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WARNING SPOILERS SEASON 2!

It had been over 4 years since she had been chosen to be Ladybug. She could barely remember what life had been like before hand. She sighed heavily as she sat in her usual seat in class. The seat she had taken next to Ayla in another lifetime.

"What's up girl?" Ayla whispered to her as the teacher continued to talk about the novel they had been studying in class.
"She looked up at her best friend. She longed to tell her everything. Why she was always so tired and often forgot her homework or rushed it at the last minute. The amount of times she had almost told her over the years but Tikki forbade her to.

"Heh heh ummm just thinking about... about.. my um... birthday tomorrow, yeah my birthday" she responded her hand behind her head grinning sheepishly as her friend surveyed her over her glasses and raised an eyebrow.
Marinette obviously knew that in times of need her friend had donned the superhero form of Rena Rouge, but she still couldn't help but think sometimes that her friend had powers of mind reading or x-ray vision as a civilian.
"Alya went back to her work with a knowing smile and talked quietly so not to disturb the teacher.
"Your party all sorted?"
"Mmhm" she hummed in response looking back down at the notes in front of her.
"And Adrien's coming?"

"Marinette smiled and a small blush rose to her cheeks. They had been friends for a long time now and she had managed to get over her nerves and talk to him comfortably but she still had the deepest crush on him. Her wordless response confirmed Alyas question.

They continued with there work whilst Marinette drifted off into a daydream. Adrien was dancing with her at the party, she had come dressed as LadyBug but a tea dress adorning the spots rather than her iconic one-piece suit. Adrien had come as Chat Noir and he had got down on one knee and asked his lady to dance with him. The party drifted from her mind, Lost in the arms of cat noir as they danced on top of the Eiffel Tower. He leaned in to kiss her, her heart beating hard and fast in her chest. Her partner, who loved her, never hid his feelings towards her, would lay down his life for her. She had reached up to kiss him back. As there lips softly brushed one another he suddenly held her back at arms length.

"Marinette, what are you doing?" She looked at him, how did he know. How did he figure out her secret identity. The shock and fear settling into her stomach and he continued "Marinette, Mari, its lunch time come on." She slipped and fell of the Eiffel Tower landing in a heap on the floor of her classroom.

Damn it, she had fallen asleep in class. Again. She had fallen on the floor. Again. As she turned beet red and got up to compose herself, her friends giggling at her as she herself grinned guiltily. She couldn't help but feel a little disappointed that Chat Noir hadn't figured out her identity. She had been longing to tell him for years but Tikki still said that whilst Hawk-moth was still out there that it was safer to not know who their civilian selves were. Although Marinette argued with her over and over, as Tikki knew who her Chat Noir was, it was useless.

The rest of the day went off pretty event-less. She got home, started on her homework, put the finishing touches on her dress for tomorrow and prepared herself for patrol. She looked at her dress. She had outdone herself. Even she couldn't find the faults which was rare as she could usually see every tiny flaw in her work even if others couldn't. She whispered her thanks to Alya for the great idea of a themed dress up party based on the great heroes of Paris.

Tikki giggled and flew up to her chosen, cuddling into her cheek "I am so proud of you Marinette, you've done a great job, I'm truly honoured that you are my chosen"/p
"Thanks Tikki" she smiled and held the kwami close.
"Do you know which outfits your friends are wearing yet?" Tikki asked, she looked forward to the party, her chosens excitement evidently rubbed off on her, plus there should be plenty of left over cookies.

"Marinette smiled and busied herself tidying around her room so she could go straight to sleep after patrol. "I know a few, I know Alya is going as Rena Rogue, of course she has no idea I know that she is the actual Rena Rogue, I know some of the others are going as versions of themselves when they were akumatised. And Adrien... he's been pretty secret about his costume. I know hes had a thing for lady bug in the past so maybe he might wear a red suit and black spots to represent her as well./p
"She got lost in her thoughts of dancing with Adrien dressed in an impeccable red suit. Again though her day dream drifted off, this time to her own balcony and his suit changed to black and he had cat ears on his head.
"Marinette" he whispered in her ear. "Marinette. Its time to go."
"Go where?" She responded her cheek brushing his and there eyes meeting under the masks. LadyBug and Chat Noir were in an intimate slow dance, her heart beating in her throat. "Marinette" he said again a little too loud. "Patrol, come on we will be late".

Her dream bubble popped as she realised it was Tikki talking not chat. She opened her eyes and saw the massive eyes of her kwami smiling and holding her face between her tiny paws. Tikki giggled slightly. "OK Tikki … Spots on!"