*Listening to Fight Song by Rachel Platten*

Ugh I keep telling myself that I'm gonna continue writing my OTHER stories but I just love writing this one so much.

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A dark chuckle was heard throughout Hawkmoth's cave as he watched Marinette from his pearl. The young mermaid was staring at the human prince with longing. 

"This is too easy." he chuckled, "The child is in love with a human." His evil laugh rang through his entire lair. 

"This lovesick mermaid is just what I need.......and then I Hawkmoth will finally take my place as the true ruler of the seas!"

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It's been three days since the incident on the surface. Ever since then Marinette has been in a wonderful mood. She was smiling and giggling to herself for unknown reasons. Eventually, her friends were starting to notice the extremely positive mood the blunette seemed to be in recently. They had all planned to have lunch near a coral garden on the edge of the kingdom so they decided to discuss the topic while they waited for the red mermaid. (Don't ask me what mermaids eat cause I have no freaking idea.)

"Hey do you guys know what's been going on with Mari lately?" Alya asked the group.

Juleka shrugged and Rose who was already eating shook her head. Nathaniel thought for a moment and shook his head. "No I haven't seen her since she left the party a few days ago."

"Well, a couple days ago I went to go check on her and she hugged me out of nowhere." Alya recalled being concern for the blunette wondering if she was okay after the Chloe incident. "It was as if she act like it never happened."

After swallowing her food Rose spoke. "I saw her out by the flower bed when I was picking flowers for my grandmother. She was tucking them in her hair and humming to herself."

"I saw her yesterday close to the edge of the kingdom." Juleka spoke. "She was swimming towards some cave."

"What were you doing by the edge of the kingdom?" Nathaniel asked the dark purple mermaid.

"Trying to find a shark." She answered. "I almost thought about leaving when I saw Marinette."

That bit of information worried Nathaniel. "But why would you-?"

"Guys!" Alya interrupted. "Can we focus on one thing at a time? We're trying to figure out what's up with Marinette."

"I think she's in love." Everyone looked at Rose who was still eating her food. When she noticed the group  staring at her she blinked at them. "What?"

"What makes you think Mari's in love?" Alya asked the pink mermaid.

"Well...she's always staring off into space as if she's daydreaming and humming to herself. She's sneaking off to unusual places and has been in a extremely good mood lately." Rose took another bite.

Alya thought for a moment. It was a good guess, but if Marinette had falling for someone wouldn't she be the first besides Tikki to hear about it?

"I can't think of any other reason." The blonde continued. "The only question is 'who is the merman?'"

All the girls looked over at the redhead, his eyes widen at the glances. "W..Why are you all staring at me?"

"You and Marinette were getting awfully close at the party." The auburn mermaid said with a wink. "Maybe the lucky merman is closer than we think."

A flash of pain was shown in Juleka's eyes, but it quickly disappeared before anyone noticed.

Nathaniel's face began to match his hair. "I d..doubt I'm the one she's fawning over...."

Although he did hope he was.

"Hi everyone!" They looked over to see topic of their discussion swimming their way. Her smile glowed as she made her way over to the group with two bright red flowers tucked in her pigtails. "Sorry I'm late." She said with a giggle. "Did I miss anything?"

"N..no nothing at all." Nathaniel said rubbing the back of his neck. "You look great Marinette."

She giggled and gave a 'thank you'. Alya took this as an opportunity to gather information. "You dressing for anyone in particular Mari?" She asked the red mermaid.

Marinette stared off into space for a moment before her cheeks turned a shade of pink. "No....I guess not."

Alya gave her a suspicious look as Nathaniel gave a curious one.

"So where's Tikki?" Juleka asked the red mermaid"

"She said she had something to take care of." The blunette answered. "So what's to eat?"

Everyone looked down and noticed that half the food was already gone. They all turned to the pink mermaid who had started eating before anyone else, The blonde simply just smiled at her friends. "Oops....."

"Rose!!!!"

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Rose is me when everyone won't shut up and I just decide to start eating.

I didn't know what to do with this chapter at the beggining but once I got to writing it just started to flow.

Good job blue *pats my own back*

Warning: Chloe will return to make things difficult. You have been warned.

Blurose is out ✌