"GAH!" Marinette screamed into the pillow she thrust into her face. She did it again. She embarrassed herself infront of the one and only Adrien Agreste, her crush.

"It's not that bad Marinette." Tikki, her Kwami, reassured her. Marinette took off the pillow to looked at the small figure.

"But Tikki that's the 5th time this week! When am I going to stop embarrassing myself infront of Adrien." Marinette retaliated.

"Technically you didn't embarrass yourself infront of him." Tikki responded.

"He came by my locker to give me back the notes I lent him and I stood there...stuttering at a loss for words! If Alya wasn't there to cover me I would've surely made a fool of myself." Marinette answered thrusting the pillow into her face once again.

"Don't worry Marinette everything will be ok, it's not like he'll remeber it forever." Tikki spoke. At the mention of the word for ever Marinette groaned into her pillow again.

He sometimes wondered if there was something wrong with him. Everyday he tries to speak to Marinette she ends up looking as if she wants to run away.

"Oh I know that face... Your having lady problems again... Ladybug problems." Plagg spoke between bites of Camembert. Adrien sighed.

"Yes and no... I am having lady problems but it's not with Ladybug." He retaliated.

"Not this time." Plagg mumbled.

"I heard that..." Adrien glared.

"Yeah yeah, so who you having trouble with this time?" Plagg questioned.

"Well her names Marinette and she-"

"Marinette?! Is that the girl that sits behind you in class?" Plagg interrupted. Adrien looked at Plagg skeptically before answering.

"Umm yes...Why do you ask?" Adrien questioned?

"No reason." Plagg answered as he gulped down a big lump of cheese. Adrien decided to push the though into the back of his mind for now.

"Yeah...So anyways Marinette always gets so nervous around me. It feel like she wants to run away or something..." Adrien continued.

"Maybe she likes you." Plagg simply answered. Adrien looked at Plagg for a good minute before shaking his head in disbelief.

"I-I don't know? Maybe..." Adrien pondered.

"Or maybe she doesn't like you." Plagg answered gulping down another bite of Camembert. This made Adrien tense.

"Oh geez maybe your right and she doesn't lik-"

BOOM

The ground shook making Adrien roll of his bed and Plagg to bang his head under the TV where he was eating his cheese. Adrien quickly stood up and looked out the window. Just to find a whole building had been turned into...Gold? The building toppled over on its side and into a canal. He hoped no one was hurt. Adrien turned towards his Kwami to find him rubbing his head.

"Plagg, Claws out!" Adrien yelled.

"But my CHEESE!" Plagg yelled as he was sucked into Adriens ring. In a flash Chat Noir took Adriens place and hopped out a window. Darting towards the fallen building.

Marinette had decided to forget about the whole Adrien thing and focus on her homework. Tikki was sitting next to her Tablet.

"UGH! Why is PreCalculus so hard." Marinette groaned. Tikki giggled.

"Maybe you should try to pay attention this time instead of talking to Alya." Tikki spoke.

BOOM

The ground shook and Marinette losses balance, falling off her chair. Meanwhile Tikki topple of the desk immediately to be caught by Marinettes hand. As Marinette struggled to compose herself Tikki flew towards the windowsill and looks outside just in time to see a building made of gold fall on its side and into a canal.

"Marinette! An Akuma attack!" Tikki exclaimed. Marinette stood up from the floor.

"Tikki, Spots on!" Marinette spoke and Tikki was absorbed into her earrings. Ladybug stood in Marinettes place. She then opened up her window and jumped out dashing towards the fallen building.

Ladybug arrived first on the scene and examined the building. It was definitely gold. Looking inside, she saw people frozen in gold statues. They didn't seem hurt. Which was a good thing. They would be back to normal once the Akuma was defeated and the building would be fixed.

"I'm guessing this guy has some kind of obsession with gold." A voice spoke. Ladybug turned around to face her partner in crime.

"Nice to see you kitty." Ladybug spoke turning around to face him.

"You too M'Lady." he spoke as he kissed her knuckles. She pulled her hand away and glared in his direction.

"Flirt later we have an Akuma to catch." Ladybug spoke as she grabbed her Yo-Yo and prepared to throw it.

"As you wish." Cat Noir said smirking and pulled out his baton. Ladybug rolled her eyes one last time before taking off in the direction of the trail of golden human statues. Cat Noir followed closely.

"I AM GOLD DIGGER AND YOU WILL ALL PAY FOR UNDERESTIMATING MY KIND!" A voice yelled.

"That came from city hall!" Cat Noir yelled towards his partner. Ladybug nodded signaling that she heard him and they both began making their way towards city hall. Once they arrived to the scene they immediately began dodging attacks. The persons they assumed was gold digger was dressed in miners clothes. He had a pickaxe in one hand and a no hand flashlight on his forehead.

"The Akuma must be in his pickaxe." Ladybug spoke. Cat Noir nodded and sped forward toward him. Gold digger saw this and immediately started shooting at him. Cat noir dodged the attacks and pulled out his baton. He blocked the swing from the pickaxe with his baton and they started fighting. Ladybug stood behind gold digger, her Yo-Yo in hand, and waited for the signal from her partner.

"NOW!" Cat Noir yelled and quickly dove out of the way as good digger swing his pickaxe into the ground leaving it stuck there. Ladybug ran forward and threw her Yo-Yo around his right foot. Right as he lifted the pickaxe out of the ground she slid in between his legs and pulled on the Yo-Yo making him fall to the ground. Chat noir grabbed the pickaxe and threw it at Ladybug she caught it and broke it but no Akuma came out.

"It must be in his flashli-" Cat Noir had no time to finish as gold digger used his leg to swipe his feet making him fall to the ground. He used the Yo-Yo that was tied to his foot and swung it at Ladybug making her fall as well. Quickly he grabbed both halves of the pickaxe and stuck them together to make a whole pickaxe. He shook the Yo-Yo of off his foot and made his way towards Cat Noir. Cat Noir rubbed his head and looked up to find a pickaxe being pointed at his head.

"Before I shoot you and turn you into gold I'm going to need your Miraculous." He spoke and streched out his hand. Cat noir simply moved his head back and glared.

"I'm not giving you anything." He spoke. Gold digger laughed.

"Then I'll take it." He said and tried to take the ring of his hand. Ladybug on the other hand was thinking about what she should do. What do I do? What do I do? What do I...THATS IT! Grabbing her Yo-Yo she summoned her lucky charm and found it was a mirror. She didn't even need to think twice about this and sped forward. She reflected the flashlights light into his eyes making him drop his pickaxe to shield himself from the bright light. Cat Noir used this opportunity and summoned his cataclysm. He used it to destroy the flashlight setting the Akuma free.

"No more evil doing for you little Akuma. Time to De-Evilize!" Ladybug spoke as she captured the Akuma and purified it. She set the Butterfky free and rushed over to the fallen miner.

"Wha-What happened?" He spoke. Ladybug simply helped him to his feet.

"You wandered away from work you might want to get back there." She answered.

"Yes thankyou." He thanked before grabbing his pickaxe and running off.

"Miraculous Ladybug!" She yelled and threw the mirror into the air. Immediately the healing process began and everything began returning to normal.

"So about the flirting-" Cat noir began but was interrupted by the beeping of Ladybugs earrings and his ring.

"Sorry Kitty gotta go. Bug out!" She said before zipping away. Cat Noir sighed in her direction before smiling and running off as well. Now to finish my homework ugh.

Ladybug swung onto her balcony before the last beep gave off and she detransformed. Marinette took Ladybugs place just as Tikki landed on her shoulder exhausted. Marinette grabbed Tikki in her hand and went inside. She placed Tikki on her bed and went downstairs to grab some cookies. Sneakily she grabbed some Cookies and went up to her room to feed her Kwami. Her parents were watching a movie in the living room so she was in the clear. She sat on her bed next to Tikki and grabbed the Kwami in her hand and gave her a cookie. The Kwami smelled the cookie and began munching on it eagerly.

"How come Ladybug can be so cool but Marinette can be so...not." She rambled. Tikki stopped eating and looked at her pitifully.

"But Marinette you are Ladybug, that confidence is you, that coolness and skill is you. No matter who you disguise yourself as you will always be Marinette." Tikki comforted. Marinette smiled and pet her Kwami.

"Thanks Tikki, your right." Marinette continued. She looked to her wall that contained pictures of Adrian and narrowed her eyes.

"That confidence is me and it's time to embrace it." She finished and stood up. She roughly pulled down the pictures of Adrien and tossed them in the trash, she yanked the picture of Adrien out of the picture frame and also threw it out, finally she replaced her desktop wallpaper with a picture of ladybugs. No matter how much it hurt to tear those down she knew they would interfere with her newfound confidence. Looking around the room she noticed it now looked a little bare. So instead of leaving an empty picture frame she got a picture of her family from her scrapbook and replaced it. She grabbed some tacks from a nearby drawer and hammered them in the wall with her fist. Yes? it hurt but she did it anyways. Grabbing her box of yarn she knit some decorative pieces and hung them on the wall. They were short but pretty. One said I Paris, the words were written in black and the background was pink. Another had a picture of a cookie with a red background because Tikki liked cookies so why not. A thought occurred to her.

"Tikki? Do you know if Cat Noir has a Kwami?" She asked. Tikki seemed to tense but hesitantly nodded.

"Um yes he's a cat but oddly enough he likes to eat cheese...Camembert to be exact." Tikki answered.

"That's oddly specific...do you know him?!" Marinette asked. Tikki froze.

"Uh of course I know him but I haven't seen him in a long time. Before you ask, No I don't know who Cat Noir is." Tikki answered with a sheepish smile. Marinette froze.

"Wait...so Cat Noir and Ladybugs identities have been revealed to others before?!" Marinette realized.

"Y-Yes, but mostly by accident.

Either they're transformations wore off infront of each other or they just pieced it together..." Tikki answered. Marinette was shocked to say the least so they are allowed to know each others identities...

"All of them fell in love right after though it was so cute." Tikki continued. Marinette blushed a deep red.

"TIKKI!" Marinette exclaimed.

"What? It's true." She continued a smirk appearing on her face. Marinette halted in her direction and sat down to knit one more before she put up the rest. Once she finished she hung it on another tack. It was a picture of Camembert cheese with a black background. She put the last two in her hand and hung them up. The first of the two was a green cat paw with a black background and the other was a ladybug with a dark red background. Marinette stepped back to admire her work. Tikki flew up and landed on her shoulder.

"Wow Marinette it looks better than before." Tikki congratulated. Marinette blushed a light pink.

"Thanks Tikki. I'm turning a new leaf. I'm going to forget about Adrien...Well at least for a little bit and see how this works." Marinette spoke.

"You should hurry and do your homework it's getting late." Tikki stated. Marinette nodded.

Tommorow is going to be a new day.