The next day, I woke up on time for once. Not early, not late, but right when the alarm started blaring. Lila and I were the only ones still in bed; I'd learned that Rose and Maddie were both early risers. Lucky them.

Skipping breakfast, I rushed out of bed, took a shower, brushed my teeth and hair, and I got dressed. I wore a short, flowy dress with butterfly sleeves and a v-neck neckline. The dress was solid light grey with silver rhinestones on the top half and a baby pink belt. To finish the look, I wore white high heeled sandals, and pink eiffel tower earings that peeked out from behind my hair. I wanted to get dressed up since all we had today was the judging for the most part.

Half an hour later, I was in the empty sewing room finishing the hem line on the bottom of the skirt when Tim called out that our models were here. I peeked out of the sewing room to annouunce where I was to Samara, my model and she came over, red hair flowing behind her as she strudded her expert walk.

"Once I'm done with this hem, We'll do a final fitting before hair and make-up. Until then you can just hang out okay?" I said while sewing once she came in.

"Sounds good. So what made you decide to do a civil war era?" Samara was talkative and while that may bother some designers, I was sincerly glad for the company. I was usually alone while designing at home but here I can chat with my model, exchange jokes with Maddie, and gossip with Rose. It may not be the best for my concentration but It was really fun being with people I had common intrests with. At school I never really got along with the other kids.

As I chatted with Samara and sewed, Maddie came in with Adrien in tow. Adrien was completly shirtless and only in Maddie's 70's pants. I unconciously stopped sewing to stare at him while Samara blabbered on about how she loved 'Gone with the Wind'.

"Oh, hi Mari! Aparrently Adrien's muscles are much bigger than what I thought I'd measured so I have to fix the shirt." Maddie anpinced, waving at me. This drew Adrien's attention towards me. He smiled and held out a hand to me to shake. I took it, fighting off my blush, and he gave me a hearty shake.

"So this must be the Marinette that Maddie keeps telling me about. Nice to meet you!" He said. My heart literaly froze. She told him about me! How much though? Apparently my thoughts showed on my face because Adrien chuckled.

"Don't worry, nothing bad or private, I assure you." He held up three fingers. He certanly didn't act or talk like a playboy, and he seemed polite enough. Plus, despite my short dress and somewhat low neckline, his striking green eyes never left my face. Was Maddie right? Had I jumped to conclutiouns just because of Chloè?

"Well, th-that is a belief. I mean that is a relief!" Oh, crap, I'm stammering and not even talking right! For Pete's sake I'm a grown twenty-one year old, not a silly school girl!

He chuckled again, such a musical sound, and walked over to Maddie who was sewing at a desk beside me and obviously trying to hide a grin.

Trying to forget what just happened and the shirtless Adrien in the room, I continued sewing as Samara stared at me with her mouth partly agape.

"You have a crush on him don't you!?" She said. I could tell she meant it to be a whisper but I just knew Adrien and Maddie heard her. They were, after all, right beside us.

Maddie looked over at my model and me with an amused expression and Adrien with a suprised one.

"Oops." Samara shyly whispered. I frowned at her but quickly softened my expression when I saw how sorry she looked. It wasn't her fault after all. Well, it was, but she didn't mean to. Maybe the is still hope to make it seem like she didn't mean him...

"Ah, yes Samara, I-I do have a small crush on Jack Frost from "Rise of the Gardians". You caught me!" I said it a bit high pitched but by Adrien's suddenly bored expression, he believe it. Of course, Maddie didn't; she was pretending to cough but she was actually hiding snickers.

"Well, it was pretty easy to figure out!" Samara said. I could tell she was grateful that I'd thought of that.

"Oh, darn, was I really that bad!"

"Don't worry, I get it it. He is pretty hot." She winked, signaling that she was actally saying Adrien was hot, not Jack Frost. Luckily Adrien hadn't caught on. Meanwhile, Maddie could barly cover up her laughs with coughing; she knew where Samara was getting.

"Well, I finished, cough, fixing the, cough, shirt. I'll see you, cough, later Marinette!" Maddie exclaimed, disguising her laughs. She walked out of the room with Adrien following but when he reached the door he winked at me before leaving. I let out a sqeak. He winked! Did it mean something? Could he actually know what Samara meant, that we weren't talking about Jack Frost! I tried to shake my brain's riciculous thoughts and got back to work. Samara was silent for once as I sewed.

This was short but at least it was updated quickly! Less than 24 hours I think. I hope you had as much fun reading this as I did writing it.

Okay, so I want you to take a moment to envision Marinette's outfit. Wouldn't she just look adorable in that grey dress!

So just so you know, I do take suggestions/requests. I may not always use yours but it might at least give me inspiration. One thing I would definatly like help with is designing challenges. I only have two made up but they are for major plot point and I can't use them until later. So leave your thoughts in the comments!

Bye, happy spring break, happy writing/reading!