The week flew by so fast Marinette didn't even notice it was Sunday until Alfred came up to her that morning with her Gotham Academy Uniform, saying she would start school tomorrow. She didn't have to make any adjustments as it already fit her well. The next morning, she got dressed:

To say she was nervous was an understatement, but she didn't let the feeling show. She had grown into not letting emotions show, as a defence mechanism against Hawkmoth and Lila, as if Lila saw her happy... let's saw it wouldn't end well. She looked at herself in the mirror and took a deep breath.

"Don't be nervous Marinette, I'm sure everything's going to be ok"

"Thanks Tikki," she replied. and kissed her forehead.

She went down at 5:30, and helped Alfred with breakfast. The two had grown quite close over the past few days, ad contrary to Marinette's thoughts before he was actually quite nice to talk to. He told her the family's biggest kitchen fails - and there were plenty of those - and figured the reason why none of them were allowed in the kitchen. 

Apparently when Tim ran out of his coffee flavoured ice cream ikr he decided to mix together whipped cream and coffee ( ' I don't even know here he found the coffee i hid them all because he drinks far to much to be healthy ' ) and put it in the freezer.. 

and forgot about it..

for a week.

And to melt it guess what he did?

He put it in the 'big microwave' (I thought it would go faster if I put it in the bigger microwave Alfreddd) ..

For an hour.

He was never allowed inside again.

timeskip to breakfast brought to you by Tim's fatal kitchen knowledge

They were all having breakfast on the table, Jason piling croissants onto his plate, then Dick waiting for him to turn the other way to grab the croissants and make a run for it. Marinette giggled and said, " You know there's more in the kitchen right?" They both glared at each other and ran towards the kitchen. They both yelling "HOT" and ran around looking for water. When they back to the table to a proudly smirking Marinette and a laughing table.

"Now, will you steal food again?" 

"No" they grumbled and sat down in silence, embarrassed enough for one day. The rest of them laughed even louder at that. Even Damien chuckled. It was moments like these Bruce remembered how much his family meant to him, he didn't see them as much as he should because of work. Then his eye caught a certain bright blue eyed, black haired petite girl, and saw just how much a part of the family she had become, she even looked somewhat similar to the rest of them. He internally sighed, ' too bad '  he thought, she had loving parents and other family. He would never admit it to his family of course.

"Oh don't worry Master Bruce" he jumped a little. He really should stop being so surprised at Alfred and his mysterious mind-reading. He continued, quietly so only he could hear, "something tells me she will end up part of the family anyway." motioning to Marinette and Damien talking. Bruce smiled, Alfred was never wrong...

"Time for school" Alfred said.

Damien grumbled, Marinette tensed a bit, but nodded and stood up. She stroked Alfred, who was nuzzling her ankle and a walked out behind Damien and Alfred. 

They both got into the limo, and sat in silence for a while. In that time Damien's thoughts ran wild. He hated this feeling. The feeling that you don't know something. He had checked her file and every other piece of information on her she could find. But there was so much missing, so much unclear. One moment you feel you know hew and the next you don't virtually anything about her at all. He was brought back to his senses by Marinette snapping her fingers in front of his face. 

"You ok? You were pretty out of it" she asked.

"I'm fine, just thinking" he replied, he was not planning on telling her he was practically stalking her out of pure annoyance.

She hummed in thought and said, "Anyway, we're here." with with a small smile.

A large building teeming with children in matching uniforms came into view.

"Have a good day at school, and Master Damien, please do try to behave yourself."

Everyone started whispering when the limo came into sight, and they started whispering even more when Marinette stepped out of the car after Damien. Damien rolled his eyes at the harlots who were looking at Marinette either enviously or angrily, while Marinette looked like she wanted to disappear. He was used to the attention already, but he wasn't sure if she was. Something else he had to look into. The bell rang, and everyone slowly cleared out. Marinette exhaled a breath she didn't she know she was holding. 

"Sorry about that," he said, genuinely this time.

"N-no it's fine, really" she replied. He gave directions to the principals office and left to his class.

She found the office pretty easily thanks to the directions, and the principal looked somewhat surprised when she saw her, but was kind enough and passed her timetable. Maths first , she thought.

She also handed her a map of the school, which definitely came in handy. She found the maths classroom and knocked on the door.

"Come in" the teacher said. She quickly studied the students in the room. She spoted Damien in the back corner, he probably doesn't like socialising . They all looked nice enough, expect for a small group of 4 students in the middle, they had an arrogant air around them and looked more like makeup than people. Have to stay away from them, she thought.

"You must be the new scholarship student, Marinette?"

"Yes, I am."

"My name is Miss Williams. I hope you like Gotham Academy, you can sit next to Gwen Anderson there." she said pointing kind looking girl with red hear and chocolate brown eyes sitting in the seat in front of Damien. The rest of the class went on normally, it was fairly easy, they had already covered this in Paris. The rest of the of the day went on similarly. Soon it was lunch, and she was talking to Gwen, when the group of girls walked up to her.

She looked up and said, "Can I help you?" she could feel people staring.

"I'm Valerie Gates, listen Marigold-"

"Marinette" she snipped.

"Right, all I wanted to know is what your relationship is Damien Wayne." she said in a clearly forced sickly sweet voice. Marinette sighed. Now almost everyone was looking at them. She stood up.

"Valerie, first of all I would like to state that I am not in a Relationship with Damien, second I want to say that, frankly that is none of your business, so maybe you should take your nose out of other people's lives." she said calmly. If you couldn't hear her words, you would thing she was have a polite conversation with a friend.

"EXCUSE ME" she screamed shrilly.

"Would you like me to repeat it Valerie? I said take-"

"UGH" and Valerie walked away. Gwen stood up with wide eyes,

"How the hell did you do that?"

"I have a couple years experience with these kind of people"

"Well done, looks like you did fine without me" said Damien smirking as walked up to them with a messy black haired boy nest to him.

"As if you were planning on helping, don't think I didn't see you snickering at the whole scene from that corner over there."

"Well I wanted to see how you'd handle it"

"I can handle myself perfectly fine thank you"

and they continued like that for the next couple minutes before the black haired boy interrupted, and Gwen silently mouthed 'Thank you',

"Hi I'm Jon Kent, Dami's friend."

"Self-proclaimed"

" It's nice to meet you, I'm Marinette- wait, Dami?" she said teasingly

And then they started bickering again like an old married couple, Jon and Gwen both facepalmed. Neither Damien nor Marinette would ever admit it but they actually kind of enjoyed their little arguments. 

Both Gwen and both simultaneously said 'Thank god' and blushed slightly.

The day went by in a blur, their last lesson was Science, and she got her first project of the day, yay. (sarcastic) The teacher, pulled out 3 names at a time out of a hat, and those people would be partners on the project. She went on with names until,

"Group 7: Damien Wayne, Marinette Dupain Cheng and Valerie Gates"

Marinette and Damien both groaned. 

"Sorry girl" Gwen said sympathetically and patted her back. She was partnered with Jon (she blushed a little hearing that)and another guy called Micheal Walkers.

This was going to be a long day...

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