Chapter 11: Spaghetti!

Nino started amusedly at his best friend, who was staring off into space dreamily. Plagg hovered beside him, snickering. As amusing as this was, that needed to go, or else Adrien would be late.

"Hey, Adrien?" Nino asked.

"Yes Nino..." He responded, still daydreaming and paying absolutely no attention to them.

"Wake up, dude!" Nino yelled, and Adrien jumped in surprise. "Man, I know you're thinking about that girl, but don't let it distract you from life this much!"

Adrien just pouted and said, "not funny, Nino!"

"On the contrary kid, that was hilarious! Not quite as good as cheese, but good enough!" Said Plagg. Wow, that was a very high compliment (coming from Plagg, anyways)!

"Shut up, both of you..." Adrien grumbled as they packed away their fencing gear.

Adrien and Nino were walking down the hallway with Plagg floating beside them, heading on their way to the room where. As they walked- and in Plagg's case flew- Plagg and Nino continued to tease Adrien about "his Lady." He was turning redder... and redder... this was so much fun!

"Adrien, where have you been? Vincent arrived a few minutes ago, and the king is getting impatient. Come on!" Nathalie said as she walked towards them, Plagg quickly darting out of sight.

"Okay, we're coming!" Adrien hurried to follow her with Nino (and Plagg) right behind him.

"So these paintings will be sent to other kingdoms, as invitations to come to a ball?" Adrien asked his father as he posed for the portrait.

"Yes, and at the ball you have to choose a bride," his father told him. But he didn't want to marry some foreign princess who he barely knew! Besides, he was already in love with- wait, what? He didn't even know her name! But yet...

"Could I not wed, say, a good honest country girl?" He asked. His father looked shocked!

At that, Nathalie stepped forward. "And how much land would this 'good honest country girl' provide us? How many soldiers? How would she make the kingdom stronger?" She told him. Adrien frowned. His Lady didn't need land or armies to make them stronger!

Vincent the painter, on seeing Adrien's frown, told him to "smile, Your Highness! Like your mama is bringing in the spaghetti!" Uhm...

Nino started laughing his head off as Adrien put on a fake smile. Trying not to fall down from laughter, Nino managed to get out, "is he always like this?" Barely moving his mouth, Adrien whispered back a quick "yes."

Picking back up their earlier conversation, Adrien said, "alright. I'll choose a bride at the ball... on one condition." Of course, he purposefully left out the 'princess' part. He didn't intend to marry anyone except for- wait, uh... "invite all the people in the kingdom, not just the nobility," he finished. Then his Lady would be able to come!

"Very well. A ball for the people, and a princess for the prince!" Agreed Nathalie, with Gabriel nodding in approval. True that, after all she'd be a princess when he married her! Wait, slow down Adrien... he didn't know that she'd say yes...

"Sounds almost as good as spaghetti!" Cut in that weird painter. Adrien and Nino would have both burst out laughing if they weren't both too busy plotting how best to have Adrien marry his Lady!

"No one asked you," King Gabriel said coolly. Seeing the look on his face, Vincent gulped, and went back to painting.

A/N: Yep, he already wants to marry her, and the first thing he thinks is "what if she doesn't say yes?" Not, "wait, I literally met her once..." XD

Sorry it's been so long, I got distracted by my new MLB forum (in case you want to check it out, it's called "Miraculous RPG: The Twin Box"), and then I was also struggling to write chapter 13... you'll see why (isn't 13 supposed to be unlucky? Huh, fitting for what happens... though I'm sure most of you can guess). Oh, and then I got grounded... anyways, my apologies! Don't worry, I'm not going to give up on this story. Oh right, and I also got the idea for my next MLB story during break! I haven't started writing it yet, though (except for the summary!). I guess I thought it'd be best to stick to writing one story at a time! (Though here's a little hint... it involves an OC who's suspiciously like me, a psychotic pathological liar, and salt...)

Vincent the photographer/spaghetti dude is so weird! I couldn't resist making him the painter, though. Anyways! FOLLOW, FAVORITE, AND REVIEW, PLEASE!

Potato: Yeah, he just totally interrupts their beautiful moment! So mean! And yes, that was a typo. You're probably right about that italics thing, I don't really know that much about actually writing stories. I mean, studying literature is great (no it's not, the only interesting thing about it is some of the stories) and all, but you never get to write anything but essays and summaries and bla bla bla... studying how to actually write stories would be much more interesting (dare I say, useful?). Uh, so yeah! I'll fix that... someday... maybe... if I ever get around to it...