Nerves shot off in her chest as if they couldn't help but bounce off of each other and bound through her, but she stepped closer to knock with trembling hands anyway. Ladybug could be strong and confident, shyness didn't need to cling to her when she was Ladybug, and besides, Adrien liked her, really, truly liked her.
The memory shot off like a rocket, an accidental, overheard conversation, and her heart was off in an even faster dash, her face tinted pink, and she was pretty sure that she couldn't feel her toes anymore.
"L-Ladybug?" Beautiful green eyes looked up and met her blue ones head on, "W-What's going on? Is there an Akuma?"
"No, no. Nothing like that. I-I just figured that I'd swing by after my patrol s-since you're up and all." It sounded stupid, definitely, since it was still light out, but she thought that she'd heard Cat Noir say something similar to her before, and it just seemed acceptable. It was supposed to be patrol after all though a little early, because her mind wouldn't stop buzzing, ranting happily to Tikki with confusion and indecision wasn't slowing it down any either, and so she'd needed to clear her head, but in the end, she'd still somehow ended up on Adrien's balcony.
"P-Patrol? Isn't it a little early?" The look on Adrien's face would have made her laugh if she wasn't so nervous and if it wasn't somehow adorable to her. Pleasant confusion mixed with a bit of dazed contemplation. Adrien somehow could be adorable whenever which sort of wasn't fair, but mostly, it just made her heart race and her mind daze as if she could take a quick snapshot of the moment with her mind and remember it forever.
"Yeah, it's earlier than normal." Ladybug blushed, "Kind of needed to just be Ladybug, you know?" Ugh, why did she have to say that? Of course, he didn't know. It wasn't like he was Cat Noir, and he obviously wasn't Ladybug since she was kind of standing before him right now.
"Y-Yeah, I mean, I can imagine." Adrien sighed, looking just as freaked out and embarrassed with what he said as Ladybug felt.
"Y-Yeah." Ladybug took a deep breath before words returned to her, "How was your day? Or did anything interesting happen? Do you have a crush?" She could have just about cursed from stupidity; that last question obviously wasn't like the first two, and if this was a circle the phrase that doesn't belong and so doesn't need to be said list, she'd circle the last one and retract her question.
"Uh," Adrien's face turned fire engine red as he recollected his thoughts, "It was pretty normal. A lot less busy actually, and yeah, I do, I-I guess."
"Awesome." Ladybug muttered, "Hopefully, whoever she is, she's worth it." Ladybug wanted to smack herself silly, because of course, she knew who his crush was or she wouldn't be on his balcony right now.
"Y-Yeah, she is." Adrien muttered, "It's you, actually." She saw the sudden onslaught of shyness before Adrien could duck his face away, and suddenly she wanted to cuddle him closer like a life sized teddy bear.
"O-Oh," Ladybug's face flamed pink at having heard it directed at her this time and not just overheard and hoped for, "The funny thing is, actually it's not funny, but I-I like you too." Why, oh, why do nerves have to still hit her and make her trip over her words when she knew that she didn't have to be nervous anymore? She felt like she'd taken his nerves onto her and just tried to join the whole, massive nerve filled mess together like some failed art project. Ladybug could do without the extra nerves, thanks.
"O-Oh," He repeated, "I-I'm glad." Someone must have blessed him with the ability to better understand this situation than Ladybug did, and she suddenly wondered if it was appropriate to kiss him in gratitude before realizing that it would be a lot less like a gratitude kiss and a lot more like an awkward, first knowing that the other can respond kiss from the two of them. Ladybug didn't really feel like chasing him away with her non-existant kissing skills yet, but may be he'd willingly kiss her in the future once enough time had passed to where he wouldn't just leave from how awkward it is or may be she could somehow ask Tikki for advice though on second thought that would be more awkward than anything. Do Kwamis even kiss?
Ladybug shook her head to clear her thoughts from the semi-disturbing levels of details that placed themselves there along with the images and decided to try to take this one step at a time. Kissing could wait until they were both ready, but right now, they could plan their first date and sit down and get to know each other. Deep breaths and focusing on little, slow steps right now would be a lifesaver if she didn't let her mind get too carried away.
Ladybug was just glad that her mouth didn't spill all of her thoughts out like slippery goo before Adrien, because surely, he'd be just as embarrassed by them as she still was. Secondhand embarrassment would only make this worse, but she'd just shake off whatever embarrassment and let this fade to something else.
"What's your favorite color?" Tumbled forth from her lips, and even though she was positive that that was a little mandane, she was curious, and it definitely was much better than probably most of what she could have said. It would be the first of many that will spill forth between the two of them for the next three hours until they both actually needed to eat dinner and get ready to go to school the next day.