(A/N) Good Morning to everyone as it is 3am here.
I know I'm late, this Chapter was just so hard to do. I wanted to explain more of their relationship before getting into the good stuff and the reveal. (At least I already know what to do with that chapter.)
I'm not so good at explaining Adrien's affection but I hope you get what I'm getting at. It's kinda a boring story line but the boring ones make the good ones better as they'll explain more of what's going on.
Hopefully I will get next chapter out by Friday and get back on schedule. Sorry for the delay.
Anyways, I hope you Enjoy...
The desire of one's affection was always craved by the blonde model.
The lack of attention from his father and Nathalie really made it all the more need to find that love from someone else.
Of course he was an idiot; as Plagg said he was the night before; for getting that sort of attention from the bluenette in his Superhero form.
He knew he should of waited until school the next day to overture a relationship with her as Adrien instead.
But timing is everything.
When she had kissed him, he wasn't thinking about who was kissing her back. He wasn't thinking about the danger that could come with this newly found feeling he had at that moment.
Marinette was on his mind, had always been on his mind. He finally decided not to push that feeling aside and let it surface and be known to him.
It was a hard to turn down the only girl he thought he had loved all this time, but his heart yearned for Marinette and it had for quite awhile now.
Maybe he should of given Ladybug a chance to explain, to give her the reveal and maybe then he might of changed his feelings towards her.
But it was too late now. As Chat Noir would say; his claws were in too deep.
Pun intended.
The need to have Marinette close to him only grew as the day went on, even sleep didn't help when all he wanted was to breathe in her scent again.
She just smelt so good.
Adrien's gaze had locked onto the said girl as she entered the school grounds with a skip in her step. He couldn't help but smile at her when he had notice the spark in her eyes had returned after being gone for so many months.
It made him giddy to think that he did this to her.
Marinette was besides Alya when she had spotted the blonde staring at her, immediately locking her blue orbs with his green ones.
A blush creeped up on her cheeks and when Adrien forgot it who he was at that given moment; giving the girl a breif wink that only Chat Noir would give Ladybug, made her loose all concerntration, tripping on someone's school bag and bolding over a bypassing student flat on the floor.
Adrien's eyes shot with concern, his body jolted out of his seat next to Nino only to sit back down when his friend held tightly onto his shoulder.
The blonde had forgotten Nino had been talking to him this whole time, last he heard was something about a mix for Alya's upcoming birthday but of course he had lost all focus when Marinette had turned up to school.
"Dude, where are you going?" Nino gave him a knowing look, obviously seeing the same thing he witness only moments ago.
"No where." It came as a straight out lie to save him the explaination.
It took a moment as the DJ focused on the two girls out into the distance and then back to the blonde to really know why his friend had been acting strangely.
"Do you want Alya to eat you alive again?" Nino chuckled, seeing Adrien flinch at the mention of his girlfriend's name.
"I'm not staring I swear!" Word vomit just kept coming out of Adrien's mouth, worried he was going to get in trouble at any given moment.
"Dude, your not going to get killed... yet. But if you keep looking at Marinette like a love sick puppy and Alya catches you, I assure you she will want answers."
Adrien swolled, sweat starting to bead down his face. Alya was one scary person when she wanted to be and knowing what Nino had said he didn't doubt his friend for a spilt second.
"I-I swear, I-I wasn't." Adrien stuttered.
The DJ saw the uneasy look Adrien was wearing, waving his hands frantically in front of him as he tried to explain himself.
"Hey man, I'm joking." Another hard pat went down on his shoulder, making the blonde jump again. "Look if you have feelings for Marinette I wouldn't blame you, just make sure your feelings are genuine though or Alya would have your head."
The blonde sighed, looking away from his best friend. "I think I stuff that up already Nino. She has her heart set on someone else." It was the half truth but Adrien couldn't tell him about her kiss with Chat Noir.
"She isn't dating Luka if that's what your asking." Nino implied. "Alya told me that she had turned him down all because she was in love with someone else." A little nudge to Adrien's shoulder got the blonde looking directly at his friend again. "Guess her feelings for you haven't changed after all."
"What do you mean you don't have feelings for Adrien anymore? Are you still sick girl?"
The conversation was going well, until Marinette opened her big mouth to Alya, telling her it wasn't Adrien jitters that had caused her clumsiness.
Of course Adrien's wink had set her off, picturing Chat Noir in his place as he did it.
She really had to shake her head from that thought. There was no way they were one in the same.
"I don't." She argued. "Is it so hard to believe that maybe I jumped into this a little too fast, I mean, I haven't even gotten to know him well enough yet to even have those sorts of feelings for him."
"Okay who are you and what have you done with Marinette Dupain-Cheng?" Alya said in all seriousness.
Marinette placed a hand on her friends shoulder and smiled. "I'm right here Alya, I haven't gone anywhere."
The reporter just gawked at her, mouth hung open and in shock. "We worked this hard for you to say you jumped in too fast! Are you serious?" Alya whined. "There has to be someone else then if Adrien isn't on your mind anymore."
More questions fired at the bluenette, making Marinette take a step back to get some breathing space from the reporter, her hands waving in the air frantically.
"There isn't anyone, I swear."
Oh yes there was.
Alya's arm hooked onto Marinette's as she dragged the girl out of the bathroom and towards the classroom.
The bell had rang as they exited and pools of students flocked the halls in a rush.
"I'm going to get it out of you one way or another, don't you think you're getting away that easily." Alya waved her finger near her friends face as she dragged Marinette up the set of stairs to their first class of the day.
The reporter had let go of Marinette's arm as they entered the classroom, going over to sit on Nino's lap as she pulled down his cap over his eyes. With a light chuckle from the both of them, Alya had snaked her arms around his neck, stopping him from fixing his cap and planting a sweet kiss on his lips.
Marinette and Adrien looked at each other briefly in pure awkwardness. The bluenette quickly walking to her seat behind him, hoping he wouldn't lock eyes with her again while this was still happening in front of them.
Adrien turned in his seat, about to say something to the girl behind him but when the teacher interrupted the happy couple beside him he knew not to disrupt while she was in the room, but he was also desperate to talk to the girl he shared the same moment with less then twelve hours ago.
That need of affection was still eating him alive.
"Alya, Nino, you have been told before to do these things at home and not at school. Please sit before I have to write you both up for detention." Mrs Bustier scold.
Alya got off Nino's lap, not looking anywhere near as embarrassed as Marinette clearly was. The poor girls face was red and flustered when the reporter had finally entered her seat.
"Girl, you okay?" Alya asked, clearly confused in why her friend was in such a state.
Marinette just nodded, the colour of her cheeks finally coming out from all that redness. She didn't miss Adrien's sudden glance when Alya had questioned her about it.
Why was he always looking her way?
The need to talk to Marinette really got Adrien on the edge for most of the day. It wasn't the fact he couldn't talk to her, it was only the fact that Chat Noir knew what to say when his cilvian self had no idea on the matter.
He never got that chance to ask her what got her ticked off last night, or why she was crying in the darkness on her balcony.
Adrien had never seen Marinette akumitized before and thanks to him he stopped that from happening anytime soon, but it still didn't stop him from getting curious.
Curiosity killed the cat as they say.
The blonde watch as Marinette made her way to the bakery for lunch, he knew this would be the perfect time to question all his unsolved answers as Chat Noir.
Satisfaction brought it back.
A light tap with his baton and Chat Noir stepped back, hearing the shuffling from under his feet, followed by a small head poking out of the skylight.
"Hello Princess." Chat bowed before her.
The bluenette wore a smirk on her lips, one that was cheeky and scary all at the same time. "Come on in kitty."
Chat waited for the girl to move down out of the way before he followed her, landing on her pink sheets.
The first thing that came into veiw was her pin board again, still the same pictures he had seen a few nights back with a few extra ones she had clearly hung up to add to the collection.
Was she a fan of him and Ladybug? He thought as most of those pictures were of him and his partner together.
Just as he went to climb down her stairs, Marinette had stopped him with her hand, throwing something under her loft that he couldn't see from where he was standing.
"Come on down Chat." She called, sitting down on her chaise away from the item she threw only moments ago. "So what do I owe this visit." She asked happily.
Chat looked back to see what Marinette was trying to hide from him, but when he saw it was just bits of fabric chucked everywhere on her desk he just shrugged it off as her cleaning up the place before he had seen it in its messy state.
"Can't a knight visit his princess?" Chat looked back at her, grinning like nothing was wrong.
It wasn't entirely the reason for his visit, he was meant to check up on her and get some of that Marinette affection along the way.
The only problem was, Chat didn't know if that was only a one time thing or not.
"Knight?" Marinette chuckled.
Chat shuffled on the spot, waiting for the bluenette to usher him closer. "I'm your knight in shiny leather... unless you don't want to call me that?"
Marinette tapped her chin a few times, looking anywhere but at the black cladded hero before she smiled and set all her focus back on him.
"I could get use to it." She giggled, gesturing him to take a seat next to her.
Her laugh always made him smile.
Being next to her shouldn't of been that hard, he had done more then talk to her the night before, but by gosh it was nerve racking.
They both sat in silence before Marinette was the first to speak. "I'm sorry." She said, her hand gently placed on the top of his.
He looked at her, concerned he had done something wrong within those few minutes he arrived. "What for princess?" Chat question.
"I shouldn't of kissed you. I was upset, at a few things actually and I bottled them all up inside, which I knew I should of spoke to someone about but then again I was scared in what people would say and..." Chat put a clawed finger to her lips, stopping the girl from her rant.
"It's okay Marinette." He turned his full attention to her, grabbing onto both her hands. "You don't need to apologize, I will be here for you, whatever way you want me to be." When he got a smile from the blunette he thought it would be the perfect time to add in a joke. "Even a listening ear... I do have four that aren't getting used at the moment."
That caused a hearty laugh to echo through the pink room.
"So your not mad?" Marinette ask, going all shy again and looking away from her partner.
Chat tilted her chin up and got her to look his way, locking onto her blue orbs. "No. I can never be mad at you."
"Good." She whispered, moving closer towards him. "Because this." She gesture to the both of them. "Can't happen." Biting her lip. "Because it would be too dangerous." Her eyes lowered to his lips for a breif moment before gazing back up into his green cat like eyes.
Chat was moving in closer as well, eyes flicking between her lips and her blue orbs. "I agree." He said, moving in just that little bit closer so he could feel her warm breath fanning his face. "Very dangerous." He repeated.
Their noses touched, breath miggling together. Marinette's hand had rested on Chat's bicep, feeling the cool leather under her skin, while Chat had his clawed hand resting on her hip.
It had felt like time had stopped around them at that point, so close together that only a centimeter of air was stopping anything from actually happening.
Until Marinette's alarm went off.
Damn! Chat cursed to himself, watching the girl pull away with a slight blush on her cheeks.
"I-I should g-get something t-to eat before lunch break is o-over." Marinette stuttered, feeling flustered by how close she was to her partner.
Chat got up and stretched and walked over to her set of stairs. "Yeah I better get back to my school before someone notice I'm missing." He replied.
"Chat." She called, rising from her spot and grabbing his attention before he'd left. "Thank you." She smiled.
He watched as she bit her lip in thought, her blue orbs still looking at him with that same love and affection from before.
Without a second thought, Chat walked over to her and kissed her without hesitation. No alarm, nothing was going to get in his way this time.
He still wanted her as much as he did the night before and even though she said it was dangerous doing this, he could see in her eyes she still wanted it to.
And he was right.
Her arms immediately went around his neck, pulling him in closer as her hands ran through the back of his hair.
It was only natural to snake his hands around her waist, holding her by the small of her back as he pressed his body against hers.
The kiss went on longer then expected, hearing Marinette's alarm go off with its second warning as the two were still locked together.
If he didn't break it off soon, his friends were sure to catch on they were both up to something behind their backs.
Chat pulled away, regretting it instantly and whimpering from the loss of warmth. "Sorry princess, but I got to run."
He placed a soft kiss on her forehead and quickly exited her room, leaving an out of breath Marinette behind.
"Marinette, you are going to endanger yourself and Chat Noir if you keep this up. It's not safe." Tikki scold, coming out from her hiding place, from behind a piece of fabric on her desk.
Marinette just stood there, smiling to herself as she touched her lips, the kiss still feeling raw on her skin.
"It will be okay Tikki, I will be careful."
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