"Good Morning, Madame."

"Morning? It's nine pm. I don't think that qualifies as morning, Chat." She said, with a roll of her eyes, and gestured to the large windows beside the door. "See how dark it is?"

"Well, somewhere around the world it is morning." He counters.

She laughs.

"What can I get for you today, Kitty?"

"Surprise me."

She rolls her eyes once again, and leaves the register to go make his drink. As soon as he leaves, her friend steps up.

"Hey, Romeo." She says.

"Hey, Alya."

She then lowers her voice.

"What've you got planned for today?"

"Honestly? Nothing."

"WHAT!?!"

Everyone in the café turned to stare at them.

She smiled sheepishly.

"What do you mean, 'nothing'?" She whispered.

"Nothing." He shrugged.

She arched an eyebrow.

"I don't know what to do. I've tried everything I can think of!"

"Let me talk to her." And she turned to go find her friend, asking another employee to fill her position.

Cat just sat at the closest table to the counter, waiting for his drink.

"Ma-ri-nette!"

"Yes, Alya?"

"Why can't you just give him a chance?" She said, getting straight to the point.

"Because, we don't know him. For all we know he could be some... Some... Secret spy from America, or something!"

Alya folded her arms across her chest, unimpressed.

"We don't even know who he is!" She tries.

"True. But he's been at this for months, I'm sure he's fine."

"He seems like a great guy and all but..."

"But what?"

"I'm just not ready yet."

"Marinette! It's been four years! You're ready!"

She looked down.

"Ugh, I'm sorry, but seriously, I promise you you're more than ready!" She said walking over to give her friend a side hug, careful of the drink in her hand.

"Thanks Alya, but I'm just not sure-"

"If you finish that sentence, I promise you you'll regret it."

She sent her friend a teary-eyed smile.

"Now please, go out there and tell him you'll go out on a date. At least just give him a chance, afterwards you can tell him you don't think it'll work out, and everything will go back to normal. Just give him a chance. Please."

"Fine."

"Marinette, please—Wait what?"

"I can't hold onto the past forever, right?" She sent her friend a small smile.

"Now go bring him his coffee, even though I'm sure it's cold by now."

Marinette nodded.

"And then you're going to tell him you'll agree to one date, and you'll leave right after."

"Right now?"She asked, looking down at her outfit.

"Yes, right now. I'll talk to the boss, you'll be fine, believe me."

She nodded, leaving out the employee door.

"Chat?" She called out hesitantly.

"Yeah?" He said, getting out of his seat, and rushing to her side.

She handed him his coffee before saying, "I think... I'd like to go out sometime."

"Really?" He asked, his face lighting up in excitement.

"Yeah."

"In fact", Alya said coming up from behind them, and dropping an arm over both their shoulders, " Ms. Roux just said that Marinette could leave early today."

His smile got even wider.

"Can we go now?" He asked.

She looked at Alya.

She nodded her head, "You go girl!"

Marinette quickly took off her apron, handing it to Alya, before he grabbed her hand and raced out of the café, mindful of the coffee he was holding.

Alya just shook her head, before heading back to work.