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It was just another normal morning for Marinette Dupain-Cheng. Rushing through her morning chores, she desperately tried to make it to her school on time. A sympathetic Tikki hovered over her chosen's distressed state, shaking her head.
"Oh Marinette. I tried to wake you up!"
"Oh no! Oh no! Oh noooo! I'm so late! Bye mama, papa!"
Marinette hurriedly stuffed a croissant in her mouth as she ran across the street. Stumbling and tripping, she finally made it to the stairs of Collège Françoise Dupont .
Huffing and puffing, she busted in the classroom, just as Mme. Bustier had started with the roll calls. Muttering incoherent apologies, she made her way to a beaming Alya. She flashed Marinette a smile as she watched the bluenette catch her breath.
"Overslept yet again girl?"
Still breathless from all the running, Marinette gave her bestie a nod.
"What were you doing Mari?"
"Long story. Let's save it for another time." Marinette replied playfully, winking at the bespectacled girl.
Both of them diverted their attention to the red haired teacher. Ms Bustier smiled brightly at her students before making an important announcement of the day.
" So class.." she begun, "Noticing your peaking interest in Fashion Studies and a dropping one in History, I have decided to combine the final projects or both the subjects."
She chuckled, noticing the confused expressions on her students' faces. She pulled out a bowl filled with folded sheets and explained further.
"So, I have designed a special assignment for you. Students would be given a historic era and they would have to design an outfit relating to the same. Alongside the outfit, you would also be submitting the research papers for the same. Sounds fun, hm?"
The reaction was mixed. Most wore an uncertain expression but some were ecstatic as well.
"Also to make it a bit more challenging, the outfits have to be a fusion of modern day wear and the historic one. Include in the best features of the historic designs and bend it in with the edge of today. You would have to give a small presentation and an assignment for the same which would test your history knowledge. So, you wold have to pay attention to your peers' presentations as well. This would be accounting for 100% of your practical grade. You have a month for the same."
"Now, I would like you all to divide in groups of four and come down here to pick your topic."
The whole class was engulfed in excited murmurs. Sure, it was tough but it was fun and challenging as well. Friends were shooting each other looks to confirm that they were in the same team.
Alya and Marinette made and eye contact, and wordlessly confirmed that they were in the same group.
"Who else should we choose?" Marinette asked her best friend.
Alya raised her eyebrows in disbelief and looked at her best friend as if she had asked the most stupid question.
"What?", Marinette asked defensively.
"Uh. Seriously girl? You do realise that this is the perfect way for you to spend more time with Adrien."
Before she could even reply, the two boys in front of them, turned to face them and beat the girls to ask the question.
"Yo dudettes! Do you have place for us two in your group?", Nino asked.
"Sure we do Nino!", Alya replied excitedly.
Marinette locked gaze with Adrien who gave her a wink and a bright smile. Flustered and blushing red, Marinette managed to respond with a shy smile.
"Okay, so should we go get our topic?" Adrien asked.
The other three all nodded in agreement but before they could get up, they were greeted with a face heavily caked with makeup.
"Adrikins~" Chloé said in her annoying sing-song voice. " Wanna pair up with me and Sabrina?", the devil asked, battling her eyelashes.
"Sorry Chlo, but I kinda already teamed up with Nino and the girls here.", he said, rejecting her politely.
"Oh come on Adrien, you couldn't possibly have done that. Tell me, did they force you to?" she asked, glaring specifically at Marinette.
"Oh no Chloé, nobody did. Besides I've already promised them. Sorry."
The blonde sashayed away, muttering her infamous catchphrase of "Ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous."
Marinette couldn't help but giggle slightly at the mutters. Chloé's catchphrase always reminded her of Lupin's spell and Draco's dialogue from Harry Potter. In fact, now that she thought about it, Chloé and Draco were very much alike. Well for starers, they were both blonde and filthy rich, and were their father's pet and in turn misused their powers....
Marinette's train of thought was interrupted by Alya shaking her. She jerked her head to the ombre haired girl who just shrugged it off.
The four of them made their way to Mme. Bustier. She smiled at them and instructed one of them to pick a sheet from the bowl which contained their topic. Marinette did the honors and unfolded the paper to reveal their topic.
"Victorian Era", it read. Mme. Bustier smiled before jotting down their names and topic for her record.
"This is one of my favorite historic era's.", she told them fondly, capping her pen. The four teens grinned and returned to their seats.
After every group was assigned a topic, Mme. Bustier called out the names of the group members and the topics assigned to them for conformation.
"So, for Group 1 we have Marinette, Alya, Nino and Adrien. They would be presenting on the Victorian Era."
A loud 'hmph' was heard from Chloé as she was clearly displeased.
Choosing to ignore the sight commotion, Mme. Bustier continued.
"As in for Group 2, we have Chloé, Sabrina, Kim and Max. They have been assigned with the Mauryan Dynasty period."
"Alix, Ivan, Mylenè and Nathaniel are partnering up for Group 3 to present about the Egyptian history."
"And lastly, Rose, Juleka, Pierre and Larry are Group 4 and will be presenting about the Ancient Chinese history."
"Off you go now! You all have some researching to do."
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Hi guys!
I'm back! I can already tell this story is going to be a little bit longer🙈. I finally managed to make a drawing that actually looks kinda like Mme. Bustier. Also did u know bustier is also a name of a top. I made an innocent mistake of searching it up🙈
Also, Larry and Pierre are 2 characters that I created. I needed extra names to make groups of four and these were the names used with the most frequency in my French textbooks😂😂
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