The sun lazily shone into her room, the heat making her room just the right temperature to be cozy and comfortable.

Our young heroine was snoozing on her bed, her large cat pillow hugging her head as she slept. She looked at peace, as if evil couldn't exist in this world - that was until her alarm bleeped, causing her to jump awake.

Another alarm, another day at school. She thought to herself, rubbing her eyes then running a hand through her hair and then carefully getting out of her bed. At least I'll be done soon...

The night before had left her tired and drained, she didn't want to get to know Chat more. She wanted to keep it professional. She didn't want any insight to his life outside of the mask at all.

"Morning, Tikki," Marinette greeted her kwami, rubbing the small red fairy's head. "Is it me or does today feel like it's going to be a long day?"

"Marinette, every day is as long as the last! We'll get through it just fine!" Her kwami cheered.

"It's easy for you to say - you've lived thousands of times longer than I have! Every day probably feels like a second by now." Marinette giggled.

This comment caused Tikki to cross her small arms. "That's not true at all! Every day is different and there are different things to learn; each day has always felt like a day, regardless of how old I am. Sure, there are more favorable days than others but even then..." She loosened up her expression slightly as Marinette headed down to start gathering her things in her bag.

Marinette giggled slightly. "You make a point there with favorable days. I can't wait until I can just lay down in bed and sleep for a few more hours during the winter holidays!" She exclaimed before heading downstairs, whilst Tikki remained in her room, to get her breakfast.

AN: Okay so I checked the rules and I can't have a chapter to just apologise for my lack of updates after three months.

I'm so sorry.

The reason behind my lack of updates: college, cosplay and more importantly: I LOST THE PLAN FOR THIS STORY. That's right. I lost my story board. And now I'm struggling to remember the themes I wanted this to be about, what I wanted to happen and who was going to play what role in specific to this story.

So, this chapter was just a ten minute drabble to apologise to you because of FF's rules which I wanted to respect.

I'm so sorry.

Once I've remembered a vague outline, I will jump right on it and do an entirely new draft and plan on my laptop so I don't lose it, but for now... Well... I'm just having to wing it and I really dislike winging it.

Forgive me. I will get back to work on it soon.

In the meantime, if you're old enough to read it, I've been writing another fanfic called Dead Days where it's a zombie AU for ML. It is M rated only because it's got gore and mentions of horrific things, so check that out if you can.

Again, my apologies.

ForegoingScenery