Marinette's first instinct when the boy holds his umbrella out to her should have been to reject him- he was Chloe's friend after all, another rich blonde brat ready to make her life miserable one wad of chewing gum at a time. She has purposefully and dramatically ignored him all school day, shouting at him in the clearest way without words to leave her alone, because she has enough new problems to deal with without him.
Except, oh, except that when he walks past her, talking softly about how he had only been trying to help, and how he swore it with blazingly earnest eyes, confessing to her how lonely and unaccustomed to normal life he was that something shifts.
Something in the rain melts her resolve.
And then he smiles at her, and holds out his umbrella in offering, and Marinette's first and only instinct should have been to reject it but-
Instead she gazes into his (astonishingly) green eyes, takes in his (astonishingly) kind smile, and is taken aback by the (astonishing) amount of light that seems to emanate from his being. Adrien Agreste is glowing like a beacon, like he's the moon or the Eiffel Tower on a clear night, stark against the grey sky.
With a tiny gasp, she reaches out with a hesitating hand, and grips the umbrella tight. Adrien's hand brushes hers, and is gone just as quickly.
She gawks. It is all she can do. Her mind is blank.
Adrien, Adrien, Adrien.
Suddenly he is handsome and kind and gorgeous and lovely, and how can he possibly know that she only needed a minute of dryness to run across to her parents bakery so she didn't really need his umbrella and-
There is a click, sudden darkness, and the poke of metal bars on her scalp. The umbrella has closed down around her, like the wings of a giant bat enveloping her body.
There is a gasp, and then- Adrien's laugh is unrestrained and as gorgeous as he looks, tingling through the air, muffled slightly by the umbrella. Something falls into place in the pit of her stomach, like the last piece of a puzzle settling into place.
She lifts the thick, expensive feeling canvas, feeling a tinge of heat on her cheeks, and can only giggle along to the hilarity. Of course, this would only happen to clumsy old her.
Adrien bids her farewell, and turns down the stairs. Marinette gawks, and gawks some more, then vaguely realises she has dropped her bag on the wet ground, before she stammers out a reply.
Tikki is right. The butterflies in her stomach are right. Her brain takes a few extra seconds to catch up, by which time Adrien has turned back one last time to wave at her before jumping into the waiting black car.
Adrien Agreste. She rolls the name over in her mind, grinning stupidly, his bubbly laughter ringing in her ears.
There is no doubting it- Marinette's first instinct should have been to reject him. Instead, she finds herself with his umbrella in her hands and a fiery crush stronger than anything she'd felt in her life rearing to life.
She sighs, picks up her bag, and walks home, Adrien on her mind.
I got super duper into this series a few months ago.
Ahhhhhhh its so cute also they are so cute also ahhhhhhhhhhh when can I watch season 2?!