Episode 8: Fang

"We have finally found it."

"Zach, please."

"The one thing, Emma Agreste can't do."

"Zach, please stop."

"You've seemed prefect up till now."

"Dude, please."

"I mean your gorgeous and rich."

"Thanks?"

"Your so athletic. I've seen your knock a guy out with tai chi and parkour your way up to a stuck kite."

"The tree wasn't that tall…."

"And your so witty and great at art."

"Zacharie just stop."

"But we have your flaw now!"

"Oh my god."

"Emma Agreste can not music."

Emma leaned over the piano she was trying to play and flicked her friend in the nose.

"Ow," Zacharie muttered as he rubbed his nose, "Meanie."

Luka Couffaine, Zacharie's uncle, laughed at this as he leaned on his crutch and made his way towards Emma and settled next to her on the piano bench, "Zacharie be nice to your friend. Also lets try that again, Emma. Feel the music."

Zacharie muttered something under his breath as he began fiddling with his bass guitar.

Christmas had come and gone as had New Year with little trouble besides the akuma attack for Emma. She had unfortunately made little headway in stopping Luna Moth and the thieves for good, which is discouraging but Emma was not giving up.

Emma sighed as she tried to play the first notes again for the song. She got about half way through before Luka stopped her, "Again not quite."

The girl put her elbows on the keys and slid her hands onto her face, which made her glasses push into her hair, and groaned, "Ugh, Uncle Luka what am I doing wrong?"

Luka hummed to himself. He had just gotten out of the hospital recently and was staying with his sister's family. He honestly shouldn't even be giving lessons right now but made the expectation for Marinette and Adrien's daughter "Honestly? Your heart just isn't even it."

Zacharie muttered, "Well, you are only doing this to impress Sophie."

This earned Zacharie another flick as Emma blushed, "Shush! I can't believe you figured it out"

Emma hated that Nina and Zach had figured out her crush on Sophie, can it be a crush anymore? The 17 year old would argue that she probably was in love with her now. Especially with the Shattered incident and that damn kiss. God she should be trying to get over these feelings, not letting them get stronger.

"Oh, you like Sophie? Like Chloé's Sophie?" Luka asked, "That's cute. You'd be cute together."

There was a long pause and Emma silently prayed he wouldn't go deeper than that but a thoughtful look appeared on his face.

"But isn't she dating Louis?" Luka mused.

Emma slammed her face into the piano keys making a dramatic noise. Why is this the one secret she can't keep?!

…

Sophie's lips were moving softly against Louis's. She hummed and Louis started to slip his hand under her shirt.

The blonde froze as she heard the door to Louis's room open. She immediately pushed her boyfriend off and sat up, "Emma, its not-"

"Not Em and ew."

Sophie blinked as she saw it was Hugo not Emma coming up the trap door of the room.

Louis made a face, "Hugo, knock!"

"To my own room? No."

The older boy threw his pillow at his brother, this caused a fight among the brothers as Louis climbed down to try to tackle his brother.

Sophie let out a sigh of relief then shook her head, god why was she so relieved it wasn't Emma? Hell, why was she so quick to try to explain she wasn't making out with her brother?

The hero laid on Louis's bed with a groan, she blamed Nina and Zacharie. They put that damn idea that Emma liked her in Sophie's head and now she is overly cautious with Louis. So afraid she'll hurt Emma's feelings.

God she needed to just talk this over with Emma but everytime she starts to bring it up the older girl would just give her that smile, that smile that she doesn't want to take away ever.

Eventually Sophie was pulled out of her thoughts by Louis climbing back up the ladder to his bed, "Welp, Hugo killed the mood. Want to watch a movie in the living room? I still have about 2 hours before I'm suppose to meet with Tsubasa for practice."

The blonde nodded as she leaned in and gave him a peck on the lips as she heard another gagging sound from Hugo.

Sophie giggled and let Louis pick her up and put her on the ground, her boyfriend startled rattling on about a new action flick he had wanted to watch. Her phone buzzed and she quicky pulled it out face smiling as she expected it to be Emma telling her when she would be done with Zacharie.

Her face fell in a frown though as she found it wasn't Emma. It was a text from her father.

Author's Note

Thanks for reading and please review. Kind words keep me going.

On A03 my chapter description for this chapter read:Emma and Sophie try to figure out some things(or The author finally puts down Jedi Fallen Order to bring you useless lesbians trying to figure out their feelings)

Real talk half of this was finished like the day after I posted the last chapter but I keep getting distracted by Star Wars, I literally was playing the game with my roommate and being the useless lesbian I am when the bad guy took off her helmet I yelled oh no she's evil and hot. My roommate had a laugh at that.

But, anyway yeah feelings are a thing that Emma has a lot of trouble with here and she can't seem to get over Sophie and Sophie seems having conflicting ideas in her head and heart.

Anyway next chapter we get to see more of Zach's family, if you remember the earlier chapters then read the episode titles you can guess where this is going. see you next chapter.