Adrien was a perfect actor and usually he could act as he should or want at the time, so of course he was excellent at maintaining both personalities; perfect son/model and flirtatiously heroic separate, but yet both were part of him and sometimes couldn't be hidden.

That's why Adrien has noted the increasing difficulty in acting different in both the superhero and the normal teenager place. Clearly at first he thought it was just his imagination, but the way he started to act at school (not so much at home) had proved the fifteenth year old Agreste wrong.

It started when he realized his dad couldn't quite completely control him while he was at school, therefor he started to say and do things his father would normally not allow him to do like swearing, of course he only did this occasionally and at first only with Nino.

Nino didn't particularly mind, however he did tease Adrien a little when he'd curse saying things like 'oh my god, did the perfect boy Adrien Agreste just swear?' Or 'I can't believe it, I'm so disappointed at you' while shaking his head mockingly disapprovingly; Adrien will just laugh at his comments and shrug it of.

Adrien couldn't say he loved to curse, but he did like the feeling of liberty he'd sense every time the words 'shit' or 'fuck' would come out of his mouth specially when was chat noir where he would swear twice as much.

But over all there wasn't any particular problem with swearing, but it definitely was the start of his problem.

Usually Adrien wouldn't swear that much, but apparently doing this caused Adrien to begin to use his chat noir puns more -and yes not only the cat ones- like a month ago were Nino nearly gave him a heart attack when he commented on his puns.

" hahaha, dude that was awful," Nino said laughing at one of the (increasing) puns Adrien mentioned while in their conversation. " but now that I think of it that sort of sounded like a pun chat noir would say."

Adrien felt everything in his brain freeze at the last statement made by Nino. Seeing the blonde's silence Nino proceeded his track of thinking.

"Although you are nowhere near as suave as chat noir." Nino made his (hopefully) last comment on the subject with a mocking smile, while Adrien finished having his mental break down.

"Haha, yeah" he chuckled nervously, making this the first time regretting one of his puns. Nino just shrugged and continued his way to classroom.

Adrien merely repeated the scene in his head scolding himself with a 'Adrien, your chat is showing!' before following Nino.

At the end Adrien resigned realizing not only he didn't make any progress in solving the problem, but he was late to class for standing there like an idiot fearing his best friend had discovered his secret superhero identity.

It was monday morning and Adrien made his was to school in his limousine (which he finded stupid because he literally lived two fucking blocks away from school) when his cellphone vibrated and he immediately preceded to answer.

"Hello?" He greeted.

"Hiya- cough- bro." A raspy version of Nino's voice answered back.

"Nino?" Adrien asked surprised."Dude, you sound awful"

"Yeah I know" Nino said then he coughed again "it seams I caught the flu from Alya yesterday"

"Oh damn, does that mean you are not coming?" The blond asked back at Nino, ignoring the chance to tease the sick boy on how he probably caught the flu from Alya because they were kissing since Adrien was still in the limousine.

"Yeah, my mom said I shouldn't go to school today" Nino answered back, but obviously he was just to lazy to get out of bed.

" you are going to leave me alone over a flue?" Adrien said disbelievingly "Nino, you suck" he could swear he could hear Nino roll his eyes in the other end of the line.

"Yeah whatever dude, I'm sure you'll survive" Nino said before coughing and greeting goodbye.

Adrien sighed as he got out of the large car telling to himself it was going to be a long day. The blonde boy entered the room, sighing in relieve as he realized Chloe was nowhere to be seen (he was 100% sure that if she was there she would launch herself to Adrien as soon as she realized Nino wasn't there.) but promptly found not only Nino's desk but Alya's place was too.

Adrien remembered Nino mentioning Alya was the one who caught the flu first, Adrien shook his head helplessly; Alya was along with Nino and occasionally Marinette his only true friends...

That's right! Adrien thought his face lighting up at his marvelous idea, Marinette was sort of his friend, plus both their best friends were absent...that practically meat the had to sit together, right?

There was only one problem, Marinette was way too shy around Adrien.

But he could try.

He climbed the short stairs to Marinette's side, where she was sketching in her design book clearly not paying attention to the boy next to her.

He took a long breath, here goes nothing!

"Hey Marinette!"

Adrien greeted her, while Marinette snapped her head up at him as soon as she heard his voice.

Red coloring rapidly made its way up the pale cheeks of the dark blue haired girl.

"O-oh, A-Adrien, h-hey!" Marinette stuttered still blushing hard.

There was a short silence Adrien desperately wanted to break.

"So, Alya didn't come?" He said trying to keep the conversation going.

"Y-yeah, I-I mean no! She's stuck at home with a horrible flu" Marinette managed to say,Adrien nodded.

"Yeah so is Nino" he stated starting to feel how this wasn't quite working, so he decided maybe he should just ask if he could seat with her.

"C-can I seat with you?" He asked quickly before he loosed his courage.

Adrien saw how Marinette almost choked in her own spit and blushed ten shades darker. She tried to compose herself only gathering enough control to nod dumbly to the blond boy who after that smiled at her and promptly continue to seat on Alya's place.

Marinette attempted to keep the little sanity she had left by furiously scribbling in her drawing notebook.

The teacher entered the room and began the studying schedule as both Marinette and Adrien remained silently seated.

Although Adrien had to admit he knew little about Marinette, he did know she usually made funny comments during class. Ok she'd whisper them to Alya so he had never heard them, but he did listen to the small giggles and laughs both girls would let out low enough for the teacher not to notice.

Adrien had always been curious about what Marinette had to say, but never quite had the opportunity to actually hear them since sadly Marinette was barley capable of talking to him.

It was an old habit she had.

Marinette would always say this things to Alya during class that were so hilarious, so as time passed Marinette grew costumed to them so much, every time she had one of this funny remarks she will just say them no matter who she was at the moment.

Unfortunately at this very moment Marinette was too nervous to even think, however she could not say the same about the next class they had.

Adrien was a bit disappointed he didn't have the chance to talk more to Marinette, which of course distracted him from whatever class they were at the moment. Naturally he'd move something and cause his pencil to snap.

"Ugh, fuck me" he cursed in a low voice.

Luckily Marinette did hear his small scene, and before she could stop herself she blurted "maybe later" causing Adrien to stop dead in his tracks.

Then he just started to laugh uncontrollably.

Marinette couldn't stop the smug smile that left her lips as she looked at him from the corner of her eyes either.

The teacher had to ask Adrien to leave the class to calm down.

Marinette could proudly say she regretted nothing.

After that Marinette did loosen up a bit and was able to actually talk to Adrien without that much stuttering.

At the end of the school day Marinette and Adrien were friends, much to Chloe' s dismay. Even though Marinette did receive a couple of glares courtesy of Chloe, she knew that was probably the best day she's had and if not the second. She rambled for hours to tikki, who giggled every time Marinette sighed dreamily, but who wouldn't when you just had the best day of your life along with your crush.

The next day Marinette arrived with Alya as usual talking about whatever when Adrien and Nino passed by the girls side.

"Hi, Marinette!" Adrien said brightly at Marinette.

Alya was ready to hear her best friend stutter helplessly.

"Hey, Adrien!" Marinette responded calmly yet as eager as Adrien.

Alya felt her jaw drop to the floor like so did Nino's, both gaping at Marinette, who continued her way a smirk plastered in her face.

Alya was unable to process the information, Marinette didn't stutter like the hot mess she usually is while talking to Adrien, her crush...

Marinette didn't stutter...

She didn't freaking stutter.

For a brief moment Marinette swore she broke Alya and couldn't help but laugh merciless.

Soon enough Alya recovered and dashed to Marinette's side already interrogating the raven haired girl.

"Dude," Nino said still shocked "what the actual fuck happened yesterday"

Adrien smirked.