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Marinette woke up to her loud alarm and Tikki yelling at her. As usual, she was running late. She was still processing everything then she was getting to her senses.
“MARINETTE! I’ve been yelling for like ten minutes! WAKE UP!”
Marinette looked at the time at it read 7:45. She had to get to school in thirty minutes. Shoot.
She yawned. “Sorry Tikki, being Ladybug is tiring especially with that akuma last night. I bet Chat Noir is tired, too.” Marinette sat up.
“And he is probably not having a good time with Plagg either. Plagg most likely won’t wake him up at all or will be pestering Chat Noir for not waking up to give him cheese, or both...” Marinette and Tikki chuckled.
She tiredly got up and down her ladder and hurriedly showered, brushed, and changed in 20 minutes record time.
She got her backpack ready with her school stuff. Tidied the room up a bit since it was covered in sewing materials to make her newest design that she was having trouble with.
She looked at her room which now looked decent. “Tikki, let’s go,” Marinette said and Tikki flew into her purse.
When she got down stairs, no one was there so Tikki flew out of her purse.
“Where do you think your parents are?”
“Maman and Papa are probably at the bakery. They had a big order that is due this week. They are making a four tier cake with a henna design on it. They have never done a henna design before so it gonna be tough”
“Marinette, you better hurry. You are gonna be late.” Marinette nodded and quickly ate the croissant that her parents left for her on the counter with a glass of orange juice. Marinette put some cookies in her purse for Tikki, got her backpack, and checked herself in the mirror before heading down stairs.
“Maman, Papa! Good morning, I going now but I’ll come for lunch to help with the big order!” She said as she was heading out the door.
“Thank you, sweetheart! Have fun at school!” Her mother chimed as she was giving a customer their change. The day was nice today so it was natural for the bakery to be packed. How do they run the bakery? There was a lot of people there today…
Marinette ran to her school and up the stairs without falling. She got to her seat with still some time before the bell rang. Marinette mentally praised herself for getting to school on time. She yawned and took out her sketchbook to work on her new design. She needed some inspiration for this dress but she couldn’t think of anything. She sighed and put it away.
“Wow, look who's here on time for once.” Alya teased.
Marinette just stuck her tongue out at her best friend.
“Well hello to you too” Alya just laughed.
She went to her seat next to Marinette’s and took out her phone to look at her blog.
“Marinette, did you hear about the Akuma last night? I didn’t get any footage because they didn’t defeat it until like two in the morning. It seemed pretty tough and Ladybug got tossed around a bit. I only saw it on the news this morning”
“I did hear about it, I bet Ladybug is fine” Of course I heard it, I lived it, and I have the bruises to prove it.
Marinette looked over to Adrien’s seat to just see it empty. She pouted.
“Nino, where’s Adrien?”
“Not sure, he hasn’t texted me about a photoshoot or anything”
The bell rang and everyone got to their seats as class started. Marinette wondered where Adrien could be today.
Just no more than five minutes into class, Adrien discreetly walks in looking like a wreck. It looks like he had less than 4 hours of sleep because he only had less than 4 hours of sleep. Luckily, since the teacher was writing on the board, he got to his seat without being noticed. Everyone in the class felt sorry for Adrien, even Marinette who felt as equally as tired.
“Dude, where were you?” Nino whispered.
“Didn’t get much sleep and slept in,” Adrien whispered, half asleep. The Akuma was hard last night and Plagg didn’t even try to wake me up but when I did get up he just complained that he didn’t get his morning cheese. Geez, I hope Ladybug is okay...
Class was slow, just writing notes and listening to the teacher. Once the bell rang, Marinette started to pack and leave to go help at the bakery. She waved her friends goodbye and she was outside the building, but then saw an akuma. Great…