Disclaimer: Miraculous Ladybug Copyright Zagtoon (2017)

Chapter 2: Awkwardness

A long zip pierced the dusk sky, hushing the songs of crickets and frogs as they caught sight of a red blur soaring rapidly through the landscape.

Onlookers gazed in wonder, cameras flashed in the still night, children gasped in delight… though none of this was noticed to the superheroine as her entire being was focused on one location.

Within minutes she landed softly on the pristine roof of a mansion. The noise fluttered away into silent waves. A curtain of nervous anxiety hung around her shoulders as she closed her eyes and took deep, calming breaths.

"You can do this, Marinette. He loves you… well, sort of. No! He does love you!"

So, with her mind made up and her nerves under control by a hair's leash, she attached her yoyo to the railing and slowly lowered herself down to his window.

"Whew," she breathed in gently. "Ok, so far so good. Now, I just need to knock on his window, profess my love, and marry him, and then I can go home. Easy-peasy."

So, with her nerves steeled, she reached a fist out and rapped her knuckles on his window three times. The dull thumps reverberated throughout the boy's room. She waited, tapping her foot on the window sill as she rested one hand on her cocked hip, the other holding onto her yoyo string.

Eventually, she saw movement from the corner of his room, where a door opened, and out came her Adrien, whom was toweling his hair dry.

She blushed on instinct, intensifying at how attractive she found his soaked hair. She sighed dreamily, accidentally slipping a little on the string, and thus falling harshly into the window.

The noise alerted the boy and he came running.

Upon arriving, Marinette saw his pupils dilate and cheeks redden. She was awed at how frozen he became as he stared into her bluebell eyes. Eventually, she coughed, knocking the poor boy out of his lovesick trance.

He opened the window quickly, but with several fumbles and slips due to his nerves.

The window open, Ladybug swung herself into his room and looked about curiously, before settling her eyes back onto the boy of her dreams.

Now that she wasn't precariously hanging on for her life, she was able to take in her love's appearance and mannerisms and was startled with an unbelievable truth.

He acts just like me when I'm around him! Only he's this way with Ladybug, not Marinette, even though I'm both… and yeah, I'm making this more complicated than it needs to be.

Emboldened by this, though still cautious of making a fool out of herself, she smirked and walked around his room, enjoying the fact that Adrien followed her around like a lost puppy.

Coming across his shower room, she commented, "Woah."

Finished with her exploration, she ventured back to the window and turned around to look at her husba-, future husband-to-be one last time. Reaching up, she flicked him softly on the nose. "See you later, handsome boy."

She chuckled when he fainted on the spot.

Exiting through the window, she travelled back to her own room, transforming back as soon as her feet touched her bed.

Her kwami was immediately bombarded with piercing girl screams. "Ah! Tikki! Did you see how awkward he was around me! He's just like me!" She hugged herself and fell backward onto her sheets, little pink hearts fluttering above her in an endless circle. "We were made for each other!"

Tikki could only mutter to herself in hopeless surrender, "Yeah, and showing up at random, flirting for no reason, and leaving a boy fainted on the floor is a great way to make a first impression." She sighed, but shook her head in mirth. Even a being as old as I am may never understand the awkward love those to share with each other.