Marinette: hey!

Marinette: what's up

Marinette: Adrien gave me ur number

Marinette: he said u r good in poetry

Marinette: and might help

Marinette: we r writing a script for a theater play for school and we want the characters to speak in verse

Marinette: i'm Marinette btw

Marinette: so could u help me?

Marinette: and... is ur name really Coz?

Felix was staring at his phone, frowning.

When Marinette started to write to him, he was gonna send her off. It would be a natural thing to do — he and Marinette fought with each other hard from the first day he went to this class.

Sometimes he even suspected that his cousin had told his 'just a friend' about Felix's scam with Ladybug's yoyo. But it was unlikely that Adrien would have done that as he tried his best to forgive Felix.

Forgive!..

Felix did what he had to do! Not that Adrien or anyone else could know or understand that..

So it must have been her revenge for deleting the 'I love you' video on Adrien's phone. And when Felix saw her first message — yes, he knew it was her message, because he had all his classmates' numbers from his first day in Parisian school, just in case — he wanted to write a rude response.

But she was writing so fast and then this last message popped up.

Did Adrien really not tell her he was talking about his cousin? And who actually saves his cousin's number with a short 'coz' in their phone and sends the contact like this to someone else?!

Then Felix smirked.

This was actually a good opportunity for a prank. Especially that Marinette wasn't giving him any chance for it at school — all the while expecting some trick from him and lashing out at him for every little step he took.

Coz: yes

Coz: it's a short from Cosmo

Felix chuckled to himself.

Coz: it's from Old Greek

Coz: means order, harmony, beauty, universe

Coz: very reflective of my character

He was staring at the screen, wondering if it would take her more than 3 minutes to figure out that he was joking.

Marinette: wow

Marinette: this sounds perfect

Marinette: i wish there were more people like u in the world

Oh, come on! Felix rolled his eyes. This was too easy! Where's all the fun?!

Coz: too bad

Coz: i'm unique

Marinette: oh, i'm sorry

Marinette: i didn't mean it in a bad way

Marinette: not in the sense of neglecting ur individuality

Marinette: it's just

Marinette: i'm such a disaster and make a mess in my life all the time

Marinette: it was good to hear there is someone who has internal harmony

Marinette: so u can count it as a compliment

Marinette: and not an insult

Felix was staring at his screen again.

He almost felt bad for the prank this time. The girl tried so hard not to offend him, at the same time openly admitting her own shortcomings.

Coz: i'm sure u r not THAT bad

Marinette: u can't imagine

Marinette: if trouble should happen to someone, then it will definitely

happen to me

Marinette: i'm so clumsy

Marinette: i fall all the time

Marinette: and i fail too

Marinette: i failed a lot of people lately

Marinette: good and bad luck play a really funny game with my life

Coz: maybe u just need to balance them?

Felix wrote this while actually getting involved in the conversation, and forgetting he was in the process of making a prank.

Marinette: and how do i do that?

Coz: in ur head of course

Marinette: how is it supposed to work?

Coz: luck can't be good or bad

Coz: it's the way u see it

Coz: turning events in your favor

Marinette: hmmm

Marinette: sounds tempting

Marinette: but i still don't understand how it is applicable in practice

Felix smirked, he had just a good example for her.

Coz: for example, someone gave my phone number to a girl who was going to distract me from my planned activities

Marinette: sounds like a bad luck

Marinette: sorry

Marinette: i didn't conceder ur time...

Marinette: Adrien said u were good at poetry, but of course u don't have to help me

Coz: i haven't finished my example yet

Marinette: oh

Marinette: ok

Marinette: sorry

Coz: so if u want to turn the situation in ur advantage and make a good luck out if the bad one, u can actually see the opportunity to get to know a beautiful girl better

Marinette: hahaha

Marinette: this makes sense

Marinette: i like ur example

Marinette: how do u know if i'm beautiful or not though?

Felix reread his last message.

Did he really call her beautiful? Well, she definitely was that, but if he wanted to play this game a little longer he must be more careful with what he writes.

Coz: a wild guess

Coz: Adrien is surrounded with beautiful girls most of the time

Marinette: right

Marinette: i guess he is

Marinette didn't write anything else for several minutes and Felix could almost see her sad pining-after-Adrien-face. Heck! Felix wasn't going to comfort Adrien's fans!

He remembered again how he once deleted her confession from Adrien's phone and almost felt guilty imagining how difficult it must have been for her to make it.

But people build their own lives, and since such a small obstacle stopped her, it means that Marinette's desire was not so great. So what happened in this girl's life was certainly not his fault.

But for some reason, Felix still didn't like the picture of a sad girl in his head. It was one thing to argue with her and see how she boils with anger – there was some kind of drive, life in it.

There was no drive in sadness. Felix knew this from his own experience and stayed away from this feeling, preferring instead to live his life, so non-trivially presented to him.

Felix sighed and picked up his phone.

Coz: so what was there about poetry?

He wasn't going to actually help her. Felix was gonna just change a topic, so as not to leave himself an unpleasant aftertaste from this conversation, and that's it – he'll let her deal with her feelings on her own.

Marinette: oh right

Marinette: sorry

Marinette: i got distracted

'No doubt about that', Felix thought, rolling his eyes.

Coz: what kind of versus you want to write?

Marinette: it's for the play

Marinette: something romantic

Marinette: it's a love story

Marinette: boy and girl meet at the masquerade and fall in love with each other unaware that they hate each other in real life

Marinette: they agree to see each other in the evenings in a cherished place, putting on masks every time, because both are afraid to destroy the magic of their feelings

Marinette: and then they suddenly find out who is hiding under the masks

Coz: and what happens next?

Felix was really interested in how this story would end.

Marinette: i don't know

Marinette: we haven't finished the plot yet

Felix re-read messages about the couple in love several times. There was something... fascinating about this story.