WIP Wednesday (ish) (it’s Thursday where I am) 8 June 2023
Living Arrangements is dominating my writing world, in between the round robin sprints for LBSC. So here, have a little bit more of the Lukanette ML AU And They Were Roommates! fic:
Marinette was so deep in frantically putting together pattern pieces and scribbling design notes that she didn’t even notice that Jagged had been trying to call her until her phone was full of messages and texts, each more extravagantly urgent than the last.
She’d taken a quick break to grab the lunch that Luka had left on the kitchen counter for her, while she glanced at the blinking message alerts. At her squeak of dismay, Luka looked up.
“Everything okay, Melody?”
“Jagged’s been trying to call all day,” she said, panicking a little as she scrolled quickly through the reams of texts, begging her to call the rock star back. “It must be something important, and I’ve just been ignoring him!”
Marinette didn’t realise that Luka had got to his feet and come to stand beside her until his hand closed over hers, stopping her before she could hit the call button on her phone.
“You’ve got the showcase to worry about, and I think I know what it is he wants. Let me handle this?” he asked a little grimly, and when she gave him a startled nod, he slid his own phone out of his hoodie pocket, thumbing a frequent contact.
A woman’s voice answered, and Marinette could see the tight line of his mouth relax into a genuine smile as he said, “Hey, Penny, how’s it going?” He moved away into the living room as he listened to whatever she was saying, but Marinette heard him say, “Penny, he’s calling Marinette now. You know how much she’s got on her plate at the moment.” Then he took the call into his room, and Marinette couldn’t hear the rest of it as the door closed behind him.
Jagged stopped filling up her messages, though.
