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Marinette wakes up and just lays in bed looking at her pinky. Hopefully you won’t cause me any trouble… She gets up from her bed and immediately trips and falls on the string. I guess you will...
After her usual routine, she gets her backpack, goes downstairs to eat breakfast. The news is on, saying that there are miles and miles of string all over Paris. Her parents are discussing on why the red string is still here and how it could affect their work. After she says her goodbye, she heads to school.
“Wow, you are actually gonna make it to school on time!” Tikki says in amazement.
“Yeah, I’m surprised, too.” Marinette says right before falling on her face again from tripping over red string that is EVERYWHERE. “UGH, this is gonna get annoying.”
Marinette makes it to school somewhat early. There is only few minutes until the bell rings, but that is better than her usual timing where she has to run to get to class just seconds before the bell rings. Marinette would’ve gotten there earlier, if she didn’t trip every five steps she took.
Marinette finally gets to her locker where she places Tikki to eat some cookies.
“Hey, girl! You are on time today! We should give you some award,” Alya teases.
“Ha-ha very funny. Let’s get to class.” Marinette says, getting everything she needed from her locker.
“So,” Alya perks, “what do you think about the Akuma yesterday? And all this string?”
“Um, I just think it’s weird. I don’t know.”
“That’s what you say about every Akuma.”
“I don’t know what else to say…”
“What about, I don’t know, that there is a string tying everyone to their soulmate!” Alya says showing Marinette her blog.
“Yeah, who do you think is on the other end of yours?” Marinette asks.
“Hopefully someone HOT!” they both laugh at that.
Alya and her walk into the classroom. “Hey, Nino.”
“Wait,” Marinette looks down, smiling, following Alya’s string, ”YOU GUY’S ARE SOULMATES!”
“What?!? No, we are not!” Alya and Nino say in unison. They look down and follow their strings realizing they are one and the same. They are both blushing, speechless.
“Let’s just sit down.” Alya demands.
“Aww, you two are soulm-”
“Do NOT say it” Alya demands. She looks for the other end of Marinette’s string, hoping she could tease Marinette, but it leads out the door. Alya sighs.
“Haha okay…can’t stop me from thinking it!” Alya glares back at Marinette, who just laughs.
They look around and it seems like everyone here are almost paired up with each other. There are Mylene and Ivan who are connected and are super shy about it. Alix and Kim who are arguing about why they are connected which then turns into an arm wrestling contest. Rose and Juleka because they are BFFs. And the last people we see are Nathanael and Lila who seem to not have acknowledged it but they are crazy blushing. Chloe and Sabrina walk into the room and Chloe seems really mad and looking at the ground following one string. It looks like Sabrina and Max are soulmates, too...
“OMG we definitely have to talk about all these soulmate pairings later,” Alya says.
“Of cour-”
“MARINETTE DUPAIN-CHENG!!” Chloe screams.
“Chloe, what do you want?”
“Marinette, what do you have to say for yourself?!”
“What did I ‘do’ this time?”
“The person on the other end of your string!” Marinette pales a little.
“What are you talking about? That person is Ch-, I mean I have no idea who is on the other end.”
“How could MY Adrikins be on the other end of HER string?!?” Chloe complains to Sabrina.
“I probably don’t even know who is on the other end of my string. He probably doesn’t even go to-” Marinette’s eyes widen. “Chloe what did you just say?”
“Don’t make me say it again!”
Marinette looks down at her string and starts to follow it. She keeps her head down and follows it out the door until her head bumps something. She looks up to Adrien Agreste and her face turns red. “OH, s-sorry I bumped on- I m-mean into you! I d-didn’t mean t-to!”
“It’s okay,” Adrien smiles and walks to class.
Marinette continues to follow the direction the string was going in before but now, it’s going in the other direction. She looks up and sees the string being connected to…
“ADRIEN!” Marinette shrieks. Adrien looks back to see Marinette’s most shocked expression ever.
“Is something wrong?” Adrien asks puzzled. Marinette doesn’t say anything but just puts her pinky up. Adrien, not understanding, he looks at his pinky and then looks up to see Marinette gone and the string getting longer and longer. He then starts to walk to class, confused.
He walks into the classroom, saying his hello’s to everyone and also noticing everyone’s pairings.
“Adrien, what happened to Marinette?” Alya asks a little worried.
“I don’t know, she bumped into me on my way to class and then screams my name, then runs. I’m kinda confused and I hope I didn’t do anything to hurt her…”
“Adrikins!! I followed your string and how could you be connected to that brat, Marinette! I guess the universe doesn’t know our love like we do!” Chloe says pouting.
“Um, if the universe says you guys aren’t together, then you better start believing it,” Alya says.
“Did you say, Marinette?” Adrien asks.
“Ugh, yes! Isn’t it the worst thing you’ve ever heard?!” Adrien is silent and just sits down at his desk, in deep thought. The teacher comes in to start the class and calls roll call.
“Where is Miss Dupain-Cheng?”
“She was here a minute ago Ms. Bustier.”
“Well she better come back quick otherwise she will have another tardy.”
“Yes ma’am.”
The whole class, Adrien was spaced out looking at the desk. What Chloe said about Marinette couldn’t be true. Ladybug is my soulmate…. Ugh, wha...how?!
“Mr. Agreste? Are you even paying attention? Mr. Agreste?!” Nino nudges Adrien with his elbow.
Adrien widened his eyes and raised his hand, “I NEED TO USE THE RESTROOM!”
“Okay, but hur-” Adrien ran out the door.
Marinette was hiding in a janitor’s closet which she locked. She’s used this closet many times to transform. She sat there and just thought. “Tikki, how can I be connected to Adrien? I’m connected to Chat Noir! Not Adrien! I can’t be connected to two people at the same time! Can I? That doesn’t make sense!”
“Marinette, you can’t be connected to two different people.” Tikki said trying to hint at them being the same. But then Marinette realized..
“No. I don’t want that to be true! They must be two different people! They act so different! Chat Noir is a flirt and Adrien is nice, sweet, and caring. Ugh, those are just nothing alike!”
Marinette heard footsteps getting closer and closer to the closet. “Marinette!” a familiar voice shout-whispered. Oh my god, it’s Adrien! I hope he doesn’t find me here! I can’t face him!
“Marinette, I know you are in the janitor’s closet.”
How did he know?
“My pinky leads straight into the janitor’s closet.”
Curse this string.