I wanted to give a special thank you to Tiger Priestess and Mayuralover for being my most dedicated reviewers, you're both rockstars! Also, to whoever the guest was that pointed out my spelling errors, I went back and fixed the ones I found in the first few chapters. I reread every chapter at least 3 times before posting, but after a certain point, I tend to stop noticing the errors and instead just read what I know it's supposed to say, so hearing about them from you really helped.

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Nathanael turned to make his way to the back but was interrupted by Marinette's voice.

"Oh, Nathanael, we missed this-" her words were cut off by a gasp of aww. "This is beautiful!"

Adrien looked at the paper she was holding and felt his eyes widen. It was a magnificent picture of Marinette. She was wearing a red traditional chinese-style dress that had billowing white sleeves. Her hair was in her signature pigtails, but there was a large pink peony pinned in it. Her eyes were closed and she smiled sweetly as a light pink blush dusted her face, a blush that she now mirrored.

"Wow Nathanael, you really captured Marinette's, well everything," Alya said with an impressed whistle. "Heck, I don't even know if I've seen this side of my girl before."

"Oh, th-thanks Alya." Nathanael rushed back to them hastily and reached out to grab the drawing, his face turning red.

"Actually Nathanael," Marinette said and moved the paper slightly away from his outstretched hand. "Uhm, w-would it be possible to, I mean, m-maybe I-"

Marinette stopped to take a deep breath and Adrien felt his heart speed up as he watched her blush darken. She had always been so confident around everyone, well everyone but him of course. In front of Adrien she was a blushing and stuttering mess. Seeing her act that way because of someone else sent a rush of panic through his veins.

"Could I keep this?" The color of Nathaniel face could have put his hair to shame. "Y-you don't to have say yes." Marinette looked horrified as her brain caught up with her mouth. "You don't have to say yes!" she corrected. "It's just so amazing, and-and I'd be honored if you agreed."

The blush on Nathanael's face was constant, but Adrian saw his mouth tilt-up in a small smile. Despite its size, Adrian was shocked by how much emotion backed it. "Appreciation. Happiness. Pride. Adoration." Adrien's throat went dry. "Love.""If you like it that much, I'd love," Adrian flinched, "for you to keep it."

"Really?! Thank you Nath!" Marinette threw her arms around the boy in a hug. Nathanael looked like he'd died and gone to heaven.

"Would you look at that, I guess there is someone desperate enough to like a common Baker's daughter after all," Chloe said snarkily without looking up from the nail she was filing.

Adrien couldn't decide if he was mad at the comment or relieved when it caused the two to break apart. Before another argument could break out Mme Mendeleiev entered the room and started class.

Adrien found it difficult to pay attention to the lesson with his mind replaying everything that had happened. He repeatedly found himself glancing at the girl sitting directly behind him, and whenever he noticed her looking at her drawing his heart sank lower. It must have shown on his face, because Nino kept giving him questioning looks. Each time he sent one, Adrien would return a shoulder shrug of his own. He knew he was going to be questioned about his mood later, but he doubted he'd have an adequate answer. He wasn't even sure himself why this was affecting him. But he was determined to figure it out.

Sorry it's a bit shorter than usual, I'm going to try and make up for it in the next chapter, I just really wanted to end this one at this point. Who knows, if I get enough reviews I might just post the next one early have two uploads this week (I start considering after 5, 10 reviews guarantees an early upload).See y'all next chapter~Sana