Felix's seat mate
Chloe and Felix were getting along just fine in their own way. She watched the boy who looked so much like Adrien that she had to remind herself that he's actually Felix. The hair and the clothes easily fooled her, while the way he smiled was just what Adrien did in public.
Felix took his time to take out his things and arrange them neatly on the desk, perfectly aware of being watched by the whole class, not just his seat mate. He made sure to look straight at the teacher and only at her and ignore the rest of the students.
The boy would tease her and ask if she liked what she saw or some other cheesy line if he was a lesser man, but he was not brought up to sell cheap lines. If he was going to tease Chloe or pull a prank on her, then he is going to do it his own way.
He waited for the perfect moment, and he needed to wait for a long time, because the heiress was not taking her own notes. Right, it was probably Sabrina who did it for her. The plan was to snatch the girl's phone and ask to go for the toilet, but the girl was checking it half the time.
That idea was never going to work with this girl, she'd notice too soon. He studied the teacher, who obviously tolerated the heiress checking her phone every few minutes in the first row. Ms Bustier was nice, smiled gently and aired positivity and love. He found that pathetic.
He did snatch the phone, still unlocked. Ms Bustier distributed worksheets and explained what they were expected to do for homework and actually asked Chloe to participate in a conversation about it. He looked at all the social media she scrolled through that just confirmed what he assumed.
"I expect you to work with your seat mate on the answers because there are two different types of worksheets." Ms Bustier smiled.
That was the moment Chloe scoffed and looked at Felix. Her intention was to see the worksheet, but her eyes instantly fell on the phone in his left hand, her phone in his left hand. She snatched it back the same instant.
"What do you think you're doing." She hissed. Her fingers clutched on the phone so hart that her knuckles turned slightly white, then she reduced her grip, not to break the nails, her whole body was on high alert and protective over her prized possession.
"Oh, I was just wondering what was so interesting there to draw your attention from the teacher." He teased, but his tone was cold and calculated. He knew she could not straight on tell the teacher that he took her phone without straight on admitting she used it the whole period.
"That's none of your business." She glared at the boy. Then she checked the phone, it did not look as if anyone tampered with it and he did not post anything on her accounts so she breathed out a sigh of relief, unintentionally.
"Don't worry, I did not destroy the image you try so hard to maintain for the public with one single tap on the screen." He snickered. "In fact, I don't think I have to bother, you are doing a good job out from that yourself."
"What?" She hissed. "What about your public image?" She quickly found his pages, opened up and scrolled through for him to see that she did her job and examined what he published about himself, or what he bothered to publish.
"I chose what I want to reveal about myself to the public just like you do." He smirked. "And your choice tells more about you than you'd like to know." The look he gave her was expected to reduce her self confidence, but she did not reveal that it succeeded.
"Anyway, you should be nice to me if you expect to get any help with that homework of yours." She put her nose up again. "You know I'm not a big fan of your pranks nor find your mischief attractive. You were a bad influence on Adrien as it was."
"Don't think I did not notice you did not take a single note during the first class. I can hardly imagine you being of any use for our homework. I bet you used Sabrina to do all your schoolwork for you." He smirked. He knew he was right just from looking at her face.
"I will have you know that I have no issues in doing my homework on my own, thank you very much and my memory works perfectly fine so I do not need to make notes from the classes." She huffed and turned away so quickly that her pony tail flew around her head.
"Well, could you help me then about the exact year of this battle, I don't know if I got it correctly." He knew well that he did, the notes he took were more to note the expressions and the specific explanations this teacher provided.
Chloe huffed and opened the book.
"Ah, no, no consulting the book." He teased.
"What do you mean? Half the students in this class have written it wrong probably, ans I expect you did the same, the best way is to consult the book. See?" She pointed towards the year and the battle, but it fit the number Felix noted.
"Well, my notes are correct apparently, and you did not memorize the year." He concluded. They bickered and bantered and constantly tried to find what was making the other annoyed while they pretended to keep cool.
"Are they trying to determine who is the bigger brat?" Alix snickered.
"Well, I'm glad I'm not on the receiving end of any ot that." Mylenne acknowledged and Ivan gently tapped her shoulder.
Some time during their second short break, Chloe and Felix stopped trashing each other and started to talk poorly of other people's clothes and manners. But they always found a way to disagree on that only to keep arguing against each other.
Finally, it turned out into a full on competition that was hard to listen for anyone present. Chloe would huff and turn away, but then she would find a perfect come back to return with her nose high in the air, then Felix rolled his eyes
"You know, at first I thought you were another Chloe." Marinette whispered to Adrien. She leaned over her bench and Adrien leaned back so they could exchange a few words without being overheard by the couple of students bickering on their right.
"Yeah, I remember." He smirked. Marinette blushed. He did not need to say any words for he to know he was teasing her. The fact that Alya and Nino overheard them and started to snicker did not help her reduce her blush at all.
"I'm just … not sure … if this ..." She pointed towards Chloe and Felix with her thumb."Is good or bad. I mean, it was a relief to see ho chose to sit beside her after last night." She glanced towards Alya and Nino, she couldn't say much more that that, she smiled awkwardly.
"Yeah, me too, I guess." He winked towards Alya. "The way they argued at dinner last night … " He did tell Nino, briefly, about Chloe and Felix having an argument, but his best bro did not bother to share the information with his girlfriend apparently.
"Well, let's hope we resolved that part for now." She turned towards Alix and Adrien followed her gaze. She did not want another Bunnix to visit her (and/or Adrien) and take them to yet another future they were expected to prevent from happening.
"And that we do not have a slightly different issue on our hands again." He finished her thought only to confirm that he understood what she wanted to say. Some joke or a pun about not getting a rabbit for a pet would have been better, but he resisted.
"Don't you think that Chloe and Felix would make a perfect match." Alya whispered. Her eyes glowed with ideas and mischief, the way the two bickered made them the perfect couple in her eyes, she could already see the two of them together.
"I'm not so sure, they do not look like a match made in heaven." Marinette replied quietly. Because what looked like permanent lover's quarrel and could be interpreted as friendly bickering if the two were already friends, worried her substantially.
"More like in hell, but they are right for each other." The matchmaking spree already took hold of Alya and Marinette wondered if Alya meddled for Felix and Lila to get together in that other future with same determination and energy she used to push her and Adrien together.
"I know it looks to you like they are acting as a couple, but that is not friendly bickering, they hardly know each other, it is not like they are friends." Marinette tried to reason with Alya. She did not want her friend to meddle into this one.
"Actually, they know each other since they were kids, through me, and trust me, this is how they always were." Adrien whispered. "Chloe always ordered around to all her friends and Felix always pulled pranks on everyone." The boy snickered. "Sometimes I joined him."
"As opposed to you, I do have some teal friends. Sabrina is my best friend, I am not using her only to make me notes from classes and do my homework and my school projects and … " Chloe pouted but she was determined.
"Well, prove it, do not ask her for her notes from today's classes and do not order her around." Felix smirked. "And in order to make it easier on you, I'm offering my own notes." He managed that Adrien smile to accompany his offer.
"No way, I don't trust you that much to use your notes. Who knows what you wrote in there." She scoffed, crossed her arms and looked away. But she was already making a plan. Nothing prevented her from taking notes from someone else and compare.
"You don't trust me? What about your perfect memory? How are we going to work together if you don't trust me that much and don't tell me you don't remember anything from that class so you wouldn't be able to tell if ms notes were wrong!" He elaborated cooly.
Chloe realized her last outburst was exactly what he aimed at, she lost her nerve, she accepted to use his notes and faced forward. Then for the last period before the lunch break, they straightforwardly ignored each other.
Meanwhile, Sabrina was making friends with Nathaniel, and Lila glared at the copy of Adrien. Felix was so persuasive that a few teachers addressed him as Adrien before they noticed that there were two. Felix enjoyed himself so much, this prank was totally worth it.
Lunch bell rang and Felix got up to leave. His intention was to have lunch with his mother, or alone, in their room in Le Grand Paris. He loved his mother but he already knew her first goal was to fetch the other matching ring.
"I can offer you a ride and you can have sushi with me." The heiress placed her invitation flatly. Maybe it was against all logic to anyone else, but to Chloe, it made perfect sense. She enjoyed making nasty comments and Felix was taking it all in stride, even shot back.
Felix smirked. So the girl actually wanted to spend her lunch break with him? He was not able to resist the temptation to annoy her even more, certain of his imminent success. Maybe he was even looking forward to continue the exchange of sophisticated insults and snide comments.
"Felix, would you like to join Adrien and me at the bakery?" Marinette smiled and awaited his answer. The boy might be tempted to go, if nothing else, then to be able to sneak around her room and peek anywhere and everywhere just like he usually did.
Lila had an idea of her own. She had to accept that she lost Adrien, but in order to achieve that, she told herself that the boy was not worth of her any more. A new heir to an empire ahd appeared in the classroom and the girl had her new target.
From the banter between Chloe and Felix, she learned that Amelie and her family had most stocks in Gabriel fashions, she already saw Felix as Adrien's replacement in Gabriel adds and Amelie as a new boss of the company, she made a plan and acted.
The girl best known for her lies walked over and latched onto Felix's arm. She swallowed a little pride that she had and decided that this approach would serve to prove that the move she did in the morning was what she actually planned the whole time.
"Felix, I could offer you to review how far we got with schoolwork and how we do things around here with me. I'm sure it would help our grades and we could learn about each other a little bit." She held his forearm and put the other hand over his waist.
Felix flinched at her touch only a little. He was tempted to spend more time with Lila, if only to see what other prank he could pull on her. He was also certain that her teaching assistant might give a useful advice or two on what do to around Paris.
"Besides, I heard that you plan to go to the Agreste mansion this afternoon. I haven't been there in … " She needed a plausible amount of time. "Weeks, yes I haven't been there for so long and I think I might left there a thing or two the last time I visited and … "
"Today's visit is only for family members, Lila." Marinette cut her off. She herself hoped to go there only as support for Adrien, because the boy preferred not to go himself.
"But I was Gabriel's muse I was like a family, I hang out there all the time." Lila gushed. Chloe rolled her eyes to that. She was ready to trash the girl, but her favourite childhood friend was faster.
"No, Lila, you were not there, certainly not in my room." Adrien glared. He was determined to make it clear that he never liked the girl.
Felix was tempted to invite Lila just to annoy his cousin and Marinette. He half expected that the mansion will belong to his mother after the whole legal procedure got finished. He'd love to take Lila to the mansion, if only to make a further fool out of her.
"Actually, Lila, I might be able to help you out with that." Chloe cut in. "Now that your original intention of getting an excuse to weasel yourself into the Agreste mansion has been granted, I think my new seat mate would like to join me for some fine food."
Marinette clenched her fists. Adrien sighed. That was not what they wanted, they wanted Lila away from Felix, from the Agreste mansion and from the two of them, but it wasn't working. The learning asistant was too busy trying to make sense of Lila's notes to intervene in anything not school related.
"Don't worry, he will have plenty of time to snoop around your room, Marinette, just not today. Let's go Felix." And the blonde heiress pulled the boy along just like usually did with Sabrina. Felix pretended to let her if only to remove himself from the classroom faster.
"What do you think you're doing?" Felix asked once they were out. He kept his calm appearance, he even assumed Adrien's posture, and smile to fool a few girls from other classes who stood around, but his tone to Chloe was cold.
"The police is conducting an investigation, she will have to go there as a witness." Chloe replied quietly.
"Oh, sneaky." Felix snickered. So that girl was going there anyway, with police following her each step. That was going to be a show.
"Now let's go and remove ourselves from this establishment. I do not intend to spend here more time than absolutely needed for educational purposes." Chloe walked away with her nose high as her perfect pony tail swung in the rhythm of her steps.
"I can hardly imagine any actual education going on in here." Felix snickered. "I thought your father would have managed to send you to some more prominent establishment." The cold venom in his voice taunted.
"Well, apparently your mother and uncle did not find anything better either." She shot back with a smirk. She entered the car and slid away to make space for Felix who took a moment and pretended to consider it for a moment before he finally followed her into the car.