Chapter 3

M'éloigner! C'est la seule chose à faire

J'ai le cœur à l'envers

Je sens comme un pouvoir Qui me tire au-delà

Du mur qui nous sépare!

"Chat Noir isn't coming," I said to Ladybug as soon as I heard her land on the roof where I was sitting inspecting the papers on my hands.

Adrien and I had spoken early this morning, he told me that he and his father would have to go to a quick business trip in London, they left right after school and shouldn't be coming back until late tonight; He said he would still go to school tomorrow but that he wouldn't make it to patrol.

"Why not, Sirena?" Ladybug asked as she got closer to the chimney where I was laying my back. It was very dark in the night, but there was enough light that I could make out the letters on the documents I was skimming.

"He said he had an emergency trip, and won't come back until tomorrow afternoon." I lied a little. Ladybug looked away from me, there was sadness in her eyes, a certain longing, but also anger, how dare him leave her alone? What if an Akuma struck, she wouldn't be able to handle it alone. "But that's alright," I added after a moment looking up at her from the stack of papers, "We can handle this patrol alone, can't we, m'lady?"

"Of course we can!" She said pretending to be offended. "I think the two of us can handle it just fine." There was defiance in her voice, but she didn't feel comfortable, especially not around me, because although she said she would give me a vow of confidence, she was still looking at me over her shoulder every now and again, as if I was going to spear her with my trident any minute.

"Actually, I just need you to figure out a method to start searching, I can do the rest on my own, you'll pretty much get bored since I'll just be watching random people's minds without saying much." For a moment Ladybug didn't say anything but took the papers from my hands reading through them.

"Okay, what do you have until now?"

"So, the census you gave me is divided by wards, and I believe each ward is divided by streets and each street is divided by blocks, but I don't know whether I should go person by person or family by family..."

"Do it household by household, I think that's the best way to go, looking at one person at the time, and you can do one block per night because even if it takes us longer than expected then you won't overwork yourself."

"Yes ma'am," I said, but Ladybug was miles away already, not literally that is, her mind was far away, thinking about a certain someone. "You can talk to me, you know? I know Hawk Moth is not your biggest concern right now." She turned to look at me and mentally slapped herself making an effort to get back to the task at hand.

"No, you're wrong! finding Hawk Moth is our responsibility now!"

"Marinette," I said and she looked at me with big eyes, surprised, scared, shocked. She knew I knew, but I had never addressed her like that before. "You're naked in my gaze, you can't hide your thoughts from me, and they're far away, out of the city to be precise"

"I... I don't know what..." she slurred

"Oh stop it, Mari! If you want to deny it to yourself, fine, it's none of my business, if you don't want to talk about it just say so, but denying something that I can see crystal clear is just annoying!" I snapped.

"First of all, don't call me Mari, what if someone hears you, and second, Get out of my head already and mind your own business," She said crossing her arms and looking away.

"You think I want to listen to your mental ramble about Adrien, Chat Noir, and even poor Luka?"

"Why do you care? You know none of them!" She retorted

"I just don't know who Luka is, but I know Chat, and I care deeply for him! And I also know Adrien 'cause I go to school with him..." I snapped that last line without thinking it through and covered my mouth with my hand as soon as the words slipped my mouth... When you read other people's thoughts you have a tendency to lose the grip your own.

"What!?" She said still mad at me, but to be honest I didn't mind revealing my identity to her.

"Well, that's right Marinette, we go to school together, you and I, and we even had lunch together earlier."

"Wha... Alba?"

"You guessed it..."

"But how... why?"

"I told you my story already, now you can add my civilian identity to it."

"Is this how you guessed Alya's..."

"I didn't really guess, but I had to say that to protect my... and your identities," I said

"Why? Why do you care?"

"Because you're my partner, and since I can't fight alongside you, the least I can do is to protect yours and Chat's identities." I sighed. "Marinette, even superheroes need allies, that's all I want to be for you, I'd like to be friends as well, but I know I can't ask that of you just because."

For a while, she didn't say anything. But then I saw a glimpse of a tear in her eye.

"I'm so tired..." she let out and started sobbing, at first I thought it came out of nowhere, but no, she has been holding it in for so long. I came near to her and hugged her. "I can't tell it to anyone, I have lots of friends but I have to hide who I am from everyone, I'm always lying, I can't even be with the boy I like, I can't even be with my friends all the time because that would put them in danger. I lied even to Chat Noir to protect my secret, I'm tired of living a double life!" She was almost screaming now crying inconsolably.

I let her cry for as long as she needed, she had to let it all out, she had already talked to Luka, but he couldn't understand the whole story behind her tears.

"There, there Mari, you're not alone," I said after a few minutes, stroking her head. "I'm here for you, and your secret is safe, you don't have to hide anymore. You won't lose your miraculous because I know who you are, you couldn't prevent me from knowing it, this is on me." She let out a small sob.

"I feel like I can only be half of who I am with people, like no one ever knows me completely."

"Now you have me, Mari, you don't need to lie to me, mainly because you can't." I sighed. "And you don't need to pretend you are not gonna miss Chat Noir tonight"

"What?!" she separated from me and looked at me with big watery eyes.

"Isn't he the one that makes you feel like yourself the most? That's why you're sad, you wait for him every night because he's your friend and even if you have to hide the fact that you're Ladybug, you're able to forget all about it." She blushed.

"I guess I can't deny it to you... I was expecting Chat tonight! There, I said it, happy?" She looked away again, arms crossed.

"Because you like him." It wasn't a question.

"What? No! I mean, not like that!" I looked at her raising a questioning eyebrow. "He's a great friend and I have a lot of fun with him, that's all." I wanted to push her to admit it to herself, Chat Noir was the reason behind her smile and her tears, she had to mentally slap herself to think about someone else, but it was too soon, and if I pushed her too hard, it could prevent their relationship from developing furder.

"What about Luka then? He likes you." She smiled.

"I like him too, but... not in that way... He's a great guy, but I just... I can't picture us together." Ah, that was true, she had a tender side for Luka, but he just wasn't the one. Luka only crossed her mind when someone mentioned him, his face didn't come to her mind naturally, she had to force herself to think about them together, and even when she did, she didn't like what she saw. But she also couldn't hurt him, he was a precious friend to her, but that was that.

"Mari, as much as I'd like to keep talking about boys and stuff," I said after a moment of silence, more to stop myself from saying anything else that could add to Marinette's emotional estate. "I have a job to do tonight, and you need to rest, you're too tired, both mentally and physically, go home, have some rest. If you want you can come to my place tomorrow and we'll chat some more, what do you say?"

"You're right I guess," she shrugged. "Where do you live, again?"

"Here!"

"Here?"

"Yeah, we're standing on the roof of my house"

"For real? My place is right in that corner!" She pointed to what I knew was her parent's bakery.

"I know" I giggled "Come by whenever you want, neighbor!" I said with a grin, and she giggled.

"Alright then, see you around, Sirena." She lept from one roof to the other feeling lighter, as if some heavy burden had been lifted from her shoulders now that she knew who Sirena was. Now Ladybug knew that she could trust her because she would have never told her about her identity if she was planning something evil. There's this thing about heroes and their identities, a bond is formed when the identity is out.

Marinette was able to rest peacefully that night, she felt more comfortable now knowing that she could trust the person that knew her identity, she wasn't a random stranger, she was her neighbor and her classmate! She could rest assured that even if Sirena ever tried something sketchy, she would have something to bargain with.

That reassuring promise had taken over the fact that Chat Noir didn't come that night, Marinette had forgotten all about him! But she would have time to scold him later.

Without thinking too much about it, Marinette decided to pop up at Alba's place. She transformed and jumped out of her room's window. It was early morning, almost nobody was around but she still made sure that nobody was following her, yet she was much too excited to think about the consequences of her actions.

Quickly she arrived at what she thought to be the window to Alba's room, and when she looked in she saw her silver kwami lying on a tiny bed on her nightstand, and she knew this was the place. She knocked once, but there was no answer. She knocked twice, harder this time, but no answer yet. The third time she knocked as hard as she could manage without breaking the window, now growing anxious because if someone saw her...

Suddenly, the windows flung open, revealing a mass of hairs flying in every direction and under all that hair was a face with ginormous dark circles under her bloodshot eyes. Her pajama hung loose on her shoulders and she looked at Ladybug with a killer look and said:

"What?" with a bitter tone.

"What happened to you, Alba?" Ladybug said entering the room.

"What happened to you, Alba" She mocked her with a high pitch tone. "I'll tell you what happened to me! I was up patrolling until 12 am, but I swear to you that even if none of our neighbors are Hawk Moth they do have a lot of disturbing thoughts! I mean, there's one dude that's cheating on his wife, a girl having suicidal thoughts, a Lady suffering from depression, a dude who's actually a pedophile! These people! I swear Marinette, they have issues!" I yelled pacing through my room impatiently. "And so, after that, I come to the comfort of my perfect bed only to find out that I can't sleep thinking about what they are thinking! So I roll around in my bed until 6 in the morning when I was finally able to blackout, and can you tell what time is it, Marinette?"

"7:30?" she said shyly.

"7:30! Which means that you woke me up from a 90 minutes beauty sleep that I pretty much needed, thank you very much!" I spat. plumping on my bed with my arms crossed.

"Well I thought you'll be awake, school starts in half an hour."

"Screw it, I'm not going," I said cuddling in my bed again which was especially comfy today.

"I know how you feel Alba, but you can't just not go to school" Marinette detransformed and sat next to me. "Believe me, I know what it is like to be sleep-deprived since I've had to catch a late-night Akumas and I know it's not the best of the experiences. But you still have to go to school, if not people are going to start asking questions, and what about your parents?"

"They're out of town, and I'll just make up an excuse like, I'll say I overslept because I was reading fanfiction until late night, I've heard that's a legit excuse."

"I've tried that, they took my phone for a week..." She sighed.

"It's not my lack of sleep that I'm worried about though..." I said after a moment of silence. "All these people... I want to help, but I don't know how! Except for that pedophile dude, him... I want to spear him with my trident." Ladybug looked shocked, but understood at the same time.

"I don't think you have to go to that extreme Alba, like... why don't you just enchant him?"

"And what, make him forget what he's done already? Oh no, that's too nice for him."

"Well, maybe let him remember, but make him feel guilty about it, change his mind so that he'll never do it anymore." I sighed.

"I can't help them all, can I?"

"Not as Sirena, but there's plenty you can do as Alba, on extreme cases like that, you should use your powers, but there are instances when a smile, a kind word, and a simple gesture can do more than a brainwash will ever do." She smiled.

"You do have a point..."

"Of course I do, now, please go and get changed, we gotta go to school"

"Ugh fine!" I groaned getting out of my bed. "I love you precious," I said to my bed. "I'll be back to you!" and blew a kiss to it. "By the way Mari, I'd like you to look at something." I led her to my closet, where there was a cardboard box hidden among a pile of clothes. I opened the box to reveal a brand new laptop. "I ordered it a few days ago, it arrived yesterday late at night."

"What is it for?"

"Well, I figured, if we're gonna have to print the whole census it's going to take a lot of paper, and to be honest, ain't nobody got time for that, plus think about the environment, all those trees dying and I'm only using all that paper for one moment and puff! of to the trash can... Also, all that paper can be used as incriminating evidence against us."

"So you bought a whole laptop just for that?" I grined at her.

"Look!" I opened It. "It's convertible! that way I can use it as a tablet. I love it!" She laughed at my excitement.

"If it makes you happy," she shrugged.

"It's not the only reason why I got it though, my old one was broken so I needed a new one."

"Do your parents know about it?"

"Yep, but all they know is that I needed a new laptop and they let me buy this one."

"Fine, but be careful with it, like you said, there's a lot of incriminating evidence in there."

"No worries boss, I'll be as quiet as a mouse." She smiled.

"Right so, we still gotta go to school."

"ugh! I haven't even had breakfast, and I'm starving!"

"You get changed, I'll go back to my place and bring you something to eat on the way."

"Fine, but just use the door, you know, like normal people do." She rolled her eyes but used the door anyways. Ha! I love this girl XD.

School was an ordinary business. Adrien was there today, looking as fresh and angelic as always, but his thoughts were somewhere else. For once he was remarkably tired since he had traveled to and from England the day before. I wonder how much sleep he got, if any, more than me, that's for sure.

"Hi Adrien," I told him after the last class when I saw him in front of the school, he was by himself for once, he seemed to be waiting for someone. "How was your trip?"

"Exhausting, we arrived at midnight."

"I feel you, that's the time I got home from you-know-what."

"Right, how was that?"

"Not much to report, just a bunch of creepy people, but not powerful enough to be you-know-who." I winked at him and he grinned.

"Hello, Adrien." Came a voice from behind him.

"Kagami!" Said Adrien excitedly when he turned to see the person that had talked to him. Kagami came near and started to examine me thoroughly, arriving at the conclusion that I was nothing to be worried about since she was obviously better than me. I would have been offended by her thoughts if I hadn't seen the thoughts behind her reasoning. I didn't need my powers to see that she was in love with Adrien, plus I remembered her from Adrien's mind. "Kagami, this is Alba, she is a friend, and one of my classmates." She bowed as a greeting but said nothing otherwise, though I noticed that it was because she didn't know what to say.

"Nice to meet you Kagami." I extended my hand to say hi but she ignored it.

"Are you ready for fencing, Adrien?" She asked looking at him with bored yet sparkly eyes.

"Yes, I just need to say something quick to Alba." Adrien turned to me and said loud enough so only I could hear. "See you tonight?" I smiled and nodded.

"Though I'm sure there's someone you want to see more." He didn't try to hide the smile when Ladybug popped up in his thoughts. He waved at me and left with Kagami, who was waiting for him on the steps nearby.

"Lonely night?" Came Chat Noir's voice from behind me. I was sitting on the edge of a rooftop with my legs crossed looking at the tablet in my hands. The Eifel tower was nearby and I was getting ready to 'scan' tonight's block. "Where's Ladybug?"

"I gave her the night off," I told him plainly without looking back at him. "As I'm giving it to you after you destroy this memory stick." I handed him the black object.

"What, why?" he looked at me with big blue eyes. But he took the memory stick and destroying it with his cataclysm.

"Because I don't really need you here, it distracts me, plus there's not much for you to do. If you ever want to come you're welcome to, but it's my job to look for Hawk Moth, your job is to fight him."

"Aww," he complained and detransformed to feed Chat, hiding in the shadow of a chimney.

"Come on Chat, you know you just wanted an excuse to get out of your house, but there are better ways to spend a night out than helping your homegirl find an old freak."

"I guess so..." He seemed downcast and he just sat there for a few minutes waiting for Plagg to finish his cheese. But then an idea popped up in his head and as a result, he stood up abruptly. "Plagg, claws out!" He said and transformed back into Chat Noir. "See you later then?"

"Sure, say hi to Marinette from me!" I told him but he was already jumping swiftly from roof to roof, taking in the view and enjoying the gentle breeze. A few moments later he was standing on the roof of Paris' most famous bakery.

Marinette was standing on her balcony, wearing a pink fluffy blanket to protect her from the cold. She was leaning on the railing of the balcony and looking at the horizon, as she often did when she was deep in thought.

"Ah yes! The beautiful Parisian nightly landscape. What a sight!" Said Chat walking on Marinette's railing until finally sitting next to her, on her left side. This startled her at first, but then she relaxed.

"I never get tired of it," she said blinking at him but then looked back to the sky. "The view helps me to clear my thoughts."

"Understandably so," he answered and remained silent for a while. They didn't need to say anything and they were happy enough to be that way because they weren't trying to impress the other. "Can I ask you something?" Said Chat breaking the comfortable silence. Marinette turned to look at him, she smiled and nodded. "It's about... a Lady."

"Ladybug." it wasn't a question.

"Not exactly... another Lady."

"You have another Lady? I thought you were faithful to Ladybug?" She said jokingly.

"Well, I'll have you know that I'm quite popular with the Ladies." His shoulders expanded denoting pride, but he shook it off and went back to his relaxed position. "But I only have eyes for one." Marinette tried to hide the color that had grown on her cheeks. "But this is not about her. There's this girl, let's call her... Karla, she... she is a good friend. I like her, I really do, she is fun, she gets me and we have a lot in common."

"What's the problem with that?"

"She has everything I would like in a girl, and my father likes her, (that's saying something!) I feel like if we ever were to be together, it would make everybody happy."

"everyone except you." She finished for him.

He sighed. "She confessed you know? That she is in love with me."

"What did you say?"

"That I needed time." He laughed bitterly. "I swear I sound like those girls from soap operas."

"You need time for what?"

"Ladybug... she is still the owner of my heart, she'll always be. And Karla... I think she deserves better than being second in a guy's heart and that's all I can offer."

"You're talking about what she deserves, but what do you want?"

"Marinette, the one thing I want I can't have." Marinette looked at him with big eyes but then looked down. "I'm okay with that, it's enough for me to be Ladybug's friend, and I guess one day I'll have to move on, but... I'm just not ready."

"I understand Chat, more than you think."

"Really?" He looked at her, hope glittering in his eyes.

"Yeah, there's this boy... Luka, he's nice, charming and comfortable to be around. It's easy to be with him but, I don't..."

"You don't' love him."

"Love is a big word... I like him, just not in the way he likes me. I feel like I'd have to force myself to 'love' him if we were ever to be together." She added air quotes with her hands.

"That's exactly how I feel about Ka...rla." He almost said Kagami there, but Marinette didn't seem to notice.

"That's not right you know, having to force yourself to be with someone, neither of you is gonna be happy that way."

Chat relaxed even more, and turned away from the view, now facing Marinette's house he rested his elbows on the railing, again adopting his relaxed posture. "Look at us, Marinette, two Bachelors in Paris."

"I would be more of a bachelorette, you dork!" She giggled. Mimicking him and turning from the landscape.

"Ah, same thing... Thanks for listening to me Marinette, I feel better now, about Karla."

"Chaton, you're free, if you want to remain a bachelor for the rest of your life you can. There's no rush, is there?" She shrugged, unconsciously getting a step closer to him.

"That doesn't sound half bad." He looked up at the sky leaning a bit more to his left side on the railing. "But, I don't think that's what I want for the rest of my life." Having said that, he turned to look down to Marinette, at the same time she turned to look up at him. Their faces were inches apart, so much so that they could see clearly into each other's eyes. They stayed like that for what felt like minutes, hours, days! But it couldn't have been more than a few seconds until Chat's heart started pounding, doing something it had never done before. This caused Chat to panic and turn away from Marinette rather abruptly.

He scratched the back of his head awkwardly, and Marinette cleared her throat.

"I better get going." He said bluntly.

"So soon? you just got here." Marinette couldn't help the disappointment in her tone as she fixed the blanket that had slipped from her shoulder.

"Yep, I have a... patrol tonight. Ladybug must be wondering where I am." He didn't know that Marinette knew that there was no such thing, but Marinette couldn't let him know that she knew that he was lying.

"Alright..." She said awkwardly, but before she could say anything else. he had lept from her balcony, disappearing into the darkness.

Chat Noir went home right after that, he didn't even try to find Ladybug, he knew he wasn't thinking straight, and he didn't want Ladybug to know.

"What just happened, Plagg?" He asked the black kwami as soon as he detransformed.

"You tried to kiss your 'friend' Marinette," he added the air quotes with his tiny paws.

"I didn't try to kiss her!" He almost yelled but remembered to keep his voice down since he was supposed to be asleep by now. "We were leaning on the railing and turned to face each other at the same time, that's it!"

"If you're so sure about what happened, then why do you ask me? I have more important things to do than hear you complain about yet another girl." Plagg retorted, flying away to a plate of cheese that was sitting near Adrien's bed.

"Plagg, I'm serious! I didn't try to kiss her!"

"Are you trying to convince me or yourself?" He asked with a mouthful of camembert, and when Adrien didn't respond he added. "listen, kid, so what if you were in a compromising situation, it's not like anyone is about to find out."

"Marinette knows, and you know Ladybug is the one I love!"

"So what? She's not your girlfriend, it's not like you're cheating on her."

"Well, it feels like it!" Adrien threw himself in his bed and snuggled in his covers. "My heart was pounding so hard..."

"Kid, it's a heart, it's only job is to beat, you should be worried if it didn't." Plagg sat on the pillow next to Adrien's head.

"It was different though," Adrien said nothing more after that, and Plagg knew that he was asleep now.

"If only you knew!" Plagg said quietly and went to sleep.

Chat Noir didn't visit Marinette the next day, or the day after that one. Marinette only saw him whenever there was an Akuma, and she couldn't talk to him about what had happened the other day in the balcony. Marinette didn't understand it. Was Chat Noir avoiding her? Why? Did she say something wrong? Did she do something wrong? Nothing happened between them that day, sure, they were inches apart from each other, but they had come that close before, and even closer.

A week went by and it was Friday again, finally, Sirena summoned them on the Eifel Tower, she wanted to give them a report of her findings.

"Alright, I've gone through at least 10 blocks, person by person, and no signs of Hawk Moth... not even one clue." Sirena said bitterly.

"So, you called us to tell us that you have nothing to tell us?" Chat asked annoyedly.

"Prety much."

"This is taking too long!" Chat continued, "We need a better plan."

"And what do you suggest, Einstein?" Sirena asked annoyedly.

"Why don't you start with the Akuma victims?" He said after a moment of thinking.

"I told you that we couldn't just focus on the Akuma victims, because he might..."

"My point exactly!" he cut her off. "If what you said is true and Hawk Moth was able to akumatize himself, then we should be looking at the victims first, at least to discard them." Sirena was taken aback, why hadn't she thought of that?

"I guess that could work. What do you think, Ladybug?" Ladybug was miles away, or at least her mind was. She hadn't contributed to the conversation, not once! It was so unlike her. But I knew that she was still thinking about Chat Noir, especially now that he was right in front of her. She wanted to talk to him, she wanted to hug him, but she couldn't because she was Ladybug now, and Marinette was the only one able to do that. "Ladybug?" I asked again. "Earth to Ladybug!"

"What?" She snapped. "Yeah, whatever you said, it's a good idea." She said simply and went back to daydreaming mode.

"Right... then I guess I'll need a list of the Akuma victims," I said.

"There's one on the Ladyblog, let's check it out and see if someone's missing." I took my laptop/tablet and looked up the Ladyblog. And started scrolling. "There!" Chat stopped me. And I clicked the link he pointed to.

"Is there anyone missing?" I asked looking at the list.

"Catalyst, which I'm pretty sure it's the same person as Myura."

"Alright," I said typing that note. "But we don't know who either of those are."

"Right, but I'm sure when you find Hawk Moth you'll find Myura."

"Great, I think we're free to go and enjoy our Friday evening like I know Ladybug will." At the mention of her name, she turned to look at me and I motioned for her to go.

"Oh, okay, see you around." And she left hurriedly and as Chat was motioning to do the same I stopped him.

"Not so fast you," I said to him. And he stopped where he was. "Why are you avoiding Marinette?"

"Wha... how do you know about that?"

"She's my classmate?" I said matter-of-factly...

"Right..." He sighed. "Can't you read minds? You already know what happened."

"I can read minds alright, but sometimes I want to hear you talk." He sighed.

"Well, we were really close, like physically close, and then my heart started to beat..."

"It's a heart Chat, beating is the only thing it does." I interrupted him giggling and he was completely unamused by my reference to his kwami. "Man, I love Plagg."

"Yeah, yeah, bake him a cake." He had his arms crossed now and was looking away, annoyed.

"I'm sorry Chat, I'll be serious now."

"It's just that... Marinette is a great girl, but my heart belongs to Ladybug, and when it started acting up when I was with her, I panicked! I ran away, like a coward!" He plumped himself on the edge of the tower burring his face in his hands

"Do you... like Marinette?"

"No!" he tensed up, but then remembered who he was talking to. "I mean, I do, but not in that way."

"Is it like Kagami?"

"Not exactly, it feels different with Marinette."

"Go on," I added when he didn't say anything else.

"They're both great friends, I think the difference is that Marinette knows me both as Chat and as Adrien, even if she doesn't know that. I feel like I don't have to hide from her unless it's about keeping my identity a secret, but you know..."

"So you do like her, but don't like like her."

"I don't know why that makes sense but yeah, pretty much."

"Then why are you running away from her?"

"I'm not!" I looked at him raising a questioning eyebrow. "Okay, fine! It's just that, my heart is acting up, and it doesn't feel right, I can't control it, and I don't want to hurt Marinette."

"Why would you?"

"I can't be in a relationship with her..."

"bahahahaha!" I started laughing interrupting whatever he was about to say.

"What's so funny?" He looked at me while I was wiping away a tear and trying to calm myself down.

"Chaton," I sat next to him and looked at him in the eye. "If I was to be in a relationship with every person that has made my heart flutter, I would be married to Tom Holland, and Chris Hemsworth, and would be pregnant with Zack Effron's baby!"

"But those are all actors."

"Well then, I would be with my kindergarten crush, or my elementary school sweetheart, or my high school teacher!"

"Your teacher?"

"You're missing the point Chat!" I added before he lost the track of my argument. "Were not forced to do something every time someone makes our heart flutter. If it makes you uncomfortable to think about Marinette in a certain way then don't, there's nothing wrong with being just friends." Now is not the time for them to be together, I had to tell myself. Even if I ship them, I can't force them to anything... But a little push can't hurt. "Just don't act as if she didn't exist! You're friends, aren't you?"

"Yeah..."

"Then be just yourself! Are you gonna throw away a cute friendship just because your heart fluttered once?"

"No."

"That's my boy! So... what are you gonna do?"

"I'm gonna go see her!" He stood up abruptly and left without saying anything else.

These two dorks are going to get married one day, even if it's the last thing I do. And I'm gonna be there to see it.

Translation of the lyrics

Walk away! It's the only thing to do!

My heart is upside down,

I feel a power, which draws me beyond

the wall between us

[Alright my darlings, since you asked me to finish this fic this is what I decided to do. Warning, if you haven't watched "love eater" and or "miracle queen", DO NOT read the following note.

I decided to keep some of the events of that episode except the final battle, that is to say, Kagami's love declaration and Marinette's conversation with Luka. The rest is rubbish, I didn't like it (at least for the sake of my fic XD) This means that Chole is still on the good side, the identities of the other miraculous holders are still secret and Master Fu is still Master Fu (if you know what I mean.)

See you next week.

-SDG]