Something new

chapter 23

"Plagg, (Name) is right! I can't keep thinking about Ladybug. I need to move on!" Adrien confidentially said while throwing a fist in the air. Plagg rolled his eyes, "That's kinda what I've been telling you for almost a year now, but okay." He then proceeded to devour his cheese.
"But who should I look at? I can't look at Marinette, she's taken. Kagami is my ex so that would be weird.. Luka is also taken.." He listed on, "You considered Luka??" Plagg asked confused, Adrien only shrugged, "There were some times."
Adrien continued listing names of people he could consider fancying.
Plagg flew infront of his face,
"Adrien. Didn't you listen to (Name)? How about you focus on yourself? I don't think a crush is what you need right now.", he told him. Adrien stopped and looked at Plagg. He then sighed, "..You're right. I'm just scared that I won't be able to move on from her if I don't have someone else to love."
Plagg shook his head, "Adrien, you can't force yourself to love someone. That's not how it works. You fall in love when you fall in love, and you can't decide when and with who that's going to happen."

Adrien looked sad to the ground, "..I know.."

"Then let's get into your single independent era!" Plagg celebrated and handed his owner some cheese.
Adrien chuckled and took the cheese piece, "Thank you, Plagg."
No need to thank me, Adrien.

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"Stop staring at me like that, damn it." (Name) grumped out trying to ignore Adrien's intense stare.

Nathaniel, sitting next to them, felt the stare aswell and tried to ignore it too.
"Why is he even staring??", he asked his friend who literally had no idea.

"I don't know, maybe something happened that involved me? But I don't remember anything big happening." They answered, thinking about the last few days.

"Marinette, can you come out for a second with me? I need to talk to you."
Miss Mendeleiev said, getting everyone's attention.
"Um, yeah okay.", just like that the pigtailed girl went outside with the brown haired girl (Name) despised even more than rich people following.

This can't be good.

Adrien and (Name) thought at the same time.

So, as nosy as (Name) was when it came to Lila, they stood up from their seat and walked towards the door, leaning against it trying to listen to what's being said.

"Marinette, can you explain these screenshots I have here printed out?"

"Miss, I can assure you that I don't even text with Lila, I can show you my phone."

"That's because she blocked me and deleted my number afterwards."

"What's going on there?" Slightly jumping from the sudden voice behind them, (Name) turned to see Adrien, Who was also eavesdropping on the three.

"Miss Mendeleiev, I would never say such things. Do you seriously believe that?"

"I'm sorry Marinette. If this is true I will have to give it out to the principal's office. Blackmailing students is not okay."

"Blackmailing??" (Name) and Adrien whispered at the same time looking at each other confused.

"What is going on there??" Adrien asked (Name) who only shut him up by putting their finger against his lips and shushing him down.

"Marinette I'm sorry I didn't want to let it come to this. B-But the things you said to me r-really got me."

"But I don't even-"

"Enough. We'll talk about this after the lesson, let's see what the principal thinks of this."

This bitch..!
Adrien and (Name) looked sternly at each other, both knowing that Lila was doing one of her schemes again.