclub that was own by Hawk Moth. Hawk Moth was this man surrounded by money and darkness, you think the Mayor runs Paris? Think again! Then we had his son, Chat Noir, the main attraction of the club. He was everything you want in a bad boy. He didn't follow rules, he drove past red lights, he stole once in a while, shot at the cops but never killed anyone, basically, he was a criminal. And if it wasn't for his daddy, he'd be in jail by now. The Akuma was like their hide-out that sold liquor and weed that was illegal in Paris. Why wasn't the club shut down you ask? Because it is on land owned by another country that allows all that crap. So, our dear sweet mayor can't do much but let the filth play around. Lord only knows what else goes on that club, and I was soon to find out.

"And how would you get there? It's on the other side of Paris!" Alya whispered to me. We were our music and dance class. It was either this or gym, so we picked this since we both had good voices. Sitting by the wooden wall, we used our book bags to hide the paper I had just handed her.

"An Uber, which reminds me, I need you to lie for me." I told her, only to have her shake her head at me.

"No, I disprove and I will not help you go to that club!" Alya growled.

"Please." I said as I patted my eyes at her. But she refuses to look into my blue eyes, poor Alya! "Please! Pretty please with cherries and chocolate syrup on top!"

"The answer is no." Alya growled.

"Fine, then I will go and I split the cash prize with you." I said, in all honesty, I just want the 5,000 to participate in the contest. And speaking of money, I saw my friends' ears perk up at the sound of money. Chloe was right, people will do anything for money.

"The answer is still no." Alya said, I take that back. "You need to find a plan yourself."

She said, it then hit me like a bag of bricks, an evil idea that I knew would make her say yes.

"What if...I get a picture of Chat Noir?" I asked, one of the things about Chat is that he never lets anyone take of picture of him. Oh don't get me wrong, he has a twitter and tumbler account, but get an exclusive picture of him would be golden for Alya. This made her turn her head to me and smile.

"Plus the 5,000?" She asked, I nod my head at her words. "Alright girl, I will lie for you. Only in exchange, you turn on your tracker on your phone. Just in case something happens."

"You're making me nervous." I said.

"You should be. You're going into the most illegal and dangerous place known in Paris with the craziest star. Be careful Marinette."

"Whatcha talking about?" A voice asked me from over my shoulder. I looked and gasp, Adrien just asked me a question! Oh no! What do I say!? What do I say!?

"Gid-day Adrien!" I said, oh my god, did I go Australian on him!? Ugh, I can never find the right words to say to him.

"Nice." Adrien responded with a smile at me. My heart was about to pop and fall out of my mouth!

"She and I were talking about girl things." Alya said, good thing I had her. Before I could go on my stuttering rampage, my music teacher comes walking straight into the room with instruments and microphones. Even though I liked this class...Chloe made it unbearable to enjoy it. The teacher was on the Mayor's payroll, so he let Chloe pick out the dance routine, which sucked, the games we play, which was crap, and how to sing in what way. Basically, if Chloe doesn't get what she wanted, we would fail the class.

"Stand up peons!" Chloe shouted as she enters the room. Wearing a white top with black tights, she turns her head to Alya and I and sighed.

"Your clothes look hideous!" Chloe growled, we both were wearing a white shirt and tights. Which was this classes uniform. Everyone wore a the same thing, even Chloe! But, I held my tongue and pretended that I didn't her words.

"Now..." Chloe started. "Sit down, Adrien and Gingo will be the first to present their projects."

"Nino!" Adrien growled at Chloe, for best friends they seemed a little annoyed at each other. Ignoring each other's presence, Adrien grabs a microphone as Nino plugs in a flash drive into the teacher's computer.

"This took a while to make..." Adrien said with a smile on his face. "All music credit goes to Nino while the lyrics were made by me. Enjoy!"

The music begins to play! A high beat electric sound begins to fill the room as different instruments began to play in sync. Nino was truly an artist at this. When the music hits a DING sound, Adrien opens his mouth, allowing the words of gods to pour out:

When you walk away, you don't hear me say
"Please, oh baby, don't go."
Simple and clean is the way that you're making me feel tonight
It's hard to let it go

Oh my god, his voice is like honey falling from a million dollar plane that had just covered a forest fire! I couldn't help but to close my eyes and get into the lyrics,but it was a little weird. The song sounded a little upbeat, but the lyrics were sad. Was Adrien sad? I wonder what for?

You're giving me too many things lately
You're all I need, you smiled at me and said
"Don't get me wrong, I love you
But does that mean I have to meet your father?"
When we are older you'll understand
What I meant when I said
"No, I don't think life is quite that simple"

When you walk away, you don't hear me say
"Please, oh baby, don't go."
Simple and clean is the way that yo-

"STOP!"

Chloe shouted, snapping me from my utopia of beautiful music with my future children! Adrien turns his head to Chloe as Nino stops his track. They weren't even done with the song!

"Adrien-kins." Chloe said as she walks over to him. "Adrien, don't you think you should sing a more...manly song?"

"S'cuse me?" Adrien asked.

"I mean, your voice is amazing. But, the lyrics are so girly and the music just doesn't go with it on every beat." Chloe said, making Adrien glare at her.

"What do you know about music?" Adrien asked.

"I know that your dad wants to not to be singing shitty songs like that." Chloe growled. Adrien was about to open his mouth to speak, only to bite his tongue and make frustrated sound with his voice. Dropping the mic to the ground, he crosses his arms over his chest then proceeded to walk out the classroom. Nino grabs the flash drive then runs after him. Not even noticing that he dropped the object to the ground. Chloe looks down at the object before picking it up then throwing it in the trash.

"Alright, who's the next losers?" Chloe asked. After everyone but a few did their performance for the day, Chloe informs us of an upcoming event happening in the school before leaving the room. Alya grabs both Nino's and Adrien's bookbags before looking at me to say:

"Hey, I will meet you at the store later, Nino texted me. He's at Adrien's house, see you soon girl." Alya said. Before I could ask if I could help her she ran out the room. Leaving me alone in the room, all my classmates were gone. I grabbed my bag to leave until I stopped when my eyes met the grey bin that had a green plastic bag over its opening. Nino's flash drive was in there...all of his songs were in there...So I dived in to retrieve the flash drive. Lucky there was no trash in the bin when I did it.

I regret doing that, using Nino's music. The plan originally was to return it, I swear! But shit hit the fan so quickly. I pray that Nino forgives me, or at least says hi to me after all this goes down. And if not, I understand.

"So here is the idea." I said as I lead Alya to the craft store from school. It took two buses to get there, but it would be so worth it when I get my fabric. "Since they are asking for singers, I decided to do a little song dressed as this!" I said before handing her my sketchbook of a flowy greek goddess I had in mind.

"Let me guess, inspired by the goddess of love Aproditity?" Alya asked, I nodded my head to her.

"I can't wait!" I said with glee.

"Can't wait for what?" Chloe asked as she approaches us, and here I thought the rest of my day would go smoother.

"Nothing Chloe." I said before hiding the paper behind my back. The last thing I needed was for her to go running to her daddy. That fat fucker enjoys hurting people as much as Chloe does. But sadly, my luck is shitty. Sabrina, Chloe's servant, snatches the paper out of my hand without my knowledge of her presence. I swear she's invisible until she attacks. I crossed my arms as the girl's hands Chloe the paper. Reading it, Chloe tears it to pieces right in front of me, good thing I took a picture of it with my phone though.

"If you even think about going to that club, I promise you, my father will ruin you." Chloe growled.

"You're not the boss of me Chloe." I growled.

"I am the Mayor's daughter, and what I say goes! Don't go there Marinette or I will tell my father about you!" Chloe shouted at me before walking past me. Oh, and in case you are wondering, Chloe hates the Akuma for the reason of Chat Noir interrupting her sweet 16 by having her 17-foot cake explode straight in her face when she blew out the candles. Then post the pictures of her crying on social media. That was the only time I laughed so hard that I peed myself.

But anyway! After taking my two bus trips, I finally made it to the crafts store, A place with thousands of clothes, sewing machines and...EMPTY! Everything was gone, All the pretty fabric and was gone! What the hell!? Why is my favorite craft store empty! I mean, how am I suppose to make that costume without fabric!

"What the hell?" I asked.

"Oh, we had a sale earlier." A sale clerk said as she approaches us. "But we do have a couple more fabric on sale."

The lady leads Alya and I to the corner of the room, past the empty fabrics to hangers to the back where the animal fabric was. Oh my god, out of all the stuff here, the animal fabric is the one to remain! As the lady leaves us I could feel my left eye twitching in annoyance. I knew Chloe was behind this, no way there would be a sale without me knowing, I am part of the premium club dammit!

"Wow, Chloe works fast." Alya said before pulling at a zebra pattern. "How about this?"

"Gag me." I growled as I looked through the patterns. I was never a fan of animal skin patterns. I felt its been overused since the B.C. years.

"Okay, I need to find something..." I muttered to myself. I closed my eyes and raised my hand in the air. I then shake it violently before pointing at something. Opening my eyes, I see that I pointing a red fabric with black dots.

"Ladybug it is then." I muttered under my breath as I approached the fabric. Grabbing the silky fabric, I yank a bunch of it to my body before having it measured then cut. I need to rethink my designs now since I have this fabric, the whole goddess look I was going for won't work. I needed to think of something, the thing is in 15 hours! Then like an open bag of marbles that slowly descended down a fleet of stairs, I got an idea.


Kikkie: The song is Simple and Clean by Hikaru Utada, I do not own any rights to the song or any other's I will be using in this fanfic. Even though I say the characters wrote the songs, in reality they were written by other people. I am good at writing stories, not songs...sadly.