Over a year since posting, whoops...How great is the new season?!
Alya arrived back at school 10 minutes earlier than Marinette, who had stopped home to get the bandage on her knee replaced. Alya had headed back to the classroom earlier than the others in order to quickly update the world on the latest victory of Ladybug and Chat Noir. She finished typing her latest blog post on the events of the day with Speed Demon, and switched back to her mobile to glance through the latest Ladynoir conspiracies. There were the usual posts about how beautiful and cute and perfect they would be, she was expecting that. It was one of her favourite hobbies to read through the various posts and then tag her favourites on her blog page.
She scrolled through the various titles, 'Together at last?', 'Ladybug reveals a secret!', 'Ladybug print for bikini season!'. She hesitated at that last one, then decided that, fangirl or not, red and black spots just weren't her colour. She tagged it anyway for later viewing.
Alya's eyes were drawn to the post below and she froze. Instead of the usual likes, this post had the same number of dislikes. What? She knew that her fans typically liked posts, not disliked. Those were saved for spam or other troll posts. But this one seemed deadly serious.
'Why They Don't Match and Why We Should Stop Encouraging Their One-Sided Romance'
She clicked on the post and started reading.
I'm sure that this won't be liked, but our two beloved super heroes just do not belong together in a romantic relationship. As friends and as colleagues they work together very well and have saved our world so many times there's no denying that. However, their romantic relationship is very one-sided. We 'ship' them, simply because one is a male and one is a female. And because one of them is interested in the other of course we assume that they are a perfect match, but we never stop to think whether this is simply because we think that they're cute. If one of them doesn't love the other romantically by now then we have to face the fact that they simply do not belong together. And we have to stop encouraging the obsession from Chat before it ends in disaster…
Alya looked up at she heard someone else enter the classroom, saving the article for future reading as she put her phone away.
'Hi Adrien, are you looking for Nino? He's gone to get lunch from the canteen.'
Adrien smiled easily at her.
'Thanks Alya. I'm actually looking for Marinette, have you seen her?'
Alya felt a tingle of excitement run up her spine on behalf of her best friend.
'Marinette? She just went home for a bit but she'll be back soon. Why do you want her?'
'I'm actually hoping she'll be able to help me with something. I discovered that Nathaniel is interested in fashion design so I thought maybe she might be able to help him learn to sew.'
Alya felt her hope sinking, and hesitated to reply.
Adrien started to look worried.
'I mean, if you think she won't want to then I won't ask. I just want to help Nathaniel out, you know?'
Alya sighed internally at the blonde's naivety, but forced a smile onto her face.
'My girl is busy, but if she has time I'm sure she would totally love to help out. Will you be joining in?'
'No, I've already studied basic sewing with designers from my father's company. I think I'll let him have his own private tutoring with Marinette.' He smiled easily at Alya. 'Thanks, I guess I'll ask her when she gets back. I'll go find Nino, are you coming?'
Alya hesitated. She wanted to go with him to find Nino, but the article was weighing on her mind and she wanted to read more.
'I'll come down soon, I've just got to finish a post.' She waved her phone at him vaguely.
Adrien nodded and started to walk out of the room.
'See you soon then!'
Alya unlocked her phone as he left and clicked on the link to the author's page. Benjamin Andiyo. She hesitated, then clicked on the 'contact me' link.