"Marinette, that is so cute!" Alya completed as she laughed beforehand signing the compliments. Marinette was mostly deaf, she could hear loud sounds but that was all. Alya looked at Marinette's pastel-colored handy work. It was a flower crown comprised of pastel-colored fake flowers with little green leaves sticking out every which way. Unbeknownst to Alya, Marinette had made them both matching flower crowns.

"I'm glad you like it because I made one for you." She added as she pulled the matching flower crown out of her pink book bag.

The blonde bully of the school noticed how Alya and Marinette were going to walk around being matchy matchy like best friends have a habit of doing attended or not. Chloe never liked this. She never had anyone she was that close to. She grew up being jealous of how friends would swap a shoe with another person to display their friendship.

"Pfft....... flower crowns what are you twelve?" Chloe asked as she flipped her blonde ponytail in disgust.

Marinette just ignored her as poofed up the slightly bent petals. The bluebell eyed girl did not ignore the blonde on purpose though because one of the perks of being deaf is that she couldn't hear Chloe.

"Nobody thinks you're cute, Marinette."

Chloe said hoping this insult would get across to Marinette. Hearing or not. Marinette wasn't born deaf. She was in a walker and fell injurying her head on the Bakery's brick oven when she was two and since then she couldn't hear much.  Head trauma at a young age is a common cause of deafness in children according to Marinette's Pediatrician. Her parents still blame themselves but somethings are even out of their control. Like how their deaf daughter is night-lighting as Paris's favorite superhero.

"I think we should get a fourth opinion," Alya smirked knowing whose opinion that Marinette needed to win this argument. The good news is that Adrien knew how to sign. Alya only knew how to sign a few things that Marinette taught her other than that usually Marinette and her communicated with writing.

"Hey, Agreste!" Alya yelled across the courtyard. The green-eyed teen finished his conversation with Max about the next release date of some player vs player combat game featuring Ladybug and ChatNoir.

"Yes?" He asked joining the group of girls. He glanced at Marinette watching carefully fix the petals as Alya asked him a question. Marinette felt a blush run across her face. Adrien was beside her dressed in his usual skinny jeans but he wore a shirt part of a Miraculous inspired fashion collection designed by his father. His shirt was obviously designed with ChatNoir in mind because his shirt had the words "MEOW OR NEVER" written in the bold white text printed on top of a black circle on the middle on the teenage boy's chest.

"Is that for me?" He curiously signed as he pointed to himself. Ignoring Alya and Chloe. Alya wanted Chloe to go bother someone else. Marinette had a hard time being the only deaf kid in school. She didn't need a blonde pitbull to add to her problems. Marinette just wanted to people to treat her normally no matter want her disability was.

Marinette didn't sign back or uttered a word. Just nodded her head 'yes' even know she made the flower crown for Alya. Adrien took the flower crown and placed it ever so carefully on his blonde head,

"Now we  hand gestures with the famous 'Agreste photo shoot smile.'

Chloe looked at Adrien. who was the boy who could pull off anything probably the reason why he was such a good model?

"Get that stupid thing off your head. It was not made for you." Chloe scoffed hoping Adrien would agree with her but Adrien hardly ever agreed with the school's meanest blonde.

Adrien dramatically pressed his hands together and said in the most serious tone he could muster "One who calls the flower crown stupid has not earned the privilege to wear the flower crown. "

Alya laughed causing Marinette to raise an eyebrow she hated being outed in conversations but she was quite used to it. Adrien noticed the slight tinge of loneliness in Marinette's eyes and decided to sign his funny comment. She laughed cause Adrien's heart to unexpectedly pound. He had never had this problem before. Was it the magic of the flower crown causing him to open himself to like someone other then Ladybug?

Marinette noticed similarities between Adrien and her cat-themed crime-fighting partner. Yet, they were so different to her. Adrien was the only one in the class that could fluently sign and had been translating what the teacher was saying for her which was quite nice of him. Chloe didn't like how the principal had change Adrien's class schedule with Gabriel's permission to Marinette's.

The two teens grew closer by the amount of time they spent together. During class, Adrien and Marinette would exchange hand gestures back and forth as if they were actually having a normal conversation with no limits. Marinette enjoyed the smart commentary that Adrien slipped in within the information the teacher was talking about.

"Thank you." The blonde boy signed. She had an oblivious crush on him. Chloe didn't think it was fair. She liked Adrien since they were children playing tag and when she tripped. He took care of her even know to look back she was being an overdramatic brat. He stuck a band-aid on her cheek that was a little red due to falling face first...

She cried calling for her butler but she was in one of the hotel's labyrinth gardens. "Chloe, It'll be okay. I'll take care of you." He kissed the cartoon decorated band-aid and said words that she would never forget. "Mama said that kissing boo-boos helps them grow faster." he smiled. Taking care of his only friend. Kissing her was like a magical cure to stop the flood of tears.

That is when Adrien realized he wanted to grow up and be a Doctor. He wanted to help heal kids specifically but this was his secret because once he was eighteen he was planning to move out of his father's house. He wanted to enroll in college and marry his one and only. Simple goals so it seemed.

"You're... welcome." Marinette smiled absolutely smitten.

"You going to kiss her or what?" Alya teased knowing her best friend couldn't hear her. Marinette didn't have to the blush across Adrien's face said in all.

"Excuse me! What do you think you're doing? Adrien is a quality gentleman. He would never do that." She pointed out to Alya in the most disgusted tone.

"What did she say?" Marinette asked.

"You don't want to know." He replied.

Alya caught part of the conversation so she signed on the word "Kiss" and Marinette replied with "I wish" forget that Adrien was standing right there. So to Chloe's protest, he kissed the black haired girl on the cheek.

"Really, on the cheek?" Alya said as it was their custom to kiss people on the cheek as a greeting.

"Alya, you know I like someone else." He said too oblivious to know that Marinette and Ladybug were the same people. How many deaf people did he think lived in Paris? Especially, one in sophomore year that attended Francis DuPont. Could he just put to and to together?