Chapter 15

~Marinette's POV~

Alya had taken the news of the written in kiss well. I didn't like the idea that Adrien would kiss Chloe, but he really didn't seem to be thrilled by it. That made me feel better about the whole situation.

I still can't stop thinking about Adrien's words:

"Do you feel the same way about our kissing scene?" I asked, looking up and meeting his eyes, my face a deeper red. "Because I really don't want you to feel forced into it. I can make Alya take it out. We don't have to kiss if you don't-"

"I do want to." He interrupted my rambling, then he seemed to realize what he said, and his face turned red too. "W-what I meant was I'm fine with it. I don't mind kissing you. I'd prefer it over kissing Chloe, anyway."

He said he wanted to! Even if he didn't really mean it, he still said it, and at least I knew he was serious when he told me he would prefer kissing me over kissing Chloe. I smiled dreamily as I thought about it.

"Cut!" I was brought out of my train of thought by Nino. "Marinette, that was your cue!"

"I'm sorry!" I said quickly. "I wasn't focusing."

"That much was clear." Alya said with a smirk. I had told her about Adrien's view on kissing me, and I was sure that she knew I was thinking about it. "From the top!"

"Scene twelve, take two." Alix said with the clapperboard.

"Action!" Nino called out.

I was sitting in the hotel room Mayor Bourgeois let us borrow for Marilee's room. I sat on a barstool at the kitchen counter with Queenie laying on the countertop, her paws tucked under her chest. A small box TV was showing a mountain lion documentary.

"See?" I asked out loud. "I'm watching TV. I do have balance in my life."

I paused and propped my head up with my arm, my hand in a loose fist against my cheek as my jaw rested in my palm.

"Hey," I told Queenie. "You're missing the best part. These are you ancestors, Queenie."

As soon as I finished that line, the channel changed to show Kagami in a housing commercial. I didn't understand how Nino made it seem realistic, but he did a great job.

"Are you looking for a new house?" The Kagami on the screen asked. She had walked out of the front door of a house clearly decorated for Christmas, and had a hand on her hip. "Christmas is a great time to buy."

I smiled at the TV as my arm came back down, no longer supporting my head. My cell phone rang, and I picked it up. "Hey!" I said, answering it. "Jaclyn!"

I let out an amused breath before continuing. "Yeah, I'm watching you on TV."

"Take my hand," The Kagami on the TV screen said, holding out her opposite hand. "And I'll walk you through it."

In the middle of screen Kagami saying her last line, there was a knock at the door. I turned to look at it, still holding my phone to my ear. "Jackie, just a sec."

I put down my phone after hanging up and scooped up Queenie. I hid cat toys that were out, I pushed a cat dish into a closet, then put Queenie down in that closet and shut the door.

I then walked to the front door and opened it, revealing Kagami on the other side, smiling at me.

I sighed heavily in relief as she lowered her phone from her ear. "I thought you were my landlord." I told her.

I laughed a bit in relief, and she stepped up to me and hugged me. I hugged her back, greeting her with, "Hi."

"You forgot about your birthday dinner!" She told me.

"I didn't forget!" I said quickly and looked at my wrist to look at the time on the watch I was wearing.

"Uhh, you're early. Right?"

"I'm always early." Kagami said, and walked past me to come inside. I closed the door and followed her out of the entry way and to the main living area of the hotel room.

"I have to show a house on the way to dinner," Kagami said, facing me. "And Kyle is double parked, so let's go."

"Oh, wait." I said, walking away quickly to get Queenie out of the closet. "You stay here and watch the house. I'll be right back." I told the cat then handed her to Kagami. "I'll grab my jacket."

"Oh, I wish I could take you home with me," She told Queenie. "But my four dogs would eat you alive."

"Four?" I questioned as I walked back over again with my jacket. It was the same puffy black coat I had been wearing in my earlier scenes with Rose and Sabrina. "I thought you and Kyle had three dogs."

"We took in another one." Kagami smiled, petting Queenie behind the ear as she talked.

"Yeah, well, you sound like Mom." I said as she laughed a bit.

"I know." She said. We both said nothing for a little while before I turned to the door.

"Let's go." I said.

"And that's scene!" Nino called. "Good job you two."

"You're amazing!" Kagami told me. "It was really fun filming this with you."

"It was fun filming this with you too." I smiled. "I look forward to our next scenes together."

"Next we have Adrien and Chloe." Alya said, reading through the next script. "Which means we got to go to Marinette's house."

"Alright." Nino said, starting to pack up the camera to move. "Let's go."

"Not so fast." Alya said. "Before we go, I just want to say thank you to everyone who has been filmed so far, and thank you to everyone who is going to be filmed. A special thanks to Kagami and Luka for volunteering to fill in characters as well."

The two smiled and nodded at her as Alya paused to give them grateful looks. "Now, I'm going to say it." She continued. "I need a full day to myself to write as many scenes as I can. We have three weeks to finish this, and I know we can. I just need a little bit to write out the scenes. The quicker I do that, the quicker we can film them."

Everyone agreed, and we headed out of the Bourgeois hotel to my place.