Chapter 1: Vacation
Today was the last day of classes, and Marinette was dreading it.
Normally, she would be looking forward to the end of the school year. To all of the fun activities that she would be able to participate in, the wonderful treats that her parents only made during the summer tourist months, and lazy days spent doing absolutely nothing. But, this year was different. This year Marinette had a crush on the one and only Adrien Agreste and, when classes ended, she would not be able to see him again for some time. 58 days of hoping to run into him somewhere amongst the streets of Paris.
It wasn't like she was counting or anything.
With a huff, Marinette glared at the trap door above her bed before pulling the blanket back over her head in an attempt to put off the inevitable. Maybe if she didn't get out of bed, then she wouldn't have to face the reality of the last day of classes?
"Marinette!" Tikki called from the other side of the blanket. "If you don't get up soon you'll be late for your last day of classes."
"I don't wanna go," she mumbled as she buried her face into the crevice between her cat stuffed animal and pillow.
"But you have to Marinette! Mrs. Bustier said yesterday that you have to turn in your tablet. And, besides, isn't it supposed to be a day full of fun activities? You wouldn't want to miss out on those." The aspiring fashion designer groaned loudly as she burrowed further into her bed and ignored the small tugs that she felt on her blanket.
"But, if I go, then summer vacation starts! And when summer vacation starts I won't get to see Adrien!"
"Who said that you wouldn't be able to see him? All you have to do is make plans to see him sometime this summer!"
"But, Tikki," Marinette whined as she sat up and gave the kwami an exasperated look. "I can't even get a full sentence out when I'm around him! How am I supposed to do something like making plans with him?"
"I'm sure that Alya wouldn't mind helping you," Tikki gave her a wink. "C'mon, just give today a chance! Your phone says that it's supposed to be sunny with a high of 23.8 degrees!" The teen let out a groan before throwing her covers off and getting out of bed.
"You'd better be right, Tikki," she muttered as she sent a quick text to her best friend about her plans. She then slowly descended her stairs to get ready for the day hoping beyond hope that her day would be as wonderful as Tikki imagined.
Tikki had, in fact, been horribly wrong.
Before school could even start, Marinette had waited on the steps, alone, for him to arrive. Alya, after she had heard of Marinette's plan, had insisted that she try to approach him before class since it would be unlikely that they would have much time during class. She had also insisted that she should do so alone. Marinette had agreed and waited for him while nervously messing with her phone.
When his limo had finally arrived, Marinette had immediately stood up and, in the process, had ended up dropping her phone. She had watched in horror as the fragile device fell down every single step below her before skidding across the pavement where it stopped only a meter away from her target. All she could do was watch as he bent down to pick up the device and look around for its owner. Marinette had been so flustered by the whole situation that she had mutely taken the phone from him before quickly walking to her class. Alya was quick to follow and tell her that she should turn around, but she couldn't imagine herself being able to face him after embarrassing herself in such a way.
"Girl, it's okay. You'll have another chance to set something up. I'm sure of it."
"Why is everyone so sure that I'll be able to do something like this?" The blue-haired teen had muttered to herself as she stalked towards her seat where she proceeded to sit and put her head down. She could feel Tikki moving in her purse, more than likely wanting to show her sympathy, but Marinette was going to have absolutely none of that. With a little bit more force than was strictly necessary, she took her purse off and threw it on the ground beside her backpack. She winced and picked it up, instantly feeling remorseful for taking her inner anger out on the poor kwami in her purse.
"Did you share your plan with someone else?" Alya asked curiously, "I thought that you had only shared it with me." The other teen felt herself stiffen at her own mistake.
"N-no!" She laughed nervously to herself without offering any explanation while covertly opening the clutch in order to check on her small friend inside. With a quick assessment she was able to ascertain that Tikki, though a little shaken, was okay. She sighed in relief before setting her purse down with much more care this time.
"Then what on Earth did you mean by that, girl?" Marinette looked up to see her friend's critical glance before sitting down with a sigh.
"I don't know," she leaned her head dismally onto her hand. "My mom just said something similar this morning about something else, and I guess I'm just feeling a lot of pressure over it." Alya's gaze softened dramatically as she sat down beside her.
"Don't sweat it too much. All you have to do is bring it up casually and then-" Alya was cut off by a loud explosion down the street. Her eyes grew wide as she, and many of the other students, ran to the windows to see what was going on outside. Marinette didn't need to look to know that there was an akuma running amok somewhere outside. With an annoyed sigh to herself she grabbed her purse and made to dash out the door.
"Can't Hawk Moth take just one day off?" She groaned to herself as she blindly rounded the corner and immediately ran into someone, knocking them to the ground. Blinking in surprise, she looked up to find an equally stunned Adrien. Her face immediately flushed. All she wanted to do was crawl into a corner. But, then there was another crash from outside, and she knew that there was no more time to waste.
"Sorry!" She cried in apology as he stood in a rush. "There's an akuma attack!" She said quickly before darting back towards her destination. She felt horrible for leaving him sitting on the ground, but her need to take care of the akuma overrode it.
As she called out for her transformation she hoped that maybe, just maybe, if she and Chat could take care of the problem quickly, then she could return to class. Maybe then she would be able to get up the nerve to talk to Adrien about making summer plans. She sent up many prayers to any and every deity that she could think of that the fight would go smoothly.
As the "symbol of good luck" she certainly had really rotten luck today.
Not only had the akuma taken an inordinately long time to defeat, the weather itself decided that it was going to be in a sour mood as well. Instead of the warm and sunny weather that had been predicted, a large rainstorm decided to move in and dowse the whole of the city in its wake.
Feeling drenched and defeated, Marinette could barely give her partner their customary fist bump before she was glancing at her compact in search for the time. He looked on in concern as his partner let out an annoyed groan.
There were only three minutes of school left.
"But, maybe I can still catch him," she said under her breath as she closed her yo-yo and looked up at Chat Noir. He tried to get a word out, but she quickly cut him off "I need to go," she said as a small amount of hope returned to her.
"But-" She didn't wait for to hear his question. Instead, she shot off as fast as she could towards the school. She could just barely make out the shape in the distance through the rain. If she could just hurry, then she could follow through with her plan. Maybe if she-
Marinette felt her heart drop as the muted school bell rang out.
She was about to stop in defeat, but maybe the universe would give her just a little luck today and he would be lagging behind. Without, caring too much about the weather, Marinette dropped into an alley one block away from the school before exiting and running against the strong current of her peers.
She was completely out of breath and damp by the time that she made it to the school. She burst through the front doors and made her way towards her classroom, keeping her eyes peeled for a very specific mop of blonde hair. He had to still be here. After the initial scuffle, the akuma fight had moved far enough from the school that most classes would have resumed. But, as she entered the room, it became apparent that everyone had already left.
Even Alya.
"Tikki?" Marinette asked quietly as she opened the purse to gaze at her small friend with tear-filled eyes "Why can't I just have one good day?"
"Oh, Marinette," the kwami said as she flew from the purse to soothe her young charge. "I'm sure that there will be an opportunity to see him sometime this summer."
"But, we barely talk outside of school!" The distraught girl pointed out as she rubbed the back of her hand against her eyes. "There's no way that I would even be able to contact him. Though he probably wouldn't even want to..." She sniffed as she made her way towards her seat to look for her school bag. She frowned as she noticed that it was missing.
She was about to panic when she felt a vibration come from her phone. She immediately opened it and found a text from Alya waiting for her.
Alya: I'm holding your bag hostage until you call me
After a few short moments, she replied.
Marinette: thanks
Marinette: I'll call you when I get home
Alya: how about I just meet you at your house?
Marinette: sure. see you soon
Marinette sighed and put the phone away. She was grateful that Alya had taken care of her things yet again. She hated how often she had to rely on her for things such as this… especially when she couldn't fully express it. With a sigh, the teenager made her way out of the building with the intention of making her way home.
Marinette stopped just short of the edge of the awning when she was reminded of the rain. She groaned to herself as she noticed that the rain was coming down harder than it had before. She was really dreading the walk home. She didn't necessarily hate getting wet, but, with how heavily it was coming down, the superheroine truly doubted that her phone would survive. Maybe if she waited long enough it would let up…
"You really need to start bringing your own umbrella to school," a teasing voice said from behind Marinette. The girl let out a surprised screech before she turned around to identify who had spoken to her.
"A-Adrien!" She called out much louder than she meant to. "W-What are you still doing in school? I thought that you... ah... went on home?" She could have sworn that she had not seen him leave the school building as she had approached it. Where on Earth could he have come from?
"Nah," Adrien said as he scratched the back of his head with his free hand. "I had some business that I had to take care of after everyone left. What about you?"
"I... I was actually hoping that the rain would stop so that I wouldn't have to get really wet," she said sheepishly. "I always meant to buy one of my own you know... an umbrella I mean, but I never ended up buying one."
"What happened to the one that I leant you at the beginning of the year?" Marinette felt her heart sink as the memory came back to her followed by an image of said umbrella resting in the umbrella rack by her front door.
"Oh my gosh!" She said in a panic as she brought a hand up to her mouth. "I can't- I can't believe that I never gave it back to you! It's in my umbrella rack at home in perfect condition. Look I swear, I swear that I'll give it back to you sometime soon. In fact, I'll run home right now and-"
Adrien let out a loud laugh as he brought his hands up in a placating manner.
"It's okay, Marinette." A smile spread over his face as he turned to face her more fully. "I was just teasing you. You don't have to go home and get it." The girl let out a nervous laugh as a wave of relief washed over her. She was grateful that he wouldn't make her walk home in the rain to get the umbrella. At that moment, Adrien's limo pulled up to the curb and came to a stop directly in front of where they were standing. A flit of sadness went across his face before it brightened up again as an idea came to him.
"Look, how about I give you a ride home? That way you don't have to get wet and I don't lose another umbrella." He said the last statement with a wink and Marinette thought that her heart would explode at the gesture. Unable to trust herself to respond coherently, she nodded to him and watched as he opened the umbrella and held it over the both of them. They then stepped out from the cover together towards the waiting vehicle. Marinette didn't dare get too close to him underneath the umbrella, but she found that she was still able to stay rather dry due to how large it was. As they approached the limo, Adrien reached forward and opened the door for her.
"After you, m'lady," he said courteously, allowing her to take shelter from the rain first. She immediately slid over to the other seat and watched as he quickly entered the vehicle before maneuvering the umbrella in a way that kept his self from getting too wet from the constant downpour. He then turned his attention to his chauffeur.
"I offered to give Marinette a ride home. It's really close to Tom and Sabine's Boulangerie Patisserie. Do you know how to get there?" The chauffeur looked in his rearview mirror at the said girl for a moment, his calculating gaze giving Marinette the heeby-jeebies, before nodding and pulling away from the curb in the direction of her home.
"Don't mind him," Adrien said off-handedly as he relaxed into his seat. "He might look scary, but it's just because he doesn't talk a whole lot." Marinette nodded nervously as she turned her attention away from the imposing man's gaze to look at the boy sitting beside her. "So," he began as he situated his satchel to sit on the seat between them, "Today was kind of crazy wasn't it?"
"Uh... yeah. Crazy," Marinette said with a nervous laugh. "Who knew that we'd- I mean the school would get an akuma attack today of all days."
"Yeah..." He said with a frown. "I'd hoped that we'd go without one today so that I'd be able to do all of the fun activities today, but I guess it was just a case of bad luck, huh?" She nodded and with a small defeated sigh.
"I guess I'm not all that surprised," she said quietly as she turned to look out the window.
"Why's that?"
"Well... I always seem to have the worst of luck," she shrugged as she spared him a glance. Flashes of the past year went through her mind.
"I know how that goes," Adrien said as he smiled ironically to himself.
"How?" Marinette asked as she turned to look at him in disbelief. "It always seems like you have the best of luck!" He laughed bitterly as he turned away to look out at the rain himself.
"I guess it would appear like that," he said quietly to himself before becoming lost within his own thoughts. A heavy silence fell between them. Marinette bit her lip as she tried to come up with something to lighten the mood. She glanced outside and noticed that they were quickly approaching the bakery.
"W-what are you doing this summer?" Her sudden voice and topic change caught Adrien off-guard and he turned to look at her curiously. She felt a small amount of relief fill her as the atmosphere seemed to lighten as his cloudy eyes cleared to attention.
"I'll probably continue with the extra lessons that I usually take and I think my father has scheduled a few photoshoots. Nino mentioned maybe going to a concert or something, too. Other than that I don't really have any plans. How about you?"
"I usually help mom and dad out at the bakery every once in a while. A-Alya mentioned that she had some ideas for some fun things to do this summer, b-but she hasn't really told me what they are yet."
"That sounds like fun," Adrien smiled warmly at her as the car came to a stop. Marinette's eyes widened as she realized that they had finally arrived at her parent's shop. She frowned as she felt some of her earlier dismay returning.
"Yeah…" she said quietly as Adrien made to open his door. She watched as he opened the umbrella before stepping out onto the curb. He turned with his unoccupied hand outstretched towards the open door. She hesitated as he looked at her expectantly. She clambered to exit and knew that, had he not assisted her out of the car, that she would have, most certainly, fallen down.
"T-thanks," she said sheepishly as she righted herself. She wanted him to continue to hold her hand, but knew that she would have probably died if she held on for too long. She found that, as his hand left hers to shut the door, she missed the warmth. "A-and thank you for the ride."
"It's not a problem." He smiled kindly as he walked her to the bakery's doorstep "Believe it or not, this is actually on the way to my house." He stopped walking once they were under the awning of the shop. An awkward silence fell between them as they just stood there before he spoke again. "Well, I suppose that I'll see you when school starts?"
Marinette realized, as she stood there, that this was her chance. That, if she really wanted to see him again sometime this summer, she needed to say something now. She knew, without a doubt, that she would regret it if she didn't, but her mouth was stubborn and wouldn't work correctly. She opened her mouth once, then twice, but no words seemed to come out. Adrien seemed slightly confused by her unusual display, but he waited patiently for her to respond.
"Come!" was finally what came out of her mouth in a rush. She cleared her throat before starting her invitation again. "You come- I mean you and Nino would be w-welcome to hang out with us this summer if you wanted to. We-we don't have anything concrete planned yet, b-but more the merrier, right?"
The look of pure delight on Adrien's face took Marinette's breath away.
"Really? I would love to!" He froze at his own loud declaration before laughing sheepishly and scratching the back of his head. "I-I mean that sounds like a lot of fun."
"Great! H-How should we let you know when we're hanging out?"
"Texting is probably the best way to get a hold of me. Here," at this he reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone. Using some care he unlocked it and tapped it a few times with the hand holding the umbrella before holding it out to Marinette. On the screen was an empty contact field. Gingerly, she took it from him and put her number into his phone. She then handed it back to him and he saved it before putting it back into his pocket. "I'll text you once my hands are free so that you can have my number, too, how does that sound?"
"S-Sounds great."
Beep. Beeep.
The pair turned to see the chauffeur gesturing to the backseat. The blonde sighed to himself before turning back to his friend a reluctant look. "Sorry, it looks like I have to get going now, but I'm looking forward to hanging out this summer!"
"M-me, too! Thanks again for the ride."
"You're welcome. Bye!" And with that Adrien Agreste hurried back to his car. It took him a moment to finagle the umbrella again, but, once it and he were in the car, he turned to Marinette and waved before shutting the door.
"Bye," Marinette said softly and waved as the car quickly pulled away from the curb. She stood there watching after the car long past the moment that it disappeared down the street, utterly shell-shocked. After a few minutes had gone by, she entered the shop in a daze. She barely said two words to her parents before going upstairs to her room. Both expressed their concern, but she paid them no mind as she trekked upstairs.
As soon as she was in her room she felt her phone vibrate.
Marinette immediately fumbled for the phone and almost dropped it for the second time that day, but, miraculously, she was able to keep it from falling to certain doom. It took her nearly four tries to unlock it before she finally opened it to reveal that she had a new message from an unknown number.
Unknown: Hey Marinette, this is Adrien! Just text me whenever! Hope you have an awesome rest of your day! ^.^
Marinette froze as she stared down at her phone. She blinked a few times before she reached to her forearm and pinched it. Hard.
"Ow!" She yelped as Tikki zipped up to her face in concern.
"Marinette, are you okay?" Marinette looked from the mark on her arm, to her phone, to Tikki, and then back to the message on her screen. Tikki's eyes focused on the message for a moment before she let out an excited squeal.
"You did it, Marinette! I knew you could!" The superheroine was about to respond when all of a sudden there was a knock on her trap door. She let out a surprised squeak as Tikki immediately flew to the closest hiding place that she could find before the door opened to reveal her best friend carrying her bag.
"Alright, I've got your bag. Now it's time for us to strategize!" Her friend shut the door behind her before turning to find a still dazed Marinette standing there with her phone in her hand. The redhead furrowed her brow in concern as she carefully approached her friend. "Marinette, is everything alright?"
The frozen girl opened her mouth to explain, but she found that no words would come out. She gaped there for a few moments, continuing to attempt, but soon she realized that she would be unable to explain for quite some time. Instead, of attempting any more she robotically unlocked her phone again before handing it to Alya. The blogger immediately took the device, carelessly dropping her friend's bag in order to accept the phone, and read the message before emitting an excited squeal.
"How did this happen?! Girl, you absolutely have to tell me how it happened!"
"I-I don't know!" Marinette stammered back as she tried to recover from her shock. It took her a while, but eventually she was able to recount the event to her best friend who was absolutely buzzing with excitement. Once her recounting was finished, Alya leapt forward to engulf the other girl in a tight hug.
"I'm so proud of you! Now you can not only hang out with him some this summer, but you can also text him whenever you want!" Marinette tilted her head in confusion before Alya pushed the phone back to her and pointed excited at the message.
"He says to 'text him whenever.' If that isn't an invitation to get into random conversations with the guy, then I don't know what is!" Marinette gaped at the phone in realization and immediately found herself sitting on the floor.
"I think this is the best day of my life," she murmured as she stared in awe.
"You absolutely have to text him back now!" Marinette's eyes flew up to her best friend in panic and she immediately shook her head.
"Are you crazy?! I couldn't possibly do that! "
"If you don't, he might think that you didn't get it. You don't want him worrying about his text or thinking you're rude, right?"
Alya had a point. It would be rude to leave him hanging, and what if he sent another? What excuse would she have then? She reached up to pull at her hair in distress.
"W-w-what do I say?!"
"Just say 'you too' for now. Then, after we plan our first hang out date, you text him the details. I'll handle inviting Nino." A mischievous glint entered her hazel eyes as she continued. "Also, I think I heard that Nino was looking for a summer job so he might be pretty busy. So, I think I'll let you take care of all the Adrien communication this summer."
"What?!" Marinette shrieked so loudly that it was a wonder that her parents - and their neighbors for that matter - didn't rush upstairs to check on the girls. Alya's hands flew to her ears in an attempt to salvage some of her hearing, but it did nothing to wipe the smirk from her face.
"You get to make sure that Adrien knows about all of our plans this summer! You were the one to invite him along, remember?" The other girl groaned.
"Fine," she mumbled as she opened the text message. She made a point to both lock the message into her phone as well as save his number and assign one of the many pictures that she had of him modeling in an attempt to stall. She stared at the phone for a few moments before Alya cleared her throat. With a shaky sigh, Marinette finally typed out a message before passing it to her best friend for her approval. Alya looked at it for a moment before typing something out and handed it back to Marinette with a wink.
Marinette: You too!
Marinette: BTW you can text me whenever you want too! :D
Marinette let out an indignant gasp as she realized that the messages had already been sent. She sputtered at her friend in disbelief. She knew that Alya liked to help play match maker, but this was too much! She had only wanted to send a simple reply. What if he thought that was too forward? What if-
Her phone buzzed.
Adrien: Cool! I'll probably take you up on that offer every once in a while. Things get kind of boring around the house.
Adrien: What are you up to?
"I believe that my work here is done," Alya said confidently as she made her way to Marinette's trap door. "My mom said something about going out to eat for supper tonight so I'll be on my way. Just call or text if you need me! I'll stop by tomorrow sometime so we can make all sorts of plans this summer." Marinette stood and tried to catch up to her friend, but she was too slow and the door to the rest of the house was slamming shut before she could stop her.
"I can't believe her. She abandoned me!" Marinette huffed as Tikki left her hiding spot. "I thought she was going to help me with this! I don't know how to have a conversation with Adrien!" The small god laughed at her charge's plight, which earned her a pointed glare. The small kwami chose to ignore it as she approached her.
"Oh, Marinette, she just doesn't want to get in the way of you two talking!"
"But, what do I talk to him about?!" Tikki gave her an exasperated look before glancing at his message.
"Well, you could answer his question and ask him what he's up to. Maybe you could focus on getting to know him, and then you can go from there." Marinette took a deep breath before nodding.
"Okay. I'll do that." She stared down at the phone for a few minutes in an attempt to come up with something. She wasn't really up to anything in particular. She looked at her discarded bag for a moment before it gave her an idea. She sent two disproportionately short texts after her long span of silence.
Marinette: Putting away my school stuff. Alya stopped by to drop my bag off a little while ago.
Marinette: How about you?
Marinette picked up her bag and made good on her supposed actions by putting away the few items that she had taken to school. It did not take her long to finish and she found that she was slightly disappointed when he didn't respond as quickly as he had before. She pulled out her sketchbook and attempted to brainstorm new ideas, but, instead of getting engrossed in it, she found herself compulsively checking her phone.
"A watched pot never boils," Tikki teased from where she had settled herself on Marinette's desk. The girl in question darted her eyes from her unresponsive phone to shoot her friend a glare. The red kwami giggled to herself and paid the look no mind as she went back to eating one of the many cookies that Marinette left for her around the room.
After quite a while without a response, Marinette forced herself to focus on creating a few new summer pieces for herself. About two years ago, she had begun working on her craft in earnest. One of the best ways that she found to practice was pushing herself to create new pieces for each season. The amount ranged in accordance to the time that she had to spare. But she always shot for at least two new items a season.
Currently, she was working on sketching different ideas for a new skirt. She had the overall idea in her head already, but she couldn't make up her mind on what color or pattern it should be. She was sketching different colors over the outline when she was startled out of her creative process by her phone going off. This caused her to press a bit too hard on her colored pencil and send a wayward line through her sketch. She cursed to herself as she dropped the pencil in favor of picking up the device in frustration.
Her annoyance drained immediately, though, when she saw that she had received a new text message from Adrien.
Adrien: Sorry for the late reply!
Adrien: I didn't hear my phone go off. ^^;
Adrien: I'm playing the new DLC for Ultimate Mecha Strike III right now.
Marinette frowned as she looked up her calendar. She had been planning to buy the new content as soon as it came out. Which, as she had noted in her calendar, was supposed to be next week. She furrowed her brow in confusion as she sent a couple more texts.
Marinette: That's okay.
Marinette: Doesn't that come out next week tho?
His response was immediate this time.
Adrien: Nope! It came out last week.
Marinette glanced away from their conversation to look up the date on the official website on her computer and groaned to herself when she found that he was indeed correct. That meant that she had been waiting in anticipation for no reason! She sighed to herself as she leaned back in her chair.
Marinette: I could have sworn it was next week…
Marinette: Guess that means I get to play it sooner than I thought.
"I can't believe that I mixed up the dates," Marinette muttered to herself as she took note of the price for the new DLC. She didn't quite have all of the money for it, but if she talked to her papa at supper she could probably ask him to buy it for her and allow her to pay him back once she had enough money.
"What dates?" Tikki asked as she floated up to look at the computer.
"Oh, you know how I was planning to buy new DLC for Ultimate Mecha Force III? Well Adrien just told me it already came out!" Marinette put her head in her unoccupied hand. Tikki giggled at her charge. There was a moment where it looked as though Marinette was going to say something more, but she was interrupted by her phone going off. She immediately scrambled for it causing her kwami to work hard on not letting out a loud laugh.
Adrien: You should totally let me know when you get it! They added an online multiplayer and it'd be cool to play with you again!
Marinette flushed immediately as she reread the message over and over again. Not only had he given her a concrete idea of when to text him back again, he had also said that he wanted to play video games with her again! She smiled giddily as she leaned back to spin in her chair. This conversation was going so well!
The sound of her mother calling "Marinette!" loudly from below forced her to stop spinning. With a glance at the clock it became apparent that it was about dinner time. With a sad heart, she pushed her chair over to the trap door and saw her mother smiling kindly at the bottom of the stairs.
"It's time for dinner, honey. How does going out to celebrate surviving one more year of school? We could go to your favorite Italian place." The teenager's face brightened at the idea.
"That sounds like an awesome idea! I'll be down in a little bit."
"Okay, sounds good! I'll help your father close up the shop and we'll meet you at the back door." Marinette smiled as she set the door down. As she stood she caught sight of her phone and frowned. She was enjoying her conversation with Adrien so much and didn't want to stop talking to him, but she also knew that her parents would appreciate it if she didn't text during dinner. Especially if they were eating out as a family.
Marinette: I'll make sure to let you know!
Marinette: But I have to go. Mom and Dad want to go out to eat. I'll ttyl!
She locked her phone and picked up her purse. She dropped the phone in and reached for a small pile of cookies before turning to look for her small friend. "Ready?"
"Always!" Tikki chirped with a smile as she flew into the small bag. She was about to close it, but her phone went off two times in the span of a few moments. She hesitated for a moment, but she could not resist seeing what Adrien's response had been.
Adrien: Awww… Don't go!
Adrien: JK Hope you have fun. Talk to you later!
Marinette could swear that her heart skipped a few too many beats after reading his messages.
Adrien had seemed like he didn't want to stop talking to her! She brought her phone to her chest with a squeal and would have spun around the room shrieking in joy if her mother didn't yell up the stairs asking about whether she was coming or not. She called back that she was coming and was about to put her phone away when she met the mischievous eyes of her kwami. Her face immediately flushed in embarrassment and she chose to close her purse without another word.
She'd allow herself to fully celebrate later tonight.
A/N: Thank you so much for reading! This is the first of many chapters that will explore some of the adventures that this group of friends will be going on this summer. I'm hoping (to the best of my ability) that these chapters will come out on the dates that they are set on. I've charted out a schedule, but be warned that life happens so things may lag behind a little bit or plans may be changed.
That being said, this is somewhat of an experiment. Everything will occur during the summer, but not every chapter will occur during this particular summer... You'll see what I mean when we get there, just know that everything is connected in some fashion so I ask for just a little bit of faith, okay? Though, if something is weird, or if you have questions, then please go ahead and ask! You'll be able to find me here, on AO3 and Tumblr going by the same username
Again, thank you so much for taking the time to read and please let me know what you think!
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