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You were getting quite acquainted with the others and instead of giving out autographs, you gave some your phone number.  You would happily become friends with them, hopefully they would be genuine friends and always stick by your side. You hope they weren't just becoming friends with you just because of your fame but you doubt it.

Though, there was always the possibility.

Alya smiles as she heard her best friend run up to the crowd of classmates and immediately went to go confront the girl. Marinette smiles happily as she saw her friends and handed Alya the banner she made by herself. You smiled as you watched the two friends and looked at the banner, you found it incredibly cute that Marinette went through all the trouble to make a banner to support her friends, despite this whole competition being started over a stupid dare.


You took a step closer to the girls as you admired the banner, too focused at the cloth to notice Marinette was watching you, wondering what you were thinking. She noticed you as soon as you took a step closer to her.

"This is so cute, You're so talented Marie." You praise as you soon look up at her causing her to tense up in surprise, standing up straight.
"You must have really worked on this for a while, huh?"

She blushed and waved her hand dismissively, trying to dismiss the subject as she was being praised by a famous celebrity,"oh that's? This is nothing, I just kinda threw this together!" She laughed awkwardly.

You chuckle,"oh really? Then you're even more talented than I thought, if this," you gesture to the banner,"is nothing to you." You smirk at her.

Marinette blushed even more, her whole face turning red as she was extremely tense, not knowing how to react.

Alya raised a brow as she watched her friend, seeing her go red only left her confused,"hey, you okay, Marinette? Your face is really red.." She asked as she watched her friend's face.
Marinette jumped and laughed, fanning her flustered self,"me? Oh! It's just really hot! Yeah! Uh- Is it hot for anyone else??" She glanced around at everyone else in hope someone would agree, but everyone shook their head no causing Mari to gasp and panic. She was about to ramble, like she always does, until Chloe called you, lucky for Marinette.

"(N/N)! Get over here! And get away from her!" Chloe sneers at Marinette and grabbed your hand, pulling you away from Marinette and Alya.

You sigh as you were dragged away by Chloe again.

It wasn't long until you got bored waiting for Alix to show and get the race started, heck you were starting to think she wasn't going to show.
It didn't help that no one was talking to you at the moment, Chloe was on her phone, Sabrina was busy doing Chloe's homework, not that you wanted to talk to her anyways..

Adrien was talking to Nino and Marinette was talking to Alya, her face wasn't as red anymore.
You sigh and grab a sharpie, doodling on your hands as you waited.
You were drawing Alix from Marinette's banner on your hand until-

"You guys picked the wrong side to cheer on. Looks like Alix isn't even showing up, probably too chicken to race an extreme athlete like me." Kim says confidently as he shrugs before crossing his arms.
"Spoke too soon, Kim!" Alix suddenly appears, making everyone cheer.

You immediately put your pen away before you walked over to the others.

Alix skates a little closer to Kim, scowling at him,"your ridiculous bets are over. I'm gonna leave you in my dust meat head!" She points at him, but he was unphased.
"You're no match for me! My neck is bigger than your thigh." He brags causing you to cringe.

"That is not something to brag about, Kim." You interfered, cringing at the boy.

The duo looked over to you as they stood up straight instead up getting into each other's faces.
"Cool skates, Alix." You winked,"your style is really cool, I love your hair and well, everything else you're wearing. We should really hang out sometime! And don't let Kim win." You smile causing her to blush a bit at your charm,"oh! Uh, thanks!" She rubbed the back of her neck before fixing her helmet,"And I definitely won't..Uh! Let him win that is, I'm totally down to hang out with you," she smiles before getting interrupted by Max.

"Let's review the official rules!" Max stood in front of the two as he starts stating the rules of the race.

"On your marks! Get set..!" Max raises his arms as Kim gets into position,"Hold up!" Alix intervened, making Kim fall in surprise at the sudden objection making everyone laugh.

"Forfeiting already?" He taunts, but Alix ignored him as she skated towards Alya.

"Hold onto this, will ya?" She gently hands Alya the watch,"I don't wanna drop it during the race."
"Hold on girl, I gotta-" Alya tries to talk, but Alix interrupted her.

"Guard it with your life, it's a family heirloom!" She makes Alya close her hands tighter to hold onto the watch better.
"But-"

Alix skates back over to Kim and got ready to race again.

Alya stares at the watch before looking at Marinette,"Marinette, take this, I gotta record the race for my blog!" She hands the object over to her friend.

"On your marks!"

The duo got in position, waiting to go.

"Get set!"

Everyone was watching in anticipation.

"Go!"

The two took off instantly, rushing forward.
Kim was bolting into a spring while Alix was skating a little slower at first so not to waste her stamina.

Marinette soon started to panic a little as the other person started to wave the banner a little too much for her, especially since she was holding one side of the banner with only one hand,"but she told you to hold it! I gotta hold up the banner!" She suddenly loses grip of the watch and drops it.

Her eyes widened in fear of the watch breaking but luckily, you caught it. Thank goodness you were watching her after Alya gave her the watch.

"Woah, thank goodness I caught it! Usually I have such butterfingers," You laugh as you held onto the watch with both hands,"Need any help?"

Marinette gasps at the sight of you but soon was very relieved,"yep thanks! Gotta be careful even if you are amazing," she swoons slightly before seeing you blink in surprise causing her to panic again,"A-At holding things!- in your hands!" He outstretched a hand until getting interrupted by the cheering crowd.

"Last lap!" Max announced.

You turned you attention to the race again while Alya looked at Marinette,"amazing at holding things?" She looked at her clumsy friend who would rather not remember what she just said.

"(N/N) whatcha got there?" Chloe smiles as she hugs your from behind after finally putting her phone away.
"Some super old case of something?" She grabbed the antique watch and inspects it which makes you tense, growing cautious as you held your hands underneath hers. Making sure you would catch the watch in case it would slip out of her grasp or anything.

"Careful, Chloe! It's Alix's!" You panicked as you tensed, Chloe blinked in surprise at your outburst and smiled.

"Then it's probably worthless." She smirked as she held the watch in one hand making you frown at her words.

"Give it back to her Chloe," Marinette intervenes on the conversation between you and her rival.

Chloe huffs and held the watch closer to herself before looking at it,"hmm.." she pressed the middle of the watch before she released a gasp as the watch suddenly grew brightly.

The light caught everyone who was around her off guard and made Chloe suddenly drop the watch in surprise. You saw she immediately fumbled to try and catch it again, for she didn't mean to drop it.

Things took a turn for the worst as Alix suddenly came skating over to the finish line and accidentally grabbed running over the old watch after it rolled out in front of her.

She started to cheer out in victory after defeating Kim before looking back to see what she had just skated over. Her cheers were short lived as she saw the broken remains of the old watch that was given to her that day.

She was horrified and gasps as she skated over the the broken remains quietly.
"I call a rematch, that false start back there threw me off!" Kim huffs after catching his breath but gasps as he saw Alix's reaction to the watch.

Bending down to pick up the pieces, she was in shock at how busted it was. It wasn't long before she looked at Alya with a look full of rage,"Did you do this?!"

Alya gasps at the accusation and immediately tried to try and explain her situation,"uh!- I had to videotape the race, so I gave it to Marinette but then she had to hold the banner," she held a finger to her chin as she tried to recall the past events,"so she gave it to (Y/N)," You immediately tensed as you heard your name,"but Chloe snatched it from her and dropped it and uh..then you skated over it.." she laughed nervously, everyone anxious at Alix's reaction.

"My old man gave me this for my birthday, this watch is totally a family heirloom!" She starts to cry. You instantly started to feel sorry for her and you frowned at her tears,"Alix-"
"But it was an accident!" Marinette tries to reason with the skater.

"We didn't mean any harm, Alix." Adrien adds.

"Ugh, as if! I totally had nothing to do with this!" Chloe held her head high, not blaming herself causing you to huff,"Chloe!" You snapped making her flinch.

"You're all to blame!" Alix sobs before she starts to skate off, not wanting to stay there any longer.

Everyone felt bad after seeing Alix so upset like that.

"Alix wait!" Marinette calls out or her but her phone started to ring, but you grabbed her shoulder,"don't worry, I'll go get her." You smile,"It wasn't your fault." You turned to Chloe who was trying to look anywhere but at you,"Think about what you did, Chloe. You better apologize." You scolded the blonde, making everyone look at Chloe before you started to chase after Alix.

You soon caught after Alix who was obviously still dejected at the situation,"hey, Alix, you okay? Maybe we can fix it..?"

"No I'm not okay! This watch was sick! One of a kind...it can't be fixed!" she frowns as she looks ahead.

"Well there must be some way to get it back to how it was," you thought out loud.

"Like how, huh? Go back in time and change the future? When you figure that out let me know!" She huffed at you as she scowled, pointing at you but you grabbed her wrist with a stern look.

Caught off guard she tensed in surprise at your reaction,"what the! Let go of me!" She struggled to get out of your grasp, but you didn't even budge.

"Alix, calm down!" You command,"what happened back there wasn't anyone's fault, it was all an accident and no one should take the blame..Not even you," Alix stopped her movements, listening to you as she frowns.

"I know it was your responsibility, and you have every right to feel upset at your friends because you entrusted them with that responsibility and they feel awful for what happened. But know that everything that happened was an accident just WAITING to happen." Alix was silent as she processed your words.

"It's no one's fault."

Alix immediately started to tear up again, looking away from you as she bit her lip, not wanting to cry again. Watching her, you let go of her wrist, gently cupping her chin and turning her head to look at you,"hey...I can pay for it to get fixed..? Now it may not be exactly the..." you trailed off as you saw a black butterfly coming your way.

"Is that...?" It was too late.

The akuma landed on her left rollerblade.

You released a gasp as you saw the depressed girl start to transform.

"A-Alix...??" You call out as your eyes widened, backing away from her.

Alix's head was soon covered with a helmet that resembled a fly's head. She soon turned and looked at you..

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