I'm aaaliivee!, so sorry for my tardiness, but this kitty had to get projects done, and school is almost over, so yay! :) *faints from amazing/breathtaking fan art of Chat Noir on web* I may be crazy, and late, but hope you enjoy ;). btw, I would love some ideas.

Its been at least a week since Marinette has actually spoken a full sentence with Adrien-and its all because of her nerves and blushing face that gets best of her, around him. She'd be lying to herself to think that Adrien didn't like her- she caught a few glimpses from him while in class.

Alya was telling Marinette that she and Nino were planning on going to her house and spend time there for school break, and that she should come. Alya would remind her that Adrien was invited as well. Right now they were discussing the situation in the classroom, before the bell rings for class to start.

"By the way, Marinette, just imagine it as an awesome opportunity to get to spend more time with Adrien~, but a long sleepover at my house" Alya was smirking, and wiggled her eyebrow suggestively at Marinette.

"But what bout your siblings?"

"They'll be fine, they're visiting my grandma the whole two weeks" She was grinning devilishly.

"W-well fine then-"Alya had hugged her tightly, making Marinette sigh in defeat, but she was actually happy her best friend dragged her in this.

The bell rang before Marinette could discuss it more, and class begun.

Right before Marinette could talk to Alya again as class ended, she bolted out saying to bring a swimsuit. Marinette was pretty sure that she would be questioned when they saw her in her swimsuit-as to why she was so toned up-it was mostly because of running across rooftops, and fighting akumas. She came with the plan of telling her friends that it was her time at the bakery-when she lifts heavy flour bags- that got her toned. She smiled at her excuse, and left for home to pack to go to Alya's house.

Right as Marinette was about to grab a pair of clothes for her luggage, there was a scream from outside, she gave an annoyed sigh, and transformed to see what the trouble was, obviously an akumatized victim.

The akumatized victim was chasing Chat Noir to the Seine bridge. She ran towards Chat, he saw her and took her hand to kiss it , and bowed. She felt a her face a bit warm, why the fudge does he have to do this every time? gosh hes hot,NO stop it Mari, you like Adrien! She took her hand away from his hold, and looked towards the akuma.

"The name's GRIEVER!" shouted the akumatized person, the victim had brown and grey suit, he had a dark grey vest, and brown pants, he had a leash with a pendant on it, and shouted "I will avenge my Waddles!". He then charged at the duo, trying to hit them to not much avail.

"Okay then... I'm guessing he's grieving over his dog, wait, I think the akuma must be on the charm on the leash "Ladybug thought to herself as she ducked away from the swings Griever tried to throw.

She and Chat were on opposite sides on the bridge, and she had to use her yoyo to talk to him, so that the akuma wouldn't hear their plan.

"Chat!, I need you to distract him, so I can get the akuma from the charm on the leash" Just then Chat followed the plan, they both worked in sync, and battled the akuma, Ladybug managed to get the akumatized item, the pendant shaped of a bone, 'who knew someone would name their dog Waddles', she caught the butterfly akuma and de-evilized it, she and Chat Noir did their signature fist bump.

"My Lady, I believe I must bid adieu, for I have to pack for a small stay with friends" he bowed and kissed her hand, she pulled it back, giving him her usual eye roll.

"Well, isn't that a coincidence, same here, but I don't want us to tell each other much about our civilian selves, gotta pack!, à bientôt ". She gave him a two fingered salute and swung herself with her yoyo, leaving a Chat in his thoughts, he still had to finish packing, so he left the site, but thought he'd stop by a friend at a well known bakery.

Marinette was halfway done packing, and was talking to Tikki for advice as to what to bring.

"Well, glad that's done with, hey, Tikki, which bathing suit should I bring, the two piece or the one piece?" On her chaise lay two swim suits, the two piece had green with black strokes, making it look like paint, and had small ruffles on the bottom hem of the top, the bottom and left side of the top had glittery grey cat paws. the other swimsuit just had beige and bright blue, with black spots,Marinette was stumped. But it's quite obvious the two piece looks better, right? She thought to herself.

There was a tap on her window hatch, and Tikki went to hide under the computer desk. Marinette looked up to her window, and groaned internally, she waved at the leather clad boy to enter. He jumped down, with a low thud from his feet.

"Hello, Princess, meows it going?~" he said in a purr. He stood up, turning to her looking around her room, he then noticed pictures of him on her walls. He stiffened and a small bit of red could be seen on the rim of his mask, but he still had a big grin on his face.

"Doing well, Chaton" She took a seat on her chaise.

"Didn't know you had crush on a model, Marinette~" Her face was bright red, she fumbled with her fingers, looking anywhere but his eyes. It really annoyed her, that he was teasing her about this.

"I-I just think he's i-inspirational, and nice. He's in my class, and he's sorta a good friend" She was smiling as she looked at one of the pictures of him. She then remembered what almost happened when Adrien came over to play video games. But was interrupted by Chat when he spoke up.

"Are you leaving somewhere?" He was looking at her luggage that was beside her chaise, and then looked back at her, trying to make a confused face at her, but he already knew what she was doing. Nino told him that she would also be coming Alya's house, it's quite obvious since she's her best friend and all.

"I'm just getting ready to go over my friend's house for a week or two, and I'm almost done, but a certain kitty likes to distract people". She put the two piece swim suit in her luggage before he could see it.

"Didn't know I was distracting" he said in a low purr, getting close a few feet from her, he had a green electric glow in his eyes, as he stared at light cerulean blue.

"Your not" she deadpanned, trying to hide her jump in voice from nervousness. "Chat you should go, before it gets any later, and I still have to pack,...so see you in a week or two, since I'm not going to be here in my room." She looked away from his strong gaze.

"See you later, have a nice time, Princess" he gave her a bow, and left her room. Marinette didn't know what to make of his visit really, she felt a bit confused, but shrugged off the feeling, and went back to packing. When she finished, she went downstairs to greet her parents and have dinner with them. After dinner she brought some chocolate croissants and cookies for Tikki. She called Alya to ask what time she should be ready, and then went to bed.

Adrien was seriously annoyed at Plagg for laughing at him. Plagg was telling him that he was a doofus for coming to Marinette's house just for a small flirt , and that he just made an idiot of himself. Adrien kept telling himself to ignore Plagg, but couldn't help the blush that appeared every time he thought of her.

He finished packing a while ago, and was just reading some textbooks, because Natalie told him to keep up with his 'studies'. It was around eleven thirty, and he had to go to Alya's house at seven, so they could all go to a café near her house, and needed to go to bed, but he decided to spend time on the LadyBlog to drain his energy, to later fall asleep.

"Psss, Adrien!, where's my camembert?!, I completely forgot about it when I was laughing at you for your humiliation, also, I cant believe I forgot about my beloved camembert!" Plagg was floating over Adrien's face whisper yelling at him, and having a hissy fit over his camembert. Adrien gave him an irritated groan, and got the kwami some of the stinky cheese, leaving him to gobble it up. He went back to sleep a few minutes later from the annoying munching from Plagg.

Adrien, and Nino were already picked up, and were left at the small café near Alya's house. Alya went to pick up Marinette, it was around nine forty something. They greeted each other, and Alya started teasing Marinette nonstop and talking about her blog as they walked to the café. Marinette chose to wear a matte pink t-shirt, and blue jeans. Alya was wearing knee-length shorts, and an orange shirt with layered ruffles on front. When they got to where the boys were, Nino was wearing his signature t-shirt and jeans, and Adrien had beige knee-length shorts, with a black shirt saying [Kitty Sneeze], he planned on making a few puns later while he stayed with his friends.

" Hey, Marinette, hey Alya" Nino waved at them to sit by them. They were outside, they all sat at a circle shape table that had an umbrella in the middle of the table. Nino sat next to Alya, and Marinette sat next to Adrien, she felt a bit nervous sitting close to him, but felt Alya had her back if she felt she was going to faint from the overwhelming feeling of butterflies in her stomach, and flushed face.

"S-so, do any of guys want chocolate c-croissants?" Marinette had a box with her family bakery's sign on it, and opened it, the croissants smelled fresh, and tasty.

"Oh, definitely!" said Nino and Adrien. Alya just nodded in agreement. As they ate their treats, they talked about many topics, like school, food, and un-fur-tunately some puns.

After a while they all decided it was time to leave to go to Alya's house. When they arrived it was a one story house, they walked up the door, Adrien had placed his right hand on the small of Marinette's back , lightly pushing her forward inside the house, Alya and Nino had entered first. Marinette could feel her face warm from his gesture, Adrien was just internally laughing to himself, seeing her get flustered around him. They were all in the living room, which had a two black couches, a brown rug, and a arched open wall that showed the kitchen, a window was shining light through the blinds, an there was a few lamps on tables. The whole house smelled like cinnamon and pineapple, the walls were baby blue.

"Okay, guys, there are a few ground rules, one: no one is allowed to leave the house at late hours of night, two: we have fun" Alya smiled broadly, but it then turned into a grin. Nino reflected the same face towards Adrien and Marinette, they could only fear the worst out of those two . Alya later told them were some things were in case they needed something.

"Sooo, You guys brought video games right?, or we could bake, or watch movies..." Marinette asked the other three, trying to start conversation and wondering what was planned for the day.

"Well~, I brought a few games, also board games, who's up for Monopoly?" Nino waggles his eyebrow at the three other teenagers, and was already taking out the games, and setting the board game on a table in front of a couch. Alya went to the kitchen and brought Marinette with her.

"Mari, up your game, and show them who's the boss-by flirting~ and be confident, I know you have it in you!" Alya was whispering, so the guys wouldn't hear them. Marinette looked out the kitchen wall( A/N: like a window, but a hole in the wall, I've seen them before ) She saw the two boys sitting, and chatting, Nino said something, and Adrien blushed, she wondered why, but shrugged it off, thinking it was probably something weird guys talk a bout, and turned to her best friend, and smiled back at her. The two girls fist bumped in agreement to their pep talk, and got some cookies and soda cans for a snack.

The four teens were already buying places and gaining money in the game, with Nino in the lead. Adrien constantly landed in jail, and Marinette bailed him out, and laughed at him for his so called bad luck, he gave her an annoyed, but joking face. Alya was on and off playing the game while she was on the LadyBlog on her phone, checking for news feed from viewers on her website. Alya were sitting side by side as usual, to try to get the other two to sit by each other- playing games was a perfect opportunity.

"Who knew Adrien Agreste was a trouble maker~" Marinette giggles, laughing at Adrien as he lost all his money for bail.

"Well, I hope someone stops me, before I make a crime~" He had a sided cheshire grin growing as he retorted back to her. He looked at her blue bell eyes , he felt his heart quicken from the sight of her, her face was crimson, and she was staring back at him. They locked gaze for far too long for it to be just friends, he could feel his face get warm. Their moment was broken by the snickering and giggles and flash from the phone of Alya's.

"Hey!" Marinette looked at Alya, who was trying to cover her face with her hand from her giggles. Marinette knew that there was definitely going to be a lot of teasing from her and Nino.

"Hey, its getting to be time for lunch, how 'bout I order some pizza" suggested Adrien, he rubbed the back of his head while trying to calm himself from looking at Marinette too long. He really couldn't help himself around her, his face felt warm, an his heart quickened.

He ordered the pizza, the group was doing other stuff-now bored playing monopoly- and Adrien left the living room to go get water, as he walked towards the kitchen, he could hear the girl's giggling stop as he came in view in the kitchen. He smiled at the two, and reached for a glass from a cupboard, and walked to the fridge to pour water from a pitcher, but he stopped because he could feel eyes on him, and turned around to the girls.

"Are you guys okay?" his raised his left brow. Adrien couldn't help notice Alya was elbowing Mari on her right side.

"Yea!, we were just looking at a very interesting photo, but not that it would interest you, is the pizza coming?"Said Alya, Marinette had a faint pink on her cheeks, but smiled warmly towards him.

"The pizza will be here in ten, also could we have some of the leftover cookies for dessert, Mari?" Mari(A/N: wanted to make the name short) nodded.

The rest of the day was spent with laughter, jokes, and games. It was now nighttime-around ten thirty-ish, and Marinette sneaked some cookies for Tikki-who was hidden in her purse behind one of the couches. She was glad there wasn't any akumas today, but was hoping there wouldn't be any for a bit. Alya and Nino were passed out on the couch, Nino's head was upside done on the right arm chair, and Alya's phone was on her face they were lying opposite form each other on the couch. Marinette giggled to herself from the weird funny sight. Adrien had gone to take a shower, its the model in him, as he would say, she was on the couch, wearing pink pajama top, and grey pajama pants, she was smiling to herself over how her day has been. She pondered on how Adrien has been acting towards her, yea there was the- almost-kiss. But was he flirting with me?, oh my goodness!, maybe he really does like me. Just then her thoughts were interrupted, by padded footsteps from a certain blond, the house lights were off, except a lamp that was on a small table near the couch she was sitting on, the light had a dim gold orange color around all of them.

"Hey, Mari, mind if I sit?"

"Sure" She scooted to the right some more, so he could sit on the couch also. He smelled of mint and a small hint of cologne, he was wearing a white shirt, and sweatpants. He looked a pretty dang good looking with his wet messy hair, holy hot tamales!, he looks so hot! She was squealing internally, avoiding his gaze, but catching few glances from him. Adrien was now flashing back to how he felt when he was about to kiss her when he came over her house, his face felt warm, and his heart quickened and couldn't help but steal glance from her.

There was a small moment of silence...

Yay, Cliffhanger!, sorry it was delayed,

review welcome, need feedback on the chapter, is it good luv yall :3

à bientôt: see you soon