(Thursday)
Ring Ring Ring. "Five more minutes' I grumble as I turn off the alarm only planning to take a very short nap. "Caleb wake up you're going to be late" opening up my eyes I see Pluto jumping up and down on my face "Wake up" "I'm up what do you mean i'm going to be late" sitting up I look at my clock and instantly all the color in my face drains, I have five minutes till school starts. Rushing to get ready I am out the door in two minutes not noticing that I have forgotten to grab my notebook with all my homework and notes in inside. Arriving at school seven minutes late I try to quietly enter the classroom and head for my seat which kind of works until I trip and fall over someone's bag "Marinette if you wish to be late do so quietly" the teacher says without turning around "That wasn't Marinette" I say bracing for the teacher to reprimand me. When the teacher turns around she looks at Marinette who for once in her life wasn't late "I'm sorry Marinette for assuming it was you and Caleb thank you for admitting it was you now don't be late again" "I won't" I say walking to my seat a little faster. When I open my bag to get my notebook so I can turn in the homework I realize that I forgot it at my house when I was rushing to get ready. "Okay class as I was saying you will be having a pop quiz today" I series of collective groans could be heard throughout the class "But you can use your notes." You have to be kidding me, the world is out to end me I think astonished at my bad luck, "You would think your Cat Noir with that luck" I hear Pluto whisper from my bag "Real funny" I whisper back before the teacher hands me the quiz. Looking it over I see that I know maybe half the answers off the top of my head which isn't passing, as I go through the quiz I am about halfway done when people start turning their test in looking like they know their going to pass. Which they probably are because we could use notes I think sourly, being one of the last people to finish I stand up and walk over to the teacher to turn it in and walk back to my desk with a resigned look on my face. After a while the teacher stands up and starts passing the quiz back "I have graded your quiz and most of you did good while others not so much" she says when she hands me my paper upside down, turning it over I see I was one question away from passing and the only reason I missed it was because I accidentally circled the wrong answer even though my work shows I got the right one. Shoving it in my bag I hear Pluto mumble something about watching where I throw papers, the rest of class was spent taking notes which I couldn't do because I didn't have my notes. So instead I sat there glumly reflecting on why i'm having so much bad luck, was it because of the internet war I started, maybe. Once the bell rang dismissing us I sat there wondering if I sit still for the rest of the day that my bad luck won't strike but strike it did in the form of a random piece of the ceiling fall in front of me and covering me in dust. "Are you okay if you want we can cancel the lessons for today" Adrien says walking up to me "I'm good just some good ole run of the mill bad luck" "Do you know how obvious it is that your from America" Adrien says laughing at the weird saying "What do I have an accent' I ask trying to listen to my own voice "Yes, but it's not that bad" "Well it should go away the longer I live here" "Probably not, if it was going to go away I would notice the change but it hasn't changed since I started teaching you" "So you're telling me I have an accent that will never go away" "And it's not the accent that gives it away it's also how you talk and how you act, and what you say" "Well you know us Americans" I say with the best southern accent I could come up with. Adrien starts laughing "Well I guess we should get started today" Adrien says after he stopped and got the worksheets out that he made.
Walking home I take a nice clean deep breath thinking that my luck has turned around when a water droplet hits my face, and another, and another, and soon it's raining buckets on me and i'm still five minutes from my house. "Pluto what did I do to deserve this" "Nothing, you see when water evaporates it" "I know why it rains but today has just been unlucky" right as I say that a car drives by splashing water on me, soaking my clothes, at least I don't have my notebook I think. Arriving home I head to my room and sit down on my bed glad that I didn't have anywhere to be, that is until my computer beeps. Rousing it from sleep mode I see that I have a new message from Alya over the LadyBlog 'Ruff Rider want to share some macarons at the bakery, i'm rained in and Marinette is designing clothes' shooting a message back I type 'Sure be there in a few.' "Time to Play" as I transform I can't help but worry in the back of my mind that my bad luck so far today will persist, jumping out my window with an umbrella I head to the bakery. I can smell the bakery before I see it when I finally get there, entering I don't see Alya but I do see the lady who sells the delectable macarons to me whether i'm Ruff Rider or Caleb. "Hello Ruff Rider, Alya is upstairs" "Thank you" "Before you go can you bring these up there" she says before handing me a plate of macarons "Yes I can and here is the money" I say fishing out my wallet from inside my necklace which can not only make calls to other miraculous users when their transformed and have a built in GPS but also store stuff but Pluto won't tell me the specifics so I don't know how it works, probably magic. "No need there on the house" "Thank you" I say before slipping the needed amount in the tip jar when she wasn't looking. Going up to the second story of the bakery I see that it is also a house which is weird at first to me but I chalk it up to it being a French thing. Finding what I assume is Marinettes room I open the hatch and climbing up I see Alya on her phone and Marinette facing her computer, when Alya notices me she motions for me to be quiet and walks over to me and whispers "Let's do a little test and see how long it takes Marinette to realize your here" nodding Alya sits back down leaning against a wall I sit next to her and watch as she works on some updates for the LadyBlog which leaves me quite impressed by her level detail. A few minutes later Marinette turns around and says "Hey Alya so I was thinking how do you like this design" "I like it, the design is so pretty" Alya says looking at it "I agree" not really knowing anything about fashion. "Hey Ruff Rider" Marinette says when realization dawns on her face "Ruff Rider what are you doing here" "Alya invited me" Marinette looks at Alya and says "Out of everyone you could invite you chose a stranger" Alya responds "Well he isn't technically a stranger" "What do you mean' Marinette says with a neutral expression "He goes to our school." Marinette taking a few minutes to process this information says "Okay, but don't think we won't talk about you inviting random people into my room later" and goes back to designing with the mindset that she already has to deal with Cat Noirs antics, Alya can deal with Ruff Riders. After a while of just sitting around and talking Alya says she has to go home. "Bye Marinette" "Bye Alya make sure to take the dog out" "I'm right here you know" I say to Marinette "I know" she says before almost shoving me down the hatch. "Alya I brought an umbrella" "Wow handsome and prepared" Alya says jokingly but I still go bright red at the comment "Yeah" is all I manage to get out. "Are you okay with me telling Marinette you go to our school" "Yeah, just don't say anything about being in the same class" "It's weird to think about that we are in the same class but I still can't figure out who you are" "Probably because i'm not walking around in what is basically a dog onesie and a mask." As we get closer to her house we fall into a comfortable silence both of us just glad that the other is there in such gloomy weather. Saying our goodbyes I walk home putting up the umbrella as the clouds go away revealing a perfect night sky with each individual star shining as bright as the sun. Going to bed that night I kept thinking how all my bad luck today was instantly gone the moment Alya sent me a message. "Pluto do you think that someone could be a good luck charm" "I don't know about that but I believe someone could light up your world even when it's pitch black" "That's deep Pluto" "Live long enough and you learn a few things" Pluto says before falling asleep at my feet like usual.
I may be Ruff Rider but I wouldn't be as strong as I am now if it wasn't for my friends.
(Thanks for reading. I figured Caleb was due for some bad luck eventually and I decided to save the trilingual stuff for later, who knows it could help someone connect the dots between Ruff Rider and Caleb. Also please comment if you would like to see something happen or have an idea, writing a chapter everyday that is at least 1500 words is hard at times and any idea will help. Plus if I like it your idea could help influence the story.)