"Wow, just wow. That 'day after reveal' chapter/drabble/idk is purely excellent. I adore these kind of stories and this one takes the cake. Do you maybe plan to continue it? I could give anything to know what happens next and how their first meeting after the reveal would go. And your writing style is really clean and easy to read. Do you have a fanfiction or ao3 acc? I'm just lazy to look for info on the blog... :P" Someone asked again, so I continued again! :p
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Marinette Dupain-Cheng
06-XX-XX-XX-XX
Adrien just kept staring at her picture and contact information. It felt like the screen was taunting him now. Teasing him to call her right now and demand for answers, but he knew that wasn't the best idea. Bringing Adrien back to square one.
"Just call her already." Plagg whined as he let himself fall on Adrien's bed, right next to his phone. "You've been staring at her number ever since you came home, so just do it and feed me!"
"But I can't just call her!" Adrien snapped, his nerves at the highest they've ever been. "You didn't see how she was today." At first Adrien thought she was just going to skip school that, but that changed when she ran in the classroom right before the teacher. He kept telling himself that it was a coincidence. She was just running late and that she wanted to talk to him about what happened the day before just as much as he did. But then she started to be the first one to leave and last to enter the classrooms, hide during their breaks, and stay as far away as she could from him. Marinette was obviously avoiding him.
"I saw some of it. Nothing seems out of the ordinary to me." Plagg said as he sat up and picked up Adrien's phone. "Look kid, if her actions bother you that much, then just call her. Or least answer back all the text that Nino sent you." Plagg said as he held out the phone to Adrien.
Adrien mentally agreed with the little kwami and took the phone. "Yeah, I think I worried him a bit today."
He then looked down at the phone to start reading the messages that Nino had sent him, but instead was greeted with Marinette's number being dialed. His nerves practically hit the roof when he said the call timer start. "Plagg!"
"If you hang up, I'll go and talk to Marinette myself tomorrow at school!" Plagg threaten, completely done with Adrien current mood even though he was the one who put him and Marinette in this whole mess to begin with.
"But Plagg you can't just-!"
"Hello?" A voice greeted on the other end of the line. It wasn't Marinette's.
Adrien froze. Hang up. Hang up! HANG UP! He looked at Plagg, his big greens eyes giving off a threatening look. "Um, hi. Is this Marinette?" Why did he ask that? He knew it wasn't Marinette.
"No I'm sorry, this is her mother. Marinette it a bit busy right now helping in the bakery. I'll get her for you." Sabine said cheerfully on the other end.
"Oh, wait! No-." It was no use. Sabine was already calling for Marinette to answer the phone call.
"Hello?" Marinette answered. She obviously didn't look at the caller ID.
Adrien was tongue tied and didn't know what to do. Just say hi. See if she's ok. Just say something. "Um, hey." He choked out, worried about what she was going to do.
"Adrien?!" Marinette practically screamed out, obviously shocked. "Uh, um, I'm sorry! I can't talk right now! We're really busy at the bakery and-!"
"Then when can you talk?" Adrien asked, a spark of confidence and bravery coming out of nowhere. "You avoided me all day today at school. Is me turning out to be Chat Noir really that much of an issue for you?" Did that sound too harsh? He didn't want to make Marinette feel guilty for her actions. This was a big deal for both of them.
"No, it's not an issue." Marinette responded a bit more calmly. "I'm just still processing everything."
The bravery inside Adrien instantly melted away. "Sorry, I shouldn't have done this. I really messed everything up didn't I?"
"No you didn't." Marinette responded, sounding a bit shocked to hear him say that. "We're still friends and partners. I was just taken back a bit when I realized that you had this whole other side to you that no one knows about but me."
"Is that a bad thing?" Adrien asked. He loved Ladybug, and after finding out that she was Marinette, he still loved her and didn't want to disappoint her. What if Marinette didn't like how he really would like to act? What if she only liked the him that everyone already knew?
"No it's not a bad thing." Marinette answered.
A weight lifted off Adrien's shoulders. "Really?" Maybe Plagg dialing Marinette's number wasn't such a bad thing. "So we're still friends? Or partners?"
"Didn't I already say we were?" Marinette asked, sounding a bit more like her superhero self.
Adrien smiled. Everything was alright with only a few things to maybe work out. "Then, can we eat lunch together tomorrow? To talk? Or, just to hang out?"
Marinette was quiet for a moment. Maybe he rushed this a bit. Maybe she wasn't really ready to face him and was still processing everything. Of course he would be ready to settle everything since he was the one to initiate the reveal. "Sure." Marinette finally spoke out. "But I can't guarantee it'll be just you and me."
"That's fine." Adrien said excitingly. Just knowing that she wouldn't avoid him again was more than enough to make him happy. "I'll see you then!"
"See you." Marinette said before ending the call.
Adrien fell back on his bed. All the worry and guilt lifted off him in an instant. "Plagg." He called out to the little kwami. "Thanks."
"Yeah, yeah. Now give me some Camembert." Plagg called back, demanding for his reward.
