Adrien gave me a sheepish smile and I just looked away. "We have work to do," I mumbled to him, my lips still burning from our earlier escapade.

He gave me a smile worthy of his cat persona before leading me to the spot he had circled on the map. The hallway was quiet, it was only us insight, and Adrien didn't seem to mind one bit. All of sudden he stopped walking and stared at a wall.

It seemed out of place. I walked forward before putting my ear against it and knocking. The sound echoed quietly and I smirked. A secret passage. Cool.

The look on my face must have given it away because then Adrien was knocking lightly with an excited look on his face. "Man, I haven't seen a secret passage since that one family trip to England." I nodded in agreement, remembering the last time we stumbled across a wall just like this one.

Chat pushed me lightly and I scowled at him. I chastised him for being unprofessional during our mission. In response, he pushed me again, which caused me to hit a wall that let out a quiet echoing sound.

We both froze and stared at the wall. "Sweet! I knew The Guardian said there'd be secret passages in this castle, but I didn't think we'd actually find one." He swore quietly, "I should've taken that bet with Rena." Rena earlier made a bet about being first to find a secret passage, but Chat just laughed it off and didn't shake on the bet.

I had a feeling he'd take all of her bets from now on.

Which gave me a feeling that I'd be patting him on the head in comfort due to the fact that he almost always loses bets.

For some reason, he's just really unlucky.

Could be the jinx for dressing like a black cat.

Chat tapped on the bricked wall till one brick went in farther and the wall opened up to reveal a passage. "That's cool as fuck," I whispered to myself, forgetting that the coms were on.

"Language, dudette!" Carapace told me before getting back to doing god-knows-what. This mission was a trust exercise of sorts, we had no idea what the other's tasks were, but we had to trust that they'd complete them so that we'd save the day. All of our tasks were connected in some way, or at least that's what the Guardian said.

I think it's a load of crap.

But who am I to judge our Holder?
Chat practically pranced into the opening, the grin never leaving his lips when he saw me hesitate. "Come on, it can't be that bad! We're in an old castle, with literally no one here except us. No bad guys. No guns. No nuclear threat. It's completely safe!" When I hesitated again, eyeing the old tunnel he continued, "Are you afraid of ghosts? Come on, I thought you were a ladybug, not a chicken!"

I glared at him before walking into the tunnel. How bad could it end up being?

-=-

High school is rough, I feel like death.

-SecretsInMyHead