Miraculous Ladybug: Get me out of here

I almost freeze to death

"Welcome to the finals of our KIDZ+ competition, where today, one lucky winner will be announced as our brand new KIDZ+ weather girl!"

After that obnoxiously loud voice, two girls got out of a limousine. They walked down a red carpet, an audience screaming their names. The show cut to the girls and the guy with the annoyingly loud voice standing on a stage. His name was Alec Cataldi, and he looked almost as annoying as he sounded.

"We started off with over 5,000 contestants," Alec told us. "But thanks to the viewers at home, we narrowed it down to these two amazing young ladies! So let's welcome our fantastic finalists! To my right, Aurore Beauréal!"

A tanned girl with blonde pigtails and a yellow umbrella made a peace sign at the camera.

"And on my left, Mireille Caquet!" Alec said, pointing to a shyer-looking girl with short, dark blue hair and brown eyes. "Who will be our lucky winner? Vote now on your phones! Text message rates apply."

"Mireille!" my step-sisters chanted. "Mireille!"

"When are you going to invite a friend over, John?" Mom asked, stealing my attention. She was seated next to me, arms folded. She didn't look happy about me being a couch potato, even though I wasn't invested in the show at all. I was just relaxing, really.

"Maybe I will when you make those pests leave," I grunted, slumping into the couch. Piss was snoring away next to me. (Honestly, it wasn't like I had a lot of friends to invite over, but anyway.)

"Johnny!" Lucetta shouted, jumping next to me. "Get out your phone!"

"Get lost," I rolled over. I fiddled with my hearing aid, and drowned out some of her yelling.

"Get it out!" Mardi insisted, jumping on top of me.

"Get off!" I snapped, shoving her off. She landed on her butt.

"Mommy!" Mardi began crying. "John pushed me!"

"You jumped on top of me!" I snapped.

Mom sighed, shaking her head. "You're all getting too worked up over this silly show. How about you three go out for a walk?"

"No way in Hell," I grumbled.

Mom glared at me. "Johnathan, take your sisters out for a walk, or no internet for a week."

"Fine, I'll go!" I shouted, standing up. "And they're not my sisters. I don't have any real siblings."

I stormed off before Mom could shout at me again.

"Wheeeeeee!"

"Hey, get back here!" I yelled at Mardi, who was leagues ahead of me.

"Come and get me, Johnny!" Lucetta teased, running off in the other direction.

I wanted to jump into the drain and join Pennywise. Why did Mom think I could handle the two brats? I was horrible with kids, family or not. I was tempted to just walk off and leave them, but I knew Mom would kill me.

"Hi, John!"

Oh my goodness, would you believe it, Marinette herself was walking over to me. Because my day was just going fantastically already.

"Hey," I said, trying not to sound grumpy.

"Small world, huh?" Marinette joked.

Way too small, I thought.

"Hey, Marinette!" a voice yelled. A different girl came over to us, holding hands with another little girl. I realised the girl was Marinette's friend I'd seen previously. She looked to be Martiniquan Creole with hazel eyes, and a mole above her forehead. Her hair was wavy and reddish-brown ombre, growing slightly past her shoulders. She wore black horn-rimmed glasses, a white tank top underneath a short-sleeved plaid shirt with coloured stripes, light blue jeans, and white sneakers with black tops.