Miraculous Switch

Chapter 9

PREVIOUSLY:

Alim and Nina were standing at the door. Mouths wide open, Alim held his phone up as if he was taking a photo. "No. Way!" Alim screamed.

"YOUR LADYBEETLE?!"

Adrienne and Marin looked at each other. Adrienne giving Marin an apologetic smile. "I sorta...told Nina what was going on" Marin gave a slight pout. "Well that explains where they're here.

"You have a lot of explaining to do" Alim screamed again, forcefully shutting the door.

Chapter 9

Marin and Adrienne looked at each other, both exchanged worried looks. Of course, Marin had to make it worse by blurting it out. Now that everyone knew his secret, he should have figured someone might as well follow him up to the room and full on question him.

He started questioning how Alim and Nina got to the hotel in the first place. "Before I explain, why are you guys even here?" Marin asked nervously. His palms sweated and he gripped his hands on his jeans, trying to get rid of the bodily fluid. Alim leaned against the door, crossed his arms and sighed.

"Adrienne called us and told us what's been going on with that guy who was after you" Nina nodded, gripping on her headphone around her shoulders and leaning her body against her boyfriend. "I got really worried, so we came to check it out" Nina finished. Marin glanced at Adrienne, giving the injured girl a small smile before sitting at the foot of the bed. He's gonna have to start from the very beginning of how he got Tikki and his miraculous. Knowing his best friend, every detail counts. He was surprised Alim hasn't blown up in his face about Marin not telling his own best friend he was Ladybeetle, but Marin figured Alim would want to hear the entire story before expressing any type of negative emotion towards the now identified superhero.

"Alright, where do I even begin" Marin murmured. "You can tell us why you kept it a secret?" Alim suggested, showing no emotion on his face. Marin nodded, opening his shirt, Tikki flew out from the small pocket and floated up where she was in clear view of the 3 teenagers. Alim and Nina's eyes widened, seeing the small red creature. She smiled, waving her small paw.

"Guys, this is Tikki, she's basically what makes me Ladybeetle" Marin stated. Alim went closer, holding up his finger and cautiously stepped towards her like as if what he was going to do was poked the most dangerous let delicate thing in the planet which could cause the greatest explosion wiping out the human race.

Marin rolled his eyes, but chuckled at his friend's behavior. Tikki laughed and zipped towards him so fast it caught him off guard. Alim let out a small scream, fell backwards and scooted towards his girlfriend, hugging her legs like. Little frightened child. Adrienne snorted out a laugh and so did Marin.

"Alim I won't hurt you"

"OH MY GOD IT TALKS AND IT KNOWS ME. MARIN HOW DOES IT KNOW ME?!" Alim was basically freaking out on the floor, Nina grinned, shaking her head at his dramatic screams. "Sorry about him, he's just being a little baby" Nina crossed her arms. Tikki drew closer towards the girl while Alim got on all fours and crawled towards the kitchen clearly freaked out by the Kwami for some unknown reason. In all honesty Marin thought Alim would be amazed and curious than anything.

"The reason I kept it a secret was because I didn't want you in danger. Hawkmoth could easily use you in order to get closer to me and Chat" Marin gave an apologetic smile to everyone. They nodded, understanding the situation.