Hey! So I started watching this series about a bug and a cat and I loved it so much I had to write some fic for it. This is my first Miraculous story so if I'm getting anything wrong please tell me. Enjoy!

"Marinette!"

The loud thump of two hands being slammed into the desk in front of her shook her violently awake and vaulted her out of her daydream world. She had been far away enjoying a picnic by the sea with Adrien and now she found herself suddenly back in her classroom. She squealed loudly and nearly fell off her chair, her face going bright red as the rest of the class burst into peals of laughter.

"Everyone, quiet down! Marinette, can you tell me what we were just discussing?" The teacher raised a stern eyebrow at her as Marinette racked her brain for an answer. How long had she had her head in the clouds? She was in English, c'mon think…

"Erm…reading is very important for expanding your mind?" She garbled weakly as the teacher sighed.

"That answer would have been correct twenty minutes ago Marinette. Try to focus more. Alya can you tell me please?"

"We were discussing the importance of classic texts and how they are still relevant to the modern world." Alya answered with ease, giving her friend an apologetic smile.

"Very good Alya. I hope you were all listening to that because that is exactly what your next project is on." Marinette winced a little but then breathed a sigh of relief when she continued. "You will be split into pairs for this and each pair will write an assignment on a different book before presenting to the class. I have already assigned the pairs so I don't want any complaining. We have Alya and Nino, Chloe and Kim, Sabrina and Rose, Ivan and Mylene…and Adrien and Marinette."

Marinette gasped and her face went flaming red again. She felt like all the air had been sucked from her lungs as Adrien turned around in his seat to face her. "That's not fair, I should be with Adrien!" She heard Chloe protest but her whining voice sounded distant in her head. Chloe was silenced by a look from the teacher and she stared daggers at her, her lips, greasy with pink lipstick, in an angry pout. Marinette wasn't focused on that though. All her attention was on Adrien as she gazed at his perfect face…

Alya elbowed her in the ribs and she realised Adrien was handing her something which she took almost robotically.

"Here, these are my notes on the lesson, you can copy them if you want." He smiled warmly at her and she felt her insides melt. "Are you free after school? We could work on it then, if you want that is." A faint pink blush of embarrassment spread on his cheeks and she felt her heart quiver at how adorable it was.

"Yeah, sure, of course I'm free! I'm free whenever!" She blurted back, trying to ignore Alya's eyes burning into her. "We could go back to mine as it's not that far, it's got food! Well, of course it does, it is a bakery, hehe…" Her voice trailed off and Alya groaned next to her.

"Sure." He replied and she had to bite the inside of her cheek to stop herself cheering. "I have a short fencing class after school so I'll be at yours at five, if that's OK?"

"OK! Sure! Five will be perfect, just like you, you're perfect…" She squeaked as she realised what she had just said but thankfully he had already turned back around. She grabbed Alya's arm in excitement and squeezed it tight. "Oh my God, did you see that?!"

"I sure did!" Alya squeezed back as she exclaimed "You and Adrien are gonna be alone in your room…"

"Me and Adrien…in my room…alone…oh no…Alya what am I going to do?!" She suddenly panicked as she mulled over the situation she had gotten herself into. "What if I make the biggest fool of myself and he ends up hating me?!"

"He won't, he survived last time you were practising for that tournament, remember?" Alya pointed out with a reassuring hand on her back. "Just be yourself and you'll be fine!"

Fine, I can be myself, she thought as the bell went and they both started packing up. If only being myself meant being less of a clumsy wreck around him…

A few hours later, she and Tikki were up in her room making sure everything was ready. They had spent the last few minutes dashing around taking down every picture of Adrien. She had been surprised by how much paper they had had to tear from the walls. Honestly, it's like I have an obsession or something…she thought as she hurriedly changed the background of her computer screen to an innocent picture of Ladybug and Chat Noir she had gotten from Alya's blog.

"Are you sure you got rid of every picture?" Tikki asked her as she flew around her head.

"Positive." Marinette nodded and gestured to a drawer in her desk. "I stuffed them all in there."

"And his schedule?"

"All taken care of." Both their eyes flicked to where it had previously been on the ceiling.

"I hope that's not in the drawer too." Tikki giggled and Marinette pretended to swat her away.

"Very funny Tikki, you know it's behind the bed. Now hide, Adrien will be here any-"

She heard the doorbell and jumped up into the air. "Now Tikki!"

"OK, good luck Marinette! I believe in you!" Tikki flew over to her usual hidey-hole of Marinette's purse which had been placed on her chaise longue. She had only just buried herself inside when Sabine Cheng's head popped up from the trapdoor.

"Marinette, Adrien is here to see you!" She trilled, hardly able to hide her joy.

"We're just working on an English project Mama." Marinette said, trying to sound composed.

"Of course you are my dear," She smiled at her knowingly whilst Marinette made a little groan. "I'll send him up."

She then promptly disappeared and a few seconds later was replaced by Adrien who gave her a friendly wave as he climbed up into her room. "Hey Marinette," He said a little awkwardly and she saw he was attempting to hold a plate of chocolate chip cookies straight whilst clambering up. She ran to take them from him before any fell off and pulled him upwards. They stood there by the trapdoor for a little too long, her hands still on his wrists. She let go quickly like they were burning a brand into her skin and placed the cookies on her desk with a questioning look at Adrien who shrugged. "Your dad handed them to me the second I got through the door. It said it would be good brain food…"

"Yeah, they do that." She laughed as they both took one. "They get very…"

She struggled to find the words and Adrien laughed again. "It's OK, it's kind of nice to see." They both smiled before he checked himself and said "So this project…"

"Right." They both sat down at her desk and pulled out all their English papers along with two darkly coloured paperbacks. "I can't believe we got Jekyll and Hyde. That's got to be one of the easiest ones."

"I know. The ultimate double life story." Adrien chuckled as he allowed himself to relax. "I don't know how he managed it honestly."

"I know, I couldn't imagine being two completely different people." Marinette hid a smile as she opened her copy of the book.

If only you knew, they each thought as they started to work. Across the room, Tikki dared a sneak peek from her hiding place and awed quietly when she saw their heads working so closely together. Her face broke into a smile as she continued to watch them. They were so cute; it was like they were made for each other…

Her concentration was broken by a small chomping noise. She looked around the room for the source but there was nothing she could see. Then it happened again and she flicked her head around frantically. Where could it be coming from? The chomping sounded oddly familiar but she couldn't pinpoint how. She saw Marinette pick her head up and look around but Adrien seemed unfazed by it. Tikki glanced at him and saw a flicker of annoyance pass over his features. She scrunched up her beady eyes and focused on Adrien as he got up from the chair and went rootling around in his school bag. As he picked out another notebook she saw him drop something inside, something that made a gobbling noise as it fell into his bag.

Something is going on here, she thought as he returned to his seat. The pair of them started to work again and she eased herself quietly from the purse, frequently casting looks at them both to make sure she hadn't been spotted. Then she carefully flew around the room, darting behind items of furniture as she went. She finally got behind the chaise longue and quickly hopped into the open bag.

The first thing that hit her was the strong smell of stinky cheese. "Gah!" She recoiled covering her tiny nose. "What the heck is this?"

"What the heck are you?" She heard a sharp voice in front of her. She jumped back in fright, landing against Adrien's phone. As she looked up, a small black figure floated in front of her, holding a large piece of Camembert cheese that was almost the size of his body. His pointy green eyes went wide in shock and he almost dropped his cheese when he caught sight of the red and black fairy and she gasped in turn as she recognised him.

"Plagg?"

"Tikki?"

"What are you doing here?"