"Soooo girl, are you going to initiate the plan today?" Alya said in an animated voice towards her blunette best friend. She stared at her, eyes wide full of excitement.
"Well of course" Marinette said in return to her eccentric friend, yet with a lowering of eyes and a wavering resolve. Alya could hear the loss of confidence in her voice, noting it as she spoke. "I-I-I mean, I said I was going to do it wasn't I?"
"Girl, don't get discouraged. You and Adrien have come so far, I'm sure you can tell him"
Over the past year, Marrinette had managed to become quite close with Adrien, the rich model of a guy that she looked up to. She crushed on him so hard, that she could barely utter a sentence to him in the beginning. Now they were quite close and even hung out together after school.
"Just be grateful I managed to get Nino to keep Adrien away while we discussed this" Alya said with a giggle. The four friends often hung out together as a group at lunchtimes, although sometimes with others as well. Yet lately, Alya had only been hanging out with Marinette for one sole reason. To help Marinette conceive a plan to confess to Adrien.
"Come on girl, we've been planning this for a week…"
"I'm going to do it alright" Marinette snapped, before shyly looking downwards. "I-I'm just nervous ok".
Alya giggled "that's natural of course…"
"How are you and Nino doing?" Marinette nudged Alya playfully, trying to misdirect the subject.
"We're fine. Just Nino is still shy and taking things at a grade school pace." Since Alya and Nino began dating not much had changed, the two were closer of course…but it was not quite obvious that the two were actually a couple. "I know he's shy, but I just wish…"
Alya was cut off as soon as Nino and Adrien were in view. "Well now's your chance Marinette" Alya shoved Marinette towards their direction, getting her to fall into Adrien's surprised arms.
"Whoooaa" Marinette just stared up into his beautiful green eyes blushing, not being able to utter a single word.
"Hey there" Nino tacked on playfully towards his girlfriend, giggling internally towards his two friends awkwardly in a forced hug. Adrien of course caught Marinette, the gentleman that he was. The two still stood in the awkward position, blushing and facing away as they still hold limply onto each other's arms. "So I was wondering if we could all hang out after school, like get milkshakes or something" Nino suggested.
"Adrien and Marinette have plans already" Alya smirked playfully.
'Ok…" Nino tilted his head with confusion, a hint of suspicion in his eyes.
The bell resounded loudly throughout the school, taking all four friends off guard. Adrien robotically unlatched his hands from Marinette's arms walking mechanically towards his classroom, almost tripping over in the process. Alya and Nino just giggled towards his retreating back, as Marinette clumsily followed after him. It was rather obvious to many now, that the two had feelings for one another. Whether it was known to Adrien himself or not, was another kettle of fish entirely.
Marinette shook nervously, a batch of homemade cookies carefully wrapped in decorative paper hidden behind her back in her small clammy hands. She hid behind a tree, peeking precariously towards Adrien waiting for her in their meeting spot at the park.
She breathed in heavily, repeating the same words to herself. 'You can do this Marinette, you can do this'. With one last deliberate breath to calm her nerves, she stepped out towards the awaiting model.
"Mari" Adrien waved towards her approaching figure, his face lightning up.
"Ahhhh" Marinette began, falling back into old habits, the cookies still hidden from Adrien's view.
Adrien continued smiling, knowing Marinette all too well. "So, what was it that you wanted to talk to me about today?"
Marinette began stuttering, trying to get her thoughts aligned. Before she could even utter a mumbled word, screams could be heard approaching their location. Really? Did this really have to happen now, of all times? This was already hard enough for Marinette as it was.
Marinette dropped the cookies in shock, as Adrien began pulling her towards safety. The akumatised individual, was a heartbroken soul hell bent on destroying the love lives of couple and getting revenge back on all females. Of course of all times, now was the time an akuma of this sort would appear.
Adrien furrowed his brows in worry. "Ok, I'm going to distract him," He began. "Run towards the bakery and take shelter with your parents, I'll distract him."
"B-b-but Adrien"
"No buts, I'll be fine. Now go"
Adrien pushed Marinette towards the direction of her bakery and home, as he ran fearlessly towards the akuma. He waved his hands, getting its attention. The akuma as planned followed Adrien as he ran in the opposite direction. However before long, the akuma lost interest and decided to go back to terrorising nearby female citizens. Thankfully, Marinette was long gone from their view.
Marinette ran as far as she could away from the scene, leaving herself out of eyeshot from anyone at the park. Yet however took a planned detour down an alley way, allowing herself to hastily transform. "Tikki, spots on" She said in a rush.
Before long she was at the scene, joining a flirtatious Chat Noir whom was already there. The two easily worked as a team, doing as they always did. After the akuma was cleansed of evil and all was set right, Marinette decided to resign to returning home. Chat Noir had guaranteed the safety of all the individuals in the park, explaining prior to Ladybug that he had evacuated everyone before she had arrived, including the famous model Adrien.
Back in her civilian form, Marinette reached for her vibrating phone. There was a message from Adrien, assuring her he had escaped home just fine and asking if she were ok. There were also countless messages from Alya, curious to know if their plan was on track. She quickly typed a response to the two, before turning her phone off. She sighed, picking up the crushed cookies that were still in the same place they had been dropped.
Marinette laid into her pillow, sighing in defeat. Her day had not gone at all how she had planned. There was no way that she could summon up the courage to tell Adrien her feelings now. She was so confident about telling him today, that she felt it within herself that it would now be beyond impossible to do so. The opportunity was gone and so was every ounce of confidence.
Tikki had left Marinette alone to mope, deciding to nap away from view. She was tired from the days fight and had already given up on trying to get Marrinette into a happier mood.
She continued to groan into her pillow as she heard a tap on her window. She ignored it, knowing all too well what 'it' was.
"Hey purrrincess" Chat Noir spoke with enthusiasm, announcing his arrival. He jumped down from her window with a spring in his step, his body language showing an immense amount of fervour.
"Go away Chat!"
His visits were not at all unusual. The two had begun to come close friends, after Marinette had run into him in her civilian form a few times. The first time Chat snuck into her room, Marinette almost had a heart attack. However she has now learned to put up with his selfish, ridiculous whims. Even if she wanted to, she would not be able to kick him out. She has however contemplated locking her windows, yet she knew she would never hear the end of it from Chat. Although deep down, she secretly liked his visits.
"What are you doing?"
"Sulking" Marinette mumbled from her pillow.
"And why is that…Ohhhhh" He began catching on. "It's about that boy…what was his name…Adrien right, the one you are madly in love with" He smirked.
Marinette groaned further into her pillow. "Did something happen today princess?" He asked genuinely.
"None of your business!"
Marinette held back onto the pillow tightly, insisting her face stay buried deep within the pillow. However Chat tried gently coaxing it away from her, whilst rubbing her back gently. "Please tell me what's wrong, I don't like to see you down."
Marinette suddenly lifted her head in a distraught anger that was brought on from her love sick feelings towards Adrien and the events that occurred from earlier in the day. Small paths of recent tears were evident on her face, as it had appeared that Marinette had been silently crying in her pillow much to Chat's dismay. "I was going to confess to him and now I can't. I had so much confidence and then an Akuma attacked, and now I will never be able to tell him again."
Chat just burst out laughing. "Purrincess what a cat-astrophe"
Marinette ignored him, resigning herself back to her pillow.
"I'm sorry, that was uncalled for"
He began rubbing her back again slowly, in small circular motions. "I'm sure you will find the confidence to tell him again. Be confident in yourself, anyone would be happy to have you"
"Why, it's not like he would like me anyway. I'm just a clumsy idiot who can't speak straight in front of him. He will never like me, he probably just thinks I'm an idiot"
"Princess don't speak that way about yourself"
"Why, it's true. No one ever likes me, I'm just stupid old Marinette."
"Well I…I like you…"
Marinette sat up with shock. She couldn't have heard him right?
She spluttered out a mumbled sentence. "Y-y-yeah right, you're just trying to make me feel better. Besides, we all know Ladybug is the only one you truly like." She stumbled off the bed in a flurry, her hands acting on their own. "You need to leave now, its late."
He nodded his head in understanding. Although Chat liked to always have his own way and push her boundaries, he still respected her rules and personal space.
"And take these. They're a little crushed, but I'd rather not have them go to waste" She said, shoving them into Chat's willing hands.
"Were these for that boy Adrien?"
"Yes…but I wasn't able to give them to him"
"Are you sure I can have these, you don't want to give them to him?"
She just shoved him towards her window trying to kick him out. "Yes keep them"
Chat over powered her, doing a double take. "I am honoured princess." He turned his face so it was only inches from her own, making Marinette blush a deep crimson. "I will return the favour" He said, looking deeply into her eyes, before turning around and jumping swiftly into the night.
Hi, Usagi here ^w^
I've become such a hugggge fan of Miraculous Ladybug, that I just had to write a Fanfiction. I hope this was good, I kind of rushed this due to my fangirling enthusiasm. I was so excited to write a Fanfiction on this series that I kind of just lost myself. Anyways, here's the start of something... I'm hoping to build on this and maybe insert some lemon into this in the future, so warning you that it may turn into M.