Pun-astrophe - chapter two
22:18 a.m.
Collège Françoise Dupont: physics class
Marinette fidgeted in her seat as the teacher scanned the paper in her hands. Mme. Mendeleiev had assigned them a new project. She was appointing them partners and Marinette was anxiously waiting to see who her partner would be. She sure didn't want to be stuck with Chloe, the blonde who never did any work whatsoever.
"Chloe and…" the teacher paused. Please not me, she thought, luck don't fail me now.
"Sabrina," Mme. Mendeleiv said after a while.
Marinette released the breath she'd been holding in, relieved she had been spared from the horror that was Chloe Bourgeois.
"Well don't you look relieved." Alya said with a knowing smile. "Glad you aren't stuck with the infamous Chloe like last time?"
"Who wouldn't be relieved?" Marinette replied wrinkling her nose at the mere thought of working with her again. She'd had enough of Chloe that day to last her a lifetime and she sure wasn't ready for more.
"Marinette will be paired with…" Marinette had straightened up at the mention of her name. She leaned forward in anticipation as the teacher eyed the paper.
I hope it's Alya, she thought, or maybe Adrie- no how would I even begin to talk to him.
She blushed at herself, but when she thought the suspense was going to kill her,
Mme. Finally said, "Adrien."
Her mouth fell open when she'd heard the name. She was dead. She'd died and gone to heaven there was no other explanation. Adrien turned back to look at her and flashed her a smile She internally swooned. Ok, if she wasn't dead before she sure was now. Alya nudged her.
"Lucky! Maybe now you can try and really talk to him," her friend told her.
Marinette could hardly think. Her head started to fill with situations in which might happen. When she finally broke out of her thoughts, she found that the other students started walking towards their respective partners, to talk about plans before they left the classroom. It seemed Alya had been paired with Rose. Poor Nino.
"Hey, Marinette," a voice said behind her successfully surprising the poor girl. She whipped around coming face to face with the one and only Adrien.
"Hi, Hey-I mean hello it's you. I mean of course it's you why wouldn't it be? I mean what's up?" Marinette spluttered obviously flustered. Adrien laughed good naturedly and Marinette's heart practically melted.
"So are you ready to work on the project?" he said as he shouldered the strap of his bookbag onto his shoulder.
Ohmigosh, Adrien is actually my partner, she thought, what can I say to him without sounding dumb?!
"Marinette, you there?" The boy said waving a hand in front of her face, a smile tugging at the corners of his lips.
"Huh? Yeah! Sorry," Marinette apologized blushing fiercely. You blew it! Nice going, Marinette.
"I just wanted to let you know that I'll come over at around 16:30 is that okay?"
"Come over?" Marinette squeaked thinking about all the Adrien photos that had slowly infested her room over the years.
"Umm, sure." she said nervously
"Cool, see you later then?" Adrien said slowly backing away towards the door waiting for her response.
"Y-Yeah." Marinette said trying to force a casual smile and failing miserably. Adrien nodded and gave her a thumbs up, finally exiting the classroom. As soon as he was out of sight she groaned. She wasn't going to last five minutes with him without doing something stupid and she knew it.