HELLOOOO and WELCOME to chapter four of 'Cat got your tongue' yes I know, it's getting complicated but very good things are coming in the near future of this fanfic so please keep reading! And now without any further interruptions… chapter four…

As Marinette walks to school she stops and turns around as she feels a presents behind her, no one is there but she still feels unsure. Then chat noir jumps out in front of her "Why hello there my love what a coincidence seeing you here" he grins, "Chaton you startled me, don't sneak up on me like that, ugh, I need to get to school" "wait! I just wanted to ask you, can I come over again tomorrow night, I have nothing to do and your pretty good company…" Marinette frowns guiltily as she remembers that she never told him about the date with Nathanial "um, sorry, not tonight, I'm… busy" Chat can tell she isn't telling the full story "why, what are you doing?" she sighs getting slightly irritated of how nosy he's being, "you know curiosity killed the cat" Chat grins "but an answer brought it back, now tell me, what are you doing tonight that's so much more important than me?"

Defeated she sighs "I-I have *cough* date *cough* with Nathanial…" She grins guiltily knowing how he will react, Chat's lips harden into a thin line, his eyes go Icey and his tail starts to flicker in annoyance and jealousy. "what?! But princess your my girl, Nathanial he, he isn't-" it all comes out too fast and Chat gasps and cups both hands over his mouth as he realises that he has just given away his identity.

Marinette stops like a statue, her eyes widen and mouth gaping in utter astonishment, it all quickly adds up and starts to make so much sense. The blushing at the posters, the flirting like chat, the princess thing, his eyes his hair, the way he asks so many questions, she told him how she felt about him, about Nathanial, oh god, she even said he was hot in front of his face! Her life couldn't possibly get any worse.

She is frozen in time. "princess? I uh, I'm sorry I shouldn't have let you tell me all your feelings without-" "you have got to be kidding me" Chat stops and looks down at Marinette who is just starting to come back to reality. "you, it had to be you, this whole time I've been pushing you away because I liked Adrian but you were Adrian the whole dam time and I can't believe I was such an idiot for not figuring it out already omg!" she curses under her breath

She takes a deep breath, "no one is around, just detransform we need to get to school." "Plagg, detransform" a green electrical light flashes over his body changing him back to Adrian. Marinette looks up at him, she is filled with so many emotions she doesn't have enough room to think of words to say. Plagg flies out and floats in front of her face. "names Plagg, nice to meet you my sweet" he kisses Marinette on the hand, Marinette's face goes into an awing state as she squeals, "he's so cute!" The small cat lies in her palms as she rubs his belly with her fingers, Plagg purrs, "why can't you treat me like this Adrian, she loves me, you need to give me more affection!"

Adrian sighs and stuffs him in his jacket but he wizzes back out, "you know what? I'm gonna tell her for that" Adrian's face goes white "What? What are you talking about Plagg, there's nothing to tell"?

"oh that's a load of bull and you know it, you see Marinette, Adrian is quite well aware of you being ladybug, and if you don't mind, your kwami Tiki is my soulmate so if you could let her out, that would be great, thanks." Marinette's face is shocked but she opens the bag and Tiki flies out "Plagg!" She gives him a big hug "wow, you look so beautiful in that dress! I have never seen you wear clothes before!" Tiki giggles, "thankyou".

Marinette has literally no words, she stands completely still and watches the two kwami's talk happily, her eyes wide, "princess… are you ok?" she blinks and then looks him in the eye, "yeah I'm fine, totally fine… It's just all a bit unbelievable that my partner that I have been rejecting for a whole year is actually the boy in my class that I adore and now that I finally know it's you, I have started to like Nathanial too and right now I just want to kiss you but I can't because that wouldn't be fair and I… Kitty?" He looks down at her with worry in his eyes "yes?" she blinks as he slowly edges closer to her, his face barley a centimetre away from hers, she feels his body close, and his hands wrap around her waist, "what do I do?" she whispers. "kiss me?" his lips press against hers, they are warm and soft and taste of strawberries. She snakes her hands up his body and places them around his neck, they pull away both a deep amber from head to toe, Marinette frowns and then she closes her eyes and rests her head on his chest, "I shouldn't have done that… It's not fair on him…" He smirks "well, I kissed you, so, it's not your fault" she looks up at him with guilty eyes, "yes but, I kissed you back".

School goes fast for Marinette as she doodles in her sketch book, Alya and Nino as heroes, Alya has the power to control fire, with a red orange and yellow dress like one big flame, with a short hem, she wears yellow stocking and red and white converse, her mask is a flame which burns from her eyes. Nino on the other hand is a shape shifter, he can turn into anyone, his main form is a pair of high tops, deep blue pants and a long sleeve aqua blue top that has a wide yellow collar that flares out around his neck, his mask his a yellow piece of fabric wrapped around his head, on his body suit he has a yellow fading stripe around his waist, Alya has a Anklet with a red gem in it as her miraculous and Nino has a badge with a strike of lighting on it, their names, Inferna and Zwitch, when the lunch bell rings she grabs Alya and Nino then Adrian, "come on, we are going to the bakery for lunch, and plus, I owe you for the school notes!" she winks at Alya, they are just about to head out, when she spots Nathanial sitting by himself sketching in his book again, his amber red hair contrasting against his amazing Aqua blue eyes. She smiles and calls out to him "hey Nathanial! We're going to my parent's bakery for lunch, you wanna come?" He looks up with a startled face as if saying 'me?'. He closes his sketchbook and walks over, head down, "um, sure, if you want me to…" Nino laughs again at how shy he is, pulling him along, "come on dude, Mari's bakery has the best food you will EVER eat!"

As they walk to the bakery everyone proceeds in friendly banter, Adrian meets Marinette's eyes and smiles, she smiles back and rolls her eyes, as they walk into the bakery and sit down, Marinette kisses her mother on the cheek and hugs her dad, "got a new friend in the group do we? What's your name?" her mother smiles at Nathanial, "um, I-it's Nathanial Mrs. Deupen-cheng. "oh what a lovely name! Call me Sabine, I'll get you guys some cookies" she walks off into the kitchen and comes back with a tray of glasses of milk and a big plate of their famous chocolate chip cookies (with extra choc chipness) edit by Marinette.

Nathanial sits down next to Marinette and Adrian narrows his eyes and sets his jaw, Nathanial looks at him with a hatred filled glare. Alya and Nino share a frantic look between each other and then Alya cuts in in and attempt to distract them, "hey guys try the cookies they are sooo good!" she shoves a cookie in each of the boy's mouths and the glare breaks, they both chew the cookies and smile. Everyone makes a big grin and thanks Sabine and Tom for the yummy treats. That's when Marinette remembers her drawing from class earlier and unzips her bag, she flips open the page of Nino and Alya as heroes and smiles as she shows them, "this is what I do when I'm bored in class!" she laughs as Nino and Alya both smile and giggle, "Marinette this is so cool!" Nino says while grinning, "I'm Zwitch, Paris's greatest superhero!" he stands up and poses in a triumphant way, we all laugh, "yeah seriously girl this is awesome, do you mind if I post this on the Lady blog, I mean it's not Ladybug but it's still heroes right?" Marinette makes an unsure face "uh, I don't know Alya-" "please!" she makes those baby doll eyes that Marinette can't resist, "Ugh ok, you know I can't say no to that face!" she makes a fake pout, crossing her arms, they all laugh together, then Marinette notices that Nathanial is drawing with a 2B pencil, she leans closer, looking over at the drawing, Nathanial feels how close she is and his cheeks go hot and his heart beat gets faster, "wow Nathanial that's amazing! You really do have a great talent you know!" He blushes and smiles at her, she loves that smile. All the others move closer to take a look, it's a drawing of all of them, including Adrian, in bathers on the beach, huddling together like it's a photo, Marinette wears a black two piece and a bun, Alya an orange one piece with her hair flying in the breeze and some sunny's on, Adrien in blue green board shorts with and ice cream in his hand, him with red board shorts and a blue cap and Nino in a black and yellow rashy and dark blue board shorts, he has headphones sitting around his shoulders, they all look super happy. "wow, that's so cool!" Alya says smiling at the picture "yeah, it looks just like us, I guess both of you have the artsy gift hey?" Nino makes a cheeky smirk at them and then laughs. "Been paying close attention to detail have we?" Adrian says, looking at how perfectly accurate Marinette's body has been drawn, Nathanial's eyes narrow and his eyebrows crease, "I-I'm not a-" "we know you're not Nath". She shakes her head at Adrian, "let's go before we're late for class" she says, "thankyou Maman they were delicious!" she smiles at her mother as they leave. "It's was nothing! Tell your friends they can comeback any time they like!" She smiles at how much she loves her mother, "I will".

After school Marinette walks to the park, on her way she wonders 'there hasn't been many akuma attacks lately, I wonder why…' She walks into the park and sits on the bench to wait, then she sees him, a shy quiet figure walking into the park, amber hair and bright aqua eyes like the beach, he still has his sketchbook in hand, which Marinette finds this

cute, "Nathanial, over here!" He jumps in surprise, "oh, h-hi Mari, you startled me" "sorry, haha, now come with me, I know the perfect place we can go!" her grin widens and she grabs his hand and pulls him along. "Where are we going?" he seems more confident, slowly, but surely, he won't be as nervous around her, "to the new ice-cream parlour down the road, I want to test out the flavours" he notices she still holds his hand and grins.

"sounds good, who doesn't like ice-cream, right?" They walk into the little store and the bell at the top of the door makes a sweet little chime, they stand in front of the many colours of ice-cream, "what would you two like?" the young lady at the counter asks, "Um, I'll have the strawberry please, and Nathanial will have…?" She turns to him in waiting, "mint choc-chip please." She hands them their ice cream and they thank the woman. As soon as Marinette sits down and is about to take a lick, she hears crying, at first she thinks it might be another akuma attack but as she turns around, she sees a little girl with an empty cone and a blob of caramel ice-cream at her feet, Marinette sighs and looks at the strawberry goodness she holds in her hands, then gets up and walks over to the little girl with a reassuring smile on her face, "here, have mine, I'm not really that hungry anyway…" the little girl looks up at Marinette and smiles, "thankyou madam!" she pecks her on the cheek and walks out of the store licking her ice-cream happily.

Marinette sits back down, "this is one of the many reasons I like you Mari" he blushes, "have some of mine, I won't let you go without, "thanks Nath" she takes a lick and then hands it back, Nathanial then starts laughing, "what?" Marinette asks, confused, "you have ice-cream all over your face" he laughs some more and looks at her fondly, she looks so cute, with mint green all over her mouth, she laughs, blushes and lifts an arm to wipe it away, he grabs her hand, "here, I'll get it…" he leans in, amber hair falling over his face and cheeks red. The kiss is warm and sweet and taste of Peppermint and chocolate.

OKKK chapter four has been completed YAYYY! Please remember to follow and comment your ideas, I love to hear all of your feedback! Something very crazy is happening in the next chapter that you must read so make sure you check daily to see when it will be up! I will try and get it out in the next few days as usual, thank you guys for the support so far it's been great! See ya!

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-Charlie x