The fall
Some parts of this story are based on my experiences with my crush. It reminded me of Adrien and Mari, so I decided to write this thing. It´s my first fanfiction and English isn´t my first language.
Marinette was glad that she finally managed to be a little more normal around Adrien. Of course by now everyone knew about her massive crush on him, but at least she could be the "good friend" he saw in her without turning into a blushing mess. Sometimes she wondered if he knew, too, because nobody could be that oblivious, right? She even asked him to go to the last school dance with her (an action that, to this day, she wasn´t quite sure of how she hat got enough guts to go through with it), but he just replied: "Let´s see." Like it wasn´t a big deal and fled. For a few weeks after this fiasco they didn´t talk to each other, but the silence between them was way more awkward than them talking, so they just resumed to their "normal" ways, as if nothing had happened.
"Normal" in this case means, that on a normal day they talked about their classes, teachers, books they read lately and their upcoming trip to Greece. The trip! It was the thing Marinette looked forward to the most even if it was months away. In late September about half of her class would go to Greece, because they did exceptionally well in the last schoolyear. Marinette wasn´t quite sure how she managed to do so well in classes even with all the extra work put on her plate by akumas, but she sure was happy about it. The trip would maybe give her the chance of spending more time with Adrien, without people like Chloe interrupting. Sadly, like Chloe, Alya wasn´t coming either, but she will be spending time with Rose, Juleka, hopefully Adrien and a few others instead.
But right now Alya certainly was there, because Marinettte felt her tugging at her arm, bringing her back to reality. "Wake up girl! Stop dreaming about Adrien and stand up to greet Mrs Mendeleiev (?)!", Alya whispered in her ear. Marinette groaned and stood up carefully. She pretty often clumsily fell over the chairs in their science room and tried to avoid the humiliation today. The only person still sitting in the room was Adrien. He didn´t seem to have noticed everybody standing up and doodled on a piece of paper. She wasn´t sure how someone could be that cute, without even doing something. Nino tapped his arm until he finally noticed. In the motion of standing up Adrien turned to Marinette and saw her smiling at him and smiled back, or better, he tried to smile back, because he tangled his legs with the chair and fell rather clumsily back in his seat. While smiling sheepishly at her, this time he really stood up and together the class greeted Mrs Mendeleiev.
But Marinettes thoughts weren´t with physics today. The only thing racing through her mind was, how positively adorable that fall and sheepish smile from Adrien were. Had he fallen because of her? She knew, that that probably wasn´t the case and it was just a stupid coincidence that she smiled at him the moment he fell, but in her dreams she wished it to be her effect on Adrien, just like Adrien made her fall for him. Marinette cursed herself. Punning? Seriously? Chat had much to high of an influence on her. Suddenly she was startled by the bell announcing the end of the lesson. How could she have missed a whole lesson over a smile? Alya juest laughed at her and told her that she should copy her own notes. "No need to loose those good grades over a boy! Even if it´s Adrien!", she said. Marinette agreed wholeheartedly. She really had to do something about this crush! Even if her heart got crushed in progress. Dammit Chat!