Chat Blanc: Chat's Fall [Hiatus]

Chapter 3: Lucky Charm

When I finally arrived at school I was beyond late. I apologized to the teacher and explain that an Akumatized villain was preventing my arrival. Going to the arts classroom with the rest of the people in my class who stayed behind I start to help with the cleaning efforts. Nino, Max and many of my usual chat buddies had all all left on the trip so that left only Alya, Marinette, Juleka, the new kid Marc and another named Nathaniel. There were a few more but I wasn't very close with them. I grabbed a cloth a d bucket and began to help wipe down the giant chalk board and some of the windows. I kept catching Marinette giving me sad quick glances at me no doubt due to me seeing her kiss Luka. After fifteen minutes of the awkwardness I ask to go to the bathroom and take a break from the glances. In my way I hear Alya chatting with Marinette hearing the words "talk to him" and "explain what happened."

In the bathroom Plagg flies out and talks to me. "Gotta say that's some serious tention in there. Why not just talk to her and smoothe things over?" He asks me.

"Human stuff I guess. As an immortal flying cat I doubt you have ever needed to worry about that kinda stuff." I say sitting in the sinks countertop.

"On the contrary my friend, when I accidentally sent the dinosaurs extinct I had to learn all about emotions and the proper use of them to get the other kwamis to forgive me as well as my and their holders."

"Wait you had a holder back in dinosaur times? How?"

"I can't reveal the secrets of you humans past but I can say it was weird. Aside from that I stand by what I said."

I sigh. "I don't know."

"Hello, Adrien? Are you I here, who are you talking to?" A voice says. "It's me Marc, I came to talk to you on Marinette's behalf." Plagg flies into my shirt as I hop off the sink

"Oh? What about?" As if I didn't already know.

"She wanted to talk to you about something you saw involving her and her friend Luka, but she was to nervous so I offered to help." I sigh motioning my hand in a way that means continue. "She said that you had walked in on her while Luka had kissed her or something but it isn't what you think it is."

"And what am I supposed to think it was Marc? It was very clearly the two if them kissing, I had interrupted and left is all."

"So running out and ignoring all her calls and messages was just the normal Adrien?" He says with a head tilt and folded arms. "Or you disappearing from home so Marinette couldn't find you?"

"How do you know about that?" I say with a hint of anger in my voice.

"Marinette went to talk to you in person but your father said you'd went out. She waited outside your house for the entire day and said you never came home."

"That had nothing to do with her, I left home for personal matters."

"That may be, but does it excuse not at least hearing her out?" Ugh.

"Even so if she really wanted to talk she'd have said it to me directly." I shoot back at him.

"Also a fair point. I can't really say to much seeing as I'm just the neutral party but at least think on it." He says patting my shoulder. "Let's get back to work." Nodding I follow in behind him to the arts room to finish wiping down the chalk boards. At the end of the school day I walked outside to Marinette and Alya standing there seeming to have been waiting for me.

"Yes?" I say perplexed.

"Marinette wants to talk to you about something." Alya says nudging her forward.

"Yes?" I say repeating myself.

"I..look the kiss with Luka wasn't what you thought it was." She says giving me an upright formal posture unlike her usual self around me.