Felix was sitting and staring at Marinette's back when Adrien entered the class.

Felix raised his eyes at his cousin and his body intuitively tensed, as if someone had turned on a countdown timer for the seconds that left until the explosion.

He knew that it would happen today, but he didn't expect such a dramatic reaction and oppressive expectation from himself.

"Hey Adrien!" Marinette exclaimed, jumping from her seat to meet him. "Thank you so much for the contact you gave me yesterday! He is amazing!"

"He... is?" Adrien narrowed his eyes and looked at Felix suspiciously over her head.

Felix silently met his gaze.

What could he say?

The prank went on for too long already, and at a certain point even stopped being a prank. And much earlier than Felix would expect it to happen.

Probably after the first few messages when Felix got involved into the conversation with Marinette for the first time – the prank was already forgotten. Not to mention 3 hours that he spent talking on the phone with her last night...

And Adrien — who accidentally started it all – was gonna be the one to end it.

Although Felix was somehow almost sad to lose... what exactly would he lose? It's not that he started to care what Marinette thought about him over one night!

So what if he enjoyed talking to her? So what if he saw that Marinette was much deeper and more interesting than she seemed to him at the very beginning, when she was just another Adrien's fan to him?..

This changes nothing. Right?

"Yes!" Marinette continued in the meantime. "But of course you already know how good he is, otherwise you wouldn't have given his contact to me!" She said happily.

"His contact..." Understanding flashed on Adrien's face. "I see." He said.

"We talked a lot yesterday." Marinette informed. "He explained so much to me! And he even wrote a few lines for our script!" Marinette closed her eyes for a moment and sighed. "He is so amazing, with such a deep inner world..."

Felix felt a lump in his throat at the anticipation of his cousin's next words that would shatter the perfect picture in this girl's head. Perhaps just a little, just a very very little — he didn't want Marinette to stop thinking of him as amazing...

Felix took a deep breath, preparing to take the hit of her anger.

Maybe that sting of sad anticipation somehow showed on Felix's face, because Adrien, who was still staring at his cousin while listening to Marinette's praises, raised his eyebrows in surprise and finally turned his face towards the girl.

"He really is." Adrien agreed. "Even though he might not always show it." He said, without looking at Felix anymore. "I'm glad that you got along."

And Adrien sat at his desk after giving Marinette a supportive smile.

That's it? He won't tell her?

Felix felt as if an invisible wave lifted him into the air and he soared in weightlessness.

He read somewhere that the trick to flipping a coin is not at all in just picking one of two options. A person always knows the right answer and makes their choice instantly inside better than any coin.

The trick with a coin though is to use this coin to realize exactly what choice your subconscious has made for you.

When the coin falls on one side and the person feels disappointed seeing it — then it is safe to make the opposite choice to the one shown by the coin.

When the coin falls on the other side and the person feels joy and inspiration. This means that internally they made the same choice, which means they are correct and need to follow their choice..

When Adrien sat down in his seat without revealing his real name to the girl, Felix felt as if his coin had landed on the right side.

His phone buzzed.

Adrien: i don't know what game u r playing

Adrien: and i'm glad to see Marinette so excited

Adrien: but don't u dare hurting her!

Adrien: what ever ur motives r

Adrien: she must not be harmed in the process

Coz: if u r worried for ur friend why didn't u tell her it's me?

Coz: why r u covering me?

Adrien: i don't remember when was the last time i saw her shining so happily

Adrien: Marinette was kind of depressed lately

Adrien: so i do it for her

Adrien: mostly

Adrien: Marinette deserves the best

Adrien: and to be honest i have another motive

Coz: which is?

Adrien: if there is someone capable to penetrate that concrete wall that u built around urself after ur father died, then it's Marinette

Adrien: there is so much warmth in her that it can melt even ur frozen heart

Felix sighed.

It wasn't like he agreed with what Adrien was saying. But arguing with his cousin would be a waste of time.

And what point would he prove anyway?

Felix couldn't understand himself yet what was so special in the long conversation they had last night and why was he looking at this girl so differently today.

*

Coz: I missed your voice

Coz: I missed your touch

Coz: I missed you all my day so much!

Coz: I waited for the night to come

Coz: To stay with you until the dawn

Coz: So I could see your eyes again

Coz: And feel you driving me insane

Coz: To let your voice caress my ears,

Coz: Afraid that you will disappear

Coz: And leave my life forever

Coz: I pray: don't leave me ever

Felix was staring at his phone rereading the lines. Of course he should have written them down instead of sending them to Marinette.

But his hands made this choice for him.

Inspiration came to Felix suddenly and he just wrote down the lines, as if someone were dictating them in his head, as it had happened to him before. And he was so stunned that this girl revived so many forgotten emotions in him in just one night...

And the poems that Felix used to write usually seemed to expand his emotions, accelerating them and often anticipating them coming.