The luck of being unlucky

Part 1

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Being the only son of a world famous fashion designer would be stressful, being the prodigy son that said fashion designer wants you to be? Even more so. Being all that and also being half of the duo of Paris's superheroes? That was neither, it was amazing.

Adrien Agreste ran across the rooftops of Paris. Paris is a busy city but it was past midnight on a weekday and the moon was covered under a thick layer of clouds. Most lights where off and the civilians where asleep by now but Adrien had had a rough day, he sent most of his time either at school or at photoshoots modeling his fathers designs, and today had been no exception but worse than usual. He'd had a difficult physics test and now he was nervous about his grade.
He hadn't done bad that was for sure, but bad had a different meaning to his father. Gabriel Agreste hadn't wanted him to go to a public school but he'd somehow convinced his strict father to let him go. His father wasn't a bad guy, he just wanted what was best for him, Adrien knew this, but because of his mother disappearance, Gabriel had become way too controlling, especially for a man that was never home. Adrien had begged his father to let him go to public school and after month of begging fulfilling his fathers wishes to the mark Gabriel had relented. Keeping straight A's, going to fencing and piano classes, modeling, and saving Paris whenever duty called was a lot to deal with and that physics test was worth a lot of points toward his overall grade and anything less than a B+ would drop his grade. He had stressed himself all day about that grade, even after he left to go to work. Modeling in any mood is difficult and draining, but when you're already stressed out it only accumulates. Having your photographer yelling that you need to relax isnt relaxing.

But right now he wasn't Adrien the prodigal son, he was Chat Noir the suave superhero. When he was Chat all those outside matters didn't really effect him, the adrenaline pumping through his veins as he leapt across an alleyway, he didn't pause as he landed on the next building. His only focus was the way he felt in this moment, he wasn't the obedient son, he was free. The feeling of the wind tousling his wild blonde mane made him feel untouchable, his near perfect night vision and cat reflexes made sure that he had close to no worries about falling, and besides, cats always land on their feet.

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Marinette awoke to her phone buzzing, groggily she reach for it turning off the alarm, then opening a message from her best friend. It was a simple request from Alya, asking if she could snag a few sweets from the bakery to share on their walk to school. Marinette closed her eyes again reluctant to leave her warm cocoon just yet. Her little red kwami had been cuddled up against her arm, Marinette's movement had jostled the kwami awake. Tikki stretched and yawned before flying over to Marinette's face.
"come on Marinette, we can't be late again, especially when Alya's waiting outside." Tikki's tiny voice made Marinette jump up into a sitting position. Marinette grabbed her phone and checked the time. Oh no, she thought. Tikki was right, Alya had texted her over twenty minutes ago and she'd be there any second. Marinette scrabbled out of bed, getting dressed as quickly as possible. Her phone buzzed again.

Alya was here, she didn't need to read it too know. She put on her black jacket and grabbed her small bag, she threw her phone in and let held it open for Tikki to zip from her bed into the purse. She clasped in and headed downstairs, greeting her parents as they where preparing to open the family bakery for the day, the smell of fresh cookies meet her nose as her mother pulled out a batch from the oven. Marinette grabbed a few off the first tray from the morning that had almost finished cooling by now, slipping one into her purse for Tikki she waved bye to her parents and walked out to meet Alya.

Marinette held the snickerdoodles out and Alya gladly excepted one, Marinette ate the other while Alya started talking about a interview shed posted on the ladyblog about a week ago. Marinette giggled along with her friend, glad she was able to make her friend so happy. As Ladybug she had arranged a meeting with Alya after the last akuma attack was dealt with. Their conversation came to an end as they reached school, Nino was waving as he stood at the doors, the girls walked over to the DJ.

"Where's Adrien?" Alya asked, Marinette's heart stopped for a minute at the mention of her crush, Nino usually waited here for him before heading off to home room.

"Ah, not sure he texted me saying he'd over slept and he didn't know if he'd make it on time but i told him I'd wait anyway, not like i have anything else to do until class starts" he laughed, it was true. Nino, like Marinette and Alya, preferred to hang out mostly with his best friend Adrien and if one of the four of them where absent the odd friend out would hangout with the other pair. Days when Nino or Alya were absent were hard for Marinette, being around Adrien had her flustered and made it difficult for her to concentrate, and days she was closer to Adrien the less she could ignore Chloe, a snob in her class that was basically the human equivalent of Mean Girls the movie, who unfortunately for Marinette, also liked Adrien, but at least she wasn't a blubbering mess around him. She sighed at the thought.

"Yo Adrien!" Nino's voice cut threw her thoughts, Marinette turned to see Adrien stepping out of the white limo. The blonde waved with that amazing smile and suddenly Marinette was weak at the knees. She smiled and waved back as he ran over to meet them.

"Sorry I'm late Nino, stayed up too late playing video games" Adrien smiled sheepishly, rubbing the back of his neck. God, he was adorable.

"It's cool man, hey i was talking to Alya and Marinette" mostly Alya, Marinette thought, she was busy zoning most of it, " and Alya suggested we go to the new cafe down a few blocks" Nino said and Marinette froze. It was a set up, Marinette knew her best friend better than that. Just when she was finally getting comfortable around Adrien too.