MiraculElse #4: Reservations For Two... More May Be Coming

by DFC

(Timeframe: Present. A standalone flight-of-fancy in a handful of parts.)

CHAPTER 1: My Baby, He Wrote Me A Letter

"Pound it!"

Another day, another supervillain downed. Ladybug and Chat Noir's latest assailant was pesky, disrupting one of the downtown shopping districts and throwing cars around, but in the end they took it down and purified its Akuma without breaking much of a sweat.

Afterwards, Ladybug was thoughtful about the experience. "I think I'm seeing a pattern in these last few villains Hawkmoth has sent. The big, hairy one in the Latin Quarter was just a brute, but this one's powers were..."

Ordinarily, Chat would've at least pretended to pay attention to Ladybug's analysis... but today he had something important on his mind. Maybe I'm just kidding myself, Adrien thought. Maybe I'm just seeing what I want to see. But I have to at least give this a try because it's eating me alive.

"I'll, uh, be right back, Ladybug. Gotta stop by the little heroes' room for a second." She gave him a strange look, but stood waiting while watching him dart around the next corner.

Once out of sight, Chat doubled back behind a row of stores and found a secluded spot. "Claws in!" he declared, and Plagg emerged as Chat transformed back to Adrien. The tiny Kwami dove into Adrien's pocket as Adrien took off running down the alleyway and emerged on the other side of the block. He checked his hair in a store window. "Do I look okay?" he asked quietly.

"You're fine, kid," a voice from his pocket murmured. "Good luck."

Rounding the corner, Adrien saw Ladybug standing idly where he'd left her as Chat, still deep in thought. Time to test my theory, he said to himself, approaching her.

Ladybug waited, perhaps a little too impatiently, for her partner to return. She muttered a couple of good-natured jibes under her breath about boys and their inherent strangeness, then dove back into her previous line of thinking. If Hawkmoth has Akumatized the same type of person three times in a row now, she thought, maybe there's something they have in common that we can use to predict the next-

"Hello, Ladybug!" said a pleasant and familiar voice behind her.

Eep! She jumped a little, involuntarily, then spun around to face Adrien. Any thoughts of detective work vanished as the sight of her crush object took over every available brain cycle. "Oh - uh - Adrien! Hi!" she bubbled out with a nervous smile. "I'm glad to - I wasn't expecting - what are you doing here?" EASY, Marinette! she thought. Full sentences. You're Ladybug right now. You can do this.

"I was, um, out doing some shopping for... uh... some shopping," Adrien replied. Really smooth. Focus. "I saw you fighting that villain and had to come cheer you on," he continued.

"Great! I mean, you know, he was pretty easy to beat," Ladybug said. "Much easier than that fencer girl that time." They both winced a little; Riposte had been a seriously dangerous opponent, and had nearly cut both Adrien and Ladybug in half in a previous adventure.

"You and Chat could beat anyone," said Adrien. "So, what are you doing now?"

"Um, waiting for Chat Noir. He took off for some reason, I needed to talk to him about something, he should be back soon. He'd better be back soon. Not that we, uh, need more company." Her grin was infectious and seemingly impossible for her to turn off. "How, uh, how about you?"

"I do have to get going. My bodyguard is waiting, as usual, but I had to see you. To say hello to you when I saw you here, I mean," Adrien replied. "I hope we cross paths again soon."

Ladybug's eyes shone. "Me too, Adrien." They waved to each other as Adrien walked in the direction from which he'd came. Once he was out of sight, Ladybug let out a tiny squeal and closed her eyes; this was the indisputable highlight of her day.

A few moments later, another pleasant and familiar voice behind Ladybug said "I'm back, my lady," bringing her most of the way back to primary consciousness.

"Hey, Chat. ...You done with, uh, whatever you were doing? Never mind, I don't want to know," she replied. "I, um... I had some things about the villain to talk about but I just... can't think of them right now. Next time?"

"You okay, Ladybug?" Chat asked, with an odd grin.

"Yeah. I'm just... yeah, I'm good. I'll see you later. Good job today. Bug out!"

The heroes swung and hopped away in opposite directions, both minds buzzing.

Ladybug landed on her balcony, transformed back to Marinette, climbed down through the hatch and into her bedroom. "Eeeeeeee!" she squeaked, falling into her desk chair in a pleasant haze. Tikki popped out of her purse, amused.

"A good night all around, Marinette?" Tikki asked.

"A wonnnnderful night," Marinette replied, spinning the chair in circles. "I was so not expecting to see Adrien tonight."

"But you see him every day at school, don't you? Isn't that just as exciting?" Tikki teased knowingly.

"This was SO different, Tikki," she said. "We're good friends in school but when I'm Ladybug, he just seems to... I don't know... he lights up so much more. I could just KISS him. Except I'd probably faint if I tried it."

Tikki grinned at Marinette. She was sworn to secrecy regarding the heroes' secret identities, which made observing this four-way dance frustrating at times but often fun to watch. "You could always just tell Adrien how you feel about him, as Marinette. It'd make everything so much easier..."

Marinette twitched. "Oh, I couldn't - I can't - I tried - could I?"

"Be patient, Marinette," soothed Tikki. "Adrien thinks the world of you. Someday he'll fall for you, I'm sure."

Adrien closed his eyes. "I have fallen so hard for her, Plagg."

The Kwami floated around the room aimlessly as Adrien sighed, "And I CAN'T BELIEVE what just happened!"

"I KNOW," Plagg barked. "We were RIGHT NEXT TO one of the very best cheese shops in Paris and you DIDN'T GO IN."

"I'll get you your cheese, sheesh. But you saw it, right?"

"Saw what?"

"Ladybug, tonight. When I surprised her, she was jumpy, she kept looking away, but smiiing. She couldn't stop smiling. She was fidgety, like she was nervous." Adrien's grin was huge.

"Maybe she had to go to the little heroes' room, too," suggested Plagg, wryly.

"No - don't you see?" Adrien said, excitedly. "She acts around me the way I act around HER. I'm around Ladybug all the time as Chat Noir, and I've seen her around all kinds of people. She's always got it together. Nobody flusters her. Except with ME... but only when I'm Adrien."

"Then there was that strange Valentine I got this year," he continued. "It answered the love poem I wrote for Ladybug but never sent, and it wasn't signed but there was a little ladybug in the envelope. If that WAS her, I'd still like to know how she did that." He sat up abruptly.

"Plagg... I need to know what you think. I know that Ladybug told me - as Chat Noir - that there was another boy she loved. Could that boy... possibly be me?"

Marinette would crawl through fire to hold your hand as Adrien, Plagg thought. And she's Ladybug. But I can't say that out loud. "Maybe you should ask her," he ventured. "You just can't let her know that you're also Chat Noir."

"I know," Adrien agreed. "I can't pull that 'Chat disappears, oh hey! Adrien just showed up!' trick too many times or she'll figure me out for sure. But I usually only see Ladybug when I'm Chat. It's not like I see her in school every day."

Plagg whistled. "What?" he asked when Adrien gave him a funny look.

"Okay, smart guy," Adrien challenged. "Then how do I get a message from Adrien to Ladybug without making her suspicious that I'm Chat Noir?"

"I do have one idea..." Plagg said. "You still know how to write that sappy love poetry you put in your Valentine, right?"

Two nights later, Marinette was doing some design sketches on her couch when she felt a faint buzz by her side. She made a quick excuse and went upstairs. "What's up, Tikki?"

Tikki emerged from hiding and replied, "I think Chat tried to contact you just now." Marinette switched to Ladybug and saw that she did have a voice message on her communicator, asking her to meet him when she could at a location not far from the Louvre.

When she got there, Chat was standing coolly by a lamppost, or at least as coolly as he could act with his every nerve on fire. He faked it as well as he could, anyway.

"What's up, partner?" Ladybug asked. "You didn't really say in your message. Is it a villain? An Akuma sighting?"

"Nothing that serious," Chat said, shaking his head. "Actually, I'm just playing delivery boy. Someone asked me to pass a message along to you. Do you know a guy named Adrien?"

Ladybug tried and failed not to twitch. "Adrien... Agreste?"

"That might be him. Blonde, our age. Actually, he looked a little like that guy." Chat jerked his thumb towards a nearby ADRIEN: THE FRAGRANCE poster still hanging from a nearby signboard.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee "Uh, yeah, I've met him. Once or twice," Ladybug deadpanned. "What did he say?"

"He didn't," replied Chat. "He asked me to give you this." He pulled out an envelope and handed it to her. Ladybug was written on the front in what she knew by heart to be Adrien's penmanship.

"A letter?" *BOOMBA-BOOMBA-BOOM* went her heart. She started to open it, then stopped. "You didn't read this, did you?" she asked.

"Nope. On my honor as a gentleman and as a cat," Chat said, with an exaggerated bow.

Any other time, Ladybug would've made a wry comment on that, but right now her curiosity was boiling over. She opened the envelope and pulled out a sheet of paper, upon which was handwritten in cursive script:

Dear Ladybug,

I have something to ask you - something I have wanted to ask you for a very long time.

I promise that I am in no trouble, and don't need rescuing from any villains this time,

though every time that's happened you've been my wonderful knight in shining spotted armor.

But this time, it's quite the opposite. If you would be interested, may I rescue YOU from

villain-fighting duty some evening, and treat you to a nice night out together?

We could do anything you'd like - dinner (though I'll warn that my cooking is scary at best,

so perhaps a restaurant), a movie, ice cream, a long walk together, or anything else that

you like to do as yourself. I would love to really get to know the amazing girl behind the mask,

and promise that I understand that the mask must stay on.

If your heart lies elsewhere, I understand completely.

I hope to hear from you soon. Please say yes!

- Adrien

(AUTHOR'S NOTE: Please picture a hand-drawn smile after "must stay on" and a hand-drawn heart after "Adrien" in the lines above, as your humble storyteller is fighting his formatting tools. Picture them drawn with care and devotion. There! Isn't that better than picturing my just typing ALT-1 and ALT-3 and calling it a day? Of course it is. Now, please carry on.)

Ladybug read the letter. She read it again. She read it again. She read it again. She wasn't sure if they could hear her heart pounding in Bangkok, but she was sure that the entire European Union was wondering what that loud thumping noise was.

ADRIEN IS ASKING ME OUT ON A DATE. ADRIEN IS ASKING _ME_ OUT ON A DATE. _ADRIEN_ IS ASKING _ME_ OUT ON A -

She looked up at Chat, seeing that he was looking at her with rapt attention, obviously quite curious and gauging her reaction. Gently, her moral compass reached out and forced her giddy heart to peek at her partner.

Oh... Oh! I can't do this in front of him. Chat has feelings for me and he just delivered someone else's love letter to me! He is so sweet and oh crap he has to be _dying_ over there. I have to pretend like this is no big deal and spare him.

Ladybug mustered up all the willpower she had left. "Huh," she said. "It's... some personal thing. I'll look at it more later."

Chat remained poker-faced.

Ladybug swallowed hard. "Hey, thanks for getting this to me, partner! I'll, uh, talk to him when I see him next." She gave Chat a quick hug, then said "I have to get back home, my parents will be looking for me. I'll see you soon, and thank you!"

Chat managed a thin smile. "Any time, bugaboo. 'Til next time."

He hopped a couple of blocks towards home, then found a place to transform back to Adrien. "I guess I got my answer," he moped.

"You did?" Plagg asked. "I didn't hear her say yes or no."

"That's just it," replied Adrien. "You saw how she responded. She didn't get excited, she didn't really react much at all. 'Some personal thing,' huh? Maybe I was wrong, and I'm not the guy she likes after all. Let's go home, buddy."

A ladybug has wings, and can use them to fly with the greatest of ease. On this night in particular, so did its namesake... or at least Ladybug didn't remember using her yo-yo once all the way home. All she knew was that she had the greatest thing she'd seen in her entire life in an envelope in her hand.

The moment she dropped down into her room, Marinette bounced like a superball and literally screamed with joy into a pillow. "TIKKI! It happened it happened it happened it happened IT HAPPENED!"

Tikki smiled warmly in return. "I am so happy for you, Marinette, but -"

"ADRIEN ASKED ME OUT ON A DATE! WITH A BEAUTIFUL, ROMANTIC, WONDERFUL LETTER!" It was all Marinette could do to remain upright, as she reread the letter for the 853rd time.

"Well, yes... Adrien asked Ladybug out on a date."

"And I'm Ladybug!"

"I know that, silly. But this might be a little trickier than you thought." Tikki took a deep breath; this was going to take a while. "Let's try to figure out a couple of things, okay?"

"OKAY!"

"Number one. Breathe."

"OKAY."

"Number two. Breathe."

"OKAY..." Marinette dialed herself down from a full boil to a steady simmer.

"Now... how are you going to tell him that you're interested?" Tikki asked.

"I'll see him at school tomorrow! I... uh... oh, yeah. Shoot."

"No, Ladybug can't sit in Marinette's seat tomorrow in class."

"I KNOW THAT! I could... call him...," Marinette pondered.

"And whose phone will you use?" Crap. Tikki was right. Calling Adrien from her phone or her parents' home phone as Ladybug would be a BIT of a giveaway. And calling from a friend's might make him think THEY were Ladybug, or at least open up a lot more questions.

She imagined Alya's face if Ladybug came up to her and asked, "Can I borrow your phone? I want to ask your best friend's megacrush out on a date." She'd have to think this through.

"Chat comes to visit me here sometimes, as Marinette. Maybe I could..." Marinette halted that thought before any more of it escaped her mouth. Showing up at Adrien's bedroom window in the dark of night was in the Advanced Fantasies 309 curriculum and she was quite happily still in the introductory class; besides, they'd probably find an unconscious Ladybug under the window in the morning, stone dead from embarrassment.

"...How am I going to do this, Tikki?" she wondered aloud.

Tikki jumped in quickly, lest Marinette roller-coaster from dizzying heights to utter despair in 4.2 seconds. "You will find a way to spend time together. I know you will. And now that you know for sure that Adrien really does like you, maybe you can talk with him a lot more calmly." Marinette laughed, with a "Yeah" shrug of acknowledgement.

"But I just want you to be careful, and think out how to make it work and not put you or him or your identities in danger."

Marinette smiled back. "I will. I promise." Something Tikki said snuck in and registered in Marinette's brain. "Your identitiES?"

"Uh, you know. Marinette and Ladybug." Whew! I don't slip up often, but that would've been a big one, thought Tikki.

The next day, sitting next to Marinette in class, Alya's radar was going off early and often. Marinette was absolutely supercharged with excitement for some reason, and Alya couldn't figure out why.

"What has gotten INTO you, girlfriend?" she whispered.

"Oh, nothing." Her grin implied quite the opposite.

"Did you... and Adrien..."

"Shhhh! He'll hear you! Or Ms. Bustier will."

They switched over to scribbling notes on their respective notepads and stealing glances, for more covert interrogation.

OH I KNOW SOMETHING IS UP

LIKE WHAT

I KNOW THAT SMILE

WHAT SMILE

THE ONE THAT A CHISEL COULDN'T GET OFF YOUR FACE

DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN

WE ARE SOOO GONNA TALK LATER

DID ADRIEN KISS YOU?

WHAT NO

DID YOU KISS HIM?!

OH I WISH

THEN WHAT

LATER

By this point Ms. Bustier was giving them a very obvious Don't Make Me Come Over There look, so they went back to taking actual notes. Alya thought, Something juicy is going on and I will pry it out of you eventually.

At lunch, Marinette watched Adrien even more intently than usual from a nearby table. He even chews his food adorably. He nibbled on a sensible sandwich, joked with Max and Kim, had a conversation with Juleka, said hello to a few other people, and Marinette screamed Come onnnnnnnnnnn in her mind. He has to be alone sometime. He just has to. How she was going to explain Ladybug's presence in the cafeteria, well, she was still working on that part but sometimes drastic actions had to be considered.

"So, Marinette, do you agree that we should paint your teeth green and make you walk backwards all the time?" Alya drawled.

"Huh? Oh, sure, sure," Marinette mumbled. She looked back, and saw Mylène waving a tube of green paint at her faux-menacingly. "Wait, WHAT?"

The rest of the table erupted in laughter. "Earth to Marinette. Do you read me? Over," Alya giggled. "Girl, what is on your MIND today? I mean, we know WHO. But what?"

"Is it anything that we can help with?" Mylène asked, she and Rose looking at Marinette eagerly.

"No, I'm not trying to do anything... crazy this time..." Well, that was a lie. "I'm just trying to build up some courage, like always." She saw Adrien excuse himself from his conversation and stand up. "I... think my soup didn't agree with me."

"Shouldn't you eat it before you'd know that?" grinned Alya, looking at the full cup.

"I'll be right back. I know what I'm doing." Lie #2!, Marinette thought, as she walked by herself to a spot near the back door. From there, she could keep an eye on... here he came! Adrien was walking by himself in her general direction. He stopped before exiting the building, thought for a moment... and turned left into the men's restroom.

I will do a lot of things for love, Marinette thought. Following Adrien into the bathroom isn't one of them.

After a minute or two, Adrien emerged, and walked out the doors into the courtyard. He picked a shady spot and sat down by himself, seemingly content.

Perfect! He's all alone. I only have about ten minutes to change to Ladybug without being seen, go talk to him, figure out how to get away, change back to Marinette and get back to class without being noticed. Marinette sighed. Easy, right?

From her purse, Tikki murmured "Be careful, Marinette..."

Marinette muttered, "I know," and ducked around a corner. This was it. Her life-changing moment. She took a huge, deep breath. "Tikki... SPOTS -"

"Adriekiiiiins!" called a familiar voice.

Marinette winced. Arrrrrgh! NOT NOW, Chloe! She peeked around the corner and saw Chloe and Sabrina coming through the door and prancing towards the blonde-haired prey. There went any chance of getting alone time with Adrien before class resumed, costume or no costume.

She turned the corner to head back inside, dejected, only to walk right into her lunch tablemates who had apparently followed her out. THAT would not have ended well, Marinette thought, imagining having to explain Ladybug's sudden appearance. Close one.

"Anything you want to tell us now?" Alya smiled. "I, uh... thought I dropped something out here," managed Marinette feebly.

"If Chloe could be dropped, it would've happened long ago." The girls went back inside.

As the end of their last class of the day approached, Marinette's concentration was shot. If she didn't figure out something soon, she was going to crack. From what she could tell from the back of Adrien's head in the seat in front of her, Adrien was just as antsy. It was time for a rash and irrational action on somebody's part, and she was just the girl for the job.

Marinette raised her hand and asked, "Ms. Bustier, may I be excused to the restroom?" she asked. "Yes, but be quick," Ms. Bustier said. Oh, I'll have to be.

She snuck out to the back of the school, where Tikki popped out and asked "Marinette, what are you doing?"

"Getting Adrien's attention before my head explodes. SPOTS ON!" "Wait, whaaaaaa..." Tikki said, as the transformation began and she was sucked in.

Adrien was more than ready for the end of the day. Class wasn't uninteresting, but he was riding an emotional rollercoaster and his brain was overloaded with thoughts of what Ladybug would say. Or what she wouldn't say. Or where they could go when she was in costume and he wasn't. Or what kind of food she might like. Or maybe he should just apologize and say "never mind, what was I thinking" the next time he saw her. Or maybe she would just -

*WHOOSH!*

He glanced at the window. I could have sworn I just saw a red-and-black blur swing by. I must have Ladybug on the brain. Gee, I wonder why-

*WHOOSH!*

Okay, that time I wasn't imagining it.

*WHOOSH!*

Trying not to be obvious, he kept his eyes to the side, watching the window. He saw dark hair and a domino mask peer cautiously around its edge, and bluebell eyes that lit up when they saw him looking. She made a nudging motion with her head, towards the back of the school.

"What?" he mouthed silently.

She motioned it again, twice. Nino saw Adrien being distracted and followed his gaze to the window, where he saw the top of a dark-haired head see him, go Eek! and duck out of sight.

"May I be excused to the restroom, Ms. Bustier?" Adrien asked. "Yes, but be quick, please," Ms. Bustier said.

Nino shrugged. Weird things were starting to become the norm around this class.

Adrien ran off to his own favorite private transformation spot. Plagg asked, "Where are you going? Ladybug went that way."

"I know! It must be an emergency! She must need Chat Noir's help! Plagg, CLAWS OUT!" "I don't think so, waiiiiiiiiiiiit..."

Chat raced towards the back entrance to the school. His lady needed him! No time to waste! Must be a supervillain attack, or -

WHAT THE HECK AM I DOING?

Actual, rational thoughts registered in his brain just in time.

Ladybug wasn't signaling Chat Noir just now! Duh, because she doesn't know that _I'm_ Chat Noir! If I run out that door now, I blow my secret identity! How dumb can I almost be...

His brain continued to reassert itself. Wait. If she wasn't signaling Chat, she must've been signaling ME, Adrien. But why would Ladybug-

Oh!

Chat doubled back to his hiding spot as fast as he could run, calling "Claws in!" once out of sight.

Plagg buzzed around frantically once he reappeared. "Do you have ANY IDEA what you're doing?"

"Not today, I don't!" Adrien hollered back. "But I'm working on it!"

This time, Adrien actually went through the back door. He looked around, frantically, and heard a "Psst!"coming from his left. Quickly, he scooted around a pillar, and was rewarded with a gigantic smile.

"Hi," Ladybug said.

"Hi, yourself," said Adrien. "So I did see what I thought I saw."

"I know," laughed Ladybug. "I was trying not to make a scene. If I just burst into your classroom, they'd probably call an Akuma Alert and evacuate everyone. Did anyone else see me?"

"Just Nino, the guy sitting next to me, I think. He won't say anything. My teacher was writing on the board the whole time."

"So..." they said simultaneously. Both laughed, then their eyes met.

"May I assume that you got my letter?" Adrien asked.

"I did," Ladybug said. The blush in her cheeks sent his pulse racing. "And I think I melted a little."

"Then I'll ask it again because I'd love to see that up close," replied Adrien, with a radiant smile. "Ladybug... would you-"

*BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNG* The final bell sounded abruptly.

"Uh-oh. So much for privacy," cringed Ladybug.

"I don't care if they know," Adrien said.

"Oh, no. We're doing this the right way." Quickly, Ladybug tossed her yo-yo skyward, put her arm around Adrien's waist and sent both of them soaring up to the roof. They backed away from the edge a few steps, out of most line-of-sight from the ground, and stood facing each other.

"You were saying?" beamed Ladybug.

"Ladybug... would you do me the honor of joining me for dinner, um... whenever and wherever we can figure out how to do it?" asked Adrien.

"I would absolutely love that," Ladybug cooed.

She moved in and hugged him tightly; he held her just as close. As much as time can, it stood still.

A growing tide of voices and doors beneath them brought them gently back to awareness. "I, uh, should get going before people see us and wonder what we're doing up here," Ladybug said.

"Let them wonder. I've been dreaming of doing this for too long," replied Adrien.

"That's no way to get me to let go," she whispered.

"Good."

Very reluctantly, they stepped back slightly, their fingers still touching, both grinning from ear to ear.

Ladybug took a breath and said, "I know that between your father and all the things he has you do, and my secret identity, and supervillains showing up all the time... I don't know how soon we can do this. Or how we're going to do this. But we're GOING to do this."

"Absolutely."

She leaned in and kissed him on the cheek. "Call me!" she whispered, and then she was gone.

Downstairs, Ladybug snuck back into the building and changed back to Marinette. She was riding the biggest wave of her life, as she floated down the hallway and back to Ms. Bustier's classroom to collect her purse and books.

Inside, Ms. Bustier was still at her desk, organizing some papers and preparing to leave. "Feel better?" she asked.

"Yes, Ms. Bustier."

"Care to explain where you went, Marinette?"

"Not really, Ms. Bustier."

"One day's detention?"

"Deal."

As Marinette turned to leave, Ms. Bustier noted Marinette's extremely buoyant mood. She asked, "Was it worth it?"

"Yes, Ms. Bustier."

"Good," she said with a subtle wink. "See you tomorrow."

Marinette dashed out the front door of the school, ducked out of sight and tried not to pass out. "Tikki, I DID IT!"

Tikki smiled, "You did. I'm so glad that you're so happy."

"It felt SO RIGHT being in his arms. Like I was made to be there," glowed Marinette. "We're going to figure this out. Though... I can't help but think that I'm forgetting something."

"Two things," Tikki said quietly.

"Huh?"

Adrien laid flat on his back, his eyes closed, drinking it all in.

"Plagg?"

"Yeah?"

"I'm in love."

"I know."

A moment passed in silence.

"...Plagg?"

"Yeah?"

"...I'm on a roof."

"Yeah."

Another moment passed.

"...Plagg?"

"Uh-huh?"

"...How will I call Ladybug if I don't have her number?"

~end of Chapter 1~

NEXT TIME:

* Planning the perfect date.

* "So how did you get detention?" "Um..."

* Detective Alya is on the case.

* "Wait, I told him WHAT?"

* How To Pass Notes Without Being Seen.