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Chapter 4

Tikki sticks her head out. "Marinette, how do you think your parents will react with you having someone over after missing the WHOLE day of school?"

"Tikki, hide! That's the least of my concerns right now! I need to clean my room! I still have a few lingering pictures of him, not to mention it's a mess! Let's go!" She makes it back to the bakery in record time. She greets her parents and gives them each a kiss on the cheek. "Mama, is it ok if Adrien comes over so I can…get todays notes from him? Also, due to my clumsiness and phone destroying habits, he has volunteered to fix my phone too. It may be a lost cause though…" Normally she wouldn't think to ask but since she is on thin ice she figured she better ask just to be safe.

"Sure honey, don't make a habit of being late to school…although maybe you should forget to take notes from time to time…I do want grandchildren one day…"

"Mama!" She runs upstairs to avoid more embarrassment. She finds a cup that holds some day-old coffee in it, from a local coffee shop and takes a swig of it. "Ahh still good." She smacks her lips and gets to work with straightening her supplies. She picks up her dirty laundry, folds a basket of clean clothes that she never got to, changes her desktop picture, and stands in the middle of the room with her hands on her hips. She does a once over, finds a couple more pictures of Adrien and hides them with her other pictures in the closet. "Well that didn't take too long, did it Tikki? Now if only I can stop stuttering around Adrien…"

"Just summon your inner ladybug and be confident Marinette! You'll be fine!"

"Marinette! You have a visitor!" She heads downstairs. 'Be confident…you can do it!' She takes a deep breath and greets Adrien slightly louder than she meant to.

"Hey! Adrien! Glad…you can make it! Come on up, and I'll get started on those notes you got from Nino…" She notices he is indeed carrying a notebook and lets out a breath of relief.

"Nice seeing you again Mr. and Mrs. Dupain-Cheng." Tom puts an arm around Adrien.

"Adrien you're welcome here anytime, and please call us by Tom and Sabine." Sabine nods her head in approval. "Here's some sweets to start you off. I'll come check on you and see how you're doing in a little bit." She hands the tray of goodies to Marinette.

"Thanks Mama." She motions for Adrien to follow her up to her room. Adrien overhears a few hushed comments between Marinette's parents and blushes.

"Want to have a seat on the balcony and enjoy the sweets first? Marinette shocks herself by completing a full sentence. 'Perhaps it's the old coffee that's helping me out?'

"Sure, sounds great." He follows her to the balcony and has a seat next to Marinette. She has the goodies siting the table for them to share. They sit and eat for a few minutes, just enjoying each other's company and the view of the city.

Adrien scratches the back of his head. "Thanks for having me over Marinette…today at school…I didn't mean to snoop…it's just, you're so talented Marinette and I had to see what you were working on. Turns out you draw great too, have you ever thought about selling artwork?"

Marinette turns to him, a little shocked, "No, I haven't thought about selling artwork however I've many orders and sales with my clothes. Mostly from Alya, she demands I take her money even though I tell her not to worry about it." Adrien brightens up even more.

"Really? I didn't realize that! Can I commission you to do something for me?!" Marinette sputters and her mouth drops a little.

"Fo…for…you?", she lets out a garbled uncontainable squeal that she obviously tried to conceal and blushes. "Su…sure! Uhm, wh... what did you have in mind?"

"Surprise me, really whatever inspires you." He bushes and stills when he hears a faint camera click. He looks around and finds a smirking Plagg peeking out of his shirt, using his phone. He shoves him back into hiding. Luckily Marinette is starring off into the distance, he can almost hear her gears turning in her mind on possible projects.

She places her hands on the table and stands up. "I have so many ideas! I'm going to grab my sketch book!" She practically nocks Adrien and his chair to the floor as she takes off to grab her sketchbook. Adrien takes the opportunity to scold Plagg. "Plagg, what are you thinking!? No one can see you!" He takes another picture of Adrien. "Chill out Adrien, you'll thank me later when you and Marinette are making disgusting scrapbooks and kids together." One of Adrien's eye twitches slightly, takes his phone, and hides it in his back pocket. Plagg pouts. "Really? You think the location of your phone will deter me?" His eyes glint with mischief. "You have no idea the thing I've seen!" He narrows his eyes as if he has been given a challenge and hides again. Adrien shrugs it off and grabs a croissant from the tray of goodies. He leans back in his chair and happily eats his snack. Marinette comes back out and sits beside him with her sketchbook. "Ok, I've made a rough sketch of several things…do you want to see?" She brims with excitement.

"I trust you Marinette, I want to be completely surprised. Do you need any measurements?" She blushes and her pencil drops out of her hand. She quickly recovers and picks up her things. "Y…yes! I'll get all your measurements so you're truly surprised!"

He picks up the tray of goodies and stands up. "Let's get to it then." She nods and follows him down to her room.

"Hello guys!" Surprised, Marinette trips and flails as she slams into Adrien, making the goodies fly from Adrien's hands. Marinette's dad quickly catches the tray with few tragedies, as if he has done it a million times. "I see you guys are doing well, I'll check back and see if you need anything else." He hums on his way back down the steps, leaving two blushing and entangled teenagers on the floor. Adrien is sprawled out on his back, with Marinette laying on top of him with her arm under his neck and legs twisted, with her between his legs and one of his legs between hers.

They lay speechless, gazing into each other's eyes. Unknown to them, Tikki and Plagg sit on Marinette's crafting table taking pictures. They put the camera back on her desk. "Let's give them a moment to themselves Tikki, this is too disgusting to watch." Tikki blinks dreamily at them and lets Plagg pull her to a cozy hiding place somewhere on the desk.

For some reason that comfort is back for both, they're drawn in by each other's familiar scents. Adrien boldly reaches up with his hand and gently pulls her head down into his chest, letting his hand rest on the back of her head. She nuzzles his chest further, lost in the moment. She can feel him playing with one of her pigtails and it comes out of the hair tie. He threads his hand into the fallen hair and lightly massages her scalp. He feels like he's in a fog, much like Plagg gets when he gets his hands on some catnip. It's as if they are transported to the day where Ladybug and Chat Noir were lost in each other. Everything felt right and neither of them pulled away. Something in the back of their minds clicked, both realizing at the same time. Their eyes go wide as it all makes sense: the comfort and familiarity of each other's scents, the comfort of being wrapped up in each other, the many times they conveniently had to go to the bathroom during an akuma attack, how worn out they are when they come to school after a late night of hero related activities, and how they look…their eyes, her freckles and bluebell eyes, and his brilliant green eyes and blond hair. The breath out, as if punched in the gut.

"My...mylady?"

"Ch…Chat?"

Tikki throws all caution to the wind and openly takes pictures, one after the other. Plagg sits next to her nodding in approval of each picture she takes.

Chat gently pulls up her head, with their noses pretty much touching and they both close the gap kissing each other on the lips lightly but with great emotion.

Oblivious to the two, the trap door slowly lifts and Tom motions Sabine up to peak with him. They smile widely and she takes a silent picture, before making a sneaky retreat.

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