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Peter had in the morning quickly gotten dressed and said goodbye to his Aunt May, saying he needed to speak to Marinette about something over her missing classmate. “Give my regards to the poor girl Peter.” May had told him as he passed through the door. He went down the stairs with his backpack (with his Spider-Man stuff inside), he went through the door.
He was about to go looking for a hiding spot to change when he noticed Max, Kim, Nathaniel and Marc were standing by with Nino. He recognized all but Marc as classmates of Marinette, “Sorry, what do you want because I am in kind of a hurry.” Peter stated to their direction in great annoyance. He really needed to get changed and meet up with his girlfriend and her partner.
“We talked to Nino about the illegal actions he just about almost made and collaborating other evidence; we realized we were wrong and ask if you can tell Marinette that we want to apologize.......... a whole lot...” Max stated looking a bit shaken from his usual stoic demeanor.
Peter looked to the others and noticed that they did seem genuinely apologetic, plus from what he could tell the boy he didn’t recognize had nothing to do with it due to not being a classmate.
Sighing he told them “I will pass it along to Marinette, she is willing to make up with Nino and if you do apologize to her then I am sure she will too. As long as you don’t pull what Alya did then you will be fine.” Peter told them about to turn around.
“We know your secret Peter.” Kim stated making Peter pause; he started turning back to them with the best innocent expression that he could muster.
“Don’t bother denying it; being comic fans helped Nathaniel and I go over the clues; when we started discussing it with the others we put all the pieces together: you happened to meet Marinette in the Summer when she must have designed the suit for Spider-Man. You come here and Spider-Man happens to show up?” Marc told him making Peter gulp and thinking he was now found out.
“Please, you can’t tell anyone........” Peter pleaded looking around to make sure that no one else was listening in to their conversation.
“Don’t worry Peter, you’re secret is safe with us.” Nino told him which had Peter relieved; “We won’t tell anyone that you designed Spider-Man’s tech.” Nino finished making Peter pause.
What?
“It is so obvious that hearing of your gift with technology that Spider-Man came to you for gadgets and Marinette made him his new suit.” Max told him with a confident smile leaving Peter dumbstruck.
It’s like they had all the pieces of the jigsaw together and yet they tried to force the last piece in. So they were dense and gullible then?
“Yeah, you got me. Spidey is a cool guy but Marinette got mad with him for posting about her on social media.” Peter told them with a smile thinking he might as well roll with it. He then waved goodbye and then turned to leave.
“You will be good to Marinette; won’t you?” Nathaniel asked and Peter faced him with a nod and smiled. He then left
Having watched this was Adrien with Plagg on his shoulder; he had free time from his tutoring on the weekends. Ladybug had messaged him the last night about wanting to meet up to try and help find Lila.
Lila was still being a sore spot for him and Marinette; he had began to wish she would ease on Lila’s lies but she seemed to be stubborn to be as against her as possible and deciding to be distant from the classmates that believed the lies.
Plus it actually led to her being sort of friendly to Chloe and Sabrina and he was afraid to confront them at the moment.
The morning he wanted to transform to start the search but the mansion had ran out of cheese for Plagg; he had told his father that he was going out with his friends since he had a clear schedule that day.
Fortunately his father let him go out on weekends with his friends; especially this one since his bodyguard had the weekend off for an appointment.
Still he had to rush out to buy Camberte and could not help but stop to watch this. “Can you believe this Plagg; the kid got Marinette roped up with that Spider guy. That’s dangerous....” Adrien stated disapprovingly and with a hint of weird jealously shaking his head while Plagg was staring at him incredulously.
Plagg was open mouth; even he could tell that this Parker kid was Spider-Man and his thought process consisted mainly of thinking about cheese. “And her going to a school that produces most of the Akuma victims isn’t dangerous?” Plagg asked; he knew form the incident with the owl that Marinette was Ladybug so Adrien didn’t know this meant his ‘Lady’ already had a boyfriend.
Still if he was going to continue to be this dense then Plagg was just going to let him, Adrien then went back to the direction of the cheese store so they could change as quickly as possible.