Hello! I'm back on Fan Fic for the first time in years! I may or may not continue to work on old works, but I may decide to rewrite them entirely. I am starting up with a new story in a different fandom. Miraculous Ladybug! I'm excited to write for you guys! I'm trying to incorporate more words, as well as better grammar into my writing; so if anything is wrong, please review! BTW this chapter may not be a thrill ride, but hold on. I promise I will make the story more interesting after I've set the foundation.

The sun is shining bright above the city of Paris, France. Kids are running around rejoicing over the blessing that is about to be bestowed; spring break!

At Collège Françoise Dupont, teenagers are restless to get out of school. Sitting and waiting impatiently for the bell to ring, the students listen to their teacher, Ms. Mendeleiev, give a monologue about how they should behave over the week that they will be out of school. At the end of the lengthy speech, the kid's ears perked up and fallen expressions crossed their faces. Ms. Mendeleiev has announced a biology project that her class is to be completed over the course of the break.

The project is to be completed preferably in groups of three (only individually if a person is going on a trip) and will include having to go out and observe an animal in it's natural habitat, record what is seen, and write a full page over the behavior of the specimen. The only fact that brought the students peace was that the groups were to be chosen rather than assigned.

Marinette had been building up courage to ask a certain blonde haired model in front of her to be her partner, and as soon as Ms. Mendeleiev had finished speaking, she tapped Adrien on the shoulder and smiled awkwardly, catching a glare from Chloé as she did so. Marinette opened her mouth and formed the question she wanted to ask without stumbling on any words. The girl had been hanging out more with Adrien lately, so her awkwardness had mostly gone away. Training for a video game tournament with someone really changes a relationship!

"Adrien, would you mind if I were one of your partners for the project?" Marinette asked with a sheepish smile plastered across her face.

The boy smiled in return, "Of course! I would love to," he paused for a moment and fixed a playful expression on his face before starting his sentence again, "as long as this is also a promise that I'll be receiving free food in return for giving you my service."

Marinette giggled as she nodded at him, "I guess that could be arranged as well!"

Adrien looked at Nino, "I'm going to go ahead and guess that you and Alya are going to be partners, am I right?"

Alya and Nino looked at each other mischievously, "You know it!" Nino exclaimed, his words followed by an agreement from Alya.

"I feel bad for the third wheel who's going to get stuck with you two!" Marinette laughed. Her statement about third wheels made her ponder for herself who was going to be her other partner, alongside Adrien. She looked around the room, Chloé had been swarmed by Sabrina and Kim the second their teacher had gotten through with her speech, effectively blocking Chloé from interfering with Marinette's plan, so those three were not candidates. Mylène and Rose had both expressed to the teacher how they were going to be gone on a vacation and would have to do their projects alone. Over in the corner, it was obvious to see that Juleka, Ivan, and Alix had already congregated into a group, leaving Max and Nathanaël both sitting by themselves. Nino called out to Max, bringing them to their group.

Nathanaël was in his own world again, sketching away with his pencil. It was most likely that he hadn't heard a word that Ms. Mendeleiev had said. Marinette looked at Adrien, who had been following his partner's gaze, and he smiled at her and got up to go talk to their red-headed class-mate.

The artist was so absorbed in his sketch that he didn't even notice Adrien approach him, so Adrien got into the row in front of Nathanaël's desk. After doing this Adrien proceeded to lay his chin down on the desk right in front of the red head's face, and stare at him until his classmate acknowledged his presence.

Nathanaël hurriedly closed his sketch book before saying anything to the blonde boy in front of him. "Hello Adrien," he said, "is there anything you need?"

Adrien grinned, "Yes! Ms. Mendeleiev assigned a biology project that has to be completed over break, we have to be in groups of three. Marinette and I were wondering if you would like to be the third and final member of our group, would you please join us?"

Nathanaël looked over to Marinette, who waved to him and gave him a kind smile, and blushed red as his hair, "Yeah, I guess I'll join you guys…" He said as he fiddled with his mechanical pencil.

As Adrien walked back over to Marinette, he gave her the thumbs up sign and sat down a moment later. All the groups were formed and completed by the time the bell rang to release the students from their final class of the day.

Everyone quickly made their way to the classroom door, ready to escape school, and started to head home. As Marinette was about to exit the school grounds, she felt a tap on her shoulder. When she turned around she saw Nathanaël look into her eyes. "Marinette, I'm sorry for interrupting you on your way home, but could you please exchange cell phone numbers with me since we're partners?"

"Of course!" Marinette replied cheerfully, "I'm so dumb for not thinking of that while we were in the classroom!" She said as she punched herself in the head playfully. Both pulled out their respective phones, then opened up the "add contact" feature. They swapped phones and added in their name and number.

"Is it okay if I add a picture of myself for the sake of having a contact picture?" Asked Marinette, already opening up the camera on Nathanaël's phone.

Blushing, he replied, "Yes! That's okay with me."

"You get in it too! That'd be fun!" The pigtailed girl said as she started playing with camera filters. The redhead scooted over closer to her nervously and gave a sheepish smile to the camera as Marinette said "Cheese!" and punched down on the camera button.

"Now hand me my phone so I can take one on there. It really bothers me when things aren't all organized on my phone. I like to have pictures for everyone!" She explained as he handed her phone back over to her, with his information added. "Is it okay if I call you Nathan?" She smiled as he nodded. Giggling, she exclaimed "Cheese!" again as she took a picture on her phone.

Nathan looked at the picture and smiled, "You're so nice Marinette! I'm really excited to work on this project with you and Adrien!"

"I'm super excited as well! You're also pretty interesting yourself Nathan!" Marinette giggled as she remembered when he had been turned into le Dessinateur and had drew her a whole scene with a mini Eiffel tower as they drifted down le Seine, of course the moment had been a set up to take his akuma, but it had still been nice of him to draw that for her, "I'm looking forward to getting to know you better!" Marinette turned to leave, "I'll text you later!" She said as she walked towards her family's bakery.

The blue eyed girl hummed as she walked the streets of Paris to get home. She looked into the windows of tiny shops she passed with interest. Her vibrant eyes shined as she saw a tiny boutique with the words "Annual spring sale! Everything 40% off!" hanging on a sign in the window. She ran inside with glee and looked at all of the beautiful clothes. She quickly found a red pair of high waisted jeans with white stitching, pocket, and buttons. Marinette browsed the shelves for a cute top to go with her new find, eventually finding a black and white vertically striped crop top that was long enough to reach the top of her newfound jeans and not show her midriff.

Marinette asked the brunette girl, who she assumed was the employee on duty, sitting at the counter by the register if she could get into a dressing room. The employee took out some keys and led Mari over to the rooms, took a sign with the number 2 on it, and unlocked a dressing room, putting the two on the dressing room door.

"If you need anything, please tell me." The brunette said, smiling at Marinette. Mari quickly changed out of her regular outfit and tried her new one on. It looked perfect on her! The blue-haired girl knew it would work out great, after all, she was an aspiring fashion designer! Mari changed back into her normal outfit, and walked out to the register. "Did you find everything alright?" The clerk asked as Marinette set her new clothes on the counter and pulled out her debit card. "Yes ma'am I did!"

The clerk swiped Marinette's card, gave it back to her along with a receipt, and wished Marinette a good day as she headed out of the boutique.

Mari walked into the bakery portion of her house and was met with warm greetings from her parents, who informed the girl that Adrien had came over immediately after school let out to inform them of his, Marinette's, and Nathanaël's project. Marinette's blue eyes grew to the size of saucers as her parents continued to inform her that they had went ahead and sent Adrien to her room, and that he was waiting for her up there so they could discuss their project.

The girl sprinted frantically up to her room. She forgot if she had taken down her posters of him, and thought, "stupid, stupid, stupid!" to herself as she threw open the hatch to her room. She glanced at her walls, relieved that the posters were down, remembering that she had taken them down when she and Adrien were playing video games in preparation of a tournament they were chosen to compete in.

"What's the rush?" Adrien asked, startled by the speed at which Marinette had thrown her hatch open.

"Oh!" Said Marinette, "Nothing, nothing, Just… wanted to tell you I'm so excited to work on this project!" The girl laughed awkwardly and Adrien snorted out a laugh because of the expression on her face. She hadn't been that awkward around him for about two weeks now, so it was amusing to see that look on her face again.

"Alright Marinette, whatever you say…" Adrien said playfully.

"Hey I really am! Speaking of that project though, shouldn't we have Nathanaël here too if we're discussing it?" Asked the blue-haired girl.

"I was going to call him once I got here," Adrien started, "but I don't know his number!"

Marinette sighed, "Why didn't you get it from him at school?"

The boy smiled sheepishly, "Haha… Oops!" Marinette giggled, thinking how cute Adrien looked when he smiled so innocently like that. "It's alright, I'll call him." she said as she tore her eyes off of Adrien and picked up phone.

Adrien was strangely curious at why Marinette had Nathanaël's phone number, he didn't recall them ever talking in class. If fact, the red-haired boy rarely ever spoke in class at all. He always kind of just blended into the background, never pulling his head up from his art when the class had free time. The only interaction between Marinette and the ginger that Adrien could recall was when Hawk Moth had targeted Nathanaël, and he asked her out on a date after he had been infested with an akuma. He only remembered that because Ladybug had asked him to protect Marinette. Ah! His lady, Adrien couldn't believe he had almost forgotten about his bug! He was almost feeling jealous about another girl other than Lady! He thought it an oddity that that would happen, was his heart betraying him? The green-eyed boy shook his head, bringing himself back to reality. No, he did not romantically like Marinette, that pang is his chest was a fluke. His lady was always Lady, there was not room for a princess as well in the secret corners of his heart.

Adrien came out of his thoughts and into the real world when he heard an exasperated sigh from Marinette. "Nathan won't pick up!" She explained to her companion. "Do you want me to give you his phone number? I figure it would be mean to not let him in on our plans. I'll make a group text message with the two of you after I give his number to you."

There it was, another pang. Nathan? She hardly knew the guy and was shortening his name into a nickname. Adrien shook his head again to rid himself of this odd feeling, earning a puzzled look from Marinette while doing so, "You don't want his number?" She asked, thinking that his head shake was a no to her question.

It took Adrien a little bit to realize that was what she implied his shake to be. "No no, I got chills, yeah, I got chills! So I had to shake them out, but yeah of course I want Nathanaël's number! Can you lend me your phone so I can see his contact info?"

Marinette had to focus really hard not to blush at how cute Adrien was when he had to shake off his chills (which was a lie by the way), so when she told him he could see her phone her words came out slurred, making Adrien laugh. Well, the boy was laughing until he saw Nathanaël's contact in Marinette's phone.

Adrien plastered a smile on his face to mask the his jealousy that arose in his chest when he looked at the picture. He looked away from her phone for a second, seriously confused, and took a deep breath. He slowly turned his face to her phone again and hastily typed the number on her screen into his own phone. He basically threw her phone back at her trying to quickly get the picture out of his face, although he didn't realize that he had actually thrown it hard enough to inflict pain, until it smacked her in the arm and a confused look appeared on her face.

"Sorry," he said quickly, getting up to check if there was a bruise on her arm, "I'm not feeling well today, and I'm a little out of it." He said, figuring it was a true enough statement. The blonde sat beside Marinette and took her arm in his hand to examine it. His green eyes met her blue ones as he was going to tell her that he didn't think her arm would bruise, when his heart started beating rapidly and he felt blood rise to his cheeks.

Marinette's face contorted with worry, she held up her hand to his forehead, causing his heart to do another flip, "You feel awfully warm Adrien! I think you need to go home and get some rest if you aren't feeling well. Can you walk or take a bus back home? Or do we need to call someone to come get you?"

"Yeah, I should probably go. I need to get some rest and think…" He looked back up at Marinette, who was still looking like she was about to have a heart attack from her worry, "Don't worry about me though Marinette! I'll be fine, and I'll also be fine with taking a bus home."

The two left her room and went to exit the bakery, when Marinette's dad offered each of them a croissant. Adrien took it gratefully and hastily exited the shop.

Marinette watched until she couldn't see him anymore.

"What's wrong with him today?" He asked, with the same worried face that Mari had on her face.

"He's not feeling well." She answered as she started nibbling on her croissant.

Wow. Sorry this chapter is kind of short. But to be fair, when I'm typing this in doc. form it's about 5 pages. I'll try to make chapters around 10-15 pages. Idk how long this will be, but in the mean time please enjoy my terrible garbage ideas that are in fact, actual garbage. It's taking so much for me not to make Mari sassy and sarcastic towards Adrien. I know she could talk like that w/ Chat, but I feel like it's out of character for Mari to sass sweetie Adrien. I hope my writing style improves during this experimental story. I haven't written a narrative in a long time so plz bear with me.