Excitement buzzed in the air as the class huddled around a flyer announcing a talent show. The past five years, the collège hadn't had one. Rumors had floated around that there had been a fire in the auditorium due to an act gone wrong, but no one had confirmed or denied that. No one at the school had been present when it happened, so there was no telling what had gone on. But the return of the talent show was welcome. No, it was praised. Marinette had never seen her classmates so happy before.

"Dude, we need to enter!" Nino said to Adrien, grabbing his friend's arm excitedly. "We could do something really awesome!"

"I'd love to! But what would we do?" Adrien asked.

"Music, duh! I'm a DJ master, you're a piano prodigy. We can figure something out." It would be a dream to be in an act with Adrien, Marinette thought, a small smile on her lips as she looked at him. Nino's eyes flitted to Alya and Marinette, a devilish grin on his lips. That wiped the smile off of her face. "What about you guys? Are you going to enter?"

"Of course we are! Our act's going to be awesome!" The words were out of Marinette's mouth before she could stop herself. Adrien gave her a warm smile that made her knees turn to jelly.

"I can't wait to see it! I'm sure whatever you guys do will be awesome," he said. Nino quickly signed themselves up for the show before leaving. It was then that the gravity of Marinette's mistake hit her like a train. She had no act planned and now they were expecting something spectacular. Frick my life, she groaned.

"Gah, Alya! Why didn't you stop me?!" Marinette demanded, grabbing Alya's shoulders.

"You gotta learn to control your mouth," Alya sighed. "So, what are we doing for the talent show?"

"I don't know. My only talent is designing." That and gymnastics, but Alya didn't know that and Marinette wasn't sure if she could even do incredible flips and handsprings outside of her activated Miraculous.

"We'll find something. And who knows, maybe your hidden talent will make Adrien fall in love with you," Alya teased. Marinette squeaked and hid her face behind her hand.

"Don't say that out loud! Someone might hear you!" she hissed.

"Everyone already knows so I don't see what the problem is, but okay," Alya said. "You know, I used to do dance when I was little. Maybe we could do that."

"I-I guess." It wasn't like there were many options other than that. Marinette just hoped she didn't make a complete fool of herself.

"You guys are going to dance?" Rose asked from behind them. They turned to her. Juleka was nowhere in sight; that almost never happened, but Marinette guessed that maybe she had something to go to straight after school.

"Yeah, probably! We've got a few weeks until the show, so we have time to make up our minds," Alya said.

"That's sounds like so much fun!" she exclaimed. "Maybe we could team up! I was thinking of dancing, anyway."

"Sure!" Marinette said. She would have said yes regardless, but seeing joy light up Rose's face made her feel even happier that the small blonde was joining them.

"You've got to be kidding me. You're all going to dance? That'll be a disaster." Marinette gritted her teeth as Chloé opened her mouth.

"You know what, Chloé? We're going to have the best act this school has ever seen," Marinette said, bringing herself to full height. Chloé snorted and gave her a skeptical look. Even if it was just to spite her, Marinette decided to put her whole being into this act.

"Sure it will," she said with that annoying, condescending smirk of hers. She pushed past Kim and Alix and signed herself up for the talent show. As soon as she was out of the way, bumping into Alya in the process of leaving, the three let Kim and Alix sign up before going to the paper. Putting down their real names was easy, but deciding a group name had them stumped.

"Maybe we should do a portmanteau of our names," Alya suggested. "Maroya?"

"Ehh . . ." Marinette shrugged.

"We need something cuter," Rose said. She paused for a moment, biting her lower lip before perking up, snapping her fingers. "I've got it!" Taking the pen from Marinette, she jotted down their group name on the talent show sign-up sheet.

Lovestruck Three!