Adrien's voice buzzed through his ear piece, "Repeat after me. 'Yes he is, but first I want to take this opportunity to –"
"Yes he is, but first I want to take this opportunity to-"
"Tell you that I love you, Marinette."
"Tell you that I- ah…" Why couldn't he say it?
It was so simple! Adrien made it sound so easy, the words rolling off his tongue like he was saying his own name!
Nino couldn't. His tongue was twisting into impossible knots, making him spew out words that probably belonged to another language.
"I-" He squeezed his eyes shut, 'Just say it, Nino, it's your only chance!' "I love you, Marinette!" He finally gasped in one breath, taking hold of her shoulders.
"What?" Nino didn't see Marinette's expression of pure shock, he was clenching his eyes shut from the pain of Adrien's cheering exploding into his poor eardrum! "Way to go, dude! You did it! Now hurry it up and ask her out!"
"N-Nino?"
He finally opened his eyes to see her astonished expression An apple blush flooded his face when he realized that not only was he still holding her shoulders, but their faces were very close.
"Nino," She said again. "I don't know what to say…" Was there even an easy to let him down easy? Heck was there an easy way to tell a guy who just confessed to you that you're really in love with his best friend?
Marinette gasped when he tighten his hold, "Please," his body was shaking as all his nerves danced. "S-Say you'll give me a chance. I-I know you might not like me now, but I promise I'll try to make it work. Just, please."
How could she say no?
How could she say yes?
Marinette couldn't figure out what to do! Why couldn't Tikki just turn invisible and give her some ancient wisdom?! Oh, yeah, kwamis can't turn invisible.
"Um…" Her own ear phone buzzed, "Girl what are you doing! You can't say yes, you're in love with Adrein remember!" She quietly turned away and whispered, "But he sounds so sincere. I don't' want to break his heart."
"You're going to have to!" Alya shouted. "Which is worse; now or later?"
Whisper "But I can't, he's my friend."
Angry sighs "It won't be fair to him. Understand?"
"Yes!" Marinette slapped her hands over her mouth.
Nino's face lit up, "Really!"
Marinette realized she probably looked like a deer caught in the head lights. She winced when her ear piece buzzed again. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
The French-Asian couldn't answer, she suddenly found herself caught in a massive hug, Nino's tan arms curled around her tiny frame. "Thank you! I promise you won't regret it!"
'I already am.'
"Girl, call off your date now!"
"Listen, Nino, I-" Two screams cute her off as Kim and Max ran by with a black panther chasing them. "I need to go!" She jumped to her feet, Nino followed her example. More animals came running through and they quickly dashed off, with Marinette taking a quick detour to transform.
…
Chat smiled to himself as he jumped through the sky. Today had been a good day. He thought. He helped hook his best friend up with the girl of his dreams, got to spend time with his special lady and was now enjoying the rest of the evening doing his favorite activity.
A flutter noise broke thoughts making him grin. He knew that beating wing sound anywhere. Looking for the source he found himself right upon seeing his lady swinging through sky looking deep in thought. He tried to wave at her, but found she couldn't see him. Darn. He'll just have to try harder then.
Pouncing over another roof top, Chat raced to catch his love, slowly getting faster. 'She must really be distracted,' he thought as he picked up momentum. 'She's never this slow.'
Ladybug swung into the air again, doing a quick back flip before landing on top of Marinette's family's bakery.
Chat slowed down, curious. What was she doing at Marinette's bakery? A feeling of dread filled his stomach. Was Marinette hurt?
Worried for his class mate, Chat dashed over to get a better look. He wouldn't put it pass his lady to check in on civilians if they were injured. She was so sweet and kind and just downright beautiful. He couldn't imagine anyone as perfect as her!
Leaping off the roof, over the empty street, Chat clung to the wall with his claws using spots in tiny crevices to climb up to what he was sure to be Marinette's window. He didn't want to startle his lady and her friend so he chose to peak in, ignoring the tiny voice in his head that was calling him a peeping tom.
Peering through the window, he could make out Marinette's lit up room; all the walls were pink and covered in posts of-Him?
Yes. There were posters of Adrien. Everywhere! Nearly all four walls were covered in his image. Chat cocked his head in confusion. Why would Marinette have pictures of him when she was dating Nino now?
He ducked a little when Ladybug suddenly dropped down. She stretched her arms high in the air, moaning as her muscles finally relaxed.
This had not been a good day. Not only did Marinette mistakenly agreed to date Nino, but there was an akuma attack and Alya had been nagging at her the entire time. If Marinette didn't know any better she would say that Alya was jealous. But she was right. Nino was a sweet guy, but Marinette was in love with Adrien and it wasn't fair to either of them to date.
Ladybug sighed, once again clumsy Marinette cause another problem. Seriously, when she was made into Ladybug she thought her luck would get better now. While she still had good luck, she definitely had her moments of bad misfortunes, today being one of those days.
Oh well, she'll have to straighten everything out tomorrow. Maybe she could pull Nino aside and they could work things out, right?
She closed her eyes and shook her head. If only it were that easy! No. She couldn't be nonchalant about that. The heart was a sensitive being and must be treated as such. She wouldn't forgive herself if she broke Nino's heart! The guy was nice and maybe if she wasn't so hung up about Adrien, she might have returned his feelings. But nope. Fate just loved to screw with her!
With another sigh, Ladybug swung herself higher in the sky, not noticing a black form following close behind. She flipped in the air and landed on her balcony, dropping down in her room and stretching. She moaned with pleasure as her muscles stretch and relax. "Spots off." She commanded tiredly, and sighed as rays of pink light surrounded her form, leaving Marinette Dupain-Cheng in the heroine's place.
"Oh, Tikki," She sighed fishing out a cookie for her hungry kwami. "What am I suppose to do? I can't break Nino's heart. He's my friend and I can't imagine doing anything worse to him!"
Tikki sat in Marinette's hands, munching on her treat. "Alya's right," she said after swallowing the bit of chocolate chip in her mouth, "You can't lead Nino on, it isn't fair for him or you."
"But I didn't mean to say yes. I was only agreeing with Alya and it just came out wrong." She sighed and fell backards onto the pink sofa nearby. "I'm starting to think my bad luck is over powering your good luck."
The red kwami giggled crawling up Marinette's stomach. "Don't say that, you have plenty of good luck, it's just all about perspective! I'm sure you'll figure something out. I have faith in you, Marinette."
She sighed, "I just don't' know what to do. I love Adrien, but I don't want to break Nino's heart. What should I do?"
"You'll figure something out, but until then why not finish your homework. It's due tomorrow you know~" Tikki sang, flying over to her bag. Marinette giggled, "Yes, Mom." And reluctantly went to work.
Outside the window, Chat was having a mini heart attack. All he could register was: Marinette was Ladybug. Marinette was Ladybug. Marinette was Ladybug!
He slid down the wall and took off, still processing what he had just witness.
'Marinette's my lady. She's been my lady this whole time!' A giant grin grew on his face. 'And she's in love with me!' Chat pounced into the air with a "Whoop!" And laughing. Oh Happy days! He was on cloud nine! No! This wasn't cloud nine. This was beyond cloud nine!
He slipped through his window, detransforming and doing a quick dance, unable to keep the excitement in any longer.
His kwami, Plagg, was less then enthused. "What are you so happy abou-ah!" He was quickly snatched up by Adrien spun around the room with his kitten yelling, "She's my lady! Marinette is my lady!"
"Put me down, you're going to make me sick!"
Adrien laughed and with a quick spin, fell into his chair, rolling up to his computer. Typing in a few key words he pulled up both pictures of Ladybug and Marinette. They looked nearly identical!
"Man, I'm such an idiot!" He said, "I can't believe I didn't see it before!"
Plagg floated nearby, tossing some camembert into the air and catching it in his mouth while speaking, "Yo've evin big'r idot fer fergebing abut her date wif Nino."
"Plagg, how many times do I have to say to not talk with your mouth full? It's disgusting!"
Rolling his eyes, Plagg finished his bit of cheese. "I said, you're an even bigger idiot."
"Why am I an idiot? Everyone else hasn't figured out her identity, as far as I know I'm the only one and that makes me a genius."
"It's not that," Plagg floated to a plate of cheese near Adrien's computer.
His charge rested his hands on his hips with a challenging look on his face. "Well what am I an idiot for, Sherlock?"
Plagg ate another piece of cheese. "You forgot she's dating Nino. The guy you set her up with."
Adrien froze, green eyes growing to the size of dinner plates.
"So yeah," Plagg finished another piece of his cheese. "You're an idiot."
Adrien remained frozen for a few moments. Seconds pass. Then minutes. Plagg grew concerned, "Adrien?"
His kitten exploded. "SON OF A BITCH!"
AN: So yeah, as you can see I'm still LadyNoir trash XD. I absolutely love this scenarios and I can't wait to see where this is going to go. It's only the first chapter and I'm hoping to post more. If not then I'll just leave it as a one-shot since college is really kicking my butt this semester. Anyways, I hope you guys like this and let me know what you think. I'm really sorry for all the grammar mistakes and spelling errors, I'm still rusting XP.