Chapter 1

It was another day for his work as a physic teacher in university. He had been teaching there since he graduated from that same university two years ago. It was like a dream comes true, finally be able to do whatever he want to do.

For two years that he wasn't just Adrien, the perfect model son of Gabriel Agreste, but professor Agreste, the ordinary physic teacher in freshman and sophomore class that he would like to think that it was quite popular class among the students.

It just came with a little thing that called loneliness.

Yep. After all those time that he had lived in the empty mansion. He still felt lonely when he moved out to live in his own apartment.

Adrien sighed, his bright green eyes stared at the ceiling. He had nothing better to do anyway. On Monday he only had to teach the afternoon class.

Laundry…checked.

Cleaning up the room…checked.

Grading the papers…already double checked.

Watching Netflix…yeah he totally could use some Netflix, but unfortunately he wasn't really in the mood at all.

After stared at the ceiling for almost seem like an hour, he decided to do something more productive. Adrien got out of a bed and grabbed his coat before leaved his room.

Paris in late October started to have cold wind more often. He put his hands in the pocket and looked around for some hot coffee or chocolate.

And for some reasons, he didn't feel like going to his regular coffee shop near the university.

None of the shops had caught his eyes until he saw a small coffee shop in the corner of the street. It looked warm and cozy with brown and honey color decoration. There were flowers and small plants around the shop that made him felt a little more relax. After a few minutes he already found himself in front of the shop.

The bells jiggled when he opened the door. A cashier girl behind the counter quickly looked up from a book in her hand and smiled at him.

"Honey Bee at your service, sir. What would you like for today?"

"Oh." Adrien wasn't creative about his drink. Always black coffee with a spoon of sugar just to kept his eyes opening long enough before next break time. But today he really felt like he wanted to try something different.

"Do you have any recommendation?"

"Today we have fifty percent discount for all caramel menu" She gestured him to look at the menu. There were several interesting caramel menu on it. He never drank any of them before, so he just picked one.

"Hot caramel mocha would be great."

"Coming right up!"

Adrian only had to wait for a few minutes because there weren't many customers right now. When he turned around with a cup of coffee in his hand, he suddenly felt like his chest hit something. His coffee splashed out of the cup. And the sight in front of him made he gaped in shock.

"Shit! Sorry. Sorry. Are you okay?"

The woman, maybe around his age, stood in front of him. Her hand was on her nose like she was trying to relieve the pain. She dressed in something that looked suspiciously like designed working dress and much to his horror, that designed dress had coffee stain on it.

"I'm sorry. Like really sorry. If there is anything I can do to help you I would totally do it right now. Oh! Maybe I can help you clean it up in the restroom!" Adrien suddenly felt like it wasn't the best thing to say in this situation but he wasn't sure what to say anyway.

"And you will go in the girl restroom with me?"

A teasing tone in her voice made he blushed. Adrien blamed all his socially awkwardness to his father that kept him homeschooling until he entered university.

"You know that I'm only messing with you, right?" She laughed again and looked up from her stained dress.

In that second, Adrien was so sure that he had the most ridiculous face in the world.

Her eyes were blue, not the ocean blue, but they were bright blue like Paris sky in summer. They were round and big like a doll, a china doll to be exact. And her feature reminded him of Asian model that he used to work with, too. And that voice, like a sound of Christmas bell!

He couldn't help but stared at her, jaw dropped and struggled to find some words to say.

"Hello?" She offered first.

"H…Hello." Adrien finally found his voice again. It sounded a little higher than normal but still better than before. "Sorry again. About your dress"

"Don't worry about it." Miss China doll just smiled at him. "I have a few spare clothes at my work place anyway. This happen all the time."

Adrien lifted his eyebrows at that. "People poured coffee into you all the time?"

Miss China doll laughed a little. Her voice made him felt like he had a hundred of butterflies in his stomach. Her blue eyes met his green ones before she said "I usually trip myself over thin air and just land on my coffee."

Even someone with luck like him felt sorry for her.

"Well, today is definitely not your fault, so let me make it up to you."

"It's fine, really. No harm done at all. The dress is not even that expensive."

Adrien took a look at the dress again. It was definitely a designed one. He might not had a talent in fashion design like his father, but years of modelling made him know fashion quite enough to tell the different between clothes from fashion line and ordinary ones.

Miss China doll said first like she could read his mind.

"I made this dress myself. I'm a fashion designer."

A part of him felt his blood ran cold. She was a fashion designer. Could it mean that she talk to him because she knew who he was? But she looked so calm, so sincere, and she was around his age. Miss China doll couldn't be in fashion industry more than four years at most.

"I'm a physic teacher." He blurted out before his brain even had time to think.

"Oh…physic" She sighed. "Not really my strong point."

"Well, there is a reason that you are a fashion designer right now." He winked at her. A surge of confidence flood in to Adrien when he heard she laughed again.

"You have a point there."

Before his doubt came back, Adrien took a deep breath. He spoke so fast that he wasn't sure that Miss China doll could understand him or not.

"So…I'm Adrien and I think I didn't quite catch your name?"

It felt like a minute had passed, but finally she smiled so wide that her blue eyes almost closed.

And then she said her name.

"Marinette" Miss China doll…Nope! Marinette said. "Marinette Dupain-Cheng at your service. And for your redemption…maybe a lunch would be great. What do you think?"

Adrien never believed in love at first sight. But in that second, when he saw her bright eyes shine, hands tucked her black-blue hair behind her ears. When he saw this beautiful and confident woman suddenly turned in to a shy and adorable woman.

In that second...Adrien believed he fell in love.

Hello, readers.

I'm not native English so you can tell me if I use any grammar incorrectly.

This story won't be very long. No more than 5 chapters cause I'm still new to writing in another language and this is seriously harder than I think!

Thanks for reading, review and comment. :)