Love, sex and miraculous

Chapter 21 - "Worse day at school"

"I still can't believie that he was with me back then and helped me to calm down. Moreover he walked me home like a boyfriend... That night had its good and bad moments, but I want more time like that with Adrien!!!" she thought.

Marinette was sitting on a bench in school. It was already lunch break, but she couldn't even take out her sandwiches because of her thoughts. Suddenly somebody slapped her back.
"What's up, girl?!"

It was Alya, but that time without Nino. He disappeard at the beggining of the break, so she felt a bit lonely.

"Yeeeeeeek! Alya!!! Don't scare me like that!" shouted angry Marinette.

"Don't worry. You looked like you were down in the dumps, so I wanted surprise you." Alya smiled widely.

"Thanks, Alya, but I was just thinking. I've got something to consider." she replied.

"Oohhhhh... Is it something about your inner feelings? About your love object?" Alya looked in Marinette's eyes with curiosity.

"Yeah, you can say it is something like that."

"Did something happen?"

"Nothing important."

Marinette didn't want to talk to Alya about last night. Fortunately for her, the ring announced end of the lunch break. They came back to the classroom and took their seats. It was time for French lesson with Ms. Bustiere, but Marinette could focus on anything that her teacher was saying. She felt bad since start of the lesson. Her forehead was burning and her throat was scratchy. She felt an urgent need to cough that she couldn't hold it back. Everybody heard her coughing. It was interrupting in lesson, so even Ms. Bustiere paused her speech about "Roman de la Rose". Alya was scared a bit, because Marinette was looking worse and worse. She raised her hand.

"Ms. Bustiere, can I take Marinette to the nurse's office?" she asked.

"Yes, Alya. Marinette, you had better listen to your friend and go with Alya."

"Yes, Ms. Bustiere."
Marinette barely stood up and grabbed Alya's shoulder. Her whole face turned red. She could fall at any moment.

Marinette, nor Alya made it back since then. Adrien was a bit worried about Mari. He remembered last night spent on the bench in a park. He "fell out" of classroom after French lesson and was trying to find Marinette. She was sitting next to nurse's office and hiding her face in hands, but she just didn't have enough strenght to sit upright. He decided to talk to her. He thought that he should have cheered her up.

"Hey, Marinette. Are you feeling better now?" he asked.

Marinette raised her head and put a false smile on her face. She didn't want to worry anybody, but the moment she stood up, she just fainted in front of Adrien. Fortunately he had fast enough reaction to catch her, before she fell on the floor.

"Somebody, call the nurse and Ms. Bustiere!" he shouted.

Everyone looked like they were petrified. Only Alya reacted to his words. Like Usain Bolt, she made her way to nurse's office and classroom in the blink of an eye. Meanwhile Adrien laid Marinette on the bench. She looked even worse. Her face was no longer red, it was pale. Her forehead was very hot. She obviously caught a cold after last night. Adrien felt bad about that, because he thought it was his fault somehow. While he was blaming himself, nurse and Ms. Bustiere arrived.

When Marinette woke up, she was sent back to home. Her parents picked her up from school. Naturally the rest of students had to stay and wait for the end of lessons. Alya realised that Adrien was sad after that incident. She had never seen him like that because of someone's illness. She thought that he must have known something about Marinette, so she wanted to catch him just before leaving school.

"Adrien, wait."

He turned around to looked at her.

"Something's wrong?"

"I wanted to ask you if you know what happened Marinette."

"Ummmm... Well, maybe I know a little." he said and starting scratching back of his head.

"Okay, don't even try to avoid answering me. When you're getting nervous, you're scratching your head. You won't hide anything from me... So, will you tell me?" she glared at him like she had solved a murder case. Of course she knew about "itchy head" from Marinette. That girl propably knew most of things about him.

"Uhhh... Okay, but to explain everything I have to start the story from my house, but before that let's hide. I don't want Nathalie to see me. I have photoshoot very soon. If she sees me, I will have to go."

They hid nearby locker-room. Adrien's limousine was already in front of the school.

"So now tell me. What do you have to do with Marinette's state?"

"Starting from me. I had an argument with my father. After that he forbade me to go out with anybody for a month. I was so frustrated that I didn't want to sit in my house, so I ran for a night."

He was lying so perfectly that nobody would believe that everything he said, had been false. Also nobody would expect that Adrien would lie to anybody.

"I was walking around for half an hour, when I saw Marinette in a park, full in tears, only in her pyjama."

"What? She was crying?! Did you find out why?"

Adrien knew, but couldn't tell Alya. He was Cat Noir and the most important thing was not to let people find out their identites.

"I didn't ask her. We sat in that park and I gave her my jacket, but in the end both of saw today that it wasn't enough for her. We were sitting in silence for a while, when she suddenly started apologising to me. She repeated 'I'm sorry.' many times. I didn't know why she was saying that. A bit later, after she had stopped crying, I walked her home."

"Aaaaaaand?" asked Alya curiously.

"What 'and'? That's all. I walked her home and came back to mine."

"Okay, thanks Adrien. I thought that maybe you stayed for a night in her house, but never mind. You had better head for your photoshoot."

Adrien looked at time on his phone and got scared.

"Oh God... I have to go. Bye, Alya."

Adrien ran out of school and disappeared in his limousine.