Marinette woke up the next morning to the sound of her alarm. She was swaddled beneath the sheets trying to slip an arm through an opening to shut off the loud thing. Both eyelids were heavier and a bit puffy from the tears shed during last nights conversation. It wasn't until three in the morning for her to close her eyes and sleep. Everything was still unusual and a big misconception... or how Marinette hoped it was.
Tikki pulled at the pigtails, "Have you figured out a solution Marinette?" The little red kwami surged in the air waiting for a response.
"Not now, Tikki... I'm still trying to get used to this... Why did I have to be so idiotic and allow Chat Noir to get the best of me...", her eyelids blinked twice before propping herself against the pillows. "He's smooth talking and... Agh! Why couldn't it have been Adrien!" Both hands flung above her head then back down over her eyes to cover her embarrassment.
"But Marinette! You were the one who... started to take off his clothes... It seemed mutual between you two...", the kwami blushed from remembering the two touching one another in the sense of undressing.
"Y-You saw us? Mmph... This is even more embarrassing!", a medium sized pillow was now covering her face.
"I escaped before Chat Noir could see me! I stayed behind your mirror the entire time... I'm sorry Marinette..."
Marinette noticed her little friend pouting, almost crying, "No Tikki, I'm not mad! I'm not happy either, but I'm not happy because of my unconscionable act... I'm such a fool..."
"You're not a fool, you're Marinette! A brave, wonderful, and courageous superhero! You just happened to make a mistake. We all make mistakes though! It's okay to."
"Yeah, but Tikki, mistakes like forgetting to capture an akuma! Or like falling into a trap... I made a mistake by creating a human life inside me... I'm sixteen! I-I can't comprehend all this! I'm still so young!"
"But...-"
"Wake up dear! You're going to be late for school!", Mrs. Dupain-Cheng yelled below in the kitchen, clanking around plates trying to reorganize. The sound of dishes tapping together was rather annoying to Marinette this morning. If it wasn't for her mind switching so quickly over this pregnancy, she would've felt more rejuvenated and not irritable from lack of sleep. The start of this day was definitely going to go horribly wrong.
The dark haired girl inhaled a deep breath, "I have to get ready for school... I'll be back, Tikki."
She brushed out her knotted locks, swiped her upper lid with eyeliner, and coated her lashes with mascara before heading down to the kitchen. Sabine Cheng faced the pattering noise on the tile taking notice her daughter still wearing pajamas.
"Don't you think you should wear something a little more... School appropriate, Marinette?"
"School appropriate? What do you mean this is- Ah!", her pupils darted down at herself. 'I thought I changed my clothes! When have I ever forgotten about getting dressed? Oh, I'm a mess... This day is already starting off horribly...'
"Is something the matter, sweetie?", Mrs. Cheng's eyes drifted, following her daughter situate herself in a nearby chair.
"No-No! I'm fine, really! It's not like I'm pregnant or something! Ha ha! Eek! Um, what I mean is I'm just a little under the weather..."
Marinette's face flushed from her 'once again' awkward social skills. Her mother just shrugged off her oddly squeamish child and carried on cleaning the dishes.
"Oh before I forget, did you clean your room?", Mrs. Cheng finished up the last plate, dried her hands, and walked passed her daughter. She paused while her hand gripped the staircase railing, "I'm going to check. I have to grab your trash bags before the garbage man arrives. It is Tuesday!"
"Alright Mom.", She flashed her a warm smile, relaxing back into her seat. Her mother began moving up the staircase towards the top floor bedroom. Marinette swiftly picked up the cereal box tilting it slightly over a bowl. "Wait... Trash bags?...", she whispered softly to herself. An image came in mind, 'The pregnancy test!'
"W-Wait Mom, I'll get the trash you don't have to worry about that! Let me do it!", her sprinting knocked over the chair and herself creating another catastrophe. Army-crawling her way to the first step, she rocked herself up to stop her mother from reaching the bathroom. Marinette's fingers latched onto the door frame finding her mother cleaning out the bedroom trashcan.
'Whew... I can still get the bathroom one... I just have to hurry!'
The bathroom was only a couple feet away for her to easily slip inside and open the trashcan. The pregnancy test box was still in there among the pile of makeup wipes. "Oh gosh... I would've been done for...", she chimed, plucking the box out and crumpling it to fit easily in her pajama pocket. As soon as the box was securely placed in her pocket, she turned to exit out the open door.
"M-Marinette? When did you get in here?", her startled mother laid a hand against her chest.
"I... I-I wanted to help you! I had other trash-worthy items to throw out and I wanted to make it more convenient...?", her jaw clenched slipping out lies.
"Well if that was the case, I would've just let you come up here and bring the bags down to me! Ha ha", Mrs. Cheng brushed her thumb against her daughter's cheek and walked away towards the stairs.
Tikki emerged from her hiding place, "That was a close one!"
"I know! I'm going crazy over all this... I want things to go back to normal! It's been a whole month since I've been Ladybug... and since I've talked to Adrien... He keeps avoiding me it seems. He purposely sits next to Ivan everyday! Alya talked to Nino a few days ago questioning why he moved seats. Apparently it's because he wanted to get to know his classmates, but I just don't see how getting to know them in the middle of the school year is beneficial..."
The pink phone on the nightstand started buzzing rapidly.
"Marinette, your phone!"
She nodded and walked over to the vibrating object, "Alya?" Her thumb tapped the 'answer' button, "Hello, Alya?... Am I sick? No I'm getting ready for school! School started? School started?! I'll be right there!" Quickly ending the call, she sprinted to her dresser and picked out her everyday outfit and got dressed.
"Tikki, hurry and get in my purse!", the kwami dove into the pouch letting her push the buttons together to close the opening. Her fingers grabbed the pink bag and ran each arm through the straps. She ran downstairs forgetting the trash to bring to her mom and her pajamas that the pregnancy test was in laying on the floor.
The Agreste family driver slammed the breaks by the fire lane curb. Adrien popped open the car door and jumped out with his messenger bag, not acknowledging the screeching Agreste assistant. He was late to school not realizing he had over slept his alarm and no one woke him up like they were told to.
"Adrien! Wait you forgot your book!", Nathalie waved the hardcover novel around to get him to stop halfway across the yard. He shifted his weight to glance at the beige cover.
"I don't need it! I can borrow one from the school!"
"You know your father wouldn't want you using a public book! So please, for your father take this one."
Marinette jogged over to the stairs catching a glimpse at her blonde crush arguing with his assistant. She couldn't help but watch as they conversed. It made her miss the days he'd actually attempt to say something to her and make her all giddy.
Adrien shouted, "I'm not taking it! I seriously have to go or I'll be late!" He started to walk backwards with tiny strides growing larger at a faster pace. Before he could turn all the way around and run forward, his torso bumped into Marinette swinging them both around, and her landing on top of him.
"Ow!", they both shrieked in unison. Adrien opened his former tightened lids taking into account that Marinette was pressed on top of him. He frantically gripped her arms and hoisted the two of them into a stance.
"S-Sorry, Marinette! I got to go, nice seeing you aga-"
"W-Wait! Please talk to me! You've been... You've been sort of avoiding me it seems... I mean it's usually me who is avoiding you! Ha ha! Oh, well not like in a rude way, but like... Oh you wouldn't listen anyways...", her words were coming straight from her heart giving her more leverage to speak instead of withholding conversations.
Adrien blinked with a surprised expression by her sudden outburst at him. 'She doesn't know I'm Chat Noir... I shouldn't be avoiding her because of their encounter... Maybe I'm being too irrational over this...'
"I've been avoiding you because... Well, it's not easy saying this...", he gulped down his pride and placed a hand on her shoulder. "I've fallen for you, Marinette..."
"Well you really shouldn't do that to a-... You've fallen for... M-Me?! I uh! Aha ha... Oh well, I ha, you see... I have to go!", her entire body lit up as a bright red. Marinette dodged around the blonde boy's hold on her and ran up the stairs not looking back.
"Uh- Oh... Okay...", his confusion about her was steadily increasing. 'She really is a weird girl around me... Well, as Adrien...'
Marinette stopped along the wall that connected to her classrooms' door. She was out of breath from the inclined running, but mostly from Adrien confessing his attraction to her! He finally took notice of her and had a crush on her! She now could be with the guy of her dreams, except...
'I'm pregnant... He wouldn't want a pregnant girl! Not only that, but a girl who got pregnant by a superhero none other than Chat Noir! No one would believe me if I told them who helped make this baby... Oh gosh, baby! That's too weird to say!'
Marinette inhaled and exhaled deep breaths while closing her eyes. She needed to get herself together before entering class.
"Can we please talk, Marinette?..."
Her blue eyes shot open, whipping her head to the side to face the guy of her dreams, "A-Adrien!"
"Look, you didn't let me finish what I was trying to say..."
"No-No! It's okay I u-understand perfectly, I just... I'm not feeling well and I'm not wanting to talk about this! Ha ha..."
Adrien sighed and snaked his toned arms around the girls slim waist, resting his chin on top of her shoulder. He tightened the embrace forcing Marinette to let out a quick puff of air.
"I need to tell you something else... It's really important and I'd like to discuss it with you soon. Okay?"
Her eyes were still wide open not knowing how to respond. 'This has to be a dream! Wake up Marinette! Wake up!'
"You see, Marinette. That ni-"
"Well! We really should be getting to class! We're already ten minutes late!", she gently pushed herself off him and scratched the back of her head anxiously. The blonde huffed out hot air and nodded. He was growing more impatient now that he confessed his admiration to her, yet she wouldn't let him talk. His slim digits curled around the doorknob and twisted it open, making motions with his hand for her to walk in first.
The teacher looked towards the creaking door, "You two are late? What excuse did you two plan on telling me this time?" Marinette was completely flushed and heated from the tight hug Adrien Agreste gave her that she muttered out random sentences. Adrien laid his arm around her shoulders and pushed her against his side.
"Marinette and I were helping my Father with his latest designs for me to model. Helpful and generous as she is, he picked her to decide for him. It'll be in the latest issue next week if you need proof."
Both ladies were stunned, jaw dropped at the blonde's quick witted response.
"V-Very well, you two are excused. Have a seat please." They both took their seats, but this time Adrien sat next to Nino today. Marinette situated herself next to Alya who looked at her with curiosity, anger, and shock.
"Girl, what are you doing with Adrien at a time like this? Besides that, I thought he was ignoring you?", she whispered through her front teeth, trying to stay inconspicuous.
"...We ran into one another this morning by accident... He ran into me and we fell. We were kind of forced to start talking!"
"Yeah, well, that shouldn't give you any ideas! You're pregnant with another guy's baby! There's nothing he could say that could change that fact!"
"He said he's fallen for me..."
"Say what!", Alya shouted, alarming the entire class.
"Miss Cesaire, if you're going to disrupt my class you better have a good reason."
Alya fiddled with her two index fingers, pushing them together, "I was texting in class and I got a text that my favorite superheros weren't going to be reunited?" Marinette knew Alya was lying in the moment from being caught, but what she was saying was a statement from last weeks issue on 'Ladybug and Chat Noir'. The press were convinced the two will never be together again. She had believed that as well...
"Go to the Principals office, now!"
"B-But I... Alright."
Chloe took advantage of the situation and blurted out, "Of course the nerd would be researching her favorite superheroes! Let me guess, you're going to post it on that dumb blog of yours?"
Alya glared at the blonde and flipped her hair making Chloe shocked at the girl's brave demeanor.
Marinette mouthed the words 'I'm so sorry', but Alya bluntly shrugged it off. Their friendship was going downhill ever since she discovered she was pregnant. This pregnancy was ruining her life! Maybe there was another option...
The bell rang and class was dismissed. Adrien was packing slower occasionally looking over at Mari to see if she was almost done packing up as well. He wanted to accidentally bump into her to start chatting again. He had to fix the tension.
Marinette zipped up her backpack and shrugged it over her right shoulder and headed down the stairs.
"Wait, Marinette!"
She stopped to turn and face him, "A-Adrien please, I-I can't talk to you about this... I have something to figure out first..." He blinked with confusion, but still made his way down closer to her. "I'm dealing with something and I-" The bags under her eyes began to welt while tears uncontrollably fell. Adrien gasped lightly and brushed the tears with both his thumbs, dropping his bag on the ground. Marinette blushed as the boy stroked her tear stained cheeks.
"This isn't the first time I made you cry... I'm such an awful guy!", he continued to be bent-out-of shape over this girl knowing he's the one causing her distress. Being Chat Noir and sleeping with her, she must be in a state of shock that she slept with a famous hero.
She cocked her head a bit confused why he said, 'This isn't the first time I made you cry'.
Instead of questioning it in the moment, she pressed her cold palm around one of his wrists, closed her eyes, and hummed into his soothing strokes. The blonde model felt his heart thump and beat quicker at the sight of such a beautiful girl.
'I can't possibly tell her... Not yet anyways... She's still hurting over the intimate encounter I caused...'
"If you wouldn't mind... I'd like to walk you home."
"H-huh?"
"It's up to you! I really want to walk with you and make sure you get home safely", he smiled at the beaut and moved himself back to pick up his fallen bag. After he retrieved it and slung it over his shoulder he outstretched his arm giving her an inviting hand for her to hold. The blush spread across her cheekbones as she gladly accepted it and walked with him.
'Adrien... If only you knew my dilemma...'
LOL, I NOTICED IT SAID "Middleman" and not "Dilemma". Oh auto correct! XD
A/N: Yay! Chapter two! I kind of wanted this out and about now. I'll revise and edit if needed later. Please critique my story and follow it if you're enjoying this wild ride! :D