Chapter 18

Marinette's P.O.V:

"Miss Marinette." Alfred knocks on my door to wake me up. "Breakfast will be ready in 5 minutes. I suggest you get up to get ready for your tour today."

"M'up." I mumble. I then fall out of the bed that was higher up than I thought and hit the ground with a solid 'thump'.

"Are you okay Miss Marinette?" Alfred asks through my door.

I grab the edge of the bed to pull myself up as my kwami's laugh at me. "I'm okay." I yell at the door.

Looking around for my suitcase, I find it at the end of my bed. I pull out my baby pink long sleeved skater dress that I made myself and a pair of shorts to wear underneath. (You can never be too careful) I also pull out my favorite pair of grey thigh high socks to keep my legs warm in Gotham's cold air and a black pair of short 2-inch heels.

After getting dressed, I brush my teeth and put my hair up into a high ponytail with a baby pink ribbon to match my dress. Putting on a few swipes of mascara, I put the tube into my purse along with my phone and sling it over my shoulder. I tuck in the necklace with the cat ring into my shirt and decide to wear Kaalki's glasses on my face. All my respective kwami's dive into my purse as I get ready to leave.

I check myself out in the mirror one last time before walking to the door to meet everyone for breakfast. As I close the door, I hear another one open behind me. Turning around, I see Damian leaving his room. "Good morning, Damian." I say happily.

"Good morning, Angel." He smiles brightly at me. "Would you like me to escort you to breakfast?" He holds his hand out to me.

"I think I know my way." I tap my chin in faux thought. "But the company is so nice that I would love to walk with you either way." I finally grab his hand.

We both walk in comfortable silence as we make our way to the dining room for breakfast. When we enter, everyone looks at our joined hands happily.

"Good morning, lovebirds." Dick winks at us while I blush. "You better hurry up and get some food before Jason takes it all."

We all look at Jason who has at least 6 pancakes piled onto his plate. "What?" Jason shrugs. "I'm hungry. Don't judge."

Smiling, I drag Damian to two empty seats to sit down. While we eat, we both still hold each other's hands under the table. The only ones that actually seem to notice are Bruce and Alfred, but it looks like they decide to keep quiet about it.

"Ah, Miss Marinette. I took it upon myself to pack your kwami's some food while you are out today." Alfred informs.

At this news, Plagg zooms out of his spot in my purse to look at the butler. "Did you get me the smelliest cheese you could find?" Plagg asks hopefully.

"Plagg! Don't be rude." I scolded him.

"It is fine, Miss Marinette." He turns back to the kwami. "I got you camembert, just as you asked."

"Alfred, I'm so sorry he bothered you with this. I know he can be a pain."

"It was no bother, Miss Marinette." The butler smiles at me. "This is what I am here for. I am happy to help in whatever way I can." He stands up with three small baggies, one containing cheese, another with cookies and the last with sugar cubes and hands them over to me.

"Thank you, Alfred." I take the bag and stuff them into a side pocket in my purse. "Has anyone ever told you how amazing you are?"

Alfred smiles brightly at the complement. "I may have heard it once or twice."

"Well people should say it more often." I laugh.

"Hey, Sunshine." Jason gets my attention. "Have you ever been on a motorcycle?"

"Yeah." I nod at him. "My friend Luka has one and also my Nona."

"Then are you okay with me taking you to meet up with your class on mine?"

"I don't see why not." I look down at my dress. "It's a good thing I decided to wear shorts today."

"Cool. Riding around the city on the motorcycle is a lot more fun, trust me." He gives me a playful grin.

"No speeding, Jason." Bruce warned. "Or I will have Alfred drive her."

"I won't go that fast." Jason sneaks a wink at me.

"Well we better get going." Tim looks at his phone. "We don't want to be late."

"Right." We all stand up and make our way to the vehicles that seems to already be waiting out front.

"I will pick you up at 4 in front of the Wayne botanical gardens." Damian turned to face me.

"You better not stand me up." I joke. "I know where you live, Wayne."

"I would never, Angel." He gently kisses the back of my hand. "Look for this car when I come to pick you up." Damian smiles at me before he gets into a beautiful all black 1961 Jaguar E-Type. "See you later." He starts the car and drives off.

I stand there with my face red as I watch the car drive off in the distance.

"... Earth to Marinette." I snap out of my trance to look at Jason. "What?" I say breathlessly.

"I said are you ready to go?" He raises an eyebrow at me. "Or do you want to ogle at demon spawn some more?"

"What? Me? Ogle?" I shake my head too quickly. "I wasn't ogling at anyone." I try to say confidently but my voice ends up cracking.

"Right." Jason deadpans at me as he gets onto his motorcycle. "Are you coming or not?" He holds out a helmet to me.

I take the helmet from him and put it on as I get on the back of the bike.

"Hold on tight." Jason grins as he starts up the motorcycle. I wrap my arms around Jason's waist tightly. "You ready?" Jason asks. I nod against his back. "Here we go." He hits the throttle and speeds down the driveway.