New York, New York

Stark expo part 1

*Nino|Carapace*

I woke up the next morning ready for the day. Well, as prepared as I could be for our last full day in America. Gotta admit, it's not as nice as Paris, but it's a pretty cool dude.

"Wake up dude!" I said shaking Adrien awake.

"Ugh Nino, do I have to?" He said turning over to face me.

"Um yeah dude, of course, we can't be late, Mr.Harington said that he wanted us to meet in the hotel lobby at exactly 6:30 so we can get to the Expo by 7:00, opening time," I replied.

"I just want to sleep and spend the rest of the day in bed. Is that too much to ask?"

"DUDE! THIS IS YOUR LAST FULL DAY WITHOUT YOUR FATHER BREATHING DOWN YOUR BACK! ENJOY YOURSELF AND DON'T JUST STAY IN BED!" I yelled before slapping my hand over my mouth hoping no one heard me.

Right on que, someone knocked on the door. I opened it up to find that girl from the Midtown team that Alya talked to a lot. I think her name was Betty.

"Aaaaaaaanything I can do for you dudette?" I asked leaning on the door frame.

"Yeah, um are you okay? Cause I just heard you yelling and I'm not sure if our teachers heard or not but you definitely disturbed the sleep of a few," She said grimacing.

"Oh yeah, I was just trying to motivate Adrien and get him out of bed," I replied keeping my cool.

"You might want to do that soon, after all, it's 5:50. We're leaving at 6:30 so you only have 40 minutes," She said gesturing to her watch before she turned to answer one of her friends who called her over to show something.

I groaned.

"C'mon dude wake up!"

"Ugh fine, but only because we're running short on time," He said as he got up and took his clothes to the bathroom in order to get ready.

Ten minutes later he still wasn't out.

"Dude! Seriously? How long does it take?!"

"Relax, I'm done. As if you get ready any faster."

"I'm just stressed out cause I don't want to miss breakfast! It's the most important meal of the day," I said exasperatly.

"Ok ok, let's go down and see if the girls have sorted out their problems."

"Unlikely," I said and we both snorted.

We both came down to breakfast to see 2 very angry girls sitting across the room from each other shooting each other deadly glares. Both were accompanied by one of the kids from Midtown who they seemed to be talking to. Presumably telling their side of the story as the kids with them were writing things down and nodding.

I walked over to Alya who was talking about it to Peter who was recording it on his laptop.

"I just get so frustrated sometimes because Marinette can be so- UGH! You know what I mean?" Alya was saying as I came into earshot.

"Yeah, yeah, I mean friends can be that way. You just need some time to sort through some stuff. That's all," Peter said.

"I guess. I mean, our relationship was a bit rocky after the whole Lila drama after she said something that unraveled all of her lies for me cause I had already said some stuff and Marinette was pretty close with Chloe of all people and it's not that I hate her, not anymore, but it bothers me."

"Yeah, Alya it's fine, jealousy is natural."

"But it's not that! It's the fact that she was as close with Chloe, the girl who bullied her for ages as she was with me! They were like this," She said crossing her fingers in a way that mocked what Lila did when she was talking about her fake friendship with Ladybug and team Miraculous.

"Hold on a second, let me just-" Peter said getting up and walking to the table that his friends were at.

I took this as my opportunity to approach Alya.

"Hey babe," I said sitting down in the seat that was once occupied by Peter.

"Hey," She said taking off her glasses to rub her eyes.

"I see you've had a pretty eventful morning already," I said.

"Yeah. Here, you can have the rest of my breakfast. I don't feel like eating anymore," She said pushing her plate towards me.