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Chapter 15

"Luka!?"

Marinette stared mouth agape as Luka stood in front of her and her parents. He wore a black tuxedo with a red and white striped tie. He looked really good.

"Hey Marinette. I hope you're ready for tonight."

On the inside Marinette was having a mental breakdown. How could she forget about Luka! He asked her to the ball and she had said yes for crying out loud. Now what was she going to do, Adrien would be here soon and she didn't even want to imagine what he would think.

"Uh..Luka I ehh…"

"Mari hun you okay?" her mama asked her.

"Y-Yeah I'm fine...it's just that.." how was she going to tell them. That she agreed to go out with two guys to a ball? No that'll be terrible.

"Oh there's a car pulling up." her papa said to the group.

Marinette was happy for the distraction until she noticed who's car that was.

"Oh no" she said in terror.

Luka looked over to Marinette and wondered what had her frazzled.

He had honestly expected her to be happy to see him in his tux. He spent a lot of time on it and the reaction he was getting was…not satisfying.

She however, looked amazing. He had never seen a more beautiful girl than Marinette before.

He looked where everyone else was looking and his face shown a look of curiosity.

"Is that who I think it is?"

"Marinette who's that dashing young man?"

It made since why no one could immediately recognize him. Adrien Agreste wore a white tuxedo with an emerald tie and a white mask not unlike his Chat Noir mask. To Marinette he looked extremely handsome in a suit. So handsome...

He came up to the bakery and opened the door.

" Good evening Mr. and Mrs. Dupain-Cheng….and Luka?"

"Agreste.." Luka frowned back.

Mr. Dupain-Cheng blinked twice at the boy before realizing who he was.

"Wait...but aren't you dead?"

"It's complicated." he chuckled.

Mr. and Mrs. Dupain-Cheng looked between their daughter and the boy and merely shook their heads.

"Crazier things have happened in Paris." The parents laughed.

Adrien laughed along with them before turning his attention to Marinette. She was giving him a strange look but he didn't mind it because of how he was now looking at her.

He's seen pretty girls before but none of them could hold a candle to how Marinette looked.

"You ready to go Marinette?"

"Hold on pretty boy Marinette is my date." Luka said as he stood up to block Adrien from seeing her. He didn't like the look on his face and no one looked at Marinette like that other than him.

"Huh? Well that's weird because Marinette asked me to take her." Adrien was confused over two things. Number one was why was Luka so hostile towards him because he hadn't done anything to insult him. Number two, what is going on here?

Luka turned to face Marinette who was quietly shaking the whole time.

"Marinette, what's going on I thought you were going with me."

That's when she burst,". Ah I'm so so sorry! I had made a commitment to you Luka but then Adrien came back and I forgot and asked him if he wanted to go!"

"Ah, well it's okay Marinette. You just forgot about it. I can't blame you for that since everything has been crazy recently." Adrien told her. He was about to reach out to hold her hand but then Luka intervened.

"Look Agreste, I'm still going with her...and that's final." Luka said as he attempted to overpower him in height. Sadly they were the same height so it wasn't working.

Adrien on the other hand was getting tired of how Luka was treating him. What had he done? Nothing.

He was glad when Marinette spoke up against him.

"No Luka, you can't decide that for me. What did I tell you the first time, no one forces me to do anything." she said as she folded her arms across her chest.

Luka looked at her in shock and finally noticed how he came across. He gave her a guilty and sorry look.

"I'm sorry Marinette, I didn't mean to.."

"Hold on a moment.." Mrs. Dupain-Cheng spoke.

"How about Marinette takes both you boys to the ball. You can go as a group."

"Great idea hun." Mr. Dupain-Cheng agreed.

Adrien thought it was a good idea as well to go as a group and so did Marinette(she was going to thank her mama 100x over for that brilliance). Luka didn't like it as much because he didn't want to share Marinette but for the sake of going at all he'd agreed.

"Well then, let's go meet with Alya and Nino." Marinette said.

In Adrien's Limo

In the Limo sat the following: Adrien on the right of Marinette and Luka on the Left. Nino sat across from them as Alya sat on his left.

"Now this is Mariblog worthy~" Alya snickered.

"There's a Mariblog?" Adrien questioned. He would have summed it up to his missing two years but then he noticed the same look of confusion on Nino's face and he'd bet it was on Luka's as well.

"Well no not actually it's just something I made up when Marinette gets herself into situations similar to this."

"Haha very funny Alya. It's not so bad…" Marinette defended. She had a blush creeping up to her cheeks from pure embarrassment.

Nino spoke up as well," well at least your dates are cool with it."

Adrien only smiled, he was just glad to be included in this type of stuff anyways. It's been so long since he last hung out with his friends and it didn't matter how'd it happen. Luka on the other hand let out a grunt. He wasn't too happy with this predicament.

The limo soon started to slow its pace and came to a complete stop. Adrien's driver got out and came to their sides of the door to let them out.

They all said thank you to the driver before they went to join the festivities inside The Peninsula Paris.

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Marinette was followed in by Adrien and Luka, who the latter, was arguing over who was going to dance with her first. She could see Adrien was getting annoyed with all of it when he spoke next.

"You know what? Fine you can dance with her first I'll just go over by the food." He walked away but not before giving Marinette a quick glance.

Marinette wanted to call back to him and tell him she wanted him instead but then Luka grabbed her hand and walked into the crowd of people.

The song that was playing was a slow song. One that she actually enjoyed. Luka apparently did as well as he swayed to the music.

"You can dance?" Marinette asked.

"Well.. I dabble from time to time." He replied back. He then placed his right hand in Marinette's left and then his left around her waist. They dance to the slow rhythm of the song.

With Adrien

Adrien stood near the punch table as he watched Marinette and Luka dance. He had to admit he was jealous. It didn't bother him at first but the more he looked at them and the more Luka got closer to Marinette his anger rose. He was too busy watching them that he hadn't notice a girl approach him.

"Hello."

"Huh oh hey?"

"You're staring pretty intently at that couple." she said to him.

Sheesh, was he that transparent. He needed to stop if he was attracting people.

"I wasn't staring...and their not a couple." he bit out lower.

"Mmhm...well that isn't why I came over to you."

That confused him. Why was she here if she didn't notice his looks. He gave her a look that meant she needed to elaborate.

"Well you're the only one wearing a mask to this event, I thought I'd come and see why."

That's reasonable. In all honesty he had forgotten he was wearing it. It was like his Chat Noir mask but white and it just got comfortable on his face.

The reason he was wearing it was because his father had insisted he keep him being alive secret until he was ready to reveal his son to Paris once more. His father told him that he was trying to figure a way to make the public believe he wasn't Chat Noir.

"Oh um I just like masks...their cool.." oh god. That was the best he could come up with.

The girl who looked very familiar now that he took a look at her squinted her eyes and asked him what his name was.

"Well it's rude to acquire a name if the one who is being asked doesn't know the asker."

"Oh ok my name is Kagami." Kagami said.

"My name is...Fabien...yea" Adrien had to admit that was lame.

"So..Fabien was that your girlfriend?"

"What? No! She's...well I don't know what I am to her."

"Well what is she to you?" Kagami asked.

Adrien didn't want to say he was in love with her—which he was— because he didn't know what Marinette's feelings were. What if she was in love with Luka?

...

...

Hell no.

That made his anger rise again. He would fight for his Lady's love with everything he had.

Apparently he hadn't answered fast enough because Kagami grabbed his arm and dragged him towards the dance floor.

"H-Hey what's going on?" Adrien asked in shock.

"You need a dance and I'll be your first tonight."

Adrien was about to protest but then the next song turned on. They were already in the midst of the crowd so he had little to no choice.

He didn't notice when a pair of sad eyes wandered to him.

A/N: Until next time mates.

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