A/N - #marinettechallenge comes from Instagram (Alya's in particular) where it's a running joke that Marinette falls asleep everywhere, so her classmates jokingly suggested starting a #marinettechallenge where people take pictures with her in random places she has fallen asleep. Adrien commented on this particular post saying that it was a great idea.

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"Marinette..." a voice echoed through the bluenette's head as she rolled in her bed, trying to muffle out the noise by placing her head under her cotton fabric pillow, "Marinette."

"Ugh, Tikki..." the pigtailed girl whined, "don't tell me I have school."

"It's Thursday." Tikki insisted, pointing to the calendar that hung above Marinette's desk, "You have school today."

She groaned, pulling herself out of her comfortable covers and fortress of pillows, heading down the stairs to the wood-tiled floor of her pink enveloped room. She lazily walked up to her desk, tiredly plopping herself down in her hot pink floral imprinted desk chair.

She unlocked her phone, scrolling to Alya's contact before a realization hit her.

"OH NO! TIKKI! I AM GOING TO BE SEEING ADRIEN TODAY! I CANNOT GO TO SCHOOL!" she wailed, hitting her head onto the smooth wooden surface of her desk, "I'LL DIE OF SHAME!"

"Marinette, whether you like it or not you are going to school today because you have no choice." Tikki crossed her tiny kwami arms, shaking her head disappointingly, "Plus, you stayed up almost all night mumbling to yourself."

"This is a nightmare," Marinette mumbled through the palm of her hand, wiping her face by instinct and looking attentively at her kwami, "are you sure there isn't a way out of this?"

"I think the better idea is to just face him and tell him the truth."

"No way! Not like this! I haven't washed my hair! I amn't wearing my lucky socks! And I..." she mutters, closing her eyes and letting her head droop down to her lie on her desk surface again, "need to sleep."

Tikki rolled her eyes, pulling at Marinette's pigtail, "Marinette! Get ready now or you'll be late for school!"

The teenage girl's head shot up, immediately scrambling out of her chair and tripping over her own two feet, landing face-first on the hard tiled floor.

"Ow." Marinette mumbled, her eyes closing from the tiredness once again, "Can I just... sleep?"

"Marinette!" Tikki persisted.

"Ok, ok. I'll get ready."

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"Can you believe it's already April, Plagg?" Adrien questioned his kwami as the creature was happily munching on his cheese, only to give his owner a disturbed look.

"Can't you see I'm trying to eat my precious camembert? Surely your question can wait." Plagg retorted, returning to sink his teeth into the gooey goodness before him.

Adrien shot him a disgusted look, plugging his nose, "Gross! Why do you have to eat that thing so early in the morning?"

"Well, if you want to be Chat Noir, then you'll have to live with it."

Adrien rolled his eyes dramatically, returning back to packing his school bag, "Yeah, yeah. I get it."

The black cat kwami gobbled  down the last chunks of the provided breakfast, floating over to his miraculous wielder, "And for your information, I'm running out of my precious cheese."

The blonde sighed, giving Plagg a long look, "Of course you are."

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Marinette hurriedly ran up the school stairs, dodging students as she ran into the gym, only to see Alya, Nino and Adrien chatting. A fuming look of rage appeared on the bluenette's face, balling up her hands into fists and marched over to the trio.

"Hey, Marinette!" Alya chimed, giving her best friend a smug, innocent look.

"Hey," she grumbled, grabbing Alya by the wrist and dragging her over to the staircase.

"What is it, girl?" the brunette asked, only for Marinette to return the asked question with a glare.

"You know perfectly well what the matter is." she seethed through clenched teeth, glancing once in a while at the two boys who were still happily chatting away, "How could you do such a thing to me?!"

Alya shrugged, giving the frustrated pigtailed girl in front of her an apologetic smile, "Relax, M. No harm done. It was just a prank. And we both know you absolutely love pranks!"

"Seriously, Al? Not when they're about Adrien! Now I'll have to face him and I will die of shame!"

Alya sighed, patting her BFF's back, "Look, I'm sorry Marinette. You can tell him it was just a prank, kay girl?"

"Fine." Marinette agreed, trying to rub the sleep out of her eyes, "You're forgiven."

The school bell sounded, Alya smiling as she started prancing up the stairs, a tired Marinette following up from behind. Adrien noticed the tired look Marinette had on her face, which usually possessed a cheery one, running up to the girl, "Hey, Marinette."

She squeaked, jumping up in startled surprise and almost tumbled down the stairs, luckily Adrien being there to catch his clumsy friend, "A-Adrien?!"

"You look tired," he noted, adjusting her up in her usual composure, "is everything alright?"

"Yep." Marinette agreed awkwardly, starting to make her way into their classroom, Adrien and Nino behind her, "Totally swell!" She added hand gestures, which only made the blond and DJ more confused.

She plopped herself down at her desk, slamming her head down to the hard wooden surface. Alya shifted in the seat beside her due to the impact the bluenette had sent through their desk table, "Girl, Marinette, are you alright? You look super tired."

"Y-Yeah." Marinette muttered, her eyes flapping closed, "S-Super fine- sleep."

Soon enough, the bluenette was asleep, most of her classmates taking note of this. Alix elbowed Mylene who was beside her, pointing to the sleeping bluenette. The two giggled quietly, Kim noticing this, "What's so funny?"

Alix pointed over to a sleeping Marinette, Kim only to be snickering. "Hey everyone! Look, Marinette's asleep!"

All heads turned to Marinette, who was snoring softly, her best friend beside her facepalming. Adrien also turned his head to look at her, possessing a small smile, "She must be tired."

"Hey," Alix started, tapping her chin thoughtfully, only to replace it with a small grin, "Why don't we start a #marinettechallenge?"

Alya turned to the roller skater, "A what?"

"What if we take pictures with Marinette in the places where she falls asleep?"

All of the class nodded, chatting about the #marinettechallenge to everyone around them. Adrien's smile grew even wider at this, turning to Alya who was chatting away with Nino about the challenge. He turned his attention to Alix, "That's a great idea."

Alix nodded, glancing around the classroom before she stood up and jogged over to Marinette's desk, "Do it quickly before Ms. Bustier comes in."

Everyone scrambled out of their seats, rushing over to the desk behind Marinette and Alya's where everyone sat. Chloe gave out a mocking laugh, Sabrina only shrugging, "If you think I am going to pose with Maritrash, then you are sadly mistaken! I am not going anywhere near that bakery girl!"

"No need," Alya  smirked getting out of her seat to make way for Adrien and Nino to sit beside a sleeping Marinette, heading over to Chloe and Sabrina's desk, "you two can take a picture."

"Sure." Sabrina agreed, getting out of her seat and taking Alya's phone from her, standing in front of Adrien's and Nino's desk. Alya nodded, running back to her seat to sit beside Nino, who sat beside Adrien who sat beside Marinette.

"Ready?"

Everyone nodded, making funny poses and faces, Chloe just waving Sabrina off as she grabbed her school notes out of her bag, "Say #marinettechallenge."

"#marinettechallenge!" everyone shouted, Sabrina clicking the photo button to take a picture of her classmates posing awkwardly. Everyone laughed, then made their way back to their seats, Alya walking up to Sabrina.

"Thanks, Sabrina."

"No problem." the girl smiled, running back to sit beside Chloe. That's when Ms. Bustier walked in through the classroom door, Alya jogging back and sliding into her seat, tapping Marinette on the shoulder.

"Marinette, girl, class is starting."

The bluenette rubbed at her eyes, squinting to see her best friend shaking her, "S-Sleep."

Alya shook her head, turning her attention to the teacher who started calling out names, "Agreste, Adrien."

"Present!" Adrien chimed, Marinette mumbling something to herself.

"Ah, Adrien..."

All heads turned to her figure, Adrien only smiling at her as Ms. Bustier clapped her hands to get everyone's attention once again, "Marinette?"

"Huh?!" the startled girl shot up, glancing quizzically at her classmates that were surrounding her. Alya facepalmed, "Class is starting, girl."

"O-Oh, right." she smiled, sitting back in her seat, pulling out her pink polyester material school bag, taking out her history textbook and notes, setting them neatly on top of the cedar wood desk, "Sorry about that."

Ms. Bustier sighed, giving everyone a warm and cheery smile before starting role call one more time, Marinette trying as hard as possible to stay awake through it all.

Alya tapped Nino on the shoulder, the young DJ puzzledly turning around, Alya only smirking as she whispered something into his ear, "The #marinettechallenge is in action."