Thunderstorm Truths
They didn't plan on getting stuck at the Agreste's when the thunderstorm struck. As a matter of fact they had all been just about to leave because they knew it was coming. But the moment they opened the front door to the Agreste Manor the first Bolt of Lightning struck a aGiant tree in the Agreste grounds which crashed into the gate making it inaccessible to get past. The Back exit was quickly flooded under water as the flash flood began.
In a rare instance of Kindness from Gabriel Agreste, he allowed all of Adrien's friends to stay at the Manor until the storm passed. He himself had been out of Paris at the time the storm started so he felt like a Hypocrite not to allow them to stay out of the horrible weather. He may be a supervillain but he doesn't want to give any kid hyperthermia.
Adrien was shocked that his father was allowing his friends to stay "Really Dad?! Are you sure?"
Gabriel was taken aback by Adrian actually calling him dad instead of father but nodded "Tell them they can stay until it's safe to go outside again. Gorilla will help you get anything you need. Stay safe….son."
The moment Gabriel hung up Adrian turned around to face all of his friends with a smile on his face as he told them all "He said you were all welcome to stay until the storm passes!"
All of them cheered apart from Juleka who half cheered but kept quiet as she usually did. He led them back to his room where they had all been celebrating the end of their second last year of school. WHen they arrived Marinette was the first one to speak up and ask "SO what are we going to sleep wise then?"
Adrian hummed as he thought about it, the rest of his classmates coming into the room quickly after before he confidently stated "Alright! A few of us will move to the pool table out of the room. The rest of us will move the Piano and I will get Gorilla to bring through some blow up mattresses that I know we have hidden away somewhere."
Nobody wasted any time as Rose, Alya, Nino, Alix, Kim lifted up the pooltable between themselves and started to make their way out of the room. Juleka, Zoé, Luka and Max made their way over to the piano and waited for himself and Marinette to come over and help.
Marinette couldn't get used to the fact that she was now taller than Adrian even if it was only by an inch. She whispered to him "I'm surprised that your dad said we could stay, do you think he's well?"
He laughed out loud at her joke which made her happy before he retorted "Maybe he was taken over by an akuma Mylady"
Grabbing his arm she started to pull him towards the Piano continuing to whisper "Well Kitty, you're stuck with Luka now, are you going to tell him how you feel?"
He stared at her like she was crazy but then gained an evil smirk "Only if you tell the tigress how you feel about her bugaboo."
Marinette felt her cheeks flush red and she pulled the blonde head over to the Piano where the targets of both of their affections were anyway which made the blush on her cheeks grow even bigger. Marinette's crush on Juleka had appeared out of the blue about 2 years ago during one of the times they had called upon Purple Tigress and to say her crush on the shy goth girl had only gotten worse would be an understatement.
They arrived at the Piano. The group all looked between themselves and in a unison that you only get from saving Paris together for years (Not that they all knew they were heroes) they lifted the Piano up with a lot of strain and slowly wobbled the piano out of the room into the Agreste dining room. The piano ended up being placed in the corner of the room, far away from where they would be eating whatever dinner they made themselves up in an hour.
By the time the group had returned to Adrian's bedroom. Gorilla and the other group were already in the middle of setting up the blow up mattresses that the guest would be sleeping on during the night. Adrian was also 90% sure that they had more than enough Duvet in the house to keep everyone warm during the night.
Adrian made is way over to the Window where Luka had decided to stand, looking out into the Thunderstorm, as lightning stuck in the sky illuminating everything, he raised his voice slightly and asked "Is everyone okay mate"
Luka shook his head as if he was coming out of a trance and replied "Yeah, sorry. It's just normally I enjoy listening to the rain as it splashes into the water and splats on the pavement, it allows me to get into a good songwriting mood but tonight the thunder and lightning just ruins my whole mood."
Adrian tooka deep internal breath as he placed a hand onto Luka's shoulder and said camly "Well how about you get into the right kind of mood by being with your friends. We're all stuck together tonight anyway. Might as well enjoy it."
The blue haired boy nodded and Adrian could feel his cheeks flush red like Marinette's had earlier. God he was a trainwreck. Luka put his hand around Adrian's shoulder and they walked back over to the rest of the group.
Marinette sighed in frustration as Alya started to rant about Nino and how he had basically brushed her off all day. The two of them were having problems but of course it was Marinette stuck in the middle listening to them both rant about the other. And now she was stuck with both of them for the entire night...along with her crush who Adrian was almost certainly going to get her to sleep next to.
Grabbing a Blanket from the pile Adrian's bodyguard had brought through she turned to face her friend who was wearing the Fox Miraculous around her neck and said "Look, the two of you need to sort out whatever is going on between you, yourselves. Don't drag the rest of us into it, we all have our own problems to deal with anyway. Also hide the MIraculous, we don't know when Hawkmoth is watching."
The Journalist was shocked that Marinette had spoken to her like that and just nodded numbly, moving the necklace under her shirt. Alya decided at that moment she was going to go and talk to Nino because Marinette was right, it wasn't fair for them to have to put up with their issues.
The Kitchen- 2 Hours Later
Juleka mixed the pizza dough together with the flour as Marinette watched on with a smirk, of course it had been Adrian's suggestion that Juleka help her in the kitchen to make the Pizza's while the rest of them raided his dad's closet for something to drink.
While being a fashion designer Marinette was still from a family of bakers and she thought making Pizza using the Agreste's Pizza Oven was the best decision. She had given Juleka instruction the moment that had come in while she got the rest of the ingredients out. They were making three large pizzas to cater for the group.
Focusing on her own job, Marinette grabbed teh Tomato puree and a small teaspoon of water and started to mix it together to make the tomato base. She watched Juleka Smile as she made the tomato base and felt her heart flutter slightly. WHy had she fallen so hard for her classmate? She hadn't even been this bad with Adrian and she had basically been a stalker with him.
Juleka started to turn around feeling like someone (Marinette was the only one in the room other than herself) was staring at her. She turned in just enough time to see Marinette glance away as if she hadn't been looking with her cheeks flushed red. Was she blushing? But Adrien wasn't in the same room as them….Did Marinette feel the same back as she had felt for almost 4 years?
No she couldn't...could she? Juleka felt her own cheeks flush red and decided to go back to dealing with the Pizza bases that she now had to roll out. As she finished rolling the bases out she heard Marinette make her way over to her and asked gently "IS that the Bases done Jules?" Had Marinette just given her a nickname?
Nodding Juleka turned around to find Marinette right behind her with her short, messy black hair almost digging into her face. Julkea took a couple steps backwards and before saying "Marinette, don't surprise me like that...but yes I just finished with it." She giggled but put the bowl of Tomato paste down next to her on the counter.
Handing Juleka a spoon Marinette spoke through her little giggle fit "Great let's get this Paste spread on the Pizza's ASAP before we get some hungry friends complaining"
Nodding Juleka grabbed the spoon and started to spread the paste and Marinette couldn't stop her mind from wandering for a brief second to a future where her and Juleka were married and had taken over Marinette's bakery. Shaking her head to snap out of the daydream she started to help.
By the time they had finished putting the paste on the pasta, the lights in the hallway had gone out due to a power line being cut but they had been prepared for that and grabbed some candles so they could still make food.
Suddenly Marinette had an idea which she thought was hilarious. She could already hear Tikki groaning from within her pocket as she scooped a bit of paste off the edge of the bowl before she shot her finger forwards and poked Juleka on the nose.
Juleka stumbled back slightly surprised. Almost getting her balck and purple ponytail into the pizza's before smirking and retorting "Two can play at that game Marinette" Leaping forwards with her flour hands pressing them against the other girls cheeks making a slight puff cloud of flour to appear making them both cough and laugh at the time.
Rooar had really boosted Juleka's confidence levels through the roof to even a level that Juleka herself couldn't believe. With the tiger Kwami's help she had really come out of her shell and stopped hiding herself away, she now wore more kinds of clothes (while keeping her goth fashion sense alive) and didn't just mumble. She had no idea how her classmates had adapted to her sudden change.
The Two of them kept on trying to hit each other until in classic Marinette fashion, she tripped over air and fell on top of Juleka, sending both of them crashing to the ground. The Two started to laugh heavily. Their faces flushed as red as a chilli pepper and with only the candlelight illuminating them, they both slowly stopped laughing as they came to realise what predicament they were in.
Juleka was lying to herself when she said she didn't want Marinette to just lean in and kiss her right that very second but instead Marinette just slowly creeped up and the warmth between them was replaced by the coldness of having a kitchen in a Stone made room.
The Two almost silently seemed to agree to forget about what had just happened and carry on making the Pizza's.
3 Hours Later
Lightning continued to strike outside lighting Adrien's bedroom as they all entered, even though they didn't have any main lights they could see perfectly well with how the room was being lit up so much.
They had all been in the dining room playing board games for a couple hours before they came to the decision to head back to the bedroom and try to get to sleep. But none of them were really tired yet and they hadn't decided who was going to sleep on the same mattress as who. Of course it was Alya who had the "Brilliant" Idea first.
ALya looked around the room and just as another bolt of lightning struck outside she said "Usually when large groups meet up like this, they play Truth or Dare. What do you say guys?"
Adrian and Marinette looked between themselves which didn't go unnoticed by either Luka or Juleka who were before watching them as Adrian came out with "But Alya you do remember why we all agreed to not Play truth or Dare. Someone always gets hurt which is perfect bait for Hawkmoth."
Surprisingly it was Nino who jumped into the conversation with his cap off his head for once "I can't believe I'm actually agreeing with her about something….but I think we should play. It's not like Hawkmoth would even be able to reach us in the middle of a thunderstorm. All of his Akuma's would be fried."
With another look between Marinette and Adrian they shrugged in defeat knowing the other wanted to play, and they got ready to reveal their secrets or do idotic acts that their friends wanted them to do.
Unknown
"So the Children are Playing True or Dare, this will be the perfect chance to find out who Ladybug and Chat Noir are out of them all. The Despair that they will feel will create the ultimate villain."
