Okay, I promise that the Marichat ship in here is like a Best Friend relationship. I know Adrien thinks more of just a friendship, but he doesn't want Mari to know that 'Chat' liker her in a way. Just thought I would establish that. Enjoy!

Mari's POV

I sat as still as possible as Alya stood in front of me trying not to look suspicious. Sabrina was in the bathroom, probably on Chloe's orders. Alya greeted to break to tension.

"Hey Sabrina! Do you need something?"

Sabrina answered, but she was looking behind Alya skeptically. "Nothing. Just looking around."

"For what?"

Sabrina pointed to the side. "Look over there!"

Alya fell for it and Sabrina threw something, unknowingly, on my tail fin. Alya looked back and Sabrina spoke while shoving Alya out of the way. "Oh look! there it is! Let me grab it!" She ran forward and stepped on my tail. I screamed so loud, I did not expect it to hurt so much. When I screamed, all the faucets exploded and hit Sabrina. She screamed and ran out of the bathroom,  causing all the water to rush out. Since no one but Alya, who was drenched in water, was in the bathroom I became visible. She just stared at me in shock.

"H-How? T-The water j-just..."

"All I know is Sabrina got what she deserved for being snoopy."

Alya laughed. "True that. Is your tail okay, you sounded like you were in tremendous pain."

I shrugged my shoulders. "It hurt at first, but I'm okay now. Our problem now is that even though the faucets turned off, we are surrounded in a meter of water. How am I getting out without being see-"

Suddenly Chat came in, with his water powers. "Is everything okay in here? Is there an akuma?"

Alya freaked out and jumped in front of me trying to cover me up. She signaled me to turn invisible, but I just laughed. Chat looked confused as first, then he began laughing with me. Alya was bewildered at our reactions. She glanced between both of us while talking.

"But I thought...Don't you want this to be a secret?"

I looked back at Alya. "It is, Chat knew before you. Not on purpose either. But we'll discuss that later. How am I gonna get out of the school without being seen?"

Chat spoke up. "I could take you home and you could make us invisible like last time."

Alya choked on her air. "What?!??! There was a last time?!

I rolled my eyes. "Later Alya, I have to go now."

Chat then picked me up bridal style and I wrapped my arms around his neck. I held him closely, and then made us invisible. As Chat's invisible self took me to safety, I could see Alya's face of shock and knowing that I would have to explain to her later.

When we made it into my room, the invisibility wore off and Chat set me down gently on the ground. He then locked the entrance to my room and walked back to me with a few towels. As I dried with my powers and he dried my tail with some towels, he broke the scilence.

"You had me thinking there was an akuma back there. Why was Sabr- THAT GIRL screaming?"

I laughed. "Chloe spilled something on me and I rushed to the bathroom, making it just in time before I transformed. Alya came in, then that girl Sabrina was snooping around and stepped on my tail."

Chat was taken aback. "Meouch! Is your tail okay?"

I rolled my eyes. "It's fine now, but in the moment, it hurt really bad. I screamed in pain, then all the sink faucets blew and targeted her."

He looked astounded. "I mean, that girl got what was coming for her, but DANG! That was a ton of water!"

"More like two tons."

"You know what I mean."

Suddenly I began glowing pink and Chat stepped back. After the light died down, I had my legs back. I sighed in relief, walked over to my couch, and sat down. I put my feet up so my knees were next to my face and wrapped my arms around my legs.

"Whale, since this situation has scaled down, what are we gonna do about the water?"

I looked up at Chat in despair about my situation and his grin immediately faded. He walked across my room and sat down next to me. He wrapped one arm around me and rested his hand on my shoulder. I hung my head before I spoke.

"I don't want to hide all the time. It's all because of my clumsy self. If I hadn't ever looked dow-"

Chat interrupted me with a comforting voice. "Hey, don't talk like that. We all make mistakes okay?"

This is the first speed edit I have created with shading I actually worked on. It's looks rusty, but I though a visual might be better than me describing every little detail in words. Also, I didn't create the Mari and Chat part, I got that from another speed edit. Trust me, I'm not that good, so don't give me all the credit. Also, let's pretend Chat doesn't have his water powers anymore cause it was easier to take Mari home with normal powers.

His tranquil voice soothed my nerves and I took a deep breath. "Well, to my knowledge, I didn't bust the pipes, I just released the water. I could control the water to leave the school and go to the canal, but floating water look suspicious."

"Well, I could, like, be in the water. Then it looks like moving water comes from my powers. It's a Fin-tastic idea!"

I groaned. "Do you, like, look up these puns or something in your free time?"

He pretended to be offended. "Absolutely not! I don't leave it to salmon else to make fish puns!"

I smirked. "Can you do any Betta than this?"

He raised an eyebrow with an increasing grin. "You're not quite up to scale with your puns."

"Are you trying to gill-t me into making a better pun?"

"Sorry, my attempt at a joke was a piece of carp."

His widened eyes and smirk told me he was stepping up his game. "Marinette! Cod, that was bad, eely bad!"

"All I sea are bass-ically cod awful puns!"

"You may not like fish puns Marinette, but they are Kraken me up!"

"I'll bait these puns can't go on for much longer."

"We whaley need to stop now."

"I guess you've met your nemo-sis with puns. Have you thought of another fish pun or do you need some time to mullet over?"

"Not bad. You cod do better-" Chat's statement was interupted by a loud bang outside. He rolled his eyes. "We'll fin-ish this later Marinette."

I laughed as he left my room. I walked over to my desk and almost began to work on a design until Tikki flew in front of me.

"Marinette! There's an akuma!"

I mentally facepalmed myself know in Chat left because of the akuma. "Tikki, Spots On!" I transformed into Ladybug and one thought remained in my head from earlier. 'Should I reconsider and take Chat's offer?'

Wow... Just wow.... Why did I make a conversation that wasn't very punny. Oh Cod, I can't stop, something's wrong with me! This is getting a-trout-cious really quickly. Anyway, Chat's offer was the one from earlier chapters where Chat offered that Adrien would help Mari on the cruise if anything goes wrong.

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