Ahahahaha... that hiatus ended up to be too long. Well, sorry for the wait. First off, there's that one week break before con thing... and then there's the post con week break thing since I needed to recover my strength. And then I get distracted with other fandom, star wars... as well as trying to figure out what I'm suppose to do for the next chapter.

That aside, thank you for your patience.

Marinette abruptly let go as she glanced back towards Adrien. "Ah! I'm sorry. What am I doing.. I—"

Adrien chuckled. "Well, I guess we've just confessed to each other. I mean... I thought it would be much harder to—"

Marinette immediately stopped him, placing a finger over his lips. "W-wait... let me think about this for a moment," she started to say as Marinette clutched her head. "Oh my god... how complicated can things be now?"

Adrien stared at her, puzzled. "What did you mean... complicated?"

Marinette glared at him before started waving her arms around.

"You... Chat Noir! Me... La—" Immediately afterwards, she recalled that she heard Alya's voice earlier. The one that triggered this whole situation. The one who also... had a blog dedicated to everything Ladybug.

Adrien gave a shrugging glance towards the trapdoor before Marinette hissed at him, and hastily dragging him away...

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Meanwhile, downstairs...

Sabine was looking at them curiously as Alya and Nino tried showing her their best smiles.

"That's what I was saying earlier... Aunty, there's nothing to be concerned about!" Alya explained as Sabine didn't look too convinced.

"But didn't I hear some screamings earlier—and where's that other boy that came with the two of you..."

Alya laughed nervously. Well, they did caused a lot of noise earlier. Particularly Marinette. Courtesy of yours truly. "He was upstairs. It just happened that we had some surprise present to give to Marinette and knowing her... Well, she did have a very strong reaction."

Sabine stared at them curiously as Nino cut in.

"Oh yes, that's what happened!" Nino added. "Lately Marinette seemed troubled, so we thought of cheering her up today!" Well, that was partially the truth any way.

The older lady glanced up towards the staircase leading to the floors upstairs before sighing. "Well, she did seemed a bit down lately..."

Alya immediately took that chance to steer Sabine back towards the bakery. "So like I said, don't worry about it. We'll take care of everything."

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"...We'll take care of everything."

Alya was silent for a while after the two of them went back upstairs. Reason for that would be... because it got too quiet now. Of course, Alya knew... that all those screams and exaggerated reactions from earlier shouldn't last too long. Even by Marinette's standard.

But by now, both of them should have started to come down from the attic... shouldn't they?

"A-Alya? What's wrong?" Nino started to say as Alya started to climb the stairway leading to Marinette's attic room.

Alya glanced down towards Nino as she pushed open the attic door. "It's too quiet..." she started to say, before slamming the door down in surprise. "Hey! Where are those two?" she exclaimed as she climbed into the small room. Nino followed her from behind as Alya glanced up towards the upper balcony area where Marinette's bed should be located. She frowned before gasping at the sight that greeted her.

Nino turned towards the direction she was looking as Alya smirked. She could see a glimpse of Marinette and Adrien at the upper balcony, from the window on top of Marinette's bed.

Alya started to laugh. "Heh... and to think she had been too scared to confront Adrien these few days..."

xxx

Marinette stopped pacing around as she finally turned back towards Adrien, blushing again as she recalled how close both of them have been earlier. Shaking her head, she finally steeled herself for what's to come.

"Umm... what should we do now?"