Marinette X Chat Noir

Chapter Eight

A couple of days had passed since Adrien had made Chloe run away in tears, and Marinette was finally coming back to school, although her memory hadn't improved at all. Marinette and her parent's had decided that it wouldn't be right to keep her home from school any longer, it would only make her fall behind and she didn't want that.

"Marinette! Are you ready? You're going to be late if you don't hurry!" Sabine, Marinette's mom called to her from the kitchen. "I know I know! Thanks mom, for everything." Marinette said and kissed her mom's cheek before rushing out the door and towards her school building, she might be missing a chunk of her memory but she still remembered going to that school and her constant annoyance, aka Chloe Bourgeois.

Since Marinette didn't remember being Ladybug, and there hadn't been any Akuma attacks, Tikki had stayed hidden most of the time, not wanting to freak Marinette out and rush her into anything till she believed she was ready and feeling okay. Adrien had visited a few times as Chat Noir, each time making sure to bring sweets for Tikki.

"We'll tell her soon, maybe after she's a little more settled..." Adrien had said to Tikki one night.

"Marinette!" Alya practically screamed once she saw the blue haired girl making her way up the steps and into the school building, Marinette turned and smiled, "Hey....Alya..?" She said, a little unsure of herself. Alya had visited her a few times since the accident but it was obvious things weren't going to rush back to being the same all at once.

"Hey you remembered! Great! Now let's get you to class before Miss.Bustier does attendance, shall we?" Alya asked and began leading the way to the classroom, a wide smile spread across her face. "Alya...Can I ask you something?" Marinette asked as she stopped outside the classroom door.

"Of course you can girl! What is it?" Alya asked, pausing outside the classroom door too, "Do you know anything about that superhero...Chat Noir?" Marinette asked, her voice barely above a whisper. "Chat Noir? Yeah I run the Lady Blog and write all kinds of things about him and Ladybug. Although..They haven't shown themselves around Paris for a while.." Alya began but trailed off.

"Why do you want to know about Chat Noir?" Alya asked, raising an eyebrow at her best friend. "I-I was just wondering! Forget I said anything!" Marinette stammered and quickly ran into the classroom and to the empty seat behind the blonde boy who had visited her in the hospital. "Marinette!" Alya said, following her into the classroom.

Adrien looked up from his bag where he had been searching for something, "M-Marinette! How are you?" Adrien said, mentally cursing himself for stuttering. "Oh! Um....A....Um....Ad...am..?" Marinette said, completely forgetting the blonde boy's name. "I-It's uh.. Adrien.." He said, forcing himself to keep a smile on his face, fighting back the frown and sudden heat behind his eyes.

"I'm sorry! I'll try to remember it! I-I just wanted to say thank you for visiting me when I was in the hospital." She said, a small blush tinting her cheeks before making her way to her seat and sitting down. "No problem.." He mumbled, more to himself than to her. Nino placed a hand on Adrien's shoulder and gave him a sympathetic smile, "It'll be okay bro." He said, quietly so that Marinette couldn't hear him.

"Yeah..." Adrien mumbled, his eyes cast down on his desk, hoping, praying to someone, that Marinette would regain her memory, and that everything could go back to how they were before. Or at least back to when he and Marinette were happy together, back to when he was happy.

Chloe walked in right at that moment, Adrien was expecting one of her rude comments, such as "Look it's amnesia girl, bet she's just faking for attention." or "Too bad you can't remember how much everyone hates you." but Chloe said none of that. In fact, Chloe said nothing at all, she glanced at Adrien, than at Marinette, before making her way to her seat without even a glare in his direction.

Adrien was thoroughly shocked, Chloe, who had been mean to everyone for so long, and had caused such a fuss a couple of days ago, wasn't saying anything. Wasn't even glaring at the girl she seemed to hate so much. The entire class was staring at Chloe, they couldn't believe that she was so quiet.

"Wow Adrien, you're words the other day must have actually stuck to her!" Alya said, nudging Adrien's shoulder with the back of her hand. "I guess so.." He said, Alya seemed pretty happy about the new silent Chloe, but all Adrien felt was guilt. Sure she had been bullying the whole class for a long time, and yes he was still furious about what Chloe had said about Marinette. Yet he couldn't help feeling guilty, he was just as bad as her after what he had said.

She had been mean, and he had retaliated by being mean back to her, which probably wasn't the best way to handle things. Although if it did make Chloe realize what she was doing was wrong, well maybe than he'd feel a little less guilty. He glanced in her direction, Chloe was staring blankly at the front of the classroom.

"What happened to Chloe?" Marinette asked, leaning over her desk with Alya joining her, "Well you see...It's most likely due to this hero right here." Nino said, patting Adrien on the back. "Chloe was being really rude, like usual, and she began saying all sorts of things. Our perfect model boy here called her out on everything and pretty much said she was trash! It was great." Alya said, a gleam in her eyes as she glanced over at Chloe.

"Now since your back, I guess she's finally given up. Or at least I hope she has." Nino said, him and Alya sharing matching grins. "You called Chloe Bourgeois...The mayor's daughter....Trash?" Marinette said, stunned, her blue eyes wide. "Heh...Yeah..." Adrien said, sheepishly rubbing the back of his neck.

"You are amazing Adrien!" Marinette cheered and he blushed the colour of Nathanael's hair. The bell rang for class and everyone quickly went silent, not wanting to anger their teacher like usual.

When class had ended, Chloe stood up from her seat and walked out the door, with Sabrina following and without even a glance in Marinette's direction. Although Chloe wasn't bullying anyone, or saying anything really in general, Marinette's mind was not at ease, she was worried Chloe was up to something. Since, well, Chloe was pretty much always up to something.

Marinette slowly made her way home after school, greeting her parent's in the bakery when she arrived before walking upstairs to her room and flopping on her chaise lounge with a sigh. "First day back and it was actually pretty great." Marinette mumbled into one of the pillows. "Well I'm glad you're first day back was great Purr-incess." Chat said, and Marinette practically jumped a few feet into the air.

"Chat Noir! You scared me!" She half yelled at him, her hand over her rapidly beating heart. "Sorry Princess, I just thought I'd check in to see how your day went." He said, his black ears drooping slightly in apology, "It's okay." She giggled, "I had a pretty nice day today, this school bully named Chloe, she was silent the whole day. It was great, also it's nice to get out of the house after being cooped up for a while." She said, stretching her arms above her head and sitting up.

"I'm glad you didn't have any problems, especially with a bully, that would be a cat-astrophe waiting to happen." He said, taking a seat beside her on the lounge. "Yeah it would be." She said, leaning her head on his shoulder, causing him to freeze up slightly, a dark blush covering his cheeks.

"Princess...." Chat Noir mumbled, "Hmm?" She said, her eyes were closed now and she seemed to be enjoying just being near him. "What do you think of me?" He asked.

"What do I think of you?"