1. Moving on
"Okay, so I will pick you up around six, alright?" Adrien asked, his arm slowly wrapping around his girlfriend's shoulders, squeezing slightly.
Marinette wrinkled her nose cutely and Adrien chuckled. "Yeah. Dinner. With your father."
"Hey, he won't bite your head off! He's just... cold. And distant. Okay, and intimidating. Maybe even-" Marinette held up a hand and frowned as her boyfriend started laughing.
"Not helping, Adrien. Not helping at all." The annoyance in her voice was quickly disappearing however as the boy pecked her cheek with a smile even before she could finish the sentence. "You know I'll be there with you the entire time, right?"
Marinette just smiled up at him and snuggled into his side as they went up the stairs that lead into their school.
While they stepped into the building, Adrien thought about how he got to this moment. This moment, were he was arm in arm with this adorable girl that was his girlfriend.
Honestly, it had taken a while for Adrien to get over his feelings for Ladybug. She had been his first real love interest after all. But one long talk with Plagg (of all people) one evening had him thinking; Ladybug didn't love him. And, what was even worse, she didn't think he genuinely loved her.
To admit that to himself- it had hurt. A lot.
It was around that time that he and Marinette started to interact more.
Without knowing it, she had helped him to move on. He hadn't told her- not of his feelings, not of his broken heart. It didn't really matter anymore because once he got to know Marinette better, he felt himself falling once more.
Adrien had been scared of that. He had his heart broken once, he wanted to be careful now. He wanted to be sure.
Not if his feelings were real, of course. Adrien knew how he felt and that he was quickly falling for his cute friend. But he wanted to be sure that she felt the same.
So Adrien had been surprised that on the day he had planned on asking Marinette out, the girl herself had went up to him and did the very thing he oh so badly wanted to do.
To say he had been happy was an understatement. Adrien- well, he was sure he was still on a cloud, far up in the sky and to never touch the ground ever again.
Marinette nudged his hip with hers and brought him back to the present where the couple was finally reaching their classroom. "Whatcha thinking about?"
Adrien shook his head and smiled, opening the door for them and simply gazing at her. "You, as usual."
He could get lost in the beautiful sound that was her laughter.