Adrien had a full afternoon with fencing, then modelling, then mandarin Chinese tutoring. He had a new Mandarin tutor now as Master Fu had left. So, it was quite late before he could get away to see Marinette. He got in a fair bit of trouble from 2 of the activities, as he kept spacing out, thinking of Marinette and her sweet smile. He was complimented at Modelling apparently, he had something 'extra' this time to the usual.

Marinette, herself had an eventful afternoon. After school she went to find Luka, it was something that she didn't want to do, but he was such a nice guy - he deserved to be told the truth. Tikki was right she couldn't have a relationship with both Chat and Luka. When she found him, she broke down crying for the hurt she was about to cause.

"Hey Luka!" she greeted him.

"Hey Marinette!" Luka greeted his girlfriend with a kiss on her mouth.

"I have to tell you something, Luka, it's hard for me to do this," she sniffed with tears falling down her face.

"What's wrong Marinette?" Luka asked, concerned, pulling Marinette into a hug. Marinette allowed him to do this until she realised that this was not helping her situation at all, so she pushed him away.

"Luka," she struggled to say, "I can't be your girlfriend anymore. You're a great guy, but I don't love you like that. I really wanted too but I can't."

Luka sighed, his worst fear happened, but at least he was prepared for it. He knew that it had always been a possibility, he just hoped it wasn't going to happen "Its ok Marinette, I was partly expecting this. But I want you to know that I will always be here for you if you need it... I know this is selfish of me but whenever we greet each other with a kiss can it be like we have been doing?"

Marinette nods, thinking nothing of the strange request, "Will you be ok Luka?"

"Yeah," he nods sadly, "I have my music after all."

"I'm glad...you are such a great guy...I am truly sorry Luka. I hope you find someone more suited for you..." Marinette stood there awkwardly for a few minutes before deciding, "I better go now." And, with that, she headed home.

On her way, she tripped several times each time contorting herself into weird positions to stop herself from falling. One of the times she ended up landing doing a perfect banana split. What she didn't know was a ballet teacher, who was visiting Paris from Australia with her Ulysses group, was following her.

The ballet teacher, Jane, never scouted people to teach, but after watching Marionette decided to ask if she did ballet and if she didn't; could she come and give it a go, as it would help her with her clumsiness.

"Excuse me miss," Jane said, giving Marinette a scare.

"Whaa!" Marinette squealed pulling her arms up in the air and one leg raised away, looking like she was going to run away. Realising this graceful, slim silver-white haired lady was harmless, answered "sorry ma'am but how can I help you?"

"I was watching you as we walked here," indicating the bakery that Marinette lived at, "and I noticed that your very clumsy. I was wondering if you had ever tried ballet to help you with your balance or whether or not you would consider it."

"No, I haven't ever done ballet, except for school productions. But why do you think that I could? Aren't I a little old?"

"Well, usually yes you would be too old for starting, but in your case, I think that you could manage it." Jane said, "Listen I am only here a month before I return to Australia with my dance troop - would you like to train with us in the afternoons 4 to 7?"

"You're from Australia?" Marinette queried.

"Yes" replied Jane "My whole troop is. We are here for auditions for my senior dances. We normally go to England, but this year we are trying France."

"I will give it a go... but I can't stay if an akuma attacks. I hope that this is ok?"

Jane smiled "We are practising at the Paris Marais Dance school if you want to come."

"I'll come" Marinette promised "But how come you have come to this bakery?"

"I came because it holds special memories for my husband and I, we enjoy the baked goods here." Jane replied.

"I see," said Marinette, "Wait here please." As she ran inside to get Jane a whole heap of pastry samples and brought them out. "Here! As a thank you for your invitation."

"Wow! Thank you!" Said Jane as she looked at the goodies.

"You're welcome!" smiled Marinette warmly, "Could I try today?"

"Sure, I will see you in half an hour then." responded Jane.

"See you then!" said Marinette as she scampered up to her room to find something to wear that was remotely like a leotard. The closest thing she had was a gymnastic outfit that she made for a school activity. So, she put it on and headed out.

The next 3 hours were the hardest 3 hours she had in her life, even fighting Akuma's was easier than that level of ballet. However, her balance had improved, she didn't fall or trip at all on the way home.

Marinette knew that she wouldn't be able to get up again once she stopped, so she got her kitty something to eat including cheese for Plagg and cookies for Tikki. She put out another set of clothes she had made for Adrien with the mask then had a shower ready for bed. As she was wearing a big shirt with bike pants, she decided to leave her bra off for the night giving her breasts a break from the constriction and crawled into bed after leaving notes for Chat when he came.

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