Disclaimer: I do not own Miraculous characters, but the story is mine. Request from joebev910. Lemon warning! Enjoy!

It has been five years, five years since Marinette had such high hopes to win Adrien's affections; five years of confessing to him from the bottom of her heart. Writing him anonymous love letters, Valentine's Day cards, making him sweets and sending them to him, and for five years he'd been (nicely) rejecting her. Telling her that he just didn't feel that way about her, and for five years Marinette had hoped that she would change his mind. And for five years, Chloe would brush away her honey blonde hair and laugh at Marinette's pain, whilst Sabrina felt somewhat sorry for Marinette, but still sided with Chloe. But one afternoon, Marinette had finally decided that Adrien would never reciprocate her feelings and Marinette was twenty years old now and in college. She didn't have time to continue pursuing Adrien and focused on her degree in fashion design. But of course it goes without saying that Marinette had gone through several batches of raw cookie dough, Ben & Jerry's ice cream, and cried her eyes out until she had finally accepted the fact that Adrien would never love her as she loved him. Thus as fate would have it, Adrien wound up going to the same college and he and Chloe began dating, to which did not entirely shock Marinette. Chloe had always been clingy and they'd been childhood friends, so perhaps he saw a side of her that no one else had seen; but either way, Marinette still cried after she'd found out.

"Hey Alya." Marinette was FaceTiming her best friend Alya who'd gone to another college a couple of hours away from Marinette (who wasn't able to get a roommate).

"Hey girl, so what's going on?" Alya's dark reddish-brown wavy hair with copper red tips had grown out, nearly at her waist. She still wore her black-rimmed glasses with a white spot on each side, that somehow didn't hide her beautiful hazel eyes and somehow accented the beauty mark above her right eyebrow. She was wearing her Ladybug PJ's and had a cup in her hands, showing off her engagement ring.

"Not much, I'm sure you already know about Adrien and Chloe." Marinette rolled her eyes as Alya tensed, trying to change the topic.

"Well you know Nino and I set a date for the wedding, we want it to be a winter wedding, and my dress is going to be a peach color to accent my mocha skin. I was hoping you'd design it for me?" Alya always knew how to get Marinette's attention.

"Oh really? Sounds challenging, but you know how busy I am right now. But I can get some sketches done by the end of the week." Marinette smiled, knowing the job of a maid of honor was never done.

"Great! So any cute boys on campus?" Alya raised an eyebrow as Marinette made a strange face.

"What no." She began curling her mid-length navy hair as her bright blue eyes darted about the room.

"There are cute boys! You should totally get your flirt on girl!" Alya encouraged her as Marinette blushed.

"Oh I don't know Alya, I'm just not wanting to get into the dating field yet." Marinette looked down at her old T-shirt and dirty sweats. She knew what she really needed was to get into a hot shower and buy some new clothes.

"Well you'll never know who the right guy is unless you get out there. Listen, I gotta go, Nino's coming over. I'll talk to you later, and Marinette, take care ok?" Alya sounded rather serious at the latter as Marinette nodded, she put her phone down and got out some clean clothes, jumping in the shower and going straight to bed.