Rose and Juleka had just gotten into a relationship, so they decided to have dinner together and come out to Rose's parents. They had already done so to Juleka's mom, they wanted to get the whole mess over with at the beginning.

"I'm scared, Juleka. I don't know what my parents' stances are on homosexuality are."

"I'm sure they will be accepting, they love you."

"Yeah, you're right."

They both walked into the house together. Dinner started off fine, and both of Rose's parents were totally cool with the relationship, but then it was time for them to leave. As they left Rose's mother started crying. Rose's father asked her what was wrong. She picked up a family photo off of a mantle in their house,

"I- I just can't believe she's growing up so much! She's dating!" Hawkmoth was ecstatic for this emotional situation, the already released akuma went straight into the house and Rose's mother was enveloped with Hawkmoth's magic. The butterfly flew right into the picture she was holding.

"Isn't it so awful that your sweet little children grow up?" His voice was as smooth, as it usually was. "I am Hawkmoth, and I have given you the power to quickly reverse the aging of anyone you wish, dematurer"

"Thank you, Hawkmoth." She transformed into a terrifyingly loving appearance, somewhat similar to a certain akumatized science teacher. She folded up the picture that was akumatized and put it into her pocket. In addition to the power she has a weapon, a baby bottle, which shot out the power. Once someone was shot with it they were frozen for a couple seconds before they started to de-age.

"I am dematurer, nobody will ever need to grow up now!"

Marinette was with her friends, they were about to fulfill their plans to cheer her up. These plans weren't the original plans, of course. They originally had formed celebratory plans, because they really believed that Adrien would accept and they would celebrate this new relationship. The town signaled an akuma alert, Marinette's friends all ran to get to safe areas of the city. Marinette ran over behind a building to transform into Ladybug. She catapulted herself across the city with her yoyo. The effects of the akumitization weren't clear for the first bit of time when Rose's mom was akumatized, but as Ladybug started to notice there were less elderly and adults the farther she passed throughout the city.

What happened to all of the other citizens from town? Ladybug thought to herself, she also thought, where is chat?

Chat on the other hand had just transformed and was on his way to help fight. He had also come to the decision that he wanted confess to Ladybug, incredibly unfortunate timing for him, considering he had just rejected that same girl earlier that morning.

"So, m'lady, where is this akumatizee?"

"I'm not sure yet, but she must be nearby."

They both ran towards the Eiffel Tower in hopes of getting a good vantage point to see the rest of the city. As they stood at the top, instead of scanning the city Chat was staring at Ladybug. He was deciding when to confess his true feelings to her, no games, no playful flirtations, just the truth. He was about to tell her, about to vomit out all of his love right onto her.

"Ladybug… I want t-"

"I see her! Right over there! Let's go, I want to get this over with."

They both started going towards the fight.

"What? You have somewhere to be?"

Saying this only made Chat more nervous, he would still confess even if she wasn't in a good mood. He had made up his mind on confessing for real, and he would explain the extent of his feelings no matter what.

"Hasn't been a good day."

"Aw I'm sorry about that m'lady, maybe I could make it better." He winked.

"Alright," She laughed "sure."

"I mean and if I can't make it better, than I'm sure some good ol' fashioned crime fighting will do the trick."

He smiled at her, she did nothing in return. They finally got close to dematurer, her power wasn't nearly as menacing as some of the other villians that they have fought before. This caused the pair to relax a little bit, maybe a bit too much. She was looking throughout the city for her daughter, she was going to use her power on her daughter. Ladybug started a plan in a whisper,

"Chat you should sneak up on her, the akuma is probably in the bottle so you can use your cataclysm on it."

"Alright m'lady!"

Chat was surprised Ladybug gave him that much responsibility, she usually made plans more tailored to the both of them working together. He didn't want to mess it up, she was trusting him with a lot. He snuck up behind her, ready to grab the bottle. Suddenly, the akumatized spun around and shot him with her powers. Chat gasped in surprise, and then he realized what was going to happen to him. He turned to Ladybug and she looked back at him with a look of mixed disappointment, surprise, and regret. Chat knew he let her down.

"Alright well I guess we have to come up with a new plan."

"I'm sorry."

"Be quiet, I'm thinking."

Chat thought that she'd use her lucky charm, but she clearly wasn't going to do it at the moment. He thought she might've forgotten she hasn't used it yet. But he didn't say anything, she told him not to. You always have to listen to the older people, he thought. Wait? Older people? Chat realized the power was already taking effect much faster than he expected.

"...Ladybug I don't want to bother you, but I think we should hurry up before I get any younger."

The powers must have been working fast, because Chat's voice was already changing a little bit.

"What do you-" she turned around, "oh, that. Well, I mean I guess I'll use my lucky charm now then, all right. Lucky charm!"

The thing that came out was a fishing rod.

"What am I going to do with this!?"

If she was clear-headed, or if Chat wasn't 12 years old at the moment, they would've figured out that the akumatized object was in the woman's pocket, but they couldn't piece that together. I was almost comical that she couldn't figure it out, proving the extent of the effect that Adrien's rejection had on her.

"I smell something fishy!"

"That wasn't even funny."

"Am I ever?"

The line between humor and offence was fairly blurred, Ladybug didn't take time to figure out young Chat's comment and instead started intently at the fishing rod as if it would tell her what to do.

"Maybe you have to fish something off of her?"

The ring beeped, the cataclysm had taken place a couple minutes ago. The beeping distracted Chat, he acted like an actual cat. His current state caused him to act accordingly.

"I guess it's worth a shot."

She drew back the rod, casted it, and it hooked onto the jacket pocket. A hard yank pulled the pocket off the jacket, the picture fluttered out, dematurer didn't even notice that it was gone. Chat dove down and snatched it, tore it with his tiny, child hands. Ladybug opened the yoyo and captured the akuma, threw the fishing rod up into the air and brought out the miraculous ladybugs. The city went back to the way it was, as usual, and Chat aged back to normal. Ladybug started to run off as her ring beeped its second beep, she had 3 minutes. Chat grabbed her wrist,

"M'lady, wait! I really need to tell you something!"

"Better hurry up because you've only got a couple minutes until you transform back."

"Look, I know I make all these silly puns and joke around about this all the time, but I really like you, seriously. I know you want to keep everything secret but that doesn't mean we can't, I don't know, hang out or something? We don't have to get together or anything. Just- I'm sorry I don't talk about how I feel very often. I just wanted you to know everything. Man, this-this doesn't even scratch the surface of my emot-"

Both miraculouses broke the monologue, two minutes before Ladybug's identity was shown, one for Chat.

"Are you seriously confessing to me? Today?! Today of all days!"

"What's wrong wi-"

"What did you think you'd accomplish by doing this?! Do you really think we'd just magically get together after you acted a little bit more serious?! We will never get together, and I will never love you! We have to protect our identities, just move on already, chase a mouse you can catch."

Chat's eyes were wet, he blinked and ran home. Ladybug left the same. She felt bad for what she said, she felt really bad. She didn't realize how harsh she was being, she felt so rejected from earlier and so angry that he had decided to do what she tried earlier that day, that he thought that he'd be successful.

When Chat got to his house he nearly broke right through the window. He transformed back to Adrien right before he smashed into it, he fell into a bush. Plagg flew out of the ring and Adrien climbed into the window that was already open instead of smashing into another one.

"Do you want to talk about what happened?"

Adrien was clearly not in a talking state, he was incredibly upset.

"I always screw everything up! I'm not even a good superhero, I always get affected by the akumatized person's powers, my fighting doesn't even amount to what Ladybug can do, and I was stupid enough to believe I was good enough for her, that she would actually love me!"

"Don't say that! You're amazing, you're Adrien Agreste! Everybody loves you!"

"Nobody loves the real me, everyone loves the attractive model boy, well he doesn't exist. I don't even know who the 'real me' is anyway. Whoever he is Ladybug hates him, that's for sure."

"She doesn't hate you! She's just upset, give her time, like cheese- its best when given time to age."

"Enough with the cheese! This is serious! I'm really upset right now, do you even understand that?! Do you even care about anybody but yourself and your cheese?!"

"I don't know how to handle this! I don't know how to handle a holder like you! The other ones didn't talk to me all that much."

"You don't have to handle me, just pretend you care, just like everyone else."

"I do care about you! Plenty of people do! Your friends do!"

"They don't even know me. I don't even know me!" A few minutes of silence passed.

"Plagg, I'm sorry, I want to be alone right now."

"What are you-"

Adrien took off his ring and put it into its case. He sat down on his bed and just sat there for a while, nothing was planned for the rest of the day which was unusual. His phone rang, he didn't answer, it was too late to hang out with friends, but even if it weren't he wouldn't have done so anyway.