Disclaimer: I don't own Miraculous Ladybug or Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Marinette didn't think this is how the first class of performance practice would go. Nor did she think that any of the students in her class did, particularly a blonde-haired girl that now sat in the same spot she did minutes before hand.
The dark blue haired girl wanted to run away from the auditorium, for what felt like the 100th time that class.
But a part of her didn't wanted to run.
She wanted to stay beside him on stage and perform the famous kissing scene from Romeo and Juliet.
No matter how it made her feel on the inside.
Butterflies danced painfully in her stomach as she gulped down whatever had built up in her throat.
She didn't know how she was going to do it, but she knew that she had to find a way how to fast. Marinette knew that it hard enough to talk to Adrien outside of all her classes, and now she had to confront her feeling for him head on, without warning and perform one of the most romantic scenes in the play with him.
Looking off stage, she glanced at her backpack, knowing that her little ladybug kwami was fast asleep inside. She only wished that she had that when she was with Adrien she had the confidence he had with him when she was dressed as her super hero self. It would make life so much easier when talking to the blonde-haired boy, who was now poking at her side lightly.
"Marinette?" she heard him speak. "Are you okay? Ready to start?"
The blue haired girl could only nod in response, as her hands began to shake the pages that she held.
"When you are ready." Ms Bustier said addressing the two, as she took her seat back in the audience. On que, Adrien began to speak his lines, taking a hold of Marinette's hand in the process.
"If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss."
Marinette was in awe. She couldn't help but admire him while he was acting. Her face had formed a bright red blush, has is bright green orbs stared into her eyes. His hand in hers was so warm inside hers. His touch so gentle that it made her melt inside.
It was almost as if he was acting just for her.
She felt like she was back in her daydream, until she was snapped back into reality again.
"Marinette? Your lines?" she heard her literature say in a loud whisper. The sound of giggles from the students watching on filled the room, as she took her hand out of Adrien's.
"Go-ood p-p-pilgrim, y-y-you do wrong you-ur hand too much-h…" she spoke in a stutter.
Marinette froze as laugher filled the room as she could do nothing more than stare into the audience of students. She jumped as she felt a hand being placed on her shoulder. Turning she could see the boy who was standing beside her on stage. A small smile was spread across his face, but Marinette could see in his eyes that he was hurting, making her heart break a little inside.
'All he wants is for me to be able to speak to him…' she thought, as tears began to well in her eyes.
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Adrien laid on his bed, staring into the ceiling as his little black cat kwami slept beside him.
It was almost time for patrol as Chat Noir, and almost time for him to pay a little visit to the dark blue haired girl in his class.
He always liked to check in with Marinette. Whether he knew that she had a harsh day because of Chloe had been giving her a tough time all day or when he found out that she got the lead role in the play. No matter whether it was positive or negative as Chat he would always to go check up on her every now and then.
She was always more talkative around Chat rather that Adrien.
He didn't mind but he always wished that when he wasn't Chat, that she would be able to talk to him like she did everyone else. That she would smile and laugh with him, and not get shy and flustered.
He was excited when he found out that she was one of the two girls playing Juliet. Ms Bustier defiantly surprised all her students with having two girls play the role instead of the one. Adrien thought that with the blue haired girl would lose her shyness when acting alongside him.
But she didn't.
He didn't know if what happened today was because she had become all shy around him or whether it was stage fright. He himself had to admit that it wasn't easy getting up on stage in front of all his peers today and act out romantic love scenes. He just wished that he could pass some of his confidence off to her.
Adrien was worried about the blue haired girl. If Hawkmoth knew would have a field day with her if he found out about her nervous and worried state of mind.
He vowed to himself that he wouldn't let that happen to her. Not in a million years.
Looking over at the clock on his bedside table and realising the time, he started poking at the little black cat kwami who laid beside him.
"Plagg, it's time for patrol."
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Marinette was pacing in circles around her room. Her little ladybug kwami was sitting on her desk, waiting to hear the lines that the blue haired was going to practice for tonight.
"Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,
Towards Phoebus' lodging.
Such a wagoner the sun god's home,
As Phaeton would whip you to the west the sun
And bring in cloudy night immediately.
Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night,
That runaways' eyes may wink, and Romeo
Leap to these arms, untalked-of and unseen.
Lovers can see to do their amorous rites love making
By their own beauties.
Or, if love be blind,
It best agrees with night.
Come, civil night, love likes night best,
Thou sober-suited matron all in black,
And learn me how to lose a winning match teach,
Played for a pair of stainless maidenhoods.
Hood my unmanned blood, bating in my cheeks,
With thy black mantle till strange love grow bold,
Think true love acted simple modesty.
Come, night. Come, Romeo.
Come thou day in night.
For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night
Whiter than new snow upon a raven's back.
Come gentle night.
Come loving black-browed night.
Give me my Romeo, and when he shall die,"
"Marinette, you sound great!" her little ladybug companion said as she clapped.
A sigh escaped her lips as she sunk into her desk chair. She couldn't shake the look she saw in Adrien's eyes today. The look of pain, of being hurt, it made her feel sick. She just wished that she had the confidence to talk to him without stuttering or confusing her words, to talk to him and not not be shy or nervous.
Why did her feelings for him always get in the way of creating a conversation with him?
"Tikki, why don't I have this confidence when I'm on stage with Adrien? Why don't I have the confidence to have a normal conversation with him without stuttering and getting nervous?" she asked aloud.
The kwami sat there slightly stunned. She didn't know what to reply to her partner. She wished that she had an answer for her but she knew she didn't what to say but it was her feeling for him that were getting in the way.
But she knew that the dark blue haired girl already knew that.
Just as the kwami was going to open her mouth to give her response, both jumped as they heard a knock coming from the door from above them.
Tikki went and hid, as Marinette went to attend to who was knocking from above. She had a rough idea who it would be.
Chat always knew when she needed someone other than her parents or Alya to talk to. Every single time he knew when she needed someone. But ultimately, she left it up to a cat's instinct. She couldn't pin point it to anything more than that.
Opening the hatch, he was welcomed to two green orbs staring back into her from the darkness.
"Good evening purr-incess," he greeted her with, and on que she would role her eyes at him and laugh.
"Good evening to you too Chat" she said as the two made their way down the ladder. Once back on solid ground she made her way back to her desk and flopped onto her desk chair.
Making his way over to the desk, Chat noticed all her line sheets spread out across it, very similar to his desk at home.
"Been purr-acticing your lines, have we?" he asked. A sigh escaped her lips as she started piling the pages back up into a pile.
"Yes," The blue haired girl replied. "The more practice get in, the better Juliet I will be for Adrien. Oh Chat, did I tell you that he is the one that is playing Romeo? He defiantly suits the role perfectly." A light blush formed on Marinette's face as flashbacks from today's class came back to her mind. "I just need to gain more confidence to be able to act in front of everyone, and to be able to perform in front of Adrien just as he did for me today."
This time it was Chat's turn to blush only to be hidden by his mask. His blush soon turned to a grin as he thought of a plan to hear the girl who was beside him perform her lines.
"I bet I could purr-form Romeo's lines purr-fectly." He said with a cheeky grin on his face. The girl beside him turned to face him. "I know this play back to front. So why don't we act out a scene as Romeo and Juliet. Your choice, whatever scene out of any act you would like. I know it will be purr-fect."
Standing up from the desk chair the, Marinette made her way over to the centre of her room. "The stage is yours and mine my dear Chat, or should I say Romeo." She said winking at him.
Following her, he made is way over to the centre of the room.
A smile formed on the blue-haired girl's face as she took a step close to him and started to speak her lines.
"Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this,
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss."
Chat couldn't believe what scene she had chosen, he was shocked. As it was his turn to speak, a light blush formed again under his mask.
"Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?"
Marinette felt a blush begin to form on her face. Her mind and heart were to do this scene with Chat. As she continued from his lines.
"Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer."
Chat felt his grin return, as he took her hands in his, and followed on from her lines.
"O, then dear saint, let lips do what hands do;
They pray: Grant thou, lest faith turn to despair."
Marinette could only smile as she saw the blush forming from underneath his mask. A giggle escaped from her before she continued.
"Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake."
Chat knew that after these lines there was no going back. This is why this scene was so famous after all. He had made up his mind as soon as she had started with these lines that he would follow through with the acting. He knew if it was Adrien standing in front of her right now there was no way that he would be able to do it, but as Chat he had confidence and lots of it. Moving his paw up, placing it lightly on her face he followed on.
"Then move not while my prayer's effect I take."
Closing his eyes and moving his face towards her, he placed his lips onto hers. He felt her freeze up, but quickly after, relax into the kiss. Parting their lips, he continued in a whisper.
"Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purged."
Marinette's mind was in a daze did. 'Did that actually happen? Did Chat just kiss me?!' was the thought that spun in her head. Bright red blushes were clearly visible on both their faces. But no matter how shocked she was but Chat's actions, she knew that the show must go on.
"Then have my lips the sin that they have took."
He was surprised when he heard her continue. He was in awe at the girl who was in front of him. She was a completely different Marinette than what both Chat and Adrien had met before, but he wouldn't deny it, he was enjoying it. Still in awe, he continued from her.
"Sin from my lips? O, trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again."
Before Chat knew it, his lips were back pressing onto hers. He found her lips so soft, and they tasted so sweet, making him want more and more of them. Second passed before both parted, pulling away from each other they turned, theirs facing each other. Beet red blushes spread across both their faces as they stood in silence reflecting on what had just happened.
"I'm going to take my leave purr-incess," he said, breaking the silence. "I must continue on my patrol. Your acting was purr-fect and I believe that the other Juliet should be very worried about her position in the play."
Making his way over to the ladder and starting to climb he saw out of the corner of his eye, her turn around and make her way over to the ladder. As he made his way out, just as he was closing the door behind him, he heard her say.
"You kiss by th' book.
Goodnight Chat, safe patrolling."
My heart right now is beating so fast. I'm so in love! ^-^
Gotta love Romeo and Juliet's kissing scene! For all of you that are wondering what scene it is, it's Act 1, Scene 5 Capulet house.
I hope you all enjoyed this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it! I didn't really think it would turn out like it did but I kinda get carried away when I write about AdrienXMarinette!
Thank you for all the love and support that you have all given this story over the last couple of days, it's amazing! So thank you all so much! Xx
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