This certainly was not how Marinette had pictured her crushes and her first kiss. She had her eyes squinted and her hands were pressed against his chest while his hands were cupping her cheeks.
The bluenette already felt the heat welling up in her throat, fighting its way to her face.
In a matter of seconds, she was beet red.
Adrien finally pulled away, searching the faces around them for one other blonde.
The whole class was crowded around them but Adrien had only eyes for one.
And it was not even the girl he had kissed just now. On the schoolyard. In public. Out of a stupid comment.
"Shut up already, Chloé.", was the only thing he said.
Chloé just huffed and stalked away, snipping with her fingers to demand Sabrina's presence with her. Marinette's legs shook violently and she couldn't even open her eyes because she was way too shocked.
She felt that Adrien turned to her again, heard most of her classmates losing interest and scattering away.
"Are you okay, Marinette? Those were some harsh words Chloé had said to you…"
Yeah, right. Like 'you're not worthy'. Or 'Adrien deserves way better, like me'. Or 'Back off, he's mine'. 'You're just a mere baker's daughter'. Like that.
And then he had kissed her. He had just gone up behind her, had shot the blonde brat an accusing look, had said something like 'You don't know that' and then he had just pulled the clueless girl close and had kissed her.
Slowly, Marinette opened her eyes just a slit, glancing up at the worried boy.
"Marinette, you okay? Marinette?"
Tears formed in her eyes and the next she knew she was out of Adrien's arms and brown hair was in front of her.
"How dare you?!", Alya hissed, digging her index finger into his chest, "How the fuck dare you, Agreste! You can't just go on and kiss Marinette just. Like. That! What the fuck, mister?! Who do you think you are! Do you even have the slightest idea of WHAT'S AWAITING ME NOW?! Holy frikkin' shit how can someone be so insensitive…?!"
Adrien sounded irritated, Nino suddenly standing behind him.
"Wh-Wha-…?"
"UGH, I don't believe it! How can someone be so OBLIVIOUS?! You broke her, man! I've gotta perform CPR now and I don't have the tiniest bit of knowledge about that! Man, how can you just let me alone with her like that! Great, another day of school wasted! Boys! So annoyingly oblivious and dense, holy shit! C'mon Mari. Let's get you back to the living, girl."
The blonde model's chin fell and he felt Nino's hand on his shoulder. The girls left, well, Alya practically dragged Marinette across the schoolyard to the stairs, and he turned to his best friend.
"What did I-…"
"Bro, you messed up.", Nino said unsettlingly calm, gesturing to the young reporter who now entirely carried her obviously passed out best friend. Marinette really had fainted, hanging limply from Alya's arms, "Gonna help Alya carry Marinette. Just stay here and-… Don't do anymore stupid things, child. Counting on ya!"
Adrien shook his head, obviously not getting what they were all talking about. What had he done that messed with Marinette that bad and that had set off Alya's anger that easily? What were they all talking about?!
"But what did I do?!", he shouted after Nino. To his bad luck, Alya stopped dead in tracks, still carrying Marinette's upper body while his best friend had taken her legs. She said something to him and the boy hurried to carry Marinette up the stairs alone. The brunette turned, her face red because of boiling anger.
Oh holy shit, Adrien thought, I am doomed. She's gonna rip me apart.
"What did you just say, Agreste?! Go on, say it again! I wanna hear what left your stupid mouth!", she stomped up to him and once again, her finger was placed on his chest, but this time moving up to poke him into his chin.
"I-… I said-… I asked what everyone Is freaking out about-…"
"OH MY FUCKING GOD, HOLY FUCKING SHIT ADRIEN AGRESTE, WHAT IS YOUR FUCKING PROBLEM?!"
He stepped back, holding his hands up.
"Wha-…"
"HOW can you be so FUCKING DENSE?! HOW, seriously, HOW can a human being with the full capability of seeing without glasses be so FUCKING BLIND?! Marinette likes you, liked you for a FUCKING ETERNITY now and you haven't even noticed her in that way and TODAY you're just so deciding 'hey, she's being picked on again, I am a pretty blonde model and I am oblivious to the world, what can I do, MAYBE FRIKKIN' KISS HER, HUH?!' Yeah, that's a perfectly fine explanation of what was going on in your head, you idiot! You broke her, you FUCKING broke my best friend and I am left to pick up the TINY PIECES OF HER HEART because she as well as I know very well that sadly, she has no chances with you because you don't even consider on LOOKING AT HER GOD FREAKING DAMNIT!"
He was dumbfounded. Speech- and resistless he watched as Alya punched his arm, again and again and again.
"I-…"
"DON'T you even TRY and charm your way out of this! Your stupid pretty face and stupid model body and you stupid, stupid boy who my best friend fell for hopelessly! DO YOU EVEN KNOW, how hard it'll be from now on?! You goddamn idiot, you freaking smallminded, oblivious little piece of the smelliest shi-…"
"Hold on, Alya!", he grabbed her arms and held her still in front of him, trying to not be intimidated by her angry stare and red face from all the yelling, "Marinette… Marinette, the cute girl sitting behind me, she-… She likes me?"
"Yeah, of course man! You are just too oblivious and dumb and your stupid pretty face was probably in the way of seeing that such a wonderful person like Marinette fell for you and I'm just being protective and I'm trying to protect her from any emotional harm because you were dense once again and you just go on and shatter all my efforts in just one. Single. Damn. Stupid. Action. Today!"
A dreamy smile stole itself on Adrien's lips although Alya's punches really started to hurt by now.
"She-… She likes me? As in-…"
"SHE'S IN LOVE, YOU STUPID FUCK! YES!", he started to laugh and Alya momentarily stopped mangling his arm, "What're you laughing at, Agreste?!"
He took Alya's arms once again, swirling in a circle with her and jumping up and down.
"She likes me!"
"D-Does that mean you-…"
He rubbed the back of his head and laughed sheepishly.
"For quite some time now, yeah…"
The brunette in front of him tensed. Slowly, her shoulders went up and her face became even redder than before. He could almost see the smoke rising from her hair.
"Say what?!", she said, alarmingly quiet.
"I may suggest running.", Kim whispered into his ear. Considering Alya's state that was probably the best option.
As Marinette awoke again, she heard Nino's laughter. She rubbed her forehead, sitting up.
"What-…"
After a few moments of remembering what had happened and understanding where she was, she got up and went to accompany Nino by the railing. He was looking down.
"What's up?", she asked, still pressing a hand to her head.
The boy couldn't even answer because he was laughing that hard. She glanced down at the schoolyard and saw the most terrifying but also kinda the funniest scene playing down there, something she wouldn't forget in a lifetime.
Her best friend was chasing around a madly laughing model. Alya was boiling of anger and yelling all kinds of insults and threats while Adrien was falling flat on his face because he was laughing so hard, picking himself up to not be murdered.
What was happening…?