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"What do you mean you don't know if you should come? Marinette don't be stupid, you have to come!" The words are practically being yelled at the bluenette and attracting the attention of the whole class.
Today is the annual girls sleepover. We do it every year. This was Alya's first time while me and the others have been doing it since we were in elementary school. Even Chloe comes every year .
"No way Marinette, you are definitely coming! It wouldn't be the same without you!" Rose quickly piped up from the back of the room, all eyes now on the designer.
The girl in question chose to fiddle with the sleeve of her shirt, avoiding the gaze of her peers, trying to drown out their questions.
In all honesty, the past few years had really taken a toll on Marinette. The once bright and bubbly teenager had changed and was now more reserved although her kindness had stayed exactly the same. It wasn't just changes in personality and mood either, her appearance had to. She had grown out her hair and had swapped her signature pigtails for a high messy ponytail, her bangs not there anymore . As soon as she had been given the position of the new guardian, make-up had become her best friend. Poor Marinette would get little to no sleep every night. Half the time was because of the late night Akumas that Hawkmoth sent out ,
Shaking her head to try and silence her mind, she bought her attention back to her classmates who were still demanding to know her excuse for not coming.
"Oh you're so coming . it's not going to be the same without you girl" Chloe said
Chloé has gotten significantly better over the years. She had really tried to turn over a new leaf and begin again with her class. To say the class had been astonished was an understatement. Even the teachers had noticed Chloé's effort. Were now the best of friends and Marinette was proud of her.
"Fine I'll come." I said annoyed.
"Come to what" someone said coming towards us
There were so many reasons why becoming just friends with her crush Adrien Agreste had been amazing. After my friend Kagami started crushing on him, I pushed myself away because I had my chance
I Wanted to admit it but she knew a small piece of her heart would always belong to him. , as their friendship grew more and more everyday so was her feelings for him . She remembered the day that he had offered to carry her bridal style into class just because she had complained that she had a rough night. If only she could have recorded the look on their faces. Alya looked like she was going to faint.
That is until he did the unthinkable last week.
"Oh hey Adrien, we're talking about the annual girls sleepover. Mari here said she will be here" she said with a smirk on her face winking at me. I rolled my eyes. I got to get out of here. I can't even look at him after what he did last week. I haven't even talked to him all week.
"Hey Alya can we please go and get ready I really don't want to stand here all day"
"Omg yes thank you Mari " Alya said. "Now come on we gotta get ready. Later Agreste " she said
"Bye Alya, later Marinette."
"Yeah whatever." I said grabbing Alya's hand and dragging her out of school. I live five minutes from school so it didn't take long to get to my house. Mama and Papa were handling a customer at this minute.
"Hey Mama and Papa" I said " were getting ready for the girls sleepover tonight"
"Oh yeah I forgot about that, do you want to bring treats over ?"
"Sure." I said " We will be in my room"
When we went to my room, Alya gave a concerned look.
"What happened between you and Adrien. I thought you guys were like best friends and I thought you still liked him" she said
"He did the unthinkable. I'll tell you when we get there. I'm pretty sure everyone else is going to question why i've been avoiding the love of my life all week too". Okay then let's get ready .
Adrien pov.
As 6 o'clock began to role around, Adrien found himself pacing in his room, back and forth, trying to figure out his dilemma.
"Hmmm, actually I prefer the black jeans, blue washes you out." His kwami butted in, interrupting his train of thoughts.
"It's not the Plagg, and hey! According to Ladybug blue is a good color on me, it goes well with my eyes." The model responded, offended at his remarks.
"Yeah, Yeah whatever. So if this isn't about tonight then what is it about?" Plagg asked, zipping over to Adrien's desk rummaging around for cheese no doubt.
"I just remembered I have patrol tonight! I have to go, so I can't go to Juleka's tonight." He replied, obviously stressed.
"Hmmmm-his kwami drew out- ditch the bug."
"What?!"
"You heard me. Ditch. The. Bug." Plagg repeated simply again.
"No! Plagg I would rather be with my bestfriend anyday. Besides i'm sure the class will manage without me." Adrien concluded.
"Looks like they won't have to." Plagg said, flying over and dropping his staff .
Looking down at it, he noticed he had one new message.
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Ladybug
Hey kitty, i'm sorry this is such short notice but i'm actually busy tonight. Do you think we could re-schedule?
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How convent he thought, already typing out an answer.
Satisfied with his response, he quickly swapped his jeans for black, grabbed his phone, a hoodie and Plagg. He left the mansion wearing black slightly ripped jeans, and instead of his usual black tee shirt, he had a white on with the familiar stripes. He also a dark green hoodie in-case he got cold.
Marinette Pov
Chaton
Chaton: Actually i'm busy too, so you text with quite a life saver thank you. Tomorrow?
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Marinette slipped her phone into her back pocket . After texting chat about patrol. turns out he has plans too. She spun around to face her mirror. Even with Tikki insisting she looked amazing, the bluenette couldn't help but feel like it doesn't . A few weeks ago, she had purchased a small red lace crop top , that she quite liked. It wasn't to revealing and had a drawstring at the front, so the length could be altered. she is also wearing cute up jeans. The outfit was pretty basic she knew, but she was trying to come out of her comfort zone.
Whilst she had been recollecting about that, she had finished her hair and makeup, which she now bought her attention to.
Her dark silky hair was in a high ponytail with two stran's loose. She wanted to keep it casual She had also kept her makeup simple.
"Woah Mari you look amazing" Alya said in awe
"Really? I think its to much but hey i'm trying to get out of my comfort zone"
"Girl even Adrien's jaw would have dropped if he saw you. That how Beautiful you look"
"You don't look bad yourself infact you look bomb!" I said.
She had on an orange crop top with cut up jeans. Her hair was in a low ponytail with one strand she recently dyed white. She literally looks like her alter ego Rena rouge. Looks like we both went out of our comfort zones but that this is one of the biggest events of the year.
"Okay I think it's time to go." she said noticing the time, ."Yeah, let's go," I said .
I grabbed my purse with Tikki in it and dropped 3 cookies in there.
We grabbed our bags and the treats my parents left us and headed out the door. We all decided that this year's sleepover will be at Chloe's place. She didn't live far from me so we decided to walk there.
Alya seems distracted. She's been checking her phone for the past 5minutest non stop.
"Alya what's wrong Is it Nino?" I asked.
Just like how I've been avoiding Adrien all week, Alya hasn't even mentioned Nino to me at all.
"I'll tell you later. things are fine but..." she didn't finish her sentence.
Alya and Nino are a really great duo. Nino and I have been friends since we were little, well us and Kim of course but that trio died when we hitted middle school. That is until Adrien and Alya came last year. Nino and Adrien have hired it off well so have me and Alya. two months later Nino and Alya started dating. That was a long story. But ever since ,we've all been like a quad or a group hat did everything together. But ever since Nino got that job being a dj for the school they haven't been well themselves. He's always busy. Even Adrien did not have anytime for us with whatever he got going on. Maybe that was the problem but I feel like there's more to it.
We arrived at Chloe's house and saw rose and Juleka at the door.
"You made it. And you look amazing.. Both of you" Rose said looking amazed.
"Wait really," I said. "I thought it was a little too much."
"Yes you look fantastic, hey Mari you should totally dye your strand of hair it will be super cute" Juleka said
"Yes you should maybe red, maybe we all should ill be fun and besides I have to re-dye my strand white again" Alya said
"Good Idea" I said
"Yeah maybe we should," I turned to see a grinning Chloe." I definitely need to dye my hair. It's so boring... Hey let's go in" she said.
We go inside and see Alix , Mylene and Sabrina already inside.
"Hey ladies lets get this party started." Chloe started. "First we're going to change into our pajamas. Then we're gonna paint our nails and dye those strands of hair Rose mentioned at the door. Then we're gonna eat pizza while watching a movie then we're doing our annual girl talk!"
"Girl talk?" Alya asked
"Oh I forgot this is Alya's first time, girl talk is when we talk about what's going on with our lives, boyfriends, crushes, school the usual.
"Oh okay then but first let's take a selfie for the Ladyblog" she said
We got into a group hug while Chloe's butler took the pic and it came out really good this sleepover is gonna be great and I know it.