Duel Roles

"And for the role of Adriella, Chloe. Has everyone gotten their roles?" says, looking over the rim of her chart, and Chloe's hand shoots up, "why am I playing the role of the villain?"

explains to Chloe why, while Adrien, Alya, Nino and Marinette talk amongst themselves.

"I can't believe you get to play Meredith!" Alya excitedly whispers, and Marinette nods, eagerly whispering back, "and I get to act with Adrien!" She glances at the grinning blond in front of her, and he caught her gaze, and grins, "you'll make a great Meredith, Marinette."

She flushes, and looks at her paper, "and you make a Johnathan good. Ah.. I mean, you'll make a good Johnathan."

He grins, and continues to talk to Nino, and she glares at Alya as her friend snickers. "You make a Johnathan good?" She snickers, and Marinette groans, placing her head against the table.

That night, the two masked heroes sat, watching over Paris, and Chat was almost imperceptibly moving closer to Ladybug, whose gaze was distant, "is there a reason you look so vacant, Bugaboo?" He smirks, and she breaks from her stupor.

She stands, and moves away from him, "I have a.. problem. There's a thing I'm supposed to do for school... and it involves me having to speak in front of a class with a speech. I've been told I sound so unnatural when reading."

"Really?" He raises a brow, surprised to hear she's talking about her civilian life. "Yes. And what's even worse, if I mess up, I don't believe I could go back ever."

"Well, what's your speech about?" He asks, leaning back, head dropped backwards as to watch her pace, and she stops, looks at him, and stifles a laugh, before standing over him, "when a person first fell in love with someone."

He twists around in an awkward way for a human, but normal for a cat, and looks up up her, "does it have to be when a person first fell in love?"

"Yes. It does. It's a student made play about love, and honestly," she drops to the ground in front of him with a huff, "I think someone else would've made a better role."

"Hmm... I could give you a few pointers."

This time she didn't stifle her laughter, and he was genuinely insulted, so he cleared his throat and says, "the first time we touched, it's as if a whole new world of galaxies had opened up, the universe conspired, the stars approved, the moon stopped hiding, just to peer at us from above, and for the first time, finally, finally something felt right."

By then she had stopped laughing, and she stares at her redding partner, and he coughs, "I.. I know a few things."

He gets up, and she grabs his hand, "thank you." She smiles, and he pulls her up, "no problem, M'lady." He then winks, "and if you'd like me to come to this little performance of yours for more pointers, just tell me when."

She smirks too, and pulls her hand from his, and pokes his nose, "nope. Silly kitty, but I still think we shouldn't know each other's identities. And although I am thankful for the pointers, I think we should end the night here." He whines, and she turns, taking her yo-yo off her waist, and vanishing in the night of Paris.

He sighs, happily, and brushes his hair up, " if only you could see I was speaking the truth, m'lady." He opens his eyes and watches her leave, and he smiles besides himself, and sits down, staring at the Tour Eiffel in wonder, remembering when he first met his lady.

((I feel like I'm not explaining how these are duel roles, and Marinette is a little OOC, but, by duel roles I mean Marinette loves Adrien, and Chat loves Ladybug. Both have to speak from the heart in order to have their crushes notice, even though they might not. Does that make sense? Sorry if it doesn't. Ari))