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“For the last time, Marinette, no is no and that is my final decision”
“Well for the last time as well, my decision is final. I will attend Lycée with Chloe like a normal 16-year old”
The older man sighed and stopped illustrating to look at his daughter standing in front of his work desk, a determined look in her face. He raised a brow, “And how do you suppose you will do that when you need me, your parent, to enroll you?”
His daughter scoffed like the answer is quite obvious, “I can enroll myself you know, and Chloe says I can apply for a scholarship under her father if you’re really that insistent on me not attending. I refuse to be homeschooled, 9 years of that is enough for me”
Gabriel let out a long and deep sigh as he returned to illustrating, not saying anything. Marinette’s confidence started to wind down as her father stayed quiet. Something she hates more than him talking her ear off for how she should or shouldn’t do things because at least when he’s talking she knows what he’s thinking and it doesn’t add to her anxiety.
“W-well, anyways I’m off to my room to prepare my uh, things for next week” she managed to say as she quickly turned to leave the room.
“Marinette,” her father said flatly and she stopped in her tracks, once again facing Gabriel.
“Y-yes?”
“Nathalie will enroll you tomorrow under the scholarship of Mayor Bourgeois to ensure that you actually intend to learn and not just mingle. The Gorilla will drive you to and from the school and anywhere you may go as long as I know beforehand. Understood?”
Marinette blinked. Once. Twice. She feels…happy? Relieved? Amazed? She doesn’t know. The last time he granted her what she wanted that he didn’t approve of was when she wanted to cut her hair short and color it blue because the way she styled it then was that she looked like Chloe when seen from behind. That was 5 years ago.
Realizing that her father was looking at her expectantly from his work desk and that she’s been standing still for a solid minute she shook her head from the initial shock and let out a genuine smile.
“Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!” she hugged Gabriel in excitement then left the room to prepare for next week, now in high spirits, and inform her only friend.
“Adrien! Adrien!”
“Yes mom?” the blonde boy shouted back as he paused his game.
“Your friends are here, hun” and with that he turned around to open his hatch and was quickly met in a tackle.
“Nino! Seriously, one of these days you’re gonna break my everything, and then I can’t help around the bakery, and then you’ll have to stay here and do everything for me, is that what you want?”
His best friend laughed and got up while picking up his cap, “Chill dude, I just want to show you how excited I am for next week. Speaking of, have you gotten your schedule already?”
As he asked, Nino opened Adrien’s computer to open his best friend’s email, to which Adrien didn’t mind. He got up and dusted his outfit while rubbing his elbows that hit the floor harder than any part of his body during the tackle.
“Yo! what’s up A, your mom told me to bring these up” a voice caught both boys attention back to the hatch to see their journalist friend, Alya bringing up a tray of croissants and cookies.
“Hey Alya, good to see you too” Adrien greeted as she approached the desk and placed the tray of sweets next to the computer Nino was focused on.
“So, what’s pretty boy’s schedule?” she asked, directing the question to her boyfriend who’s opening up his emails.
Nino opened the email he was looking for with an audible ‘aha’ and now the three are looking at Adrien’s schedule.
“Well, at least we have lunch at the same time. Oh! and we’re in the same Physics class, this class will be a breeze” Alya excitedly gestures and Adrien groans.
“Please don’t make me do your worksheets, this isn’t secondary anymore it’s harder in Lycée”
Alya waved her hand dismissively, “No worries, just expect me to be your partner in every groupwork”
“Yay” Adrien replied sarcastically, while raising a fist limply.
“Hey if its any consolation to my girlfriend’s piggybacking, I’ll totally be the most helpful History partner” Nino offered to the blonde to which he glared at the giggling couple.
The rest of the day was spent planning their hangout schedules and their speculations on who the surprise famous student that Chloe was referring to in her latest tweet.
Knock! Knock!
Marinette was startled by the sudden sound and dropped the clothes she was holding in front of her.
“It’s Nathalie, I need to ask a few questions” the voice said from the other door.
“Come in, Nathalie” she said as she picked up the clothes she dropped and placed it in the neater pile next to the mirror. The door clicked but did not open. ‘Oh yeah, I locked it cause I was trying out clothes’
“Hold on, I’ll open it!” in a rush to open the door and not keep her father’s (and hers too but she doesn’t want to think about her that way) assistant waiting too long, she tripped on the pile of clothes. Twice.
Once she managed to untangle herself from her own clothes she seemingly tripped on so easily, the door opened and Nathalie, with her serious face as usual nodded before walking in.
“What is it you wanna ask?”
Nathalie faced her and tapped on a few things on her tablet before talking to her again, “It seems that you have one more elective to choose to complete your schedule”.
Marinette stood beside her as she showed her the list of electives she can choose from. She saw that the Fashion elective has already been chosen-probably chosen by her father, she thought, not that she’s complaining.
“I guess I’ll take Arts” she decided, and Nathalie nodded as she entered Arts into her schedule. Before the assistant left, she turned around as she remembered something. “The scholarship for Mayor Bourgeois, requires you to have at least a grade of 15 or higher in all of your subjects”
“U-understood” she stammered in response as Nathalie left her room and closed the door. The blunette let out a sigh as she returned to her pile of clothes now strewn about because of her tripping incident just a few minutes ago.
‘I need to practice not tripping on everything once I’m school’ she teased herself.
Next Chapter: Marinette trips. Chloe shows off her very talented and famous friend. Misunderstandings ensue. Adrien gets an unexpected gift after class.