"You've all failed me."
Zacharie dramatically threw a hand over his chest at this, "Noooo."
Nina rolled her eyes at this as Louis raised his eyebrow, "Babe, I barely know my sister."
Sophie Lèon was with her friends Nina and Zacharie as well as her boyfriend Louis as they were suppose to helping Sophie find a gift for Emma. Alas they figured out quickly that all four of them had no idea what to get the girl.
"Come on there has to be something she wants?" Sophie groaned as she looked helplessly as the jewelry.
"You in a bow," Nina muttered but only Zacharie heard her, which earned her an aghast look and an elbow in the side from him.
Nina and Zacharie weren't blind and could tell that Emma liked Sophie more than a friend and was simply to good of a person to pursue it. Which led to a lot of frustration from the pair since Sophie was being too oblivious and involved in her relationship with Louis to notice Emma's affection.
"What?" Louis asked confused at the two. Plus Louis was too dismissive of his sister to notice either.
"Nothing," Zacharie replied quickly as Nina groaned.
"Guys, please!"the blonde girl whined as they all looked at her,"What did you guys get her?"
Zacharie shrugged at this, "she said she didn't want anything. So, I asked if she needed anything and so I got her the new headphones she needed."
"Same, she said she didn't want anything so I just helped my family pick out a couple shirts that they were giving her," Nina admitted.
They all looked Louis expectantly.
He looked annoyed at them, "I helped bake a cake with Hugo for her. But I also got her a netflix gift card."
"Weak dude," Zacharie commented.
Louis gives him a look, "Look my grandparents thought the cake would mean more by being baked by us and when she's actually home she's usually watching netflix with Hugo or Sophie."
"This. Isn't. Helping," Sophie gritted out as she looked at the jewelry again.
The three looked at each other then pulled out their cellphones hoping to get an idea.
The blonde girl walked away frustrated as she moved on another shop. This one a more teenage shop. She was glancing at the shirts and nothing was something she thinks screams Emma. She was never going to find anything, she whined.
Thats when Tikki stuck her head out of Sophie's purse. She gave her an encouraging look, "Sophie, I'm sure Emma will love anything you give her!"
"Tikki, I have to give her something I know she'll like," Sophie explained, "Emma hasn't had the easiest time moving back here. She has a panic every akuma attack and I can never be there for her because I'm Ladybug. She loveos Hugo but he can be a bit much. Louis is being a jerk to her. I just need her to know I care and am there for here. As a good friend."
Tikki sighed. She loved Sophie but she came be very obsessive over things. Like that time she listened to that one Mika song for a week.
Sophie moved on to a jewelry spinner in the store and a necklace or rather a 2 pack necklace caught Tikki's eye, "Sophie, that one!" Tikki flew up and grabbed it.
The blonde snatched her and the necklaces out of the air and hissed, "Tikki, careful!"
"But look!" Tikki said.
Sophie looked at the necklaces and saw a yin yang symbol in her hand, she looked closer and saw it was actually two necklaces. One a yin and one a yang that were clearly meant to be connected to form one symbol.
"This?" she asked confused, "Why?"
"It seems her," Tikki half-lied.
Yin and Yang were the very thing that Plagg and Tikki symbolize, that Cat Noir and Ladybug represent. The gift was perfect for them. Even though Sophie didn't know it yet. Plagg had told Tikki that Emma, Marinette and Adrien's Emma, was Cat Noir now, so the gift was a no brainer for the kwami. But, Tikki couldn't tell Sophie that.
"And it's a Tai chi symbol," the kwami argued.
Sophie held it in her hand, considering it. Till she heard a shatter and saw the Rooster hero, Riser, getting thrown across the store by a villian using the Bee Miraculous.
Sophie's eyes narrowed in on the comb in angry.
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Emma was very noticeable of the change in her grandmother's behavior. She seemed quieter and was asking a lot about the book she wanted but luckily Emma was quick thinking, so would say like her mother, and was blowing them off with comments about getting closer to her mom.
At this point in the meal the waitress only came over when she saw a look on Emma's face for help not wanting to be at the awkward table.
The black haired girl smiled at the waitress as she topped off her water "Thanks, Iris."
The waitress smiled at the use of her name and glanced behind them at the TV set to the news, "Thats not good."
The granddaughter and grandmother glanced at the tv and both eyes went wide. At the tv showing a battle between Ladybug and the Bee villain, apparently name Buzzkill.
"I'm going to the restroom," Emma immediately said and raced off before Nathalie could say anything.
Nathalie watched her go then looked at the TV as Iris, the waitress, left the table confused.
"Please let me be wrong," Nathalie muttered to herself, "please don't let Emma be involved in this like Adrien and Gabriel were."
Author's Note
Okay, so finally over my sickness. Yay.
And looks like Nathalie knows something. And Sophie has it personally out for the Bee Villain. We'll see how that goes next time.
Review and see you next time.