Pens and Sticky Notes: A Miraculous Ladybug Fanfiction

Chapter 8: A Talk On Top Of The Eiffel Tower

Alya was suspicious. She was suspicious but she was also very happy. Marinette had been crushing on Adrien forever and it seemed that he had finally noticed her. All of a sudden. That was the weird part and the part that made Alya suspicious. Adrien had never really paid Marinette much attention and didn't seem to be interested in her like she was with him, besides a little crush. (No matter what Adrien said Alya would always believe that he had at least a little crush on her best friend) In fact Alya would have guessed that he was in love with someone else. Now they had this "moment", as she had been calling it, in class and Adrien seemed to now be very interested. She noticed how he kept glancing at her through out their other classes and it was no ordinary glance, it was look filled with love and affection. Something was going on and she intended to figure out what it was.

She had tried to bring it up with Marinette between classes when she had caught her spying on Adrien, who was talking with Chloe. At least she had thought she was spying. To her utter astonishment it seemed that Marinette and Adrien were working together to get her purse back. (Which Chloe apparently stole and Alya was not happy about, at all) And it seemed that her best friend had somehow learned how to speak words in front of Adrien. There was definitely something up, but for the life of her she couldn't figure out what it was.

Marinette was missing at lunch. She had walked out of the classroom before she could interrogate her and now she was no where to be found. Alya didn't think this was very weird though, her best friend disappeared all the time, but right now she was in full on reporter and detective mode and everything mattered. So Marinette's disappearance meant something. If she was going to figure this out, though, she needed help.

"Are you even listening to me?" Alya asked her boyfriend. Nino was in the middle of shoveling food into his mouth and Alya was talking his ear off about something. He couldn't remember what it was though so at the sound of her voice he froze, food half inside his mouth and what he assumed was a very ridiculous position based on the way Alya was trying to hold back a smile.

"Uhh..." He said. Alya glared at him. "To be fair, I'm starving and when I'm starving the only thing I can think about it food." he said after he shoved the food back into his mouth and swallowed it in one gulp. Alya tried to stay mad at him, she swore she did, but a giggle escaped her mouth instead. She couldn't stay mad at Nino.

"What I said was that I think something happened between Adrien and Marinette." Alya explained. Nino was confused.

"What do you mean?" He asked, he tried not too but he couldn't help but glance down at his food longingly.

"Didn't you notice this morning in first hour when it looked like they were having an important conversation. They kept blushing too, and I'm fairly sure Marinette almost fainted at one point. Which was weird because all Adrien did was hand her some pens." Said Alya. Nino thought about what they had seen in class that morning. It was odd.

"Yeah, I guess it was a little strange. But what do you mean something happened?" Nino asked.

"I mean, they're acting differently now. I went to ask Marinette about what happened after second hour and she told me that she and Adrien were trying to get her purse back." She said. Nino had a blank expression on his face. He still didn't get it. Alya sighed, then went on. "Marinette and Adrien, were working together. And she wasn't stuttering or acting awkward!" she said.

"Oh..." Nino said. Everyone knew how awkward Marinette was around Adrien and Nino couldn't imagine her not being like that.

"She even teased him a little. It was so out of character!"

"So what do you think happened?" He asked, curious now.

"I don't know, but I intend to find out." Alya said and there was a gleam in her eyes that he was all too familiar with.