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

Gabriel Agreste: Part 2

The plan was to send me and Marinette into the party under the guise of being butlers thanks to the Bourgeois sisters sending two of the butlers to the wrong location. So with some suits and a quick makeover Marino and Gustav made their return as we headed to the party and introduced ourselves to the waitress. "Hi there! We're Marino and Gustav, I'm sorry we're late they let us know last minute that we had to take over because the last guys got sick," This seems to do the trick as the waitress- Sarah explains what we'd be doing.

"Here's the deal, this is a very private party with very important people. We must be invisible. The only contact we'll have with Gabriel Agreste is when he takes our fingerprints to check our identities." "Check our identities?" I question and Sarah nods. "It's just a safety precaution we're just here for food prep in the kitchen and watching over the children. The robots will handle the rest," Looking in the van filled with boxes to bring in Marinette and I grab the big boxes that would prevent us from having to give a fingerprint.

Just as we walked in the Balenciaga family walked in. "Mr. Agreste it's a pleasure to finally meet you, I hope we can become good business partners as we become friends. This is my wife Adeline, and our daughter Madelyn." "Mr. Agreste it's truly an honor to meet you. I have an important video for you to watch," Madelyn says, taking out her phone. Mari starts moving backward, throwing the box toward them, Adrien shoves Madelyn out of the way into his dad to catch the box, causing her to drop her phone and Gabriel's tablet to break. 

"You dropped this," Adrien says, handing the box back, soon narrowing his eyes at Marinette. "I'm sorry but you look familiar do I know you?" "Not likely, I dunno anyone," She lies, making her way to the kitchen and thankfully Gabriel brushes Madelyn and her video off to greet more guests. "Gustov you're in charge of the children, Marino you're with me in the kitchen." "No, I better go with Gustov, I'm bad in the kitchen, I'm a lot better with kids." "You can't be that bad and I'd rather you stay in the kitchen."

I giggle to myself as I direct the kids to Adrien's room and hear a bunch of crashing noises in the kitchen leading Marinette to be kicked out. On the steps, Madelyn stirred up trouble as she mocked Félix. "Oh look it's Adrien's copycat. If I were anyone other than Madelyn Balenciaga, you might actually have me fooled," Félix gives her a hurt look, soon responding with his Adrien impression. "You're wrong Madelyn, I am Adrien," Madelyn immediately apologizes, clinging onto Félix about to kiss him when he pushes her away. "You're just another foolish girl who's pining after my cousin," He laughs at her, walking toward Gabriel's office. Gabriel locks the house down and Madelyn tries again to show her video.

"All cellphones will be secured safely for the duration of the evening, I'm sure you understand how essential privacy is when important business is on the line," Gabriel tells her and she hands over her phone to the robot boxes after taking her memory card out. Gabriel set up a few more security measures including a sound scrambler that messed with our communicators and we have to take them out. 

We take the rest of the kids to Adrien's room, minus Félix who was summoned to talk with Gabriel. "This is perfect now we just need to keep Madelyn in here for the rest of the night and Mr. Agreste will never see that video," Mari whispers excitedly to me and I whisper back "When has anything like this ever gone that smoothly?" My point was proven as Madelyn started throwing a hissy fit about not being able to show Gabriel her video to the point that Adrien had to help try and calm her down. "Madelyn stop. You heard my father, no phones during the party and frankly, I don't like the idea of you showing him whatever's on that video if you won't even tell me what's on it." "You'll find out soon enough when I show it to him."

She pushed Adrien to the side and marched out of the room, Mari and I going after her. We watch her enter the party with a box over her head, pretending to be a robot so we go into the kitchen and grab our own boxes to do the same. "Um, Marino, Gustav why do you have cardboard boxes over yourselves?" "To entertain the children," Rushing into the party room we see Madelyn messing with one of the robots in the corner of the room, trying to get a phone. "Oh no you don't," Mari mumbles as we make our way over and try to pull her out of the party room.