"You just want to see your girlfriend again." Plagg said, his small furry head sticking out of Adrien's jacket pocket.
"Would you stop calling her that. I told you before, Marinette is just a friend." Adrien said. Adrien managed to talk his driver into letting him sneak out of fencing practice and instead let him help his friends with decorations for the dance. It was a cruel and unusual punishment Adrien was doing to himself, helping build a beautiful dance he knew he wouldn't be able to go to.
"Yeah, sure, look kid I've been around for thousands of years and that dance last night looked more than friendly." Plagg tucked himself away in the jacket pocket once Adrien opened the gym doors.
All his friends were there already, picking out which lights would dazzle better, what food to order, and of course Nino was already making a playlist of songs.
"Hey Adrien over here!" Nino waved his friend over to him.
Adrien walked over to Nino who was holding out his headphones, he wanted to show Adrien what songs he had lined up for the dance. Adrien put on the headphones and bopped his head to the beat of the funky song Nino picked. As he listened to the song his eyes searched around the room to find a certain Bluenette.
He finally spotted Marinette with Rose and Alya, the girls were going over the plans for the dance decorations. Rose was in charge of the dance committee, she hoped to make this the most romantic dance this school year. Adrien watched Marinette as she laughed with the girls, her cheeks rosy pink and her eyes bright as she listened to Rose go over what else she had planned.
"Uh dude."
"Huh?" Adrien looked at Nino.
"The song? What do you think of it?"
"O-oh yeah, it's great." Adrien handed Nino back the headphones and laughed nervously. He hoped Nino didn't catch him looking at Marinette.
"Adrien can you tell Kim we can't have a mechanical bull in the middle of gym." Alix complained.
"And Why not? That should make this party wild." Kim huffed; his arms crossed.
"And just how are we supposed to dance? Rose wants everyone to have room to dance genius." Alix rolled her eyes and the two began to bicker.
"Woah, calm down you two!" Adrien hurried to his friends to settle their argument.
Marinette looked over; she bit her lip to stop the smile that was sneaking upon her face. She couldn't help, but admire the way Adrien took control to stop their friends from fighting. She let a sigh slip out as she watched Adrien, not noticing Nino and Alya whispering behind her.
"Are you sure he was staring?" Alya whispered to Nino, now looking at Adrien.
"Positive." Nino nodded his head.
"Psst...psst." Alya got a hold of Rose's attention. "Come here, I have a plan."
Luckily Marinette was far into her own little Adrien filled world to notice her friends plotting in the background.
Adrien had finally settled his friends' conflict, explaining to Kim that a mechanical bull was most definitely not in Rose's romantic vision. Alix and Kim left to help plan what other decorations they can bring to the dance with Mylene and Ivan. Adrien looked over to Marinette and smiled, the shy girl smiling back and giving a weak wave.
Adrien was about to walk over to her when Alya grabbed Marinette's hand, "Hey girl, we need Adrien and you to help us with something important." Alya said as she dragged her poor and unsuspecting friend to Adrien.
Alya pushed the two together closely, not caring if she was being subtle. "Can you two stay like that for just a minute?" Alya signaled Rose who was at the light switches, with Alya's signal the blonde girl switched off the lights in the gym.
Suddenly there was a single spotlight on Adrien and Marinette. Adrien gasped and looked around to see Nino was behind a machine that controlled the lights they had set up on the ceiling the other day. "Uh, what's going on?"
"We need to check if the lights can follow the king and queen of the dance." Alya said.
"King and queen?" Marinette asked, nervous of what her best friend had in mind.
"Of course, we're going to crown a couple at the dance king and queen and give them a spotlight dance." Rose said, "A romantic and slow dance. Oh, it's going to be adorable!" Rose squealed in delight just thinking of it.
"We need you both to dance so we can check how fast the spotlight dance can follow you two." Alya hurried off to start the music before Marinette could protest.
Suddenly a slow instrumental song started to play. The two of them were unsure what to do now, Adrien looked at Marinette and gave her a nervous smile. Marinette couldn't make herself do anything but look down at her feet.
"Well it's not like we haven't dance before..." Adrien thought. He gave Marinette a gentleman like bow before sticking his hand out for her to grab. Marinette was struck with sudden bashfulness. She slowly lifted her hand to grab Adrien's, her face only turned a darker shade of pink when Adrien immediately took charge of the dance. He looked down at Marinette and smiled at her wide blue eyes and her mouth parted slightly, obviously still in a daze from the romantic setting.
Marinette remembered her dance lessons from Chat Noir the night before. She straightened up and put her hands on Adrien the same way she held Chat Noir, she wanted to make a good impression.
Adrien let out a soft laugh as he noticed the stiff and focused way Marinette held herself. The spotlight followed them as they moved to the sound of the music, the light was obviously working perfectly and Adrien began to question the way Alya was determined to test it out. Though he was too busy looking at Marinette to notice the way their friends were looking at them. Each of their friends stopped what they were doing to look at the couple dancing to the lovely melody that was playing, each hoping this would spark some sort of romance between them.
Adrien leaned close to Marinette's ear and softly whispered, "Relax."
Marinette felt her cheeks go hot when she felt Adrien's warm breath travel against her neck. She looked at him. He was smiling at her, hoping to calm her nerves.
"O-okay." Marinette mumbled.
Adrien grabbed Marinette's hands and pulled them around his neck, keeping his hands just above her waist. He could almost hear Plagg questioning him later that night. "Is this really how just two friends dance?" And of course Adrien would answer yes.
"But is this really how friends dance together?" Adrien found himself questioning it also at the moment. He certainly wasn't dancing this way with her last night.
"But she didn't have a spot light on her last night." Adrien thought. And the way the spot light hit her really made her blue eyes sparkle. Adrien twirled her, gracefully catching her back into his arms.
"Nope. Wait, hold on there, this is Marinette." He thought. "she's nothing more than a good friend."
He found himself holding her closer when he noticed the song was close to ending. Suddenly he felt disappointed about this. Adrien didn't to want to stop dancing with her. He held her waist firmly as he lowered her down into a dip. Marinette held onto him, afraid of being dropped. She looked into Adrien's eyes and her worries, fears, self-doubt were now far away.
Adrien's eyes traveled down to Marinette's pink, soft lips. "Definitely, surely just a friend." He thought. But as the song hit it's last keys he found himself slowly leaning closer to her face, now he doubted any thoughts he had as Marinette as just a friend. He felt the warmth from her breath so close he thought the last inch between them would never close.
"Definitely, truly, obviously, just a..."
"What is going on here?" a loud shrieking voice said.
The lights switched were turn back on by Sabrina with Chloe by her side.
"Marinette Dupain-Cheng what do you think you're doing?" Chloe marched over to her with furry in her eyes.
Adrien quickly brought Marinette back up from the dip and stood between the two girls. He held a hand out to Chloe to stop whatever other remarks she had ready.
"We were just helping with the spot lights. Alya needed to know if it wasn't too old to move for the dance." Adrien said. His cheeks were cooling down from the dance he had with Marinette. He thought of what almost happened between them. He couldn't come up with a logical explanation to it, even he was still confused by it. Perhaps it was the diming of the light or the intimate song that was playing or the way Adrien was holding onto Marinette. Whatever it was definitely scrambled how he thought of Marinette.
"Yeah, we were doing just fine till you came here." Alya glared at Chloe, upset that her plan for her best friends happily ever after was ruined.
"What are you even doing here? You didn't sign up for the dance committee." Alix said, her distasted for Chloe dripping of that sentence.
"Well when I heard that Rose was in charge of the committee, I knew that I had to come right away." Chloe pointed at Sabrina who carried a box of gold and black decorations.
"Chloe, Rose is perfectly capable of running the dance committee without your help." Marinette walked over and put a hand on Rose's shoulder. Marinette shredded any bit of shyness around Chloe, especially if it involved her friends.
Chloe sneered, "With her tacky taste in decertations? I don't think so."
"Chloe," Adrien involved himself in this too. "That's not nice. Rose has wonderful taste and she'll make the dance look beautiful." He placed his hands on his hips, looking disappointed in his childhood friend's rudeness.
Chloe gasped, it amazed Adrien that Chloe still didn't accept that these were his friends. Every one of them were important to him and as much as he still cared for Chloe, he wouldn't tolerate her mean-spirited ways with his other friends.
"If you want to help with the decorating then you're more than welcomed." Adrien said. Rose nodded in delight, her excitement to find the good in Chloe showing.
"But, if you're going to try to take over Rose's job then you should leave." Marinette stood up to Chloe with her hands on her hips and a stern look on her face.
Chloe huffed and stuck her nose up in the air in a snobby fashion. "I'm far too busy with more important things to waste my time here anyways." And with that she strutted off, snapping her fingers to signal Sabrina that they were leaving.
"Good riddance." Alya mumbled. She looked at Adrien and Marinette who were comforting Rose.
"So close..."
I will start on the next chapter as soon as possible! I already have it planned to continue the investigation with Hawkmoth and hopefully some more Marichat and Adrienette.
How did you all like the Adrienette chapter? Too much? Not enough? I'm still not very good at writing romance scenes so hopefully I've gotten better.
I've also come up with two new Miraculous stories that I'm tempted to start already. So maybe a new story will come up also.