a spark, and a fall
notes: i find the adrien-focused chapters are always so much shorter. make of that what you will ;)
xi.
She doesn't know how or when it happened, but at some time in her life between meeting Adrien and laughing at him over coffee, they became friends.
Her heart still thumps at the sight of him and she still trips over her words sometimes, but she can (almost) comfortably text him just to say hi or casually ask him to study together or even just to hang out.
He's a lot dorkier than she ever expected, and more excitable too. In fact, he reminds her of Chat sometimes. But then her heart hurts, so she shoves the black cat out of her head.
Sometimes, he gets this faraway look in his eyes, and when she calls him back to earth, he just apologizes and says, "Nostalgia," as if that means anything to her. She can't push him, though, so she lets it go, but she wonders if he's thinking of someone else, someone better than her.
Sometimes, she wonders if it's better to give up.
But then she wakes up.
"Don't be stupid, Marinette," she tells herself.
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