Keep Me Warm

Nightly Visits

Chapter One

"Miraculous Ladybug!"

Marinette plopped down on her bed, exhausted from a long, hard fight with the most recent akumatized villain. It had been a rough battle, but as usual Ladybug and Chat Noir managed to capture and de-evilize the akuma.

As she lay in her bed, Marinette turned her head to glance at the clock on her bedside table.

10:30 p.m.

Groaning, she hoisted herself up and dragged herself over to her desk. Tikki watched the young girl with sympathy in her eyes. "Looks like you're going to be up late finishing homework. Again."

Marinette sighed. Akuma attacks were getting more frequent these days with one occurring almost every night. She had a hard enough time balancing between being Marinette and Ladybug. The frequency of the attacks just made things infinitely more difficult.

And though leading a double life was tough, the young highschooler wouldn't trade her powers for anything. She felt powerful and confident as Ladybug, something plain little Marinette could never be. And it wasn't just that. Ladybug was able to help people. She could do some good for the world and she could help the people she loved.

Not to mention she got to work with a kickass partner.

Of course she'd never tell the egoistic cat that. He had a big enough head as it was.

With another resigned sigh, Marinette prepared herself to tackle her homework knowing that she'd probably only get a few hours of sleep."Yup. Well, I better get to it."

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"MARINETTE WAKE UP! YOU'RE GOING TO BE LATE FOR SCHOOL! MARINETTE!!!"

Marinette jolted up in bed, having been woken up with her kwami yelling in her ear. "It's already 8:15 am and school starts in 15 minutes! You better hurry or the teacher is going to be angry." Tikki fluttered around her charge's head, eyes wide and anxious.

"Oh no I overslept!!! I can't be late again today, I'll be punished for sure!!!" Marinette tumbled out of her bed, getting ready in record time. By 8:25 she was already sprinting towards the school and reached her classroom just before the bell rang.

"Phew, that was a close one," said Alya, raising an amused eyebrow at her disheveled friend. "Another minute and you would've been toast." Marinette nodded, still catching her breath and attempting to tame her hair which she hadn't had the time to comb.

"You sure cut it close there, Marinette." An amused voice spoke up in front of the flustered girl whom, once realizing who had spoken to her, froze for a few seconds. "Y-Yeah I s-suppose so," she managed to say to the one and only Adrien Agreste.

Marinette turned completely red, and not from the exertion of sprinting to school.

Adrien was looking at her.

She hadn't combed her hair.

Adrien was looking at her.

SHE LOOKED LIKE A TOTAL MESS.

Adrien raised his eyebrows very slightly, confused as to why the girl sitting behind him was so red. He shrugged it off, gave her a small smile, and turned back to face the front.

Marinette sagged, hiding her face in her hands, while her best friend patted her back sympathetically.

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