Spoilers alert! Beware that this story was based on the script of 10 minutes of "Troublemaker" episode.
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Adrien Agreste still couldn't believe what he had just learned. How was it possible that Marinette Dupain-Cheng was in love with him? She had never even said a word that would indicate that she had some warmer feelings for him. She never flirted with him or threw her arms around him, unlike Chloe Bourgeois, who did it all the time, although she wasn't in love with him at all.
Adrien was sitting in his room and tried to figure out how he could have missed all signs.
"Stop worrying!" Plagg mumbled, eating – as usual – his smelly camembert.
"I'm not worrying." Adrien replied immediately. "I'm wondering."
"About what?"
"How I haven't noticed…"
"Ah, right. Typical…" Plagg murmured.
"What do you mean? Why is it typical?"
"You really think you're the first Cat Noir with whom I have to pass through the pain of the first love?"
"What love?" Adrien outraged. "Marinette is just…"
"How many times are you going to say that?!" Plagg interrupted before Adrien finished with 'just a friend'. "You know, if they give me camembert every time you say that, I wouldn't be able to eat such tones of cheese!"
"But that's true! She's my friend! I don't want to lose her."
"Now you're saying the same Ladybug told you once." Plagg noticed.
"Do you really have to do this?" Adrien grimaced. "Don't you think that I've been already upset?"
"Not enough, apparently." Plagg muttered.
"What should I do now?" Adrien wondered.
"Invite her to go out with you."
"Have you lost your mind?! To raise her hope? I don't want to lie to her."
"You're a dork, Adrien."
"Plagg, I really can't think about any other girl in this way. You know I love Ladybug!"
"A very stupid dork…" Plagg mumbled. If only this boy knew… So many problems would be solved…
"Did you say something?" Adrien spotted.
"But Ladybug doesn't love you." Plagg replied.
"I know… She told me…" Adrien sighed. "She loves someone else."
"So, this is hopeless…" Plagg summed up. "You love Ladybug, so you won't reciprocate Marinette's feelings, and Ladybug loves some guy, so she won't reciprocate your feelings. So, either you stop loving Ladybug and give Marinette a chance, or you have to hope that Ladybug will stop loving this mysterious guy that you don't even know."
"I'm so glad that I can always count on you when it comes to comfort me." Adrien murmured ironically.
"At your service."
"I honestly doubt it."
"You'll see, kid." Plagg grinned in reply.