Author's Note

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Episode 22: Forgiveness

Emma was sketching in her book glancing up occasionally at her subjects. She paused as she felt someone being behind her. But relaxed as she got the whiff of strawberry and honey.

A head propped Emma's shoulder revealing Sophie, "Hey, honey. What you drawing?"

Emma turned and gave Sophie a kiss on the cheek and showed her the sketch of the park fountain with the birds bathing in it.

"Wow, that looks great," Sophie smiled as she hugged Emma's waist.

"You think so?" She replied and she closed her sketch book and smiling sliding her pencil behind Sophie's ear.

"Hey," Sophie laughed as she let go of Emma to remove the pencil.

The older girl laughed and turned, giving Sophie a peck on the lips and ran away from Sophie.

"Emma Agreste!" Sophie chased after her.

….

After a bit of chasing Emma and Sophie were softly kissing under one of the trees in the park. They probably would have continued kissing if not for a loud song playing from Emma's pocket.

Sophie groaned as Emma pulled away, "Ignore it."

Emma rolled her eyes as she pulled out her phone, "Rachel is calling."

Sophie leaned her head on Emma's shoulder.
"Yes, Rach?" Emma asked as she answered the video call.

A tired looking brown hair and eyed girl waved, "Hey, Emma. Hi Sophie."

"Hello, Rachel," Sophie gave a half hearted greeting.

"What's going on?" Emma asked curious as noticed her tiredness.

"Oh, yeah. I'm finishing packing," Rachel explained as she flipped her ponytail, "Oh, flights at 10 tonight and we should be there at 10 in the morning."

"And you're going to stay at our hotel right?" Sophie asked, propping her chin on Emma's shoulder.

Rachel leaned over throwing things across her room as if looking for something, "Yeah, both me and Jake will. You're picking us up right?"

"Of course," Emma replied, "Can't wait to see you!"

Rachel turned her head as Jake called off screen, "I have to go deal with Jake's crisis. Bye!"

"Bye!" The couple say in unison

….

Rachel turned in her chair to look at her cousin, "What?"

Jake was holding up several button ups, "Which ones?"

She raised an eyebrow at the nice shirts, "It's summer. Why are you taking all these heavy shirts?"

"Um…" Jake blushed looking awkward.

"Oh," Rachel wangled her eyebrow at him, "Oh, trying to look good for someone. Maybe Nina?"
"Shut up!" the boy blushed deeper, "I just...I mean…" He paused for a moment, "I like her. I like her a lot. But what if...she doesn't like me…or…"

"Jacob Lee Morrison, if Nina wasn't at least a good person Emma wouldn't hang out without her," the girl commented as she stood up and took the pink shirt from him, "But probably this one. Relax, I doubt she's transphobic."

"Thanks," Jake smiled.

"Though honestly I don't trust Nina's taste in me. Look at Louis."

"Don't remind me."

….

Bridgette gave Henri and Aimee a look as she moved past them to the door.

"Going to the basement again?"

"Obviously," Bridgette smarted off as she ignored them.

"Geez, what's in the basement? She spends all her spare time there, Hen."

"No idea, mom won't tell."

Bridgette didn't like either one of them, she knew they were technically her brother and sister but they had only recently met within the last year. As she moved to the basement and paused looking into the kitchen to see Jason stuffing a bag for food.

The girl studied him for a movement. Jason Noyer was a teenage runaway that really only seemed to care about Kathy Travers, and since Kathy had gotten sick from the Bee Miraculous's aura rejecting her, he had been acting shifter and shifter. He was a runner, and that was not a good sign.

Bridgette made a note of this and opened the basement door, she would deal with Jason later.

….

Nina smiled at her phone as she was texting Jake.

"So, are we ever going to tell her she clearly has a crush on Jake?" Iris commented not hiding her voice at all knowing Nina wasn't paying attention.

Zacharie sipped loudly on his ice coffee, "Hopefully she figures it out while he and Rachel are here."

Tsubasa hummed in agreement as he drank his coffee, "I hope so. I want her to move on from Louis. He may be my best friend but he's an idiot sometimes. Like, Nina liked him for years."

All of them nodded as Nina finally looked up from her phone, "Hey, I thought Emma and Sophie were meeting us?"

"I think they're going to be a while," Iris noted as she glanced at the TV to see Cat Noir and Ladynoir defeating Monsieur Rat on the news with a couple kick to the gut, "Man, I need to get a girlfriend or boyfriend."

Author's Note 2

Don't worry Iris your going to get a partner.

Anyway, thanks for reading and please comment!

Next time: Jake and Rachel arrive to the airport but with no one to pick them up, why? Might have something to do with Ladybug and Cat Noir trying to save Buzzkill and Rowdy from Mayuri and Dragonstorm