You're The Music That's Been Playing In My Head: Book 3

Truth & Lies: Part 1

It had been a few weeks now since Ladybug, Chat Noir and I were named the new guardians of the miraculous. Things still hadn't really settled as we had to figure things out like where the Miracle box would stay, Chat and I learned the identities of the other holders and why, telling both of them that I knew both identities and both knew I knew their identities and that they knew mine, and figuring out what guardian duties entail. It was decided Ladybug would keep the Miracle box and when she needed help I'd come over since Chat taking the Miracle box was a risk since he claimed his parents liked to snoop. Not exactly a total lie.

As of right now Marinette and I were just trying to figure out the new box it didn't appear to have any easy way to open it, not to mention looking over and trying to decipher the notes of the grimoire. "So they all live in there?" Mari asks looking over the newly designed Miracle box. "Yes, except of course, me Flaake, Plagg, Nooroo, and Duusu because we have owners and they're in Hawkmoth's clutches," Tikki explains trying on some hats with Flaake that Marinette had made for them. "I get why but Master Fu never let them out?" I ask and Flaake shakes her head. "Only kwamiis with a holder can leave the Miracle box." "But isn't it cramped in there?" Marinette asks slightly shaking the box and listening for any sound from it. "Nope. There's a whole parallel world inside of course being out here is much more interesting," Marinette looked at the top of the box where a ladybug symbol was, to the left was a snowflake symbol, and to the right a cat pawprint.

Pressing down on the ladybug symbol it's revealed to be a button as the black polka dots with pawprints and snowflake designs in them turn into the symbol for each miraculous and lift up revealing a pocket holding the respective miraculous inside. Multiple lights fly out as the kwamiis appear and begin looking around in awe, messing with whatever they can get their paws on. "I thought you said they couldn't leave," Mari exclaims as we watch all the kwamiis fly around the room.

"With you two and Chat Noir as the guardians the box has adopted new rules," Tikki explains when Mullo flies down and takes Tikki's hat. That's when I see Trixx pulling my diary/ journal out of its trap box which I had disabled for the moment to repair. "Hey don't snoop!" I reprimand her, grabbing the book. I hear my phone ring, Luka's ringtone playing but before I could get it Ziggy takes the phone squealing about how it was singing. "Give that back!" I hear the window slam open and look to see Marinette grabbing Kaalki who had flown outside. I wince as Mari starts announcing to someone that she is working on squishes. Mari ran back inside to grab the kwamiis playing on her keyboard while I tried to round up the rest. Suddenly I hear Alya's voice from the computer and freeze, holding a bunch of kwamiis and looking at the Facetime with a nervous smile. Why did she have to call now?

"Marinette? (y/n)?" "Alya! What do you think of my new squishes? Pretty cute right?" Mari tries to lie about the kwamiis, earning a look of confusion. "What new squishes?" "Marinette we're magical creatures remember? We can't be seen or heard on video or photos," Tikki explains as flashes from my phone go off. "Woah so that's why I'm not showing up on the magic paintings," Ziggy says and flies off before I can grab my phone. "Right they can only see and hear (y/n) and me and we look completely ridiculous," Marinette says quietly through grit teeth and I nod doing the same. "Oh, big time." "Are you two feeling ok?" Alya asks as the rest of the girls enter the screen. "Yeah! We're doing just fine," I say positioning myself not to look weird while keeping the kwamiis I did have tight enough in my hand for them not to cause more chaos. 

"Did you say new squishes? Can we see?" Rose asks jumping up slightly in excitement. I ended up having to chase and try to grab more kwamiis as they began messing with other things while Marinette tried to cover. "Are you sure everything's ok? (y/n) in particular, seems to be acting really weird." Thankfully some of the kwamiis were looking at the screen and commenting on who they wanted as an owner. Daizzi points at Alya claiming she wanted her only for Trixx to shake her head. "Nope, that one's mine." "I'm fine just trying a new workout Marinette recommended to me, you know gotta stay in shape," I lie and Mylène looks at us worriedly.

"You should take a step outside, you're both looking overwhelmed." "Akward gesturing, ridiculous babbling, weird excuses, and clumsiness overload," The girls gasp. "Are Adrien and Luka there?" "No!" Mari yells causing Ziggy to throw my phone just as it rang. Luka was calling again. "Luka! Hey!" I say quickly picking up while Mari ends the Facetime call. "Hey. Thanks for the photos." "What? What photos?" "The photos of your bedroom and of Adrien..." I wince as I go to our messages to see Ziggy has sent all the photos of our room to Luka. "Oh shoot I'm so sorry those were meant to go to Marinette, guess I didn't check while getting ready for the new school year." "It's cool. Are you ready?" "Ready for what?" "Our anniversary date," He reminds me and I facepalm. I almost forgot. "Yeah just one second," Quickly I grab my stuff, my anniversary gift for Luka, and round up the rest of the kwamiis with Marinette. "Be good," I tell them before rushing downstairs. "Wasn't your date supposed to be yesterday?" "Yeah but something came up and I had to cancel," I explain before grumbling to myself, "No thanks to Hawkmoth." "That's why we tried to go yesterday so if something came up we could try again another day or we'd have already seen it. But today's the last screening, we can't miss it," I blink in confusion as I completely forget what we were going to see.

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"What a boring day..." Adrien sighs as he enters his room, Plagg immediately flying toward his cheese stash. Pulling out his phone Adrien puts on piano music, leaving the illusion he was practicing piano while transformed ready for the afternoon patrol. Chat reaches the usual meeting spot to find no sign of Ladybug. He knew (s/n) wouldn't be here because she was celebrating her anniversary with Luka today but there was no reason Ladybug wasn't here. "Hi, it's Ladybug, leave a message," The usual voicemail greeting played when he tried calling her. "Hey Ladybug, one of your faithful companions at the meet-up point for patrol. Hope you haven't forgotten," Chat waited and waited and waited but there was still no sign of Ladybug nor was she answering his calls. "Hey Ladybug I understand that since we became the guardians of the miraculous there are more responsibilities for us but don't forget I'm a guardian too and if there's anything you need help with don't be afraid to ask but for now I'll start patrol. Hope to meet up later."

Chat sighed in disappointment, his favorite part of the day was slowly disappearing, (s/n) usually had to go and get Ladybug because she hadn't been showing up the past few weeks.  He starts searching the city for trouble soon spotting people calling out to him. When he approaches he's surrounded by fans who start taking multiple photos. With nothing better to do Chat catches up with Mr. Ramier. "It's been a while since I've seen you, that means you haven't been akumatized in a while. Does that mean everything's been good on your end?" "Thanks for asking Chat Noir. The truth is that is the case and I'm glad. I'm in the best of spirits. How about you?"

"It's been quiet since yesterday so there's not much to do. I should get going." "Of course, say hi to Ladybug for me." "You got it! If I ever see her..." Chat trails off as he finishes his midway patrol stop and heads to the Grand Paris for his now usual glass of milk. "How is Miss. Ladybug and Miss. (s/n) doing? I haven't seen them in a while." The bartender asks and Chat shrugs. "Only time I see them now is when there's an akuma attack," He downs the glass of milk when the doors slam open and Chloé begins looking around the area frantically while Sabrina follows her in. "That purse was a gift from Mommy I can't lose it, Sabrina you have to help me find it, it's my life!" "But Chloé-" Sabrina tried to point out that Chloé was wearing her purse. "Sabrina, I need help finding it- shoot what was that magic word again pluh- pluh- pluhease? I'll pay you to help just help!" Chloé begins shaking Sabrina and Chat stands on guard knowing Hawkmoth didn't have any boundaries when it came to akumatizing people.

"Chloé I'm happy to help it's just that," Sabrina says, pointing at the purse and Chloé's face brightens. "My purse! Sabrina you found it. Thank you! But remember you said you were happy to help so I'm not paying you," Chat sighs, happy to see things had worked out for the two but that meant he'd still be bored. "Make that a large milk," Chat finishes patrol and calls Ladybug with no answer again. "It's me. Listen I understand how stressful everything might be right now trying to figure out our new roles as guardians but I don't like being stood up like this. Anyways patrol is over, I found nothing."

Chat sighs again when he notices in the park next door Kagami fencing with her mother. Smiling at her he heads home, and messages Kagami he'd like to see her before fencing class. It wasn't long before Natalie informed him that the fencing lesson was scheduled an hour earlier. On the way to the school, Adrien bit back a laugh and a smile as his dad complained about all the scheduling changes.