"Seriously? Ugh! I am so going to fail this mathematics test!" Marinette muttered, slamming her head onto her desk as Adrien, who was beside her, quickly finished reading some math equations. Marinette didn't hate mathematics, in fact, she was fairly good at most topics, but for some reason, this particular simple equation wasn't clicking into her mindset.

"No, you aren't." Adrien grinned, pointing at the equation in her school notebook, "Try using a simpler order of operations, the one you're using right now is making the problem harder than it should be."

"Easy for you to say." the blue-eyed girl rolled her eyes, proceeding to chew on the end of her pencil as she squinted her eyes to somehow try and look at the question more thoroughly, "UGH. I just can't think!"

"OK," Adrien slowly let the word stretch out farther than it should have, flipping the page of their textbook to try another equation. "Try this then. Solve for x: 2(3x + 4) - 3(x - 1) = x - 1. So, x=..."

"Negative six," Marinette uttered with ease, the blond nodding in approval, "But that was an easy one. Come on, like, anyone can solve that."

"See." the teenage model smirked, patting her shoulder sympathetically, "You are not going to fail the test. I'm sure you'll do great, Princess."

"Princess?" Marinette raised an eyebrow, giving Adrien one of those looks when she knew the word, but couldn't remember from where.

"Yep." he smiled, popping the 'p'. Somehow, when he was around Marinette, he just felt like letting his feline counterpart's side a little loose. The only other people he acted more like the dorky alley cat was with Nino and Ladybug. But Marinette was somewhat growing to be a closer friend to him, closer than she ever was before. It was as if fate somehow approved of Nino and Alya suddenly wanting to spend more time together, leaving the two the choice to hang out.

Fate or no fate, he liked it. He didn't want to cut it short after this weekend.

"Adrien?" his thoughts were immediately interrupted by a very irritated sounding Marinette, who was frantically waving her hand in front of his face, "So do you know the answer to question two? The area of a rectangle is 72 square metres. The length of the rectangle is twice the width."

"Six metres," he replied absentmindedly, a smile tugging on his lips on account of his cordial thoughts.

Marinette huffed, closing the textbook with a slam, the green-eyed boy having to shift in his seat due to the impact, "Huh? What were you saying?"

"I can't believe it!" the girl whined, pulling at her hair that was out of its usual pigtails, "You weren't even paying any attention to what I was saying, yet you still answer correctly! Is this a normality for humans? Or are you inhuman or something?"

He chuckled, then gave a Chat-like wink, "I dunno. Am I too dreamy to be existent?"

Marinette blushed beet red at this, gulping at his smooth suaveness. Woah. Is this normal? Please tell me Chat Noir didn't hypnotize this poor soul! What did I do to deserve two dorky pun-loving blonds in my life? What, universe, what?

"U-Um..." she stuttered, looking down, not daring to meet his gaze. She constantly twirled her finger in her midnight blue locks of hair, "I-I..."

"Hey, kids!" came the cheerful voice of Marinette's father as he opened the trap door to her bedroom, popping his head up into the room, "Want to come down for a snack?"

"Sure." Marinette quickly agreed, scrambling out of her chair as Adrien did the same, adjusting the blazer over his shoulders.

They walked down the stairs, entering the sweet-smelling kitchen where Mrs. Dupain-Cheng was stacking some dark chocolate and strawberry macaroons on a plate, decorating them with some rose petals around them.

"Woah." Adrien breathed as he marvelled at the sight before him, "Those look so good!"

"Yes." Sabine agreed, grabbing a nearby towel and dried her hands on the cloth, throwing it onto the counter right after, "They're some special Ladybug and Chat Noir macaroons we made, we thought you kids would like to try them before we put them for sale downstairs in the bakery."

Adrien grinned, then grabbed a strawberry macaroon off the plate, looking at it with sparkling eyes as if he was a little child, receiving the most amazing gift in the world, "Thank you, Mrs. Dupain-Cheng."

"Oh please," she smiled, heading over to him and patted his shoulder reassuringly, "call me Sabine."

Marinette smiled at this. She was happy that Adrien liked her parents and they liked him. She didn't know why, but it struck a chord at her heartstrings, almost making her love the blond more for just that, even though he held her heart for a long time. She grabbed a chocolate macaroon off of the plate, taking a small bite out of the treat.

"Thanks, Maman, Papa." the bluenette chimed, starting to make her way back up the stairs when she finished the treat, Adrien trailing along behind her.

She opened the trap door to her room, the colour pink immediately crashing into her vision. She had to blink a little bit, but then immediately got used to the colour, letting her foot fall onto the wood-panelled flooring of her room.

The demure teenage girl then walked to the side, letting her crush into her room. She was honestly lucky that at the time her parents were chatting with Adrien when they came back to study, Tikki had taken all of the model clippings of Adrien down. She had to thank her kwami later for the deed, maybe some strawberry flavoured macaroons would do the trick?

Adrien had been lost in thought as well, feeling his kwami move from the inside pocket of his blazer. Marinette closed the door, the two of them sitting back in the chairs at Marinette's desk.

Cheese. He could practically feel the desperate raspy voice of his kwami, I need my camembert!

Woah. Was it normal to hear the thoughts of his cheese-loving kwami of destruction or was he dreaming things?

"Um..." he awkwardly looked over at Marinette, combing his fingers through his blond ruffled locks of hair, "I feel a sudden wave of hunger hit me. Do you perhaps have any cheese in your household? Perhaps, camembert?"

"I- I think so?" she looked over at him puzzledly, "I-I'll go downstairs to see if we have any."

"Thanks." he chimed, the blue-haired girl nodding hesitantly as she skipped over to the door, disappearing through the exit. Adrien breathed a long and heavy sigh of relief, his face losing it's smile and earned a scowl as the annoying food-loving creature zipped out of his blazer, clutching his stomach dramatically.

"What is wrong with you, Plagg?! You're embarrassing me greatly today! And what was with all of those pinches? They almost made me flinch!"

"Relax, 'hot stuff'. I was just being a good kwami getting you out of your staring. If I know anything about girls, you'll make them uncomfortable staring at them in that way with a weird love-sick grin all over your face."

"Plagg!" Adrien hissed, grabbing the kwami out of the air and stared intently at the black creature, "For one, stop calling me 'hot stuff'. And two, I was not staring! What on earth made you think that?!"

"Face it, Adrien," the kwami snickered, his two little fangs showing as he smugly smiled, "You liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike the baker girl."

Adrien blushed deep red at this, shoving his kwami back into his blazer as he heard the sound of footsteps coming closer, Marinette's midnight hair coming into his viewpoint as her head popped into the room, holding out a tray with a chunk of cheese in the middle, "I don't have any... camembert... will cheddar do?"

The blond nodded as she closed the door and set the cheese on her desk in front of Adrien, returning back to the math problem she was currently studying. Without her seeming to notice, Adrien swooped up the cheese, tucking it safely into his blazer with Plagg inside.

"Ugh..." Marinette whined once again, looking pleadingly at Adrien, "I am so going to fail this test. What do you do to pass all of them?"

The supermodel scratched the nape of his neck when suddenly, an idea popped into his head. He quickly reached into the pocket of his blazer and grabbed Marinette's charm bracelet she gave him, holding it up for her to see, "This."

"Y-You carry it around as well?" she stuttered, blushing as she reached into her purse and pulled out the charm bracelet Adrien had given to her for her birthday, "I do, too."

Now it was Adrien's turn to blush as he safely tucked the charm away into his blazer, the girl doing the same, "Guess we'll have all the luck we need for the test. Nothing can go wrong with my Marinette lucky charm."

He winked after he had said it, the bluenette giggled excessively, placing her pencil down on her desk as she covered her mouth to try and shield her giggles and blush, "I can't believe you carry it around though."

He smiled widely, taking her comment into thought before he replied with a cheeky grin, "Neither can I."