Hey everyone! This story is loosely based off some of my personal experiences in life and 5th grade. After all, I'm still a student. (I should really add that to my profile). This doesn't really follow the story of how Marinette and Adrien originally met. This is before that. Enjoy! Reviews are very much appreciated! P.S I do not own Miraculous Ladybug.

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Marinette remembers when she first met Adrien Agreste. It was last year in 4th grade when the new boy first showed up. But, she hardly paid any attention to him since he wasn't in the same class as her. After all, she was only in elementary school and she didn't have to worry about boys yet.

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Marinette used to hang out with Rose and Mylene. After all, they were her best friends and they were a trio. Well, they used to be.

At that time it didn't really matter. She had her friends and no one else had their friendship. The rest of the grade had their groups. The boys (Kim, Ivan, Nino, Max, Gavroche, and Nathaniel) were one of them. The other was the popular girls (Chloe and Melodie were BFFs. Although Sabrina would often be the third wheel trying to be in all the activities the pair did together.). Poor girl, Marinette thought. While Melodie was somewhat nice to Sabrina, Chloe was usually the one picking on her. But, the pair had gotten along nicely with Sabrina, nether the less. But maybe that had to do with the fact that both of them were rich, and Sabrina was their personal servant at school.

Françoise Dupont Elementary was usually very peaceful. And at recess, Marinette's teacher, Dr. Macarrão, would often join her class together with the other teacher, Ms. Abacate, to do P.E. and other things. One of their favorite games to play was Supertag. It was very simple. One person would be it and pretend to be a supervillain with special powers. The rest were civilians. Once the 'villain' tags the 'civilian', that person would be it. Then, the civilian would turn to a supervillain and the old villain to a regular person again. It was always fun seeing what powers someone chose. One girl from the other glass, (Aurore?) chose an interesting power. Power to control the weather?, Marinette thought back. Anyways, when Aurore was it, she often went after her best friend, Mireille. It was usually fun until one of the athletic guys got tagged. They would often "rough" things up and that's when things got…unpeaceful.

After one game, though, Marinette was one of those hurt victims and had to sit out for a week. That's when she really noticed Adrien, though she didn't know his name at the time. He was one of those boys that didn't participate in Supertag, along with Nino (who also got hurt the first few times playing until he finally quit altogether.) Marinette was sitting on the bench observing a ladybug passing by when she saw Nino wave to her out of the corner of her eyes. He was sitting next to a boy with golden blond hair.

He saw Nino nudge the boy. The boy waved to Marinette as well. So Marinette tried waving back in the most natural way she could with a cast. Her other hand was holding the ladybug that landed on her hand up until a few seconds ago. It was a bit awkward from that point in the day until recess was finally over. But Marinette still remembered that moment crystal clear.

Looking back, it didn't seem like much at the time. People in elementary school didn't usually hang out with the opposite gender, so Marinette didn't really think about Nino or Adrien. She has Rose and Mylene, who were the sweetest friends Marinette ever had, even if Rose was such a fan-girl and gossiper on the latest romance developing in her grade. And both girls were often very supportive when Marinette went to design something. If only these moments would always be the same and last forever, Marinette thought as she got tagged, again, in Supertag.

"I'm LadyLuck and I shall now come to get you with my super luckiness," Marinette declared and giggled to herself as she struck a silly pose. It sounded a bit ridiculous, she knew, but there have been worst ones. She thought back to a few names. Even if Marinette was a giant Jagged Stone fan like Albert, who in their right mind would name themselves Guitar villain? she thought.

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It was at the beginning of 5th grade that Marinette knew that something was already different. Much to her disappointment, Rose and Mylene weren't in her class this year. Marinette got Ms. Lupa, while her best friends got Ms. Cacciatore, but everyone usually calls her Ms. C. And everyone in elementary knew that being in different classes meant that over time, they'll drift apart and their friendship would slowly parish.

Well, at least that was what Marinette knew.

Her older cousin Bridgette told her all about the friendship progress, and Bridgette was always right because she was a student in high school who went through the same thing. This puzzled Marinette though because she knew that in middle school everyone had different schedules.

"Oh no, it's not like that," Bridgette laughed when Marinette asked her about it, "I had friends who didn't have any classes with me one year and our friendship still ended up being fine. Besides, that was how I met Felix." Bridgette blushed and looked down at her feet.

Marinette remembered Bridgette and Felix together since…well, forever. There was rarely a moment in the week that those two weren't together.

But Marinette had that talk with Bridgette when she was 7. Bridgette was out of high school already, taking college in America. She had to leave Felix behind in France, but they managed to keep a long-distance relationship. Speaking of which, Marinette hasn't talked to Bridgette in a long time. It has been a longer time since she saw Felix.

Marinette signed as the bell finally rang, signaling the start of class. She walked in and spotted a few people who were in her old 4th-grade class last year. That included Chloe (ugh!), Sabrina, Ivan, Nathaniel, Albert, and a few others. She spotted Nino talking to the blond haired boy again from last year. Marinette looked around the room for Melondie and was surprised that she didn't see her. Since Chloe's dad was the mayor, Marinette was sure the two friends would have been in the same class, again! It also helped that Melodie's mom was a famous classical musician.

Across the room, she heard Chloe let out a giant whine to Sabrina.

"Melodie transferred to a private elementary school for smart kids! How could she do this to me! How could Daddy allow her to leave me alone! This is ridiculous, utterly ridiculous! Sabrina, do something!" Chloe huffed.

Poor Sabrina couldn't do anything before the teacher spoke.

"Hello, students. I'm Ms. Lupa. I know you guys are probably excited from seeing your friends from the previous school year, but please settle down. I know that I'm the new teacher this year replacing Mr. Byles, so things are a little new to me as well. Please don't try manipulating me in any way for being new," while she said that last line she was looking at Chloe. So she knows Chloe's dad is the mayor, Marinette thought. But who was she kidding, almost everyone knew of the rich girl's status. And those who didn't know would learn soon enough.

"To get started I'm going to get you guys seated with my seating chart," the woman smiled. From the looks of it, Ms. Lupa seemed like she was in her late 20's. She had short wavy hazel hair and pale apricot skin. She was rather short for her age, but luckily 5th graders weren't that tall… yet.

Marinette looked at the classroom interior for the first time and noticed a few changes. This school year, the district added new modern buildings and desks. Ms. Lupa's was one of the new ones.

Aside from that, unlike the 4th-grade desk set up where there were groups of four, the 5th graders' desks were arranged in pairs of two.

"Over here would be Ivan and Gavroche. In row two there would be Albert and Nathaniel. Here…" Marinette stopped listening for a moment before seeing a new girl standing in the corner. She had hazel eyes and dark brown hair with glasses. She looked kind of lonely so Marinette walked up to her.

"Hi, I'm Marinette," she said. The new girl still didn't speak so Marinette decided to try harder. "It's okay to be shy, I'm usually quiet myself". She still said nothing and clenched her lunch box closer when Marinette noticed that it had the superhero's logo, Majestia, on it. Marinette smiled knowing what to do.

"Hey, is that Majestia?" Marinette asked pointing to her lunch box, "She's my favorite superhero and I especially loved her and Camilla Hombee working together in the 3rd series."

Her plan seemed to work as the girl smiled.

"I know, and I can't believe everyone knows Camilla is Victory. She's my favorite hero after Majestia," the girl agreed, "My name is Alya, by the way."

She let go of her lunchbox and reached her hand out. Marinette took it and smiled in return.

"Well, Camilla is the president of the United States, at least in the comic. And I guess the government does monitor her every move," Marinette added. Alya's shoulders dropped ever so slightly. She must be getting more relaxed around me, Marinette thought.

"If you're that into superheroes, we have this game called Supertag at recess," Marinette said and explained the rules of the game while Alya listened carefully, smiling more as Marinette got more into details.

Meanwhile, the teacher continued speaking, "Here would be Alya and Nino. And last but not least are Adrien and Marinette". The students started moving to their assigned seats.

"You're very lucky. Nino is a great person and I know he'll be the best partner you'll ever have in a while," Marinette said as she headed towards her seat.

"Not as good as a partner if I have you, though. Good luck with yours," Alya smiled, and Marinette returned it.

By the time she reached her desk, the boy called Adrien was already there. Marinette haven't interacted with him that much, but she knew that Adrien was super popular. Last year, Rose told her that he might have been secretly dating Chloe. That gossip lasted for a while. It certainly was interesting knowing that someone could date that little brat, but with Adrien's good looks, she wasn't surprised. And Adrien already had a fan club; over half of all the girls in their grade had a crush on him.

She took her seat next to him. It looked like he was reading something in English.

"Please turn to your partner and introduce yourself to them, even if some of you guys already know each other. I'll give you five minutes", Ms. Lupa announced.

Surprising herself, Marinette was the first one to introduce herself to her partner.

"I'm Marinette. What's your name? Wait-the teacher already said our names, silly me. You could introduce yourself if you like, not that I don't mind. I'm rambling aren't I- well if you just want to ignore me until we switch seats again I'm fine with that as well. I mean- if you hate me like Chloe hates me, I-".

She was cut off with Adrien's laughter.

"What's so funny?" she asked.

It took a while before the boy could respond, still recovering from laughing. "Your rambling is honestly quite cute-er, I mean sorry I laughed, it's just that the last part threw me off."

Marinette's eyes widened.

"You hate me, don't you? I'm so sorry, please don't tell Chloe. I know she's your girlfriend and everything, it's just that I didn't expect you to laugh and I was rambling and-", she took a deep breath, "I'm going to shut up now".

Adrien frowned and opened his mouth but the teacher cut him off.

"I'm passing out this worksheet that's titled "All about you". Fill it with facts about your life so I get to know all of my students better…"

Marinette sighed as she received her worksheet.

I'm in trouble, I just know it. I should have never mentioned anything about Chloe, Marinette thought. She sneakily looked at Adrien out of the corner of her eyes. He was quickly filling in his worksheet. Marinette sighed internally. And whatever Adrien had to say is now, too lost, she added as she scrambled to finish the assignment as fast as she could.

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Thanks so much for reading. Again, reviews are much appreciated.

The 4th-grade teachers (Dr. Macarrão and Ms. Abacate) were based on my real 4th-grade teachers, (Dr. Lencioni and Ms. Avorado). I just changed their last names to macaroni and avocado in Portuguese.

The 5th-grade teachers were also based on my own (thanks, Ms. Wolf and Ms. Hunter). Yes, they were actually called the wolf and the hunter. Lupa and cacciatore mean 'wolf' and 'hunter' in Italian. If you guys know Italian and Portuguese and I got it wrong, you could blame Google Translate for that.

As you all probably know, Melodie and Gavroche are from the quantic kids. Albert was just my own character, oh well.

Majestia and Camilla Hombee/Victory are real characters from the Miraculous Adventure Issues. Of course, Majestia was introduced in the origin episode. Can I just add that Majestia's costume looks a lot like Wonder Woman's? And Victory's looks a lot like Captain America's. Yes, Camilla is actually the president of the United States in Miraculous Adventures.

Might try to do Adrien's POV in the next chapter. If you have any ideas for the future, let me know. 'Till the next chapter…