Miraculous Fluff Month
Day 14: Telling the Truth
"Okay, it's time," Alya declared, out of the blue.
Marinette was jolted awake by her best friend's voice. Nino and Adrien had turned in their seats to face the girls.
"What? What's the time?" Marinette's sleepy voice asked.
Nino shook his head in amusement.
"She said 'it's time', as in the beginning of a long awaited conversation."
"Oh. Okay, what's 'it time' for?"
Alya and Nino shared a look before giving their respective best friends their serious look.
"Why are either one of you half asleep at almost any given time?"
"Why do you guys miss class so often?"
"What's with the crazy long bathroom breaks?"
"Why do you always smell like cheese, dude?"
Adrien and Marinette froze, knowing their own answers, but looked at each other when they realized their best friends were talking to both of them.
"I know why I do, but why do you?"
"Why would you do the same thing as me?"
They both questioned simultaneously.
Alya leaned forward, snapping her fingers in between them.
"Uh-uh. You'll answer me first. No asking anymore questions until I get my answers."
The heroes spoke at the same time again.
"I can't answer."
"No comment."
Nino's eyebrows rose at how different their demeanors were. No longer were they joking, childish teenagers. Now, they were blank faced, refusing to share their secrets.
"Come on, dudes. You know how Alya is, she'll find out whatever you're hiding eventually. It would be easier to just give in now. What would be so bad you couldn't tell your best friends?"
"It's complicated."
"I made a promise."
They were beginning to sound like twins, answering similarly at the same moment.
Alya was growing suspicious.
"You know, I'm a reporter. I will find out. It's just whether you tell me or I have to spy on you and figure it out myself."
They both laughed, but it was Marinette who responded, to all of their surprise.
"Trust me, you won't figure out my secret. And I can't tell you. It's not really my secret to tell."
Alya seemed to have accepted this, since she responded with a nod. Then, she turned toward Adrien, whom Marinette was also curious to hear from.
"What about you?"
He paled. "I made a promise."
Her eyebrow rose. "And? I promised I would go to bed at a reasonable hour, which I obviously didn't."
"I don't break my promises."
Alya laughed.
"Of course you don't, little cinnamon roll."
Adrien's face became one full of confusion.
"I'm not a dessert."
The rest of the group laughed, making Adrien even more confused.
Alya and Nino left, leaving the two heroes alone.
They both turned to each other and repeated their earlier questions. Neither of them could understand the other, so they took turns staying quiet and urging the other to talk, but they kept doing it at the same time.
Eventually, they both dissolved into laughter.
Adrien wiped a tear from his eye and voiced what was on both their minds.
"This is purr-diculous."
They both froze, Adrien growing pale.
"I mean-"
"You said what you mean," Marinette interrupted. "And it was terrible. The worst pun you've ever made."
Adrien tilted his head in confusion.
"What are you talking about? I don't think I've made many puns around you."
"But of course you have...minou."
Adrien's expression didn't change at first, but then the gears in his head started turning.
"...My Lady?"
Marinette just nodded, but it put a huge grin on Adrien's face.
He leaned forward and hugged her, squeezing the life out of her.
"I found you," he whispered.
"No, I found you."
Alya burst into the classroom, with Nino sprawled out on the floor.
"Okay. The truth. Now."