Felix never wanted this. He didn't care about having a normal life, it wasn't in his lifestyle. But his mother ordered him to attend the same high school as his cousin.
What a nuisance.
Now he was stuck with his coward of a cousin, dumb classmates...
Adrien. A few months ago the name was like honey to Marinette's ears but now it was pure venom. She loved him. key word 'loved'. Now she couldn't even stand the sight of him. She loathes him with all her heart.
"Hello Marinette," he said with a cheery voice. Marinette simply gave him a blank stare before trying to walk away from him. Again, key word tried.
"Wait! I wanted to speak with you about something," he quickly said while grabbing a hold of her wrist. Marinette wanted to say no, but she didn't want to be rude. "What," she commanded with authority in her voice.
She noticed Adrien shiver at her tone. She felt satisfied that she was able to scare him a bit. Adrien shook his head to snap out of the shock. "Well I wanted to tell you to please not call Lila on her lies. They aren't really hurting anyone."
Marinette's eyes twitched in anger. Really?! How did I fall for a spineless coward like him? "Adrien let go of me now," she commanded. She didn't want to be touched or be near him any longer.
"No, not until you agree with me," he reasoned. He wanted to make her understand. "Let. Go. Of. Me." she coldly said. Adrien seemed to not listen. He left me no choice.
Marinette raised her hand to slap him but didn't when she felt another hand on her wrist. She looked over and saw Felix. "Did you ever hear about consent cousin?" With that he separated her and Adrien's hand. Wait!? Cousin?
Marinette looked over at both of them flabbergasted at the sudden information. "C-cousins?" Was the only thing she could get out of her mouth.
"Yes," Felix simply answered before turning back to Adrien. Oh boy...
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Although Felix didn't know Marinette, he wasn't going to let his cousin treat a girl in such a way. Ever since birth they were both groomed to be gentlemens. And right now what Adrien was doing was far beyond what they were raised to do.
Felix looked at his cousin with the same look he would give him whenever he did something wrong. Felix knew how it affected him. That look held years and years of scolds and punishments from him and his father.
"Now Adrien you wouldn't want your father to hear about this now don't you?" He sneered. Adrien froze and gulped at the thought of his father. "N-no," he stuttered in fear. "Good, then apologize to the lady," he commanded.
Like Felix said he felt responsible for the boy. So if he had to humiliate him in front of all these people just so he could learn from his mistakes, he would gladly do it again. And honestly he felt a bit of satisfaction from the weakness of the poor boy.
Adrien thought for a second before responding, "s-sorry Marinette." Felix looked back at the girl and noticed she had a small, mischievous smile on her face. Interesting. "It's okay, just don't let it happen again or I will slap you," she said coldly. He looked back at his cousin who just simply nodded before walking away. What a coward.
"Thank you," he looked back at the bluenette. She had a warm smile with her eyes closed covering her beautiful bluebell eyes. Felix simply nodded, "he's like that sometimes, what a nuisance," he mumbled the last part so she wouldn't hear it.
Apparently she did by her next response, "tell me about," she sighed. He looked back at her with an amused face. "You don't seem too fond of him," he stated. "Was it that obvious," she joked.
"Yes, very much. It's just that people tend to fall for Mr. Perfect before they get to know him," he said. He heard a quiet giggle from the bluenette. "Adrien is far from perfect, he's more of a spineless coward," she said between laughs.
Felix couldn't help but enjoy the sound of her laughter. It wasn't forced or faked like others. It felt real and warm. Hhmm... Weird... "You've got that right," he responded once she was done laughing.
Marinette straightened herself, "well I should go now, thanks again Felix," she said. Felix slightly frowned at the thought of her leaving. Already? I was actually having a good time talking to her. He nodded before they both walked away.
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After the events that took place during lunch time, the whole school day went by quickly. Marinette was already heading towards Andre's, whose location was now in the Eiffel Tower. Once she was there, she waited for Sneaky to come.
After a couple of minutes, Marinette felt a sudden weight on her shoulder. "Mari~ I missed you!" Marinette looked up and saw Sneaky. Well only a part of her hair since the rest of her was hidden in the hood.
"I missed you too, Sneaky," she warmly said. After exchanging greetings, they made their way towards Andre. "Well hello again Marinette. Oh, I see you brought a friend," he kindly said.
"Yeah, I did. Anyways we'll be taking two ice creams," she responded. "Of course two lovely ice creams for the soulmate of your dreams~" he said in a sing-song voice. Marinette looked over at Sneaky and they both laughed.
"Here you go," He said while giving them their ice cream. "Thanks Andre, How much?" she asked to get her wallet from her bag. Only to be stopped by a hand on her wrist. Okay, what is wrong with people grabbing my wrist all the time.
"Hey, remember my treat," Sneaky said while getting the wallet from her pocket. Sneaky paid for both the ice cream and began walking while talking. "Oh and then Adrien had the audacity to grab my hand," she said. She told Sneaky everything that happened when she/he wasn't there.
"Well look in the bright side at least he isn't your soulmate," Sneaky said while pointing at Marinette's ice cream. Marinette looked at her ice cream, there was a slight change in it. Instead of it being two flavors like before, it was now three flavors. Two of them were the same, the cherry and green mint. She looked at the other flavor, cookies and cream. She took a closer look at the ice cream, she noticed how the cookies mixed with the vanilla making it look more gray than white. Huh, interesting.
"Yeah, it changed," she said, talking more to herself than to Sneaky. "Yeah, I know you told me the original flavors before," Sneaky stated before taking her ice cream and licking a bit. Marinette looked at Sneaky's ice cream. It was a deep chocolate brown with green mint at the top. That looks familiar, she thought to herself.
"You know what frick romance, right now I just want to enjoy this ice cream in piece," Sneaky said while holding her ice cream in the air. Marinette laughed and brought her ice cream in the air bumping each other's ice cream while making a clink sound.
Yeah, I should enjoy this right now. I'll worry about it later...
