Chapter One: Little Talks

AN: Hello again! I made a new story and I hope that you will like it! I started it off with a little Alya and Marinette friend bonding, because I really need more of that in my life, those two are so silly! GURL TALKS

I also apologize for any mistakes I made right now, because I probably made quite a few.

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Miraculous Ladybug, or characters from it, nor do I own the Hulk, of which Marvel owns, and I made a simple reference.

Marinette was sewing a new skirt to wear, when Alya arrived at her house.

"Hi Marinette!" she yelled cheerfully up the stairs from the bakery.

"Hi Alya, I am just trying to finish up this skirt here. I will be with you in a second!" Marinette tied off the end of the thread.

Alya's head popped into her room, "That's okay Marinette, you're mom let me up."

The pair laid down on Marinette's bed, Marinette had gone straight home from school to work on her skirt, which was unusual. On a normal day, Alya and Marinette waited for Adrien to leave, before they each found their way home.

"Did you see Adrien's new jacket today?" Alya asked eagerly, waiting to see Marinette's reaction, testing her.

"Hmm? Oh yeah, it was great," she still sounded distracted.

"I knew it!" Alya accused. "You have been distracted all day, and you just proved it!"

"What do you mean?" Marinette asked, now paying full attention of their conversation.

"Adrien didn't wear a new jacket today, and normally, you would have noticed that in a millisecond! Now, tell me, what is really up?"

Marinette sighed, "I guess that I can't hide anything from you, can I?" Alya gave her a look, "Fine," Alya squealed.

"Spill!" she patted the blankets and grabbed a pillow, making herself comfortable on Marinette's bed.

"There, well, there's this guy-"

"Alya cut her off with a squeal, "It's Adrien isn't it?!"

Marinette looked down at her hands, "Well, it's not really-" Alya cut her off again.

"It's not Adrien? Girl, you better tell me all about this guy right this very instant! I can't believe that you didn't tell me about this! You have some explaining to-"

"Alya," Marinette sighed, finally cutting off her rant for once, "what do you think I was trying to do?"

Alya's mouth dropped open into a slight 'o' shape.

"Yeah, that's what I thought. Now, I met this guy, a while back," Alya looked ready to interrupt, until Marinette gave her a look. Alya raised her arms up in surrender. "You see, we sort of hit it off, and hung out. Of course, like any good thing, it had to end." Marinette sighed.

"Then what?" Alya leaned into Marinette's story.

"Well, we said goodbye to each other, but we sort of forgot to get each other's contacts."

The way Marinette said that made it sound more of a question. Marinette hated that she had to lie to her friend, but knew that she couldn't tell her the truth.

Alya groaned loudly, "I can't believe you, possibly the best thing that's happened to you, to get you over Adrien, and you forget to get his damn cell-phone number!"

"Hold on a second! I wasn't finished, we ran into each other recently, and we hit it off again. He then asked for my number, he said that there were so many fakers out there, and that he didn't want to lose the opportunity to get my number again. So we exchanged numbers, and have been texting since."

Alya sighed and looked over at Marinette. Marinette stared back, "What? Why are you looking at me like that?"

"You are so lucky! That's so romantic! I wish someone liked me, I mean you have people just falling all over for you, first Nathaniel and now this mystery man," she said frustratedly.

"Oh Alya," Marinette hugged her, "I love you, but you are so blind! Nino has been falling all over you ever since you met in grade one!"

Alya scoffed, "No way, I don't believe you."

Marinette laughed, "Don't pretend I don't see you texting him all the time, who knows what you guys are always talking about, maybe I should take a look sometime," she hummed and then winked at Alya. Her face grew bright red.

"I-I have no idea what you're talking about, Nino and I only text occasionally," Marinette raised her eyebrows, "Okay, a little more than that, but either way, he isn't interested in me!"

"You know da Nile isn't just a river in Egypt," Marinette laughed at the pun she made, while Alya sat unamused.

"I am not in denial!" she huffed.

"That's only what a person in denial would say."

Alya mumbled some choice words, Marinette always forgot that her friend could go from one to ten real quick; one moment she's gushing about her Ladyblog, and the next, she gets mad, and the Hulk comes out, swearing like a sailor.

"You know," Marinette pretended to ponder, even putting a finger on her chin, "Nino has been dropping hints for you since the first time he knew what his feelings were."

"No way," Alya continued to deny everything.

"Yeah way, he always seems to pair with you doesn't he? You both somehow wrote the script together, suspicious hmm?" she prodded.

Alya blew a raspberry. She wasn't very convinced, but Marinette had her like a fish on a hook.

"Maybe you should meet him, confess your feelings to him. Ask him to go out for coffee or something, I'm sure he would say yes."

"Oh boy, the rolls sure have reversed," Alya snorted, and pondered it for a moment, or at least pretended that she hadn't decided in the first second that Marinette mentioned it. "I think I will. Marinette, would you mind if I went now?" she said eagerly.

Alya quickly changed to a cool demeanor, "I mean, you kind of have me hyped up on this idea, so I might as well see it through, you know see how it plays out." She started to pack up her stuff. Marinette realized that she wasn't listening and added something in.

"Oh yeah, no problem, as long as you don't mind my jumping off this balcony in my Ladybug transformation to meet my mysterious texting buddy who really is just Chat Noir, my partner. But, that's fine, go off into the world, date Nino, get married, have kids," Marinette finished off, but Alya was already halfway to the door.

"Great, thanks Marinette! See you later!" Alya was already out the door, she hadn't heard a single thing that Marinette had uttered.

Tikki flew out of her purse, "Don't you think that was a little risky? Actually, a lot risky?"

"I knew that she wasn't listening. The second that I said Nino, she zoned out," Marinette replied.

"She really likes him then," Tikki's laugh tinkled through the room like a little bell.

Marinette smiled, "Yeah, she does."

"So, are you going to text Chat now?" Tikki pried.

"You know, I think I will."

That night Marinette texted Chat until the sun started to rise, she smiled, and then decided that she should try to get a couple hours.

She texted him one last time.

LB: Goodnight, or should I say good morning, my silly kitty. Sweet dreams xoxo

AN: So, that's chapter one! Yayy! I will try to balance this story and my other one, but I just really wanted to get this out there! I will try to keep them relatively long, even though 1,000+ words really isn't that impressive. But eh, I tried.

I hoped that you liked it, and that you leave your reviews, favorites, and follows! They help me get better, and let me know what you guys want to see more of, or less of! Don't be afraid, JUST DO IT! Thanks for reading!