Miraculous Ladybug

[Jordichan]

Marinette was in the middle class as she was daydreaming looking at the back of Adrien's head. She was hopelessly in love with the boy in front of her and struggled to focus in class with him sitting right in front of her.


Meanwhile their history teacher was assigning partners for a project the students would have to work on together. "Ok let's see." She said softly looking at the list of students. "Alya and Nino. Chloe and Sabrina." Their teacher went on as she reached the last couple on the list. "Finally Adrien and Marinette."


Marinette was startled as she heard her name being called as Alya gave her a small smile. "You are Adrien's partner for the project." She whispered softly as Marinette hadn't heard why her teacher was calling out students names. "W-wait, I'm going to be Adrien's partner?" She asked Alya softly as she didn't know how to react to this. She was so happy to be with Adrien, but she was just so awkward and nervous around him she wasn't sure how she was suppose to be able to work with him. Glancing over she can see Chloe glaring at her obviously jealous that Adrien wasn't her partner. The girl just let out a sigh in response.


"Anyway, I'm letting you guys take the rest of class time to work with your partner and plan what you guys want to do for your project." The teacher said as she allowed the students to leave class and go off with their partners to go work.

 

[Tovarish]

Adrien's lips twitched into a small smile as their teacher announced the groups, trying very hard to keep his excitement to a modest level, fighting the urge to look back and acknowledge his classmate with a smile. Next to him, Nino, nudged him with his elbow, grinning wide and wiggling his eyebrows in a way that had the blonde laughing.


The last time he and Marinette had spent time together had been fun, if not a little awkward. She was really smart though and at least he was sure they'd actually work together on the project, unlike those times Chloe was his partner. He shook his head and collected his belongings as the teacher dismissed the class. Moving to stand he noticed that someone was suddenly in his way and looked up to meet the light blue eyes of Chloe Bourgeois.


"Oh..hey Chloe," he mumbled, daring a glance over at Nino to see if his friend could save him from this conversation, before turning his own green eyes back to the girl in front of him. "Can I hel-""Lets change partners," she interrupted him and really he didn't think he had been expecting anything different from the girl.


"Oh um I don't know Chloe. Sabrina's your best friend, that wouldn't be very nice to her" She tried to disagree with him but in the end Adrien flashed one of his big model smiles and shook his head, politely declining the offer - three times - before he finally managed to squeeze past her and walk up the step to Marinette's desk. "Hey Marinette!" he exclaimed, "What do you want to do the project on? I have a photo shoot in the park after school but we can meet after to work on it"

 

[Jordichan]

Marinette glanced around as she saw Alya standing up once dismissed. "Wait! You are not going to leave me alone with Adrien, right?" Marinette asked softly as she felt like she needed Alya's guidance to help her not be so awkward around Adrien. "Girl, you'll be totally fine without me." Alya said with a small as she placed a hand on the girl's shoulder. "This is your time to get to be one on one with Adrien." She said as she glanced over seeing Chloe trying to convince Adrien that they should swap partners, but Adrien wasn't buying it and simply left her. "See he would rather be your partner rather than Chloe's." She said with a small smile. "Anyway I got to go with Nino." She said quickly leaving. "Wait, Alya!" Marinette called out before she stopped realizing Adrien was standing in front of her.


"Oh, hey A-Adrien!" She said stuttering nervously as she gave him a small smile. "Um, uh. I don't know what we should do the project on." She said fumbling with her fingers at it was obvious that she was extremely nervous around him. "Um, do you have any ideas?" She asked as she hoped he could come up with something because her brain wouldn't able to think being so nervous like this.

 

[Tovarish]

"Oh well. Were supposed to pick an era in france's history and make a presentation to teach the class about it," Maybe she had been daydreaming again, Marinette always got scolded for that in class after all. He offered a small smile, rubbing at one of his arms nervously. "I think everyone else is going to pick the Revolution so maybe we could do something different and not as dark? What do you think of La Belle Epoque ? We could talk about artwork and literature rather then war." He smiled a little bigger then and lifted his hand to run his fingers through his hair, smile shrinking after a moment.


"Are you okay Marinette? Your face is really red" Adrien reached out with his other hand , touching the back of it to the girls forehead. "Do you want to go to the nurse?"

 

[Jordichan]

Marinette listened quietly as Adrien had explained the project to her. She felt a little bad that she wasn't paying attention earlier and that he had to explain it to her again after the teacher had already told them. She really needed to stop day dreaming in class or else she was going to get yelled at or get bad grades. "Ok, lets not do the revolution then." She said in agreement as it would be best to find something that someone would not already pick. "Wow, that topic seems perfect!" She said smiling happily to him.


Marinette was suddenly confused as Adrien had pointed our her red face. Whenever he touched the back of his hand to her forehead it just caused her face to become even redder. "Ah N-no! I'm fine! I don't need to go to the nurse!" She said waving her hands in front of him trying to convince him that she was fine while she was just a nervous wreck.

 

[Tovarish]

Adrien wasn't really convinced, if she was feeling fine then why was her face so red? He wouldn't push the subject however, if Marinette said she was fine then he would respect that. In his pocket, his phone buzzed and Adrien's nose wrinkled a little as he scrunched his face, knowing it would be Nathalie messaging him about his schedule, he was going to be late for the photo shoot if he didn't leave soon.


"Sorry Marinette, you have my phone number right? So we can meet up later?" His phone buzzed again and he look apologetic as he spoke again, "I have to go now, I'm really sorry" Gathering his belongings again he rushed out of the classroom and down the stairs. His chauffeur was waiting outside, holding the car door open for him.


Sitting in the car , Adrien looked out the window and sighed, doing this project could end up being really difficult if his schedule got any busier. Between Fencing, Modeling and Piano lessons he wasn't sure how they'd end up finishing in time.

 

[Jordichan]

Marinette felt a little relieved as Adrien decided not to push it any further and just let it go. Honestly she was just so nervous around him it was hard not to get all flustered and stutter every time she tried to speak to him. She heard Adrien's phone buzz which meant he had to leave. She knew his schedule was always busy so she understood that he had to go.


"Ok, I guess you can text me when your done." She said softly with a small smile showing she wasn't upset and understood he had to go." Um, S-see you later." She said with a small wave as she watched him leave the classroom. She just stood there in a daze for a moment just thinking how happy she was to be able to hang out with Adrien later. The loud noise of her book falling on the ground startled her and snapped her out of her day dream. She quickly picked it up before she decided to go to the library for a little bit just to get a head start for the project by doing some research on their project.

 

[Tovarish]

The photo shoot ended up taking far longer then he had expected, he'd been distracted and the photographer had scolded him several times for daydreaming, and by the time they were finished it was already late. Adrien doubted that Marinette would want to work on the project now.


When he arrived home Adrien pulled out his phone and pulled up Marinette's contact information, he'd gotten it from Nino who had gotten it from Alya several weeks ago. He clicked onto the text icon and tapping out an apology, ignoring Plagg who was floating about the room, munching on a piece of Camembert and teasing the blonde.


"What about Ladybug?" The kwami asked, teasing around a mouth full of the smelly cheese. "No more crush on her?"


"This isn't a crush, Plagg, Marinette is just my friend"





The kwami made a noise that meant he didn't believe Adrien and earned a glare for it. "It isn't a crush" the teen insisted. It definitely was but Plagg didn't need to know that, besides he shouldn't be focusing on it. Not when he was already having so much trouble expressing himself with Ladybug,

 

[Jordichan]

Marinette had gotten a good amount of research done for their project done in the library, but she had to return home to help her parents out with the bakery. She was half expecting Adrien to text her while she helped with baking some of the pastries with her father. Every time she glanced at her phone there was no notification.


The girl sighed once finishing her work downstairs and flopped down on her bed. "Looks like Adrien never texted me..." Marinette said softly to herself as she knew it would be too late tonight to work on the project. "What? Did Adrien reject you to a date?" Tikki asked curiously flying over to the girl. "What a date! No!" Marinette exclaimed. "We are partners for a project at school and he had to leave for a photo shoot. He was suppose to text me when we could meet up, but he never did." She explained to the small red kwami. "It sounds like a date to me." Tikki said giggling. "Perhaps he will explain what happened. He probably was just busy." She explained as she floated by Marinette. "Yeah I already assumed that." Marinette said as she sat up. "Anyway we should leave soon to meet with Chat Noir to go on patrol. I just hope Adrien doesn't try to contact me while I'm out."