Miraculous: The Next Guardian (Book 2)

New evil rises

It was beautiful noon in Paris. The sun shone brightly in the sky. And a cooling breeze blew through the city. The park was filled with people happily enjoying today weather. An old man was walking out of a store when two teenagers rushed in front of him causing him to slightly lose his balance.

"Hey!! Watch where you are going." He shouted.

"Sorry." One of them cried out. The man looked to the other side and found a crazy mad crowd following them.

Adrian Agreste and Marinette Dupain - Cheng were running as fast as they could, hoping to escape the crowd.

"In there." Adrien pointed at an alley. They both hid there. They watched as the crowd went past them.

"We're safe.....for now." He said. "Oh man, this is all my fault." He sat down and rested his head on the wall.

"Why? What happened?" She sat beside him.

"It all started when my father wanted to see me yesterday."

Yesterday.

"You wanted to see me, father?" Adrien said as entered his father's office.

"Sit down Adrien." His father gestured. Adrien obeyed.

"As you know you have a photo shoot tomorrow." His father began. Adrian began to worry. "Miss Lila will be joining you."

"I'm sorry, did you say Lila? As in Lila Rossi?" Gabriel nodded.

"But father," Adrien stood up. "You know she is a liar. I hate her. I don't want-"

"It's settled. You may be dismissed." His father returned to his monitor. Adrien exited the room without a word.

"I can't believe what your father did." Marinette interrupted.

"This isn't the worst part yet." He continued his backstory.

30 minutes earlier at the park.

"Ok people, 5 minutes left." Vincent, the photographer cried out. Lila was sitting on a chair waiting for Adrien to finish dressing. He got out of his tent with growling.

"Oh, hi Adrien-" Lila began but he interrupted instantly.

"Save your lies for someone else. I know you did something to convince my father to let you be here."

"Me? He asked me if I want to and I-"

"For once, will you stop lying." He shouted. Vincent noticed the heat rising between the two. He asked Adrien to talk to him privately.

"Monsieur Agreste, I know you don't like the girl. But do it for your father. At least this once." He said. "Let's start everyone." He shouted. The two teens started posing and Vincent started taking photos. At first, it was normal posing and smiling, then Vincent asked them to get closer.

Every time they had to stay close, hug or even hold hands, she always tries to bring him closer to her. As if she was trying to kiss him or even seduce him secretly.

In one of the photos. The duo has to stand in front of the fountain. They stood there and gave their best to the camera. After some shots, Adrien felt Lila's hand on his back, making its way to the bottom.

"Wait wait wait, you're saying she was trying to seduce you during the photoshoot? What did you do?" Marinette interrupted again.

"Yeah well, I said madly 'That's it', and then I pushed her backwards. She fell into the fountain and she got all soaked and wet." Marinette started laughing uncontrollably.