A/N Sorry this is a bit of a long one again xD but its not at long as Chapter Seven. WOW all the Drama xD Sorry its a bit everywhere...
"Marinette... Please wake up..."
"Go away Tikki, I'm not going to school today."
"Marinette, at least talk to me."
"Maybe later Tikki. I just want to sleep right now." Marinette burst into yet another fit of tears. She had hardly slept and she had not eaten that night nor was she going to eat any breakfast. She just didn't have the strength to leave her bed.
"Ooh, I swear, next time I see that boy, I'm gonna, I'm gonna- Marinette?"
She has grabbed on the Tikki's foot, her eyes swollen with tears and her hair everywhere from where she had been tugging on her hair as she screamed into her pillow for half the night.
"Tikki..."
"I'm here Marinette." Tikki quickly flew to grab a tissue from Marinette's desk and wiped the tears from the girl's cheeks. She then sat down neatly on her lap.
"Should I just give in and force myself to love Cat?"
"You can't force yourself to love. It's not right."
"What's the point in even trying anymore? Adrien clearly doesn't love me. You heard him yesterday in the library. He was in love with someone else and now he is love with someone else who likes him."
"Oh Marinette... If only you knew."
"Knew what?"
"I'm sorry, you know there are things I can't say as a kwami."
"To hell with all your secrets Tikki! Just tell me!"
"Look. He said he is starting to love someone who loves him. Who else loves him other than you?"
"Pretty much every girl in Paris."
"No I mean genuinely loves him for the person inside. Not his fame."
"I can't think of anyone."
"Exactly!"
"I don't understand."
"Can't you see? He loves YOU Marinette!"
"How can you be so sure?"
"Pffft it's obvious! The way he looks at you, the way he always wants to be around you lately. And the way he held your hand in the library!"
"I guess... But I can't just walk up to Adrien now. Not after the way I just walked out yesterday."
"You'll see, if you hurry up and get to lesson before it starts, Adrien will seem down and you will know for sure it's because he likes you and he knows he just messed up."
"You sure Tikki?"
"Do Ladybugs have spots?"
"Hehe, okay! 10 minutes... I'll have to just take a shower and go to school with wet hair."
"Don't you worry! Just get in the shower and I will bring in your clothes and I'll dry you hair while you get dressed and sort out your bag. You can always use Ladybug to hurry and get to school."
Marinette nodded and did exactly as she was told and luckily made it into lesson only a few minutes after the bell.
"Marinette! I need to talk to you."
"Well I don't want to talk to you."
"Stop being so stubborn! I- I just want to apologies for last night. I stepped over the line by shouting at you."
"I already forgave you."
"Oh Marinette."
Adrien went to hug the girl but she just pushed him out of the way as she continued to her next lesson."
"I may have forgiven you but I need time to recover. What you said last night, it really hurt me. Bad. I need time to recover and get over how I feel about you."
"Mari-"
"Just stop. Don't make this harder than what it already is. A single tear escaped Marinette's eye as her voice began to crack. "I just want you to be happy Adrien."
"Urrrg you're being just like her!"
"Good bye, Adrien."
"But Marinette."
It was too late. She was already walking away.
"You're the one I've fallen in love with."
Adrien sighed and turned to make his way to his own lesson. He had to try and keep his emotions at bay. Every day she reminded him more and more of Ladybug. However, all his visits with Marinette as Cat hadn't revealed anything to him. As tempting as it was to find out Ladybug's true identity, he had to respect her privacy. She didn't want to reveal herself for a reason. At least knowing would put his mind at rest. Maybe then he could love Marinette for who she is rather than just her similarities.
"You was wrong Tikki. He seemed fine."
"You didn't give him a chance to speak. He was about to confess his feelings!"
"I'm sorry. I just didn't want to hear it. Not after yesterday. Especially if it isn't me he loves. Even if it was me, why would he love me now after the way I just spoke to him?"
"Do you still love him?"
"Of course I do!"
"Then he will probably still love you! I really think you are the one that he was talking about. About loving him but not being able to return the feelings until now."
"But can I be with him knowing he might still have feelings for someone else."
"Sorry for shouting but ARE YOU BLIND?!"
"Huh?"
"He's in love with a super hero! LADYBUG! He loved you all along!"
"No... He loves Ladybug. Not me."
"That's not true. He doesn't know you are Ladybug. To him, you are two different people. He loves you for you! Not because you're Ladybug."
"How can I be sure it's even me he loves?"
"Oh come on Marinette. It's obvious. Don't make me tickle you until you are forced to agree."
Tikki began to giggle in an attempt to cheer up her girl as she began to rub her face against Marinette's cheek.
"She rejected me Plagg. Just like Ladybug."
"But you know she loves you! She told Cat herself!"
"That was months ago! Take could have changed by now."
"Come on. The posters we're still in her room last week when you visited her."
"But I was mean last night. I snapped at her."
"Look at you, like a married couple already."
"Plagg..." As much as Plagg's humor annoyed him at a time like this, he did like the thought."
"But she didn't know you was talking about her. She's probably just upset because she thinks you're in love with someone else."
"Yeah, and because of me, she knows I love Ladybug."
"That might not be so bad. She doesn't know you are Cat so maybe after she's had time to think about it she will assume it's just a silly crush like when someone has a crush on a celebrity. You may like them but you know you want get a chance with them. You never get a chance to meet celebrities."
"But this isn't just a crush and I have met Ladybug. I'm with her nearly every day saving Paris."
"She doesn't know that."
"I think I need Cat Noir, Plagg. If Marinette won't listen to me, maybe she'll listen to Cat. I think it's time I told her who I am."
"NO! If you tell her you are Cat then that may scare her off. She will realize you really do love Ladybug."
"Can I at least just go be with my princess?!"
"You don't happen to have any camembert first do you?"
Adrien ignored Plagg and quickly transformed into Cat Noir.
Racing across the roof tops, his heart was pounding. What was he going to say? True, her not knowing he was Adrien enabled him to talk to her but inside he knew he was going to be hurting.
Yet again, as he tapped on the glass, there was no answer. 'Maybe she is just too upset to come to the window' he thought. He decided to let himself in and saw all the posters torn apart, scattered across the floor. Even the framed photo of them two had been turned on its face so it could not be seen.
"I really have hurt her. Haven't I. I need to go find her!"
He immediately left her room, turning the photo back up right on his way out.
"Cat... I was hoping I would find you tonight."
"Huh? Ladybug?"
"I've been looking for you." Ladybug sat down on the roof top next to her partner.
"You have?" Cat couldn't help blushing.
"You remember when we first started protecting Paris? This was place we would go to in hopes of the other coming along and finding us."
"Yeah. That's why I'm here."
"It's a lovely view isn't it?"
"Why were you looking for me?"
"I've just had a bad day. No big deal. I just needed to be close to you."
"Y- You did? That's clawesome!"
"Yeah..." Ladybug just smiled scratching Cat Noir's ear.
"You're not going to get angry at my pun?"
"How can I? If I start being mean to you, I'll lose the only friend I have left. I mean I do have Alya. Heh- she really enjoys the interviews, but you are the only person I can actually be Ladybug around and feel comfortable."
"What do you mean? You're not just Ladybug."
"I know. It's just, around everyone else I worry about being myself incase people figure out my identity. With you, I just don't have that worry."
"You mean?-"
"I mean that you're too stupid to realize silly kitty."
"Oh... HEY! FELINES!"
"I've had enough with feelings... I just can't see the point in loving anymore."
"You're in love?"
"Well at first I thought it was because you were too stupid to realize but then it turns out I was the one being stupid."
"My lady?"
"It all came down to trust. I feel comfortable with you because I trust you. I've known you for almost a year and a half now. If you wanted to know who I was you would be trying to uncover every little detail about me. I realized it doesn't matter to you who I am because it doesn't change who I am. With or without the mask, I'm the same clumsy, stupid, broken hearted girl."
"But-" she was right she would be the same person, but she wasn't any of those things. He's just going to fall in love with her all over again if she makes him list out all the things that make her so perfect!
"You are not any of those things. And I'm not trust worthy. You don't know how much I want to know the beautiful girl behind that mask. But I respect your privacy."
"What's the point in even trying? You might as well know. Master Fu-"
"You went to see Master Fu?"
"Yeah, I had to return a book."
"A book?" 'So that's where my dad's book went.'
"He told me we should show each other our identities."
"He did?! I mean you don't have to... I'm not going to force you."
"I want you too."
"WAIT! I didn't want to find out like this. You're not thinking straight."
"It's too late. It's what I want."
"But is it want you want! You're just going to give up like that?"
"YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I HAVE BEEN THROUGH!"
"You're right I don't, but I can help you. You are not clumsy or stupid! You are together, smart, beautiful, courageous, curious, kind hearted and above all, selfless! I-"
He stopped as he noticed all those words he had just used to describe Ladybug were also the same words he would use to describe Marinette.
"I'm sorry My Lady, but I need to go."
"Wait! Don't leave."
"I need to go find Marinette!"
A/N The next chapter may be a while as I am having to re-write it. I started writing it ages ago for like chapter five but it didn't really fit so now I am basically re-writing the whole chapter (keeping the same sort of plot originally planned). I may even prolong it by one more chapter and have chapter eleven focus on Cat going to Marinette's house.
Well please leave a review, it would really help me out ^-^
Another thing I wanted to ask is if you guys would be interested in one of my other stories. I wrote it back in like 9th Grade (Well Year 9 because I'm British, HE-HEY!) It is called 'Dragon Rider' and it only has one chapter (sure there was like three or four chapters...) but if you guys like it I will write more once I finish this fic :)