hey friends sorry for the long delay.. happy new year and everything! thanks for all the nice reviews, i love this story so much but i got a lil stuck and now i'm rambling about it...
enjoy :)
xo moonbaby
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"You have some catching up to do."
"God, Tikki, what was THAT!? Who even am I? Adrien must think I'm some kind of flirty ice freak who is obsessed with him… oh god that is what I am! Gahhhh!"
Marinette buried her face in her pillows. Tikki laughed.
"Marinette, this is a good thing! Usually you are so nervous around him, and instead you flirted with the boy you like."
"Yeah but just because that's how I always act on the ice…with Alain." Marinette sighed.
"What is it, Marinette?" Tikki had been around a long time, but she had learned about Marinette's skating the same time as everyone else, at the lake.
Marinette flopped onto her back and stared up at the ceiling.
"Oh it's so confusing…when I was a kid he was just my coach and basically like one of my parents and I just lived to make him proud." Her eyes were a little misty with remembering. "And when I was scouted to do couples skating he was my teacher and…" she blushed with embarrassment, "and I guess he was my first crush or first male figure or something.. we did all this skating and had this trust and everything and I didn't know if I was a kid anymore."
"And that's when you… fell?" Tikki asked gently.
Marinette grimaced. "Yeah. Sometimes I think Alain was even more devastated than me. He was so angry at Michel, but Michel got to keep skating!" Hot angry tears popped out of her eyes, and Tikki rubbed her cheek gently.
"And Tikki, I missed Alain so much the last few years and now I'm older and skating with him is so easy and familiar and he's.. well still really handsome…"
"He really loves you!" Adrien had said.
Marinette stiffened. Could Adrien be.. jealous? She gasped and sat up, sending Tikki flying. "But! that means..!?"
Tikki just giggled at the silly grin on Marinette's face.
…..
"You have some catching up to do."
"Plagg, have I been an idiot this whole time and not noticed how sexy Marinette is!?" Adrien was draped over a couch in his room. "You know what, don't answer that."
Plagg snorted and returned to his Camembert.
"But really, can you blame me for being surprised? She is so different at school, it's like she's a completely different person on the ice, so confident and graceful.. like.. I don't know.. like…."
"Ladybug."
Adrien stared at his kwami in shock.
"What are you saying?"
"I'm saying you have a type, dummy. Super fit confident girls who are better than you at stuff. Just like me."
"You only love cheese, Plagg."
Plagg gave a long, suffering sigh.
"I only love graceful, confident cheese, Adrien. Camembert! She's so.. challenging, but delicate. Uniquely poised to tempt me and fill me with—"
"Yes! Ok. I get it!" Adrien threw a pillow across the room and flopped back on the couch. "Anyway whatever, I just think she's really attractive when she skates."
"And you want to spin her around instead of that older guy?" Plagg snorted again.
Adrien's hands clenched a little bit and his neck flushed with a combination of embarrassment and jealousy. "No! Well yes.. I mean yes, I want to skate really well.. with Marinette." He felt very hot. "But it's like, she's so flirty with him! She looks at him like.." Adrien trailed off, thinking of Marinette and Alain goofing around in the class.
"Like she trusts him to spin her around over his head at high speeds over solid ice with blades attached to their feet," Plagg said drily.
Adrien sighed again. Maybe if I could skate like him, she would look at me like that..
He sat up suddenly. "The recital…!" Adrien's brain scrambled wildly. "I agreed…to skate with Marinette…in front of people..!"
Plagg patted his cheese filled stomach contentedly and yawned. "Finally something I can't help you with. Goodnight."
Adrien rolled his eyes and grabbed his phone.
