When Adrien finds out
Hi y'all, this is going to be a shorter fanfic, maybe two or three chapters. I would love it if you could comment and give me feedback because I want my writing to be at the best level it can be. Thank you for reading, I hope you enjoy.
Disclaimer: I do not own Miraculous Ladybug
"I'm really sorry Marinette. I hate having to hurt you because you are such a good friend. But I'm in love with someone else." It pained me to see the tears in her eyes that she was struggling to hold back.
"Oh okay, no worries, that's fine!" She said, obviously heart broken. "I guess I'll see you later." She said, as a tear escaped from one of her bluebell eyes.
"Marinette, I'm really sorry!" I began, but she was already to far away to hear me. Plagg zoomed out of my bag.
"You know, you have zero chance of getting Ladybug." The kwami taunted. I tried not to let his words faze me.
"I'll still never give up!" I told him confidently. I gathered up my books and walked out of the classroom, when I spotted Marinette, talking on the phone, just a few rooms away. I decided to "accidentally" overhear her conversation.
"Nathaniel? Look Alya, he's nice and all, but I don't think I would ever like him in that way." A pause. "Are you serious? Kim is the biggest jerk in the entire school." Another, longer pause. "I mean maybe. Luka is kinda cute. But I don't want to give up!" I suddenly felt guilty. She obviously cared about me very much. And if it wasn't for Ladybug, I may have even considered Marinette. "The worst bit was he was so nice about it!" She continue talking to Alya. "So I couldn't be mad at him." Silence. "Well I could never really be mad at him, he's so cute, I MEAN haha just kidding girl. Huh? Ok. See you tomorrow! Bye!" She hung up the call, and before I had a chance to run, she turned around and caught sight of me. Her eyes opened wide and she said a word I never imagined Marinette saying. Then she turned and ran away. I knew that going after he would only make things worse. So I slowly walked in the other direction, towards my limo.
"Nice one." Came Plagg's voice from my bag.
"Shut up." I told him, as I entered the car.
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My homework was easy, but time consuming, so I was relieved when my phone sent me my notification. Patrol time!
"Claws out!" I said, ignoring Plagg's moaning for cheese. As Cat Noir, I leaped out the window and bounded from roof to roof. I felt so free, there were no rules, no confinements, no nothing. I jumped onto the Eiffel tower, when I realized something. I had beat Ladybug. I was 1 minute early. I waited excitedly, knowing that I would never drop this, and imagining her laughing at me saying "Fine! You win!" The sound of her voice even in my head made my heart sing. She was so perfect, so brave, so humble, so - Thump! I turned around and saw the girl of my dreams landing perfectly next to me.
"M'lady!" I welcomed excitedly. "Guess who was early today?" She didn't guess, so I decided to give her the answer. "Me!" I said happily.
"That's nice." She said distractedly. I glanced at her suspiciously.
"Well, time for the usual paw-trol routine." I said, emphasis on paw.
"Yep." She said emotionlessly.
"Ok then. Let's go!" I put extra enthusiasm into my words, hoping she would take some of it. She didn't. She just took to our usual patrol path in silence. It seemed all fine, until the end. A boy was under a tree, crying. I shot down to help him, Ladybug close on my tail. (Emphasis on tail!) When I realized another odd fact. Ladybug never followed me. She was always the one who spotted (no pun intended) things first, not me. I temporarily pushed the thoughts away, focusing on the situation at hand.
"Hey little guy!" I said to the boy. "What's the problem?" He looked up at me and pointed to a branch of the tree. On it was a lazy looking tabby cat. The boy sobbed.
"He won't come down!" He said. I leaped towards the tree,and climbed it effortlessly. I easily scooped up the cat, and brought the feline down to the boy. "Berry!" The boy exclaimed happily, hugging the cat. "Thank you Cat Noir!" He said, as he ran back into his house. I looked at Ladybug, who was staring sadly at her yoyo, which was opened into a screen. Something was up. And I was about to find out what. I grabbed the yoyo, pulling it out of her hands and looked at the screen. They were pictures of me, as Adrien that is, some from photoshoots, others from class photos. Wait. Class photos. How did she get those?
"Hey!" She yelled. "Give it back!" I smirked.
"Come and get it!" That probably wasn't the smartest thing to say, considering I had forgotten that Ladybug had the other end of the string. She pulled hard, and the yoyo flew out of my hands. She slammed it shut, hiding the screen and glared at me.
"What was that for?" She asked angrily.
"Because you have been acting weird." I stated blatantly. "What's going on, and why are there pictures of mmmy favorite model Adrien Agreste?" I was extremely thankful that she hasn't noticed my slip up. She seemed to angry to notice anything!
"None of your business!" She scolded. She flung her yoyo and flew after it, over a rooftop, and out of sight. I decided to follow her. I shot after her, over the roof, and saw the spotted red heroine. I continued to follow her, and ended up staring at the Dupain Cheng's bakery. Was she buying some of the delicious macrons, or the amazing croissants? Then I noticed that something was off. She didn't walk in through the front door. She dropped onto the small balcony, that led to Marinette's room. I took out my stick and used it to zoom in on her, so I could see from a far distance. She looked sad and tired. My cat hearing was able to detect the words she said next.
"Spots off."
I gasped, trying to put this into reality. My eyes were locked to the screen, as Marinette stood in the place of Ladybug. A small red thing emerged from her earrings, a kwami I guessed.
"Trust Cat Noir to be nosy about my problems." She said, talking to the kwami. I felt a pang of guilt in my heart, hating the fact that I had upset my lady.
"I for one don't blame him!" The kwami said in a high pitched voice. "He just cares for you. He really does Marinette!" The two went inside the room, out of sight.
"Oh my gosh." I mumbled. I raced back to my room, slipping unnoticed through the open bedroom window.
"Claws in." I said, as my transformation faded away.
"Plagg!" I said excitedly. "I sit in front of Ladybug in class!" I began ranting to the kwami about ho good this was, when he rudely interrupted me.
"You know what else it means?" He asked carelessly. "That you rejected Ladybug earlier today." That stooped me in my tracks. I hadn't realized that yet. Oh no. This was bad, this was verrrrrrry bad. No wonder she was so grumpy on patrol, I had just broken her heart. "What do I do?" I whimpered. I screwed up big time. But it also meant that I had a chance of being with Ladybug. Ladybug LIKED me. "Plagg she's so amazing! She's so pretty." And so it went on until at 11 o'clock I decided I should probably get some sleep.
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I arrived at school the next day five minutes early. Alya was there already. I must have failed to keep a straight face, because Alya stared at me suspiciously.
"What's got into you?" She asked. I grinned.
"I'm going to tell Marinette I like her!" I said. Alya rolled her eyes.
"Good luck with that." She said. "Marinette is super down about yesterday. Why didn't you just tell her then?"
"I, I changed my mind." I said. "But I really like her now! I even bought her a necklace!" Alya gasped.
"That's so sweet, I really hope she says yes!" The blogger exclaimed. Nino burst through the door. He sat next to me, looking like he was holding something back.
"Nino..." I began.
"Marinette isn't coming to school today." He said hurriedly. I felt my heart drop.
"Oh man, that's terrible!" Said Alya. "I'll ring her, and try to change her mind." She pulled out her phone and dialed Marinette. She put it on speaker so we could all hear.
"Hey Alya!" Came Marinette's voice.
"Hey girl, look, you really gotta come to school today, its really important!" Said Alya.
"Wait what? Is there and assignment due or something?"
"No, its about...someone."
"If its Adrien trying to apologize then I get it. But I'm not coming!" I gulped. This was awkward.
"Hey Marinette." I said. We heard a muffled scream from the other end. "I need to tell you something, but I need to do it in person."
"I don't know, I d-don't think I can."
"Please Marinette. It won't take long!"
"Well, if its quick I g-guess."
"Thank you Mari!" I said excitedly.
"Yeah...Alya can you TAKE ME OFF SPEAKER!?" She said angrily. Alya laughed.
"Sure thing girl!" She said, putting the phone to her ear and turning it off speaker. "No, I promise its good! Plus, you don't want to miss the lesson! Ok, see you soon!" She hung up the phone. "Thank me later!"
Five minutes into the lesson, Marinette came bursting through the doors. "Sorry I'm late!" She said to our teacher, then went to sit next to Alya. "What is this about?" She whispered to Alya.
"You'll find out soon!" Alya replied mysteriously. Before we knew it, the lesson was over, and I knew it was time. The whole class had gone out of the classroom for lunch, except Marinette, Alya, Nino and I. I forced my hands to stop shaking, as I pulled the small box out of my bag.
"Hey Marinette." I said shakily. She didn't make eye contact with me. "Um, about yesterday, I went home and thought about it, and I realized that I, well, did have feelings for you. I'm sorry for not seeing this earlier, but I just wanted to let you know...I really like you." It felt so good to be expressing myself to Marinette and Ladybug, both at once. She brought her head up so that her beautiful bluebell eyes stared up at me. "You're so pretty!" Oops. That slipped out of my mouth. She blushed.
"I never gave up on you. Not for a second." She said. Not one stammer.
"Do you, do you want to be my girlfriend?" I asked her, extremely nervously.
"That depends." She said. "Do you want to be my boyfriend?"
"Yes." We both said at the same time. I blushed.
"I, uh, I have something for you." I said, handing her the box. She took it shakily, and opened it. She picked up the necklace and examined it.
"Its beautiful!" She exclaimed. She marveled the small red Ladybug charm, which hung from the golden chain.
"Just like you!" I said. "I MEAN...sorry, it slipped out." I mumbled. It was then that she turned the charm over and gasped. Engraved on it were the initials 'LB'. She looked up at me shocked, and I gave her a subtle nod. She put the chain around her neck and looked down at it.
"It looks really nice on you!" I complemented. "How about the movies tonight?" I asked her.
"I would really like that!" She replied. We leaned in an gave each other a small kiss, both of our faces on fire.
"Oh finally!" Said a voice. It wasn't Alya or Nino. We turned around to the source.
"Good job you guys! I hope you have a great time at the movies!" Said Miss Bustier. She winked at us. "Go have fun!" We all laughed.
"Thank you Miss." I whispered as we exited the classroom.
