*A new MLB story, which I do not own. This one inspired by the comic strips by Zaheela, check them out!

Felix couldn't have been any more annoyed if he had tried. His mother had found out about the whole incident with Adrien's video messages and she had been so disappointed that he would do such a thing. Normally, he wouldn't have even bothered pulling a stunt like that, never risk something blowing back on his mother. He had only wanted an excuse to go back to London quickly so he could snatch the ring from his uncle, make his mother happy, and be gone before the man even realized it was missing.

Now his mother had decided that he must be acting out from grief and needed a change of scenery, so she had asked his uncle to let him stay and finish out the school year with Adrien. To his utter shock, his uncle had agreed, with the stipulation that he attend school with Adrien as to not interrupt him while doing business, to which his mother agreed.

This now left him condemned to spend the next few months in Paris with Adrien and his friends. Even now, Adrien's bodyguard was driving them to a houseboat on the Seine where some of them had gathered to officially meet him. Adrien was prattling on about how he had spoken to all of them, that they knew that the whole incident had meant to be a practical joke on him, and they were willing to give Felix a second chance.

Today, he was going to be introduced to members of the band Kitty Section, one of the most absurd names for a band that he had heard of, one of the member's girlfriends, and Adrien's three closest friends: Nino, Alya, and Marinette. Not that he cared if any of them were interested in being friends, as they were all irrelevant in his eyes. However, he knew that any serious misbehavior would no doubt get back to his mother, and that was something he did care about.

He was introduced to everyone very quickly and, in his opinion, he had been correct in his initial evaluation of Adrien's friends. Felix was most sure of the girl, Marinette. She spent the majority of the introduction sighing and staring at his cousin, which he found extremely annoying. Why his uncle allowed such a blatant fan-girl that was only interested in his cousin's fame and looks to be friends with his son was beyond him. Just looking at her, there didn't seem to be anything note-worthy other than she was moderately attractive. That thought gave Felix the urge to enact his own little protest at his current situation. And perhaps it will be entertaining to cause a bit of discord between Adrien and his friends.

He waited for his cousin to finish leading him down the line before he was final in front of the pale girl in pigtails. "And this is Marinette Dupain-Cheng, she was my first official friend at school, even though we had a rocky start."

The girl gave a slight blush at Adrien's introduction, although it wasn't enough for his oblivious cousin to notice, before turning her attention to Felix. She gave him a kind smile as she extended her hand to him. "It's nice to officially meet you, Felix. Adrien has been really excited about you staying in Paris. I hope that we can be friends."

Taking her hand, he gave her a charming smile that had flustered and disarmed multiple girls in the past before leaning in a little closer to her face, causing her to blush again. Just as I suspected, nothing but a fickle girl who will switch her crush at a moments notice, he thought, not relenting his grip on her hand. "Has anyone told you that you are very cute?" He asked her. Without giving her the opportunity to respond, he leaned forward the meager distance between them and pressed his lips to hers.

Having let his eyes stay open so he could not only see her reaction, but everyone else's reactions, he became confused by what he saw and heard. There were the expected gasps of surprise. The boy named Luka seemed ready to rush over and separate the two of them, not surprising since he got the sense that the boy had feelings for Marinette. What confused him were the looks of total fear and horror that overtook most of their features. He even caught a glimpse of Nino hastily pulling Adrien back while barring his girlfriend, Alya, from approaching.

All of that occurred in the moment he kissed Marinette. Then there was a hard shove to his chest and a stinging pain that radiated from his left cheek that made his head snap sharply to the right. There was shock as Felix realized that he had been struck, followed by an eye-full of a teenage girl in, what appeared to be, a righteous fit of anger.

"YOU DISGUSTING CREEP! YOU PERVERT! HOW DARE YOU KISS ME WITHOUT MY PERMISSION! Do you even care how inappropriate that was? That could be my first kiss! I could have a boyfriend! GRR! It's guys like you that make good guys like Nino, Kim, and Ivan so protective of their girlfriends. Guys like you are the reason girls walk in groups wherever they go and why my mother taught me how to defend myself by the time I was ten!"

Embarrassed and in pain from being hit, Felix forgot to check his anger as he got back in her face. "You know what I would consider inappropriate? Being struck without a good reason or warning. Listening to your righteous speech on sexism when all I did was kiss you once. The way you were smiling at me, you were practically asking for it."

He barely had time to hear the others muttering "uh-oh" before Marinette was moving. For many years, Felix had considered himself very skilled in evasion and hand-to-hand combat, he had even taken into account that Marinette mentioned being taught to fight by her mother. Yet he was still unprepared and he had moved himself too close to properly block her attack. She didn't strike him this time. Instead, she had spun him around and placed him into a very precarious position with his body leaning backwards over the railing of the boat, his feet off the deck, and his fingers barely able to reach one of the lower railings. As it were, if the angry girl released her grip on his tie or the fabric tore, he would be going head first into the Seine.

"Allow me to make something perfectly clear to you," she said in a cold voice that could rival his Uncle Gabriel when he was angry. "When you sent us that video and got not one, but three of my friends akumatized, I would have been happy to never see you again. I was only willing to give you a second chance because Adrien is my friend and he asked me to. Then you had to ruin it. Adrien had faith in you, his family, then you had to make that faith and trust seem like nothing and it makes me feel really sad for him, especially for the future.

"And, according to my mother, people who use the 'they were asking for it' excuse are the ones who will eventually go to jail for physical or sexual assault. And since it's clear that you don't have enough respect for your cousin or girls like me to check your inappropriate behavior, then you should think about how your actions reflect on the rest of your family. Do you want someone looking at your mother and thinking that your behavior is her fault? For her to be shamed for raising a son who doesn't understand personal boundaries?"

Thinking of his mother had a sobering effect him. What she would have said if she had seen what he'd done, kissing a girl who clearly hadn't wanted to be touched and then blaming her for his own actions. Thinking of that sad, heartbroken look on her face after everything that she had gone through, after losing his father... He could never do that to her.

Marinette seemed to have seen his expression change and realize that she had gotten her point across. There was a solid jerk to his tie and he was back on the deck, coughing for air as he quickly loosened the fabric to breathe. Everyone was staring at them, Alya had even gotten her phone out at some point and had no doubt recorded part of it, if not all of it. Glancing up at Marinette, she had her eyes closed as she inhaled and exhaled with controlled breaths to calm herself. When she finally opened her eyes, she plainly stated "I'm going home", before stomping down the plank and onto the street.

She had barely walked away before Luka cleared his throat. "I'm going to walk Marinette home," he said before hurrying after her. It seemed everyone realized without saying it, that he was going with her to calm her down so she wouldn't be akumatized rather than to protect her.

Felix couldn't help but stare after her as he regained his breath. That had been far from how he had expected her to react from his kiss. Melt at his feet, stutter and blush, kiss him back, maybe even become so embarrassed that she runs off. He never would have expected the skill she displayed at rendering him unable to fight back while speaking to him in a way that actually made him ashamed of his actions.

When he finally looked back at everyone else, he wasn't surprised to see that his cousin was still shell-shocked. He doubted that Marinette had ever done such a thing in front of him before. The others, however, looked at him with one very clear message in their eyes. That after what he had done and said… He had been asking for it.

AN: This will be much longer than my previous MLB stories and will include Felinette pairing, Lila salt, minor Adrien salt followed by Adrien redemption, and finally some class redemption with Lila justice. I'm not going to say how all of it will happen, but I will be posting the chapters pretty quickly (I hope) so please enjoy! Warm-Fuzzies and please review!