So, uh… people whose OTPs are love square or Nathleka/Roseleka, please don't flame the ship. I, uh, blame The Keeper of Worlds. They suggested it.

ADRILEKA

Juleka and Rose were best friends. They had been their entire lives, literally. Their mothers had been best friends before they were born. Some people in their class thought they were dating, and sometimes the girls even pretended like they were, but both of them knew it was just a game. Neither of them had romantic feelings for the other; their relationship was far beyond that.

So when Rose fell for Prince Ali, Juleka decided she'd help her friend get the boy. Anything to make Rosie happy.

Juleka didn't like boys, in general. Including Prince Ali, but if he made Rose happy (which he did, they'd been dating for almost a year now and Rose was ecstatic), he was OK with Juleka.

The only boys Juleka could stand were her brother and her classmates, and even then not all the time. She retreated behind her hair a lot.

And then Juleka met Marinette.

Marinette was Juleka's polar opposite, as much as Rosie was. Marinette was cheerful, liked boys (a LOT), and was crushing so bad on the new boy she couldn't even get out a sentence when she was around him. Poor girl.

Meeting at Marinette's, Alya texted.

Juleka shook her head. Poor girl. She'd run herself to death for Adrien. It wasn't like he was that special.

Sure, he was hot. (Juleka knew this because he was a model on a lot of billboards, and almost every straight girl and gay boy [if they weren't dating anyone, and sometimes if they were] swooned over him, mobbed him in the train station, and would probably kill his girlfriend/boyfriend if he ever started dating.)

And he was kind. (He never said a bad word to or about anyone, not that Juleka knew of. Not even Chloé!)

He was also totally oblivious. Literally every person at school, probably including once-King Oblivious (aka Principal Damocles) knew that Marinette had the world's hugest crush on the model. Except Adrien (who was the new King Oblivious). Marinette was Queen Oblivious, since she still hadn't figured out that everyone knew about her crush. That crush that made her stutter, trip over air, and turn into a puddle around Adrien. That completely unnoticeable one.

Operation...Secret Garden? Alya was officially insane.

Juleka wasn't sure she wanted to help. Helping Rose ask out Ali, who already like-liked her anyway, was one thing. Playing ninja and stalking Adrien was very different.

But Juleka didn't want to say no to Marinette, who'd helped her with her class photo curse, and done half a jillion things for Juleka and the whole class with nothing in return.

So Juleka sat in Marinette's room with Rose, Alix, and Myléne, listening to Alya and Marinette detail their plan.

It would never work. Juleka could already see that. Adrien wouldn't want to go on a date that seemed like it had been set up by a crazed fan. (Which, really, it had been. The only difference was that most of Adrien's crazed fans weren't in his class.)

And then of course Alya and Marinette had to give everyone code names. And Juleka was Rose.

(Oh no. That certainly wouldn't end badly. Not with Rose's short-term memory problem.)

Juleka sighed. All that work yesterday, and all that happened was Marinette managed a sentence. One. Sentence. And she still hadn't quit gushing about it.

"Hey, Juleka."

She looked up. "Oh. H-hi, Adrien."

"Umm…" For the first time she could remember, Adrien looked awkward (you know, not counting the times he was actually in awkward situations due to fan-mobbing). "Did you see that akuma yesterday? I wonder what possessed Hawk Moth to akumatize a baby?"

Juleka nodded, chuckling. "Crazy, right?"

Adrien reached out a hand to her. "Want to walk to class together?"

Something fluttered in Juleka's stomach. "O-okay. Sure." She let Adrien help her up, even though she didn't need it. He seemed to want to help.

Juleka was a mystery. Adrien was used to fans mobbing him, to Chloé's clinginess, Marinette's stuttering, and his friends just talking to him like friends. But Juleka was different.

She was quieter than his other friends, for one. Not like she never had anything to say, but more like she just didn't say it. Adrien wasn't sure how those two kinds of quiet were different on the surface, how he could tell, but he just knew.

And none of his other friends made him feel like this. Sure, he was happy just to be around Nino and Kim and all his friends, but not the kind of happy that made him feel like grinning all the time and maybe also giggling.

Not even Ladybug made him feel like this. Well, he loved her, but….

Well, that meant he couldn't have a crush on Juleka since he didn't feel the same around her as around Ladybug and anyway he already had a crush on Ladybug and….

"Admit it, you like her," Plagg whispered.

"I-no-Plagg!"

Juleka's phone buzzed in the middle of class. She steadfastly ignored it, curiosity growing, until after class.

Hi Juleka. Would you like to catch a movie sometime? If so, when works for you? -Adrien

She worked hard to keep from grinning as she sent, Saturday night maybe? Is that OK? -Juleka

"PLAGG!"

"Well, you know you like her. You're welcome."

Plagg smirked. If his Chosen wouldn't stop gooshing over Ladybug, he'd make him stop. At least there were fewer pictures of this girl on the Internet than of Ladybug.

Adrien better enjoy that date, because Plagg had worked hard on making that text sound like Adrien, and Plagg would be rewarded with extra Camembert. Which wouldn't happen if Adrien was upset, so Adrien had better enjoy his date.

On Saturday night, Plagg got plenty of Camembert.

Yeah, yeah, Plagg. You know you care about Adrien. You can stop pretending it's all about the cheese; the whole fandom knows the truth.

Next chapter up within a week.