Day 2: A Tiny Piece Of Her Heart
"Good morning," Nino greeted Adrien the next morning on the steps in front of school.
Greeting him with their usual fist bump, Adrien gestured for them to enter. As usual his gaze instantly roamed through the grounds, finding the blue head of his classmate by the steps.
Luckily, Alya was Ninos girlfriend, so it would not be too suspicious to head to the animately talking girls.
Alya noticed their arrival and smirked, but let Marinette talk.
"... I swear, my parents fell in love with him," Adrien heard Marinette talk to Alya and instantly his own lips stretched into a smile as well. They were talking about him and his impromptu visit yesterday.
"That's good to know, I fell in love with their cooking," he fell in and seemed to startle Marinette out of her skin. Again, the spark of challenge ignited his heart and he smiled reassuringly, trying to make a sense out of her stuttering.
Over the last years, he had noticed Marinette always needed a few seconds to compose herself in his presence. Even if he had no clue why, it was always funny to hear her ramble. This time it was something about her slip-up with being in love...
Eventually, she stopped and took a deep breath. "Hi, Adrien," she wheezed out and he chuckled.
"Good morning Marinette," he smiled and turned to Alya, "Good morning Alya."
"Oh, good morning, Adrien," Alya smirked. "I heard you had a nice lunch yesterday."
"Very nice," he answered, and added with a small smile towards Marinette, "I'd like to repeat that one day.
Again Marinette stammered something unintelligible.
Unfortunately, he could not wait for anything that made sense for him, because there was a weird, pink dressed girl, stomping out of a classroom.
"Eh, sorry, but I need to go to the bathroom," he excused himself, cutting Marinette off.
Letting them stand in the hallway, dumbfounded, he quickly headed into the boys locker room that was luckily deserted.
"Can't we just skip today's Akuma? You fought yesterday night and Ladybug is fully capable of handling that girl," Plagg whined from his shirt, but Adrien just snatched him out by his tail.
"Sorry, but we can't. Plagg, transform me!" he called and after the bright green light faded, Chat Noir replaced him. Leaping out of the room, he froze, because everything was coated in pink glitter. "Eeeh... What happened here?"
"Chat Noir!" someone called from behind a bench, "She went over there!" The boy gestured to the stairs leading up to the bureau of Monsieur Damocles, their principal.
"Thanks," Chat saluted and hurried up the steps, right on time to watch Ladybug stepping out of the library. "Ah, My Lady, it's always a pleasure to meet you," he greeted her with a bow.
Ladybug only laughed. "Hey, I see that pink glitter really suits you."
Glancing down his suit he saw he was covered in pink glittery dust. When he walked and skipped over the floor to hurry up to the bureau, he had stirred up clouds of that shiny dust and it clung to his black suit, creating a stark contrast. But instead of brushing it off, he stroke a pose. "Do you like it?"
Ladybug laughed again and nodded to his astonishment. "Pink is actually my favourite colour," she said and nodded to the door in front of them. "Come on, let's defeat that Akuma so I can get back to embarrassing myself."
"You're never embarrassing, my Lady," Chat smiled and bowed, signalling her to step ahead.
The Akuma was a girl that had dusted their art room in pink glitter due to a project of hers and Monsieur Damocles seemed to have suspended her for overusing his patience. She seemed to destroy their art room quite often.
However, she was easily beat, because all she really was able to do was clouding them in glitter.
"Pound it," they chorused and Ladybug picked up her Lucky Charm, a water spray bottle. "Too bad I couldn't use that on you," she chimed with a laugh. Then she threw the bottle into the air, letting her Miraculous cure roam over the school.
"You already used your charm on me," he easily flirted and leaned closer to her, expecting to be brushed away immediately. But she only giggled and booped his nose.
"Wish it would have worked better, though," she giggled and stepped away, taking her yoyo from her hip. "I'll see you next time, Chat Noir," she winked and swung to the rooftop, away from him.
Sighing, he hid in an empty classroom and detransformed. "Did you see that, Plagg?" he asked, catching his kwami in his open palms. "She's flirting back."
"I did not see anything. And I see no cheese," the kwami complained and Adrien took out a piece of Camembert to hand it his kwami.
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"Why did you do this, Marinette?" Tikki asked, poking her head out of Marinettes purse.
Marinette ignored her, glancing ahead to school where she had left her kitty. Tikki was right. Why did she not brush him off? Marinette noticed she had gotten used to his antics during the last years and she found that she... did not mind anymore. She even found it charming.
Marinette hated to admit, but it seems Chat Noir had stolen a tiny piece of her heart.
