M A R I N E T T E

BEEP BEEP BEEP

Marinette groaned into her pillow, blinking wearily at the sound of her alarm.

She considered throwing her alarm from her balcony for waking her up, was that weird?

Yeah she wasn't a morning person.

"Marinette get up! I know you're awake and I know you don't want to be late for school again."

Tikki's voice came from her desk, munching happily on a cookie that seemed way too big for her size. Marinette wondered if Tikki ever got fat.

Ah the wonders of a magical being.

"How do you know what I want?" Marinette snipped back. She really wasn't in the mood since she spent hours on a design, only getting 4 hours of sleep.

Tikki was getting the tiniest bit frustrated with her chosen so drastic situations calls for drastic measures and Tikki knew exactly what to do to get the attention of the said girl.

"Oh Marinette look Adrien's here to see you." Tikki sing-songed with a teasing lilt.

Marinette promptly fell off her bed, leaving the poor girl groaning in mild pain. She heard Tikki softly giggling and gave her the stink eye.

"Rude."

"You weren't getting up so I had to use drastic measures!"

Marinette sighed and finally got up, albeit reluctantly. She reached for her phone and checked the time. Her eye twitched in annoyance as the screen showed '7:05am'. Tossing her phone back onto her bed, she climbed down the stairs from her bed and gave Tikki a small poke.

"I still have another hour until school."

"But you wake up late and so therefore, you'd be late to school if I didn't wake you up."

Sighing again, Marinette went into her bathroom to shower and freshen up
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"Do you think I should change my look?" Marinette absently wondered out loud, not expecting a reply.

"What brought this on?"

"Maybe the fact that I woke up early today." Marinette mumbled. She didn't know what she was feeling but she felt like a change of pace.

"Well I think you already look pretty with your usual outfit but go for it!" Tikki encouraged cheerfully. Marinette grinned back at her and picked out a few of her favourite clothing.

[Outfit:]

Marinette smiled widely, excitement tingling down her spine. Doing a few spins in front of her mirror, she felt satisfied with her look with a squeal from Tikki.

"Oh Marinette you look so cute!"

Marinette giggled and gestured for Tikki to get into her purse. She quickly grabbed her phone from her bed and the rest of her school supplies, shoving them into her bag.

Opening the hatch from her room to the main part of the apartment, the scent of bacon filled the air.

Target acquired

Tip-toeing slowly towards her maman, Marinette blew gently into Sabine's ear, startling the older woman and earning a stern but playful glare. Sabine lightly hit the back of Marinette's head at her antics and chuckled.

"You're up early."

Marinette giggled in response and pulled up a chair for herself, waiting for breakfast while tapping her foot with residue energy.

"Guess I got lucky." she said mostly to herself.

Having her breakfast out in front of her, Marinette tucked in and stuffed her face, making sure to slip in a few cookies for Tikki which she gave a thankful buzz for.

Finishing her breakfast quickly, Marinette gathered her plate and put it in the sink, kissing her maman on the cheek before grabbing her bag and heading out the door.

"See you maman!"

"Oh Marinette wait!" Marinette stopped halfway out the door to hear what Sabine had to say.

"A few family friends are coming over today because they moved to this area and Lucas will be starting at your school today. Keep a look out for new students and treat him nicely!"

Marinette looked at Sabine with a confused expression. I don't remember a Lucas...

"Maman who's Lucas?"

"Oh you two were childhood friends and extremely close when you were little. I even remember you two having crushes on each other!"

"Maman!" Marinette blushed furiously and rolled her eyes at her mother's last comment and headed out the door with a 'Bye!' Sabine chuckled at her daughter and went back to cleaning up.

In the bakery, Marinette saw her father unoccupied and decided to give him a surprise to start the day.

She ran up to Tom and tried to tackle him.

Key word: tried

Tom just laughed at his daughter's antics and quickly deposited her outside the bakery, giving her a goodbye kiss on the forehead, to which Marinette giggled at as his moustache tickled her. Marinette turned to leave with one last look at the bakery and waved goodbye.
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Marinette saw Alya on the steps on the school, happily typing something on her phone.

Obviously she's updating the Ladyblog.

Marinette rolled her eyes as she remembered yesterday. Alya hounded on Ladybug after an Akuma attack for an interview and being the best friend that she is, of course Marinette agreed.

It turned out to be the worst 3 minutes of her life.

Marinette had to excuse herself for the last two minutes of her transformation which resulted in her walking back the rest of the way home.

Alya noticed Marinette entering the school gates and ran up to give her best friend a hug.

"Girl you are early today! And you look hot as well!"

"Thanks Alya. How early am I exactly?"

Alya checked her phone for the time and held her phone in front of Marinette's face.

"7:56am, I'm proud of you."

Giggling, the two girls headed into the school. Chattering aimlessly, they ran into Nino along the way but he had his headphones blaring in his ears, completely oblivious to the outer world. Alya nudged Marinette's side and smirked in the direction of Nino. Marinette got the message and grinned deviously along with Alya.

Nino's not going to be able to sit down for a week!

Marinette and Alya quickly caught up to Nino soundlessly and Marinette raised her right leg and Alya raised her left. Grinning one last time to each other, Marinette and Alya put as much force as they could into their kicks and-

SLAM

"JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!" howled Nino. The combined forces of Marinette and Alya's kicks were enough to send Nino slightly off the ground.

The culprits of the assault bursted out laughing with a pinch of unattractive snorts.

Nino sent both girls a death glare, rubbing his sore ass while muttering 'Girls aren't usually like this' and 'Why am I friends with two demons?'

Marinette tried to repress her laughing to at least get out an apology to Nino but ended up blowing raspberries which made Alya collapse laughing on the floor and Nino crack a small smile in amusement.

"Hardy-har very funny." Nino said deadpan

"I-it real-really was!" Marinette replied, still laughing her hardest which made Nino joined in the laughter too.

Surprisingly, Alya recovered first from her laughing and grabbed the air in the direction of Marinette, silently asking her to drag her up. Marinette rolled her eyes and tugged her best friend up. Alya dusted herself off in an exaggerated Chloe-like fashion and looked at the other two.

"Okay we're obviously idiots."

"Speak for yourself." Nino muttered which Marinette gave a slap at the back of his head in return. The trio fell into friendly banter on the way to the classroom and greeted their other classmates that usually came early.

The classroom currently consisted of Rose, Juleka, Max, Kim and Nathanael. Kim gave a a friendly wolf-whistle as Marinette sat down in her seat, making her roll her eyes yet again for probably the tenth time this morning.

"Mari's all grown up now!" Kim exclaimed, fake-sobbing into an imaginary handkerchief.

"I'm so proud."

"Indeed, you do look more attractive than you usually do."

"Woah! Marinette are you trying out something new? Your hairstyle makes you look so elegant!"

Juleka gave a thumbs up in the direction of Marinette and gave a soft 'Rad'.

Nathanael was stuttering out compliments which Marinette returned with a thankful smile and her focus returned to her sketchbook.

Maybe a different hem would work for this design- actually what if I have small designs on the ends of the sleeves? Shit I'm out of lace. I need to tell Tikki to remind me later to go by the fabric roll. Did I pack any money?

Marinette paid no attention to the remaining students trickling into the classroom and mostly just tuned everyone out until a strangled gasp made her break her concentration and look up from her sketchbook.

Adrien Agreste stood in the doorway with a blush slowly taking over his face which was strange since Adrien is a model and he doesn't usually blush and he does fencing, piano, practises Chinese, my native language and is literally perfect and-

Focus!

Marinette shook her head, making her bangs fall in front of her face even more, making an already red Adrien Agreste more flustered than Marinette's ever seen him.

Lifting her hand in a friendly wave, Marinette shyly smiled at him.

"G-good mor-morning Adrien."

That was it.

Adrien had officially became as red as Nathanael's hair and squeaked out a rushed 'Good morning' and practically threw himself onto his seat, Nino raising an eyebrow at his bro and his eyes twinkling in amusement.

Marinette could've sworn she heard an asshole cackling in amusement. [A.N: That asshole was a certain kwami ;)]

Alya shook her roughly and held her face in her hands, examining Marinette very carefully and scrutinised her features before her own face twisted into a look of accomplishment and wonder.

"Marinette Dupain-Cheng you've finally done it. You seduced Adrien Agreste."

Unfortunately Adrien heard Alya's remark and joined in on Marinette's flustered squeaking, earning a round of laughter from Nino.

I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT I DID TO HIM.

Marinette wanted to scream out.

RIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNGGG

Thank god, saved by the bell

Marinette quickly turned her attention onto her notebook and concentrated on drilling a hole of embarassment into it. Ms Bustier came in and greeted the class with her usual friendly demeanour. She called out the roll and still no show of Chloe and Sabrina yet.

After the roll, Ms Bustier clapped her hands together, signalling the class to pay attention. Everyone leaned onto their desks, eager to hear what the announcements were.

"Now class we have a new student today-"

Oh it must be the Lucas guy maman talked about

"-and his name is-"

Ms Bustier got interrupted by a shrill laugh that echoed in the hallways and the whole class groaned simultaneously. There was only was person who could invoke such a spine-shuddering laugh.

Speak of the devil. Marinette thought as Chloe skipped through the entrance of the classroom with the most drop-dead gorgeous guy ever (other than Adrien) in her clutches.

The guy looked extremely uncomfortable with Chloe hanging off his arm but if you just replaced his expression with one of happiness, all the girls swooned and sighed at the possibility of seeing this guy without Chloe around. (Marinette shared a look with Alya that denied that the new student was attractive to her but Alya knew better)

The new student had the most dark brown, luscious locks that were styled into an undercut which made him look like your resident bad boy, his jawline could fucking cut through titanium and he wore glasses that was thick, black rimmed ones that intensified the colouration of his eyes looked like they were plucked from patches of the sky itself though they still couldn't compare to Marinette's own blue-bells. He wore a plain grey long sleeved shirt with light blue jeans that really made his ass look better and to top of the look, he wore black combats boots. He really did look perfect and belonged to the rank of a Greek god along with Adrien and-

"Ahem. Miss Bourgeious please let go of the new student."

Marinette was snapped out of her thoughts as Chloe gave the teacher an exaggerated eye roll and blew a flirtatious kiss at the uncomfortable guy while walking to her desk, Sabrina trailing after her and silently swooned at the presence of the new student.

The new guy stood at the front A flashed a charming smile at everyone which obviously made the girls weak at the knees because holy shit, his teeth were like pearls. How-

Marinette your heart belongs to Adrien, shut up.

Ms Bustier cleared her throat again and started introducing the new student.

"As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted-" Ms Bustier gave a disapproving glare in the direction of Chloe who was far too invested in her nails to notice but that didn't stop a few snickers escaping from some people's mouths.

"-we have a new student and his name is Lucas Henrí."

A round of greetings were directed at Lucas and he returned them with the most smoothest voice Marinette had ever heard.

"Hey guys. Well, as you know I'm new here-" Rose awed at Lucas's slight awkwardness, resulting in a small blush on his tan face.

"-but I hope we can get along and-" Lucas's words died on his tongue as his gaze landed on Marinette, she felt her face heat up and blushed a charming red. Most of the class directed their attention on her because of why Lucas trailed off and looked at Marinette expectantly.

Lucas gave the biggest and gleeful smile that may or may not have melted Marinette's heart a bit. Lucas opened his mouth to speak.

"Bon-Bon!"

The class gaped at the interaction between Lucas and Marinette.

Lucas looked like he was smiling so much that it hurt meanwhile Marinette had the most dumbfounded expression plastered onto her face before bursting into stutters and incoherent sentences, waving her arms around because what on earth were you suppose to do after someone calls you 'Bon-Bon'?!

Lucas merely chuckled at Marinette's actions and sighed dreamily.

"You're still the same after all these years."

Marinette thought to herself. This is Lucas. My childhood friend. I promised maman that I would be nice to him and show him around.

Despite her internal conflict, Marinette waved at Lucas and gave him a familiar smile.

"Hey Lucas."

At that point, the class bursted with questions, firing one after the other before Ms Bustier reprimanded the class and asked everyone to be quiet for the remainder of the period.

Lucas was directed to sit with Ivan which was right behind Marinette.

Walking towards his new seat, Lucas threw Marinette a friendly wink and sat down, eager to start today's lesson.

Marinette's mind was racing as she tried to dig up memories that involved Lucas. She was kinda successful but it resulted in a headache from thinking too hard so she put her head in her arms to wallow in her delayed embarrassment.

After everyone calmed down, a certain blonde looked down at his notebook, knitting his eyebrows and displaying a look of complete confusion.

What is going on with me? Why am I annoyed at Lucas?

[A.N: Don't worry, the other lovesick boys are coming in the next chapter]