Quarantine Changed Us

Chapter 2

After school, Alix waved bye to her friends and sat on the stairs to do up her skates.

"Kubdel"!

Alix sighed knowing who it was.

"What do you want, Bourgeois"?

They usually called eachother by their last names but it was just the two of them who did it.

"You don't know the whole story" Chloe stood beside her.

"I never said I did".

Chloe frowned. "Just" she hesitated. "Don't tell anyone what you saw".

Alix nodded and Chloe got in her limo. She watched as she leaned back and let out a sigh.

"I wonder what that's about"? Alix thought as she drove away. She abandoned those thoughts and skated off towards the Louvre.
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Once Alix got to the museum, she skated around to the back and went inside. She walked up the stairs and pulled out her house key.

Unlocking the door, she threw her stuff in her room and fell back on her bed. She closed her eyes and relaxed in the silence.

Then her phone went off.

Alix groaned and dug through her bag. She found her phone and opened messages from her friends.

Clumsybaguette= Marinette
Ladyblogger= Alya
Flowerchild= Rose
Quietrocker= Juleka
Naturelover= Mylene
Skaterqueen= Alix

Ladyblogger- Girls! We need you at Marinette's, stat!
Naturelover- What happened?
Ladyblogger- We have a code sun!
Skaterqueen- Again?
Flowerchild- Juleka and I will be right over!
Ladyblogger- Great and Alix, I can pretty much hear you groaning through the phone
Skaterqueen- Good
Skaterqueen- I'll be over soon though
Clumsybaguette- Alya!
Clumsybaguette- You never even asked me if you could come over!
Ladyblogger- Oh....
Ladyblogger- Can we come over?
Clumsybaguette- Of course, I'm cool with it

"Why couldn't they just tell me after school"! Alix complained.

She gathered up the strength to get out of bed and headed back downstairs.

"Hey sis, where are you headed"? Jalil asked as she came down the stairs.

"Marinette's" she answered with a sigh.

"Another code sun"? He snickered.

"It'll probably be something like "Omg he touched my shoulder, I want to marry him but not right now because he's at fencing practice" Alix said, mimicking a love struck person  aka Marinette.

Jalil snorted before straightening up again. "Be home for dinner, dad has something to tell you".

"Got it, bye bro" She zipped out the doors to head to the bakery.
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"Hey, Mrs and Mr Dupain Cheng"! Alix smiled as she walked in, her rollerblades over her shoulder.

"Hello Alix, are you here for Marinette"? Sabine asked.

"She invited the girls over" Alix said.

"Well in that case, head on up, we'll send the others up as they come in" Tom said.

"Thanks" she waved and went upstairs.

Unlike Alya, Alix didn't barge in like she owned the place so she knocked on the door and waited until Marinette opened it.

"Hey Alix, I was just..." She looked around as if trying to find words.

"Relax Mari, I'm not Alya" She assured her. Marinette took a breath. "Right, come on in".

Alix walked up the remaining stairs and into the bedroom. Alix swore the room got pinker everytime she visits.

"The others will be here soon" Marinette told her.

The skater placed her rollerblades on the ground where they wouldn't get tripped on and sat on the chaise.

The two girls kept a comfortable silence that was interrupted by Alix's phone. She pulled it out of her pocket and furrowed her eyebrows at the message.

"Who is it"? Marinette asked.

"Chl...".

The hatch burst open and the rest of the group came in. "Ok, I want all the deats" Alya jumped right onto the topic.

Mylene sat next to Alix while Juleka and Rose sat on the floor together.

"Nothing really happened" Marinette said.

"Oh girl, you did not drag me all the way here for nothing"! Alya shook her by the shoulders.

"Ooookkkkk, I'll tell you" she said, shakily.

While Marinette was being interrogated, Alix looked back at her phone. She tilted it away so Mylene couldn't see.

Parisprincess- Kubdel!
Parisprincess- Emergency!
Skaterqueen- Another surprise rich people event?
Parisprincess- No...
Parisprincess- I wanted to make sure you kept you little mouth shut about today
Skaterqueen- Relax Bourgeois, I'm not interested in telling anyone
Parisprincess- ...
Parisprincess- Good
Skaterqueen- But you'd tell me if there was an event right?
Parisprincess- ugh yes

Alix didn't know what to say next and just left it at that. After all, her and Chloe only really talked if they were stuck at rich, old people parties.

It was kind of an unspoken agreement, that they would stick together in those situations.

Formed years ago, as bestfriends who didn't know that the future would leave them as acquaintances.

"Alix" Mylene touched her arm, making her jump. "Are you ok"? Rose asked, worried.

"Yes, fine" Alix smiled.

"So who is it that you're texting"? Marinette asked again, getting everyones intrest.

"No one" she lied. "You wouldn't be jumpy and automatically turn your phone off if it was no one" Alya crossed her arms over her chest.

Alix needed a lie fast or else they'd question why she was texting Chloe. "It was Jalil, he was telling me about someone who came in a started yelling about ancient ghosts" she said, for some reason.

"Jeez, that's weird" Mylene said. "Yeah, so that's what happened" Alix cursed herself for saying that.

"Anyway, we're headed to the park" Marinette said.

"Let me guess, to spy on a certain blondie doing a photoshoot"? Alix raised her eyebrow.

"What, no". Alya pulled down the schedule and sure enough, Adrien had a photoshoot.

"Come on" Alix sighed and grabbed her skates. Everyone waved to Marinette's parents as they left.
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"I don't see why you're obsessed with Adrien" Alix said, making Marinette stop in her tracks.

"Don't see why"! She continued. "He's everything: cute, smart, handsome".

"Ok, I get it, you can stop now"! Alix groaned.

"You two are going to be the cutest couple"! Rose cooed. "You're meant for each other" Mylene added.

"I agree" Juleka said.

They stopped walking around in circles and let Marinette stare at Adrien. "He's so hot" she commented.

"This is going to be a long 3 hours" Alix thought.