After school, Luka was already waiting by Chloe's locker once again, but this time he wasn't carrying any of his stuff with him except for a small bag (that he was actually keeping Tikki in). He didn't have any homework that day and he didn't really want to carry all of his stuff around with him at this parade. His mind was still filled with some regrets, not knowing if Chloe had been upset by his disappointed tone. He was still extremely curious of what she had to say, somewhat disappointed she didn't want to tell him.
Chloe comes up to him and begins unlocking her locker, "Hey, little boy blue. Why don't you have your bag or your guitar case?"
"We're going to the festival now, right?" Luka asks, "I didn't want to carry everything around the whole time."
"Oh... That makes sense. I might want to do the same thing, then. I don't have any homework since it's still the first week of school." She says, grabbing her wallet and zipping it in her purse.
"Chloe, I know you avoided answering earlier, but I really want to know what you had to say." Luka says, looking at the ground.
Chloe sighs in defeat and shuts her locker, "Yeah, I figured you would ask. Can I ask you something first?"
"Sure." Luka says with a smile.
"Were you disappointed? That I said today wasn't actually a date? Or am I just crazy to think that and I'm overthinking it?" Chloe says, looking right into his eyes.
Luka looks at her nervously, but then looks at the genuine curiosity on her face. "I... Um..."
Chloe sighs, "You weren't disappointed. It was just in my head. I'm so dumb for thinking that at all. I'm... sorry, Luka."
Luka looks at her like she was weird, "No, you're not dumb. I was just... confused."
"Because of me saying that to Adrien and Marinette, right?"
"Yes, exactly." Luka lied, too nervous to admit what was really going on in his head.
"I see... Well, in that case, what I said wasn't really that important since you weren't actually disappointed." Chloe says with a grin.
"Right. Let's just go then." Luka says, trying to change his mood a bit.
They walk a few blocks to where the festival is taking place and Luka asks, "Did you happen to contact your dad? About the whole Sunny Day situation?"
"Yeah, I texted him in one of my later classes. He said he would make sure he got his own feature on one of the floats." Chloe says with a smile.
"That's amazing. I'm sure you really made his day by helping him. I hope that everything goes well."'
Chloe smiles and sees the floats in the distance. "It's already started!"
Luka laughs, "You seem pretty excited."
"Yeah! I've never been to a festival before. Usually I am one of the assistant managers and a coordinator along with my daddy, but I've never been in the actual crowds before. I'm surprised how quickly everything got done. Usually it takes a bit longer to have a parade, especially when all the floats are being made. He must've hired the fastest float makers alive because they already look amazing from here." She explains, then leads Luka through the crowd by the hand, eventually getting close to the front.
"This is probably the float contest," Chloe says, observing all of the floats of the heroes with similar designs, "They do it every festival, whatever theme it might be. Whichever float gets the most votes at the end wins the grand prize. They're a little less spectacular this time around because of the crazy time limit, but..."
Luka looks at them in awe, "They're all so great, just look at them!"
"Yeah, I like the one where they're fist bumping." Chloe laughs, pointing at it, "Someone should tell them to do that when they finish their missions or something like that. It would be cute, like a little handshake!"
"That would be a good idea. Maybe they're here and see it for themselves."
Chloe nods, "I know if I was a hero, I'd be here. How would I be able to miss a parade about me?"
"I feel the same," Luka says, "I wouldn't know how to feel if there was one for me, though."
"Maybe one day you'll be up there, performing on one of those floats," Chloe says, 'That would be fun, right??"
"It would if you're there singing backup for me," Luka says with a wink.
"What? Me?? I- I can't sing..." Chloe says in embarrassment.
"Of course you can! Almost anyone can sing, even if it's bad, it's still singing."
"Thank you for the encouragement." Chloe says rolling her eyes.
"Sorry. At least I'm truthful." Luka says with a laugh.
"Wow, look at that!" Chloe says excitedly.
On one float there's a man dancing elegantly that wears a suit resembling Coccinelle's. A dancer resembling Minou rises from inside the float and they begin an interesting dance together, ending with a slow dip.
"I wish I could do that. I'm not really good at dancing." Luka says.
"I could teach you sometime, if you want. I took a lot of dance as a kid. Mom said it would make me more elegant and would help others know of my status."
"It could be fun." Luka says.
They look back up at the dancers and the man portraying Coccinelle removes his mask to reveal that it is Sunny Day, and the announcer says that the featured dancers were him and his dance partner who had used this dance to win the talent section of the pageant.
"I guess your dad came through." Luka says with a smile, seeing Sunny Day enthused as he waves and smiles at everyone cheering.
"I'm glad, he deserves time to shine too. No matter if it's the heroes' day or not."
"Are you hungry?" Luka asks, "I could use something to eat."
"I guess I could eat. I was going to wait until I got home, but...."
"Let's go!" He says, taking her hand and helping her get back out of the crowd.
"Enthusiastic much?" Chloe laughs, then getting out her wallet. "I have a bit of money on me so I can cover us both if you want-"
"What? No. I'm the guy, so I should pay. It's proper manners." Luka says.
"Please, I got this."
"I-"
"We could keep bickering or we could actually eat. What do you prefer?"
Luka frowns and gestures for her to go ahead. She walks past him with a confident smirk and pays for two hamburgers and a funnel cake (since she has to eat commoner food, go big or go home, right?). She hands one burger to Luka, who eats it immediately. Chloe looks at it in slight disgust for a moment before taking a bite. It isn't as bad as she thinks and before she knows it, she's digging into the funnel cake.
Luka looks at her in amusement, "First time eating this stuff?"
She pauses and sees she finished half the funnel cake already. She reddens and nods guiltily.