"Alphas are more aggressive towards their mates. An Alpha can form a bond with any of the three sub-sexes; Alpha, Beta, and Omega." Miss Bustier explained as her students jotted down the information she relayed.

"Alpha females tend to have difficult times conceiving. An Alpha female will have a higher likelihood of conception if her partner is an Omega. Alpha females have a tendency to leave their child in the care of their partner preferably a Beta or an Omega. Two Alpha mates often hire nannies." Miss Bustier Added.

Adrien sighed as he rolled his number two pencil across his desk. He knew not all this information was accurate. His mom was an Alpha and she absolutely refused to leave her precious baby boy in the care of someone else. She almost gave up her acting career because of it.

"I will divide you up into partners for a class project. You will choose a topic on this handout about Alphas and research them." Miss Bustier said as a handful of papers were given to each row. One student took a paper then passed the stack on to the next student repeating the process until all papers were passed out.

Adrien looked at the topics not really interested in any of them. He kinda hoped he got partnered up with Max, Sabrina, or Nino since they were considered three of four smartest in the class. He wanted to use sympathy points so he did not have to work on it but still get credit. A trick Chloe taught him. He tried this trick with Alya and she called him on it and had him do the entire project by himself only to slap her name on it last minute. He wanted to tell Miss Bustier but Alya threatened to rat him out about him doing the same to the other students.

Miss Bustier looked at her clipboard and started listing off the groups. "Nino and Alya, Juleka and Rose, Max and Alix, Kim and Nathaniel, Chloe and Sabrina, Ivan and Mylène, Adrien and Marinette." She sat her clipboard on her desk. "Before I forget, if you are partnered with an Alpha you are allowed to use him or her as a reference."

Marinette and Nino switched seats so they could talk to their respective project partners.

"Which one do you want to do?" Marinette asked Adrien.

He looked at the list once again knowing that Alya was going to make sure he didn't take advantage of Marinette. Not that Adrien would let Marinette do the entire project by herself. He's seen her grades and wants to actually pass this class.

The list of topics were as follows: Fated Bonds, Alpha, and Omega Relationships, Alpha and Beta Relationships, Bond Marks, Alpha Ruts, Alpha, and Alpha Relationships, Alpha Senses, and How to identify an Alpha.

"You go ahead and choose."

"Umm..." She said as she tucked a piece of her loose hair behind her ear. She wanted to choose Alpha and Beta Relationships. But that topic was probably the worst option if she wanted to hide her crush on Adrien. "Alpha Ruts?" Marinette questioned not sure on what those were exactly but Alya did mention having them from time to time. She thought perhaps it was a phase of where Alpha's couldn't be productive after all people nonchalantly say that they're in a rut so it can't be too bad.

"That's doesn't mean what you think it does," Adrien replied as if he could read her mind. He classified Marinette as the most innocent of the friend group since she had no Alpha influence besides Alya and him.

"Can you tell me?" She asked batting her genuinely curious blue eyes at her crush. Adrien gulped he didn't want to be the one to ruin her innocence but at the same, he didn't want anyone else to ruin it either.

Alya overhead Marinette's question and couldn't resist making Adrien stumble over his words even it would be at her best friend's expense. "Talking about Alphas Ruts is so borrowing" She whined. "You should so let Adrien show you instead. After all, isn't experience the best teacher?"

Adrien slammed his hands down in front of Alya. "NO. I.  WILL. NOT." Unintentionally grabbing the attention of the rest of the class.

Marinette yanked on the hem of Adrien's shirt signaling that she didn't want her two friends to fight. She decided she wouldn't pry the subject which seemed to bother Adrien. Alya sure knew how to push his buttons. Marinette only knew one way to describe her friend's odd relationship. That they hated each other's guts but they would absolutely die for each other.

"How about Fated Bonds?" She asked Adrien who nodded in agreement arms crossed. He was still upset but at least he was participating even it was just head nods. "I don't know much about Fated Bonds." She said as she opened her textbook looking for the chapter about Fated Bonds.

She leaned over Adrien and turn his book to the same chapter knowing it might take a few minutes for him to calm himself. She scribbled some notes into a glittery unicorn notebook Adrien had gotten her. He bought her cute things all the time. He knew she was a senior like he was but he still wanted to give her cute things.

Adrien was extra bothered about Alya suggesting that he play show and tell with Marinette. He could never. Not when he was in love with Ladybug. Even his first Alpha rut came after a night of patrolling with his said crush. He hated what he became during an Alpha Rut. He really did not want Ladybug to let alone Marinette see him in one.

Adrien pushed his hair back. He was due for a haircut but his appointments kept on getting canceled due to Akuma attacks. Marinette counted four maybe five times he pushed his hair out of his face. She finally got tired of it. "Lower your head." She order while in her hand she possessed two yellow duck hair clips.

She brushed his soft blonde hair with her fingers. Adrien closed his eyes relishing the feeling of her soft touch. Reminded him in how Ladybug enjoyed playing with his hair when they breaked for snacks. He was glad he wasn't in his super suit for he would be purring right about now.

Marinette kept fiddling with his hair until found a style that worked best for him. She added the clips so his hair remain in place. "Voila!" She said proud of herself.

"You have any more left?" He asked and she pulled out a few different ones. He personally like the pink cat one. He placed it into her hair. "That way we can match."

"What are you five?" Marinette joked as she cleaned up the rest of the hairpins.

"Let me have my moment."

She rolled her eyes and decided her notes weren't going to write themselves although she wished they could. She found some of the facts interesting about Fated Bonds that the legend of the red string of fate originated from it. That Fated Bond pairs are considered ones destined to be together with the rarest form of mating or love if preferring a more romantic term. Marinette let out a little high pitch giggle.

Adrien raised his brow. "You can't be laughing at your textbook."

"What if I was?" She replied not willing to share her inside joke with Adrien. But she might share it with ChatNoir later.

"Then I call bull." He whispered into her ear. She let out a soft squeak a reaction of his breath on her ear. He found it entertaining that she reacted similarly to a mouse caught in a cat's trap.

She was flustered. He wasn't one for personal space but this was a little too close. He blew on her ear just to hear her squeak once more.

Alya smacked the back of Adrien's head. "Enough." She said knowing that Adrien blurred the line between teasing and being cruel.

"She doesn't seem to mind," Adrien smirked before being pushed by Marinette farther down the wooden bench.

"St.. st...stay over th...th...ere." She stuttered. Unbeknownst to her Chloe Bourgeois was giving her the death glare for getting all lovey-dovey with her beloved Adrikins.

Alya noticed that Adrien was soon inching closer and closer to Marinette when Marinette wasn't paying attention to him. "Not on my watch, Agreste," Alya stated before dropping her backpack between the two.

"Alyaaaa..." Adrien whined.

Marinette and Nino both wished that they were partnered up with each other at least they wouldn't have any distractions.

"Are you trying to get in trouble?" Alya asked not sure if he was thinking of all the consequences that could happen if he kept picking on Marinette.

"I'm not going to do anything like that. Cross my heart." He said as did the motions that came along with the saying.

Alya did not believe him for a second. She knew he said that Marinette was 'just a friend.' Alya knew Adrien just said that as he was prohibited from going out with Betas or Omegas. Something about Gabriel wanting to keep the line pure. Although Gabriel and Marinette were on pretty good terms. Adrien could probably just show up and say "She's my girlfriend now, dad." and everything would still be hunky-dory.

"Then I call bull," Alya said referencing the statement he had made to Marinette. Alphas have excellent hearing, smelling, and taste much to Alya's enjoyment. She liked to use her gifts to spy on people made her freelance reporting soo much easier.

"I swear on my Ladybug action figures." He replied.

Nino looked up from his textbook only to correct Adrien. "You mean your dolls?"

"They're not dolls." He said not realizing his voice was cracking. "They're action figures."

Marinette giggled again finding it funny how Adrien was such a big fan of Ladybug but he couldn't see that she was right there. Alya and Nino both figured out she was Ladybug due to her hair color, eye color, and an incident during sophomore year that involved Alya's math textbook. They drilled her with hundreds of questions but were so glad when they both agreed not to tell Adrien but it came at a cost. Alya wanted Marinette to promise that as soon as she became the guardian that Nino and her could permanently wear the Fox and Turtle Miraculouses. She agreed and now Carapace and Rena Rouge could help when Ladybug was in a jam.

"Why are you laughing? You have the limited edition Astrocat doll signed by ChatNoir himself." Alya pointed out embarrassing Marinette. Alya and Nino also knew that Adrien was ChatNoir they accidentally found that out when ChatNoir let it slip. He told Carapace and Rena Rouge that his father and him were leaving for a trip to Italy and wanted Rena Rouge to give Ladybug an Astrocat doll he signed since Ladybug didn't show up for patrol. Rena Rouge realized that Adrien was leaving for a trip to Italy the next day. She connected the dots pretty quickly.

Marinette scrambled for a response.  "I found it at a thrift store."

Adrien swore his heart skipped a beat. Could it be possible that's the same action figure he got for Ladybug and she just donated it? He only ever signed one Astrocat. "Could I come over and see it some time?" He asked crossing his fingers that it wasn't the same and just someone plagiarizing his signature. He only had bought one Astrocat action figure because Ladybug had gotten him the limited edition Astrobug doll and signed the box for him. He assumed whenever him and Ladybug move in together the collection would be as complete as they were.

"I don't think that's probably the best idea since I took it out of its box." She lied. She didn't want Adrien to see that written on the box was "For my brave Bugaboo with unconditional love your silly kitty, ChatNoir." With a cat paw encompassing the words.

Adrien's jaw dropped.  "YOU TOOK A LIMITED EDITION OUT OF THE BOX!!"

"Oooh... I forgot you missed the release." Marinette replied knowing that Adrien was going to hold a grudge against her. "I also changed his clothes." She said just to provoke Adrien for earlier.

Nino and Alya were trying to resist laughing. They knew she was lying but supported her in her revenge. "So how accurate is the doll, Marinette?" Alya teased as she watch Adrien's face flush.

"What do you mean?" Marinette asked.

"I've seen ChatNoir leave your balcony here and there. And say you took of the doll's clothes and he's a ball-jointed doll and usually those dolls are well endowed. Just wondering if the doll matched the real thing." She leaned over very intrigued at how Marinette was going to wiggle her way out of this.

Adrien's eyes grew wide with disbelief that Alya would believe that he, that ChatNoir would do such anything. "SHUT IT, ALYA," he ordered only to have Alya laugh in his face.

"No, it's bigger," Marinette stated tapping a pencil to her mouth just to irritate Alya. Marinette was just thinking that it makes sense if it's bigger since the doll was 1/4 scale. She wasn't thinking that her response could be considered an innuendo. She was just stating facts.

Adrien just stared at Marinette trying to figure out how she would know something like that. He had landed on her a few times but that was him trying to protect her from an Akuma attack. His face was entirely red. 'Did she estimate the size off my -.'

His thoughts broke when Marinette leaned over Alya's bookbag and put an ice pack on his cheek.

"You not supposed to cross the border!" Alya said knowing she was probably given Adrien mixed signals on whether she wanted him to flirt with Marinette or not.

"He looks sick," Marinette added as he wrapped his hand around her wrist tempted to pull her to the dark side despite being in the middle of class.

He had hunger in his eyes and Alya knew that look all too well that was the same look she gave Nino before ripping off his clothes as if they were wrapping paper and it was Christmas. Alya hastenedly looked through her purse for a black pill bottle. She found it and handed it to Adrien. "My bad went a little overboard."

Marinette handed him a water bottle and he turned away from Marinette not able to look at her face as he swallowed the pills he dreaded to take. He was embarrassed that Marinette's comment almost push him over the edge.

"You okay?" Marinette asked wondering if she should put the ice away or not.

"I need to cool off!" He declared as he stood up started to walk around the classroom trying to let the pills take effect. Alya was on fast-acting medication so only five minutes but they were going to feel like the longest five minutes of his life.

He walked over to Chloe and Sabrina which nothing could kill his mood faster. "What topic did you guys choose?"

"Umm...." Sabrina began to say before Chloe interrupted. She assumed that her Adrikins got bored with Marinette's company.

"Of course, Alpha and Alpha Relationships. I figured I could use the knowledge for the betterment of our future."

"Okay..." Adrien shivered at the thought that Chloe was doing a school project with the objective of being mates with him. It genuinely creeped him out.

"How about you and Marinette?" Sabrina shyly asked as he watched him grab Chloe's purse.

"Fated Bonds." He replied as he pulled out a pack of pineapple gum that Chloe always had on hand since it was his favorite flavor.

"Awww Adrikins that's so sweet!" Chloe squealed nearly causing Adrien to coke on his gum. She had jumped to the conclusion that Adrien wanted to study Fated Bonds to woe her.

"Actually Pur- Marinette picked it." He said almost calling Marinette her nickname. He thought maybe it was that the pills haven't taken effect. "It's also almost impossible that two Alphas could have a Fated Bond."

He had read that lined in Marinette's notes. He really hoped that it wasn't true for Ladybug showed all the signs of being an Alpha. After all Ladybug and ChatNoir were destined to be together. She even meant his father's only standard. She was perfect. All he had to do was magically convince the perfect girl to form a bond and he was set.