One Of A Kind - chad leblanc au

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(a/n: this chapter is based on beebeebombam's (on Tumblr) comic about larahaide's (on Tumblr) AU. Check them both out!: larahaide.tumblr.com & beebeebombam.tumblr.com)

Marinette headed to school, waking up relatively early.
"Do you think I'll see Chad today?" Marinette asked herself out loud
"Thinking about Chad now, aren't ya?" Tikki teased
"W-what!" Marinette stammered, red as an Apple "No I'm not! I just have this big feeling that Chad is Chat Noir!"
||"She's too dense Tikki, keep your cool."|| Tikki thought to herself, preventing the urge to just scream Chat Noir's actual identity (who is the one and only, Adrien Agreste)

As Marinette was walking, she had tripped on a pebble, as usual, though somebody had caught her. It was Adrien Agreste
"Marinette! You okay?!" The worried blonde asked the blushing bluenette
"Y-yes!~ of moarse— i mEAN! O-of course!" Marinette stammered her way out of the awkward situation
Chad Leblanc was walking by when he saw the flustered Marinette with the model boy that he'd been hearing about non stop
"So that's Adrien Agreste." He raised his eyebrow as he walked towards Marinette

"Hey Ladybug~" Chad put his elbow on Marinette's shoulder, catching the pigtailed girl off guard
"Ugh! Chat— uh I mean— Chad, don't do that!" Marinette made her usual 'yamate' pose

Adrien had decided to walk away from the situation and went to his friend Nino who was waving in the distance with a smoothie in hand
"Hey Adrien!" Nino greeted "I bought ya a smoothie!"
"Thanks Nino!" Adrien smiled
Nino looked at the direction that Adrien had just came from and saw Marinette with....a boy?
"Hey dude, isn't that Marinette?" Nino, and his usual nosiness, pondered
"Marinette and....who is he?" Nino continued

"Is it PAWsible, if I'm really Chat Noir then...." Chad took Marinette's hand and kissed it "Will you be my Ladybug?"
Marinette rolled her eyes and flicked his nose "Come on Chad! I told you, I already have a crush!"
"What~? I can't remember you saying that, sorry~!" He winked
"Wow! They act like Ladybug and Chat Noir!" Nino giggled which made Adrien choke on his smoothie. This made him drop to the ground. Marinette ran to him, to assist of course.

As Marinette led Adrien to the clinic, she could hear a few whispers from the girls (possibly from Chad's class)
"I heard Chad's been all over her recently." Once girl snarled
"More like she's been all over Chad." Another snubbed
"Now she's into Adrien Agreste? What a player, she's cute, but that's besides the point. I don't know what Chad sees in her." Another girl rolled her eyes
Marinette couldn't do anything but look down.
"Nino, could you just take Adrien to the clinic? I'm sure you can handle it..." Marinette sighed.
"Uh, sure dudette. See ya when class starts." Nino saluted as Marinette walked away, feeling embarrassed

Marinette went back to Chad
"Chad." Marinette called in a monotone voice. "Are you popular in your class?"
"What?" Chad asked, confused as ever
Marinette pulled his ear "Are. You. Popular. In. Your. Class." she asked once more
"Well yeah I guess? There has been a few dozen girls who've had their feelings for me. But I literally don't care about them." He ran his fingers through his hair as he spoke confidently
"Tch. Chad LePlayer." Marinette crossed her arms, staring into his soul ||"I knew Chat Noir was flirtatious, but I didn't think he'd be like this!"||
"But Marinette." Chad paused "You're the one who captured my heart.". This little line made Marinette's heart go the speed of light. If you ever took her pulse, you'd think she's having a major heart attack. Marinette blushed, and not a soft blush, a bright red blush plastered all over her face. And Chad was no stranger to this
"Aw, little Ladybug is blushing~" he winked
"Chad!" Marinette stomped her foot "Look, you can't be going around saying these things! You're my upperclassman, and you know that!"
"Oh~ so you've been stalking me. Not every girl knows I'm an upperclassman." He winked once more
"This isn't a game Chad! There are girls trash-talking me! Calling me a player, all because I'm hanging out with you!"

Going back to Adrien, he had stopped intensely coughing by drinking some more water
"Where's Marinette?" He asked his friend, Nino, while whiling his mouth with his wrist
"Oh, I think she went back to Chad." Nino replied
Adrien wasted no time in booking it outside the school gate, hiding behind the big school door. He watched Marinette and this new guy talk. He suddenly felt a big fury of jealousy over this, whoever! And he wasn't sure why, Marinette was just a friend.....right?"

"WHAT?!" Chad clenched his fist "WHO WERE THESE GIRLS? I'LL STOMP ON THEM!" He shouted and started to march inside the school
"No Chad!" Marinette grabbed his hand hesitatingly "Please!"
Marinette tried to reason out with him, making Chad stop, both sides realizing that they're holding hands. Though, both sides did not realize the faint blush on their cheeks. Adrien, on the other hand, could completely realize the pink tint on their faces.
"Look, Chad" Marinette let go of his rough palm "I appreciate you worrying, but, you're my upperclassman."

Suddenly, the bell rang

Chad let out a smile on his face, kissing Marinette's forehead "Alright, we'll keep our little ordeal a secret, m'lady. Au revoìr!"
He left the flustered little pigtailed 14 year old, blushing harder than when she was dancing with Adrien.
"Oh Chat..." she let out a faint voice out of her mouth

At this point, Adrien was completely conflicted. Repeatedly chanting "she's just a friend" in his head. Marinette walked inside the school, heading to class. Adrien caught up to her
"Hey Marinette!" He waved
"A-Adrien! Hey!" Marinette stuttered once more
"Wanna walk to class together?" He asked friendlily
"O-oh! Of course!" Marinette giggled as she stroked her pigtails. They walked inside their classrooom together.

In class, Marinette was thinking all about Chad. She even held her chest close, completely love stricken, recalling her little moments with Chad. Marinette was usually used to this suave remarks of Chat, but Chad was just....different. She already had the feeling that they were the same person. But this just felt, so much more special.

Maybe she would find out in the next akuma attack.