Marinette P.O.V
"Wow! You really did your research Mari" Adrien says as he looks through my research notes for the project.
"So did you, I think we have plenty material to work with so we can do this project in no time" I tell him with a smile.
"W-Wait, in no time?!" he asks/exclaims.
"Is something the matter?" I ask.
"N-No, it's just I told Natalie to clear my afternoon lessons all week" he tells me.
"Oh, in that case we can take our time then" I say, making him smile.
"Unless you want to finish it today and you can have me for yourself all week" he says with a wink, his Chat Noir is showing making me giggle and blush.
"Hahaha, whatever you say kitty, let's just do this" I say, "I'll see you after class at the entrance" I tell him as the bell rings.
Adrien P.O.V.
The bell finally rings and I dash to the entrance and look for Marinette, I see her walking with Alya from p.e. class. Alya waves at me and I wave back, Marinette just smiles at me making me blush a little.
"Is Nino not here yet?" Alya asks as they approach me.
"No, he had to ask for some help on the lesson" I explain to her, she frowns a little.
"Well we have to work on our project, I guess I'll go, good luck you two" she says as she nudges Marinette and gives her a wink causing her to blush but also let out a sigh.
"Shall we go m'lady?" I ask as a bow.
"I have no other choice do I?" she asks me teasingly.
"After you, princess" I say, she walks in front of me and leads me to her family bakery. I am quickly noticed by her parents.
"Well, if it isn't Adrien!" Mrs. Dupain-Cheng greets me.
"Hello Mr. and Mrs. Dupain-Cheng," I greet them as Mr. Dupain-Cheng walks in with a tray full of croissants.
"I didn't know you were having a friend over Marinette" he states as he sets down the tray on the little counter next to the cashier.
"I mentioned it on Friday evening mama" Marinette says as she takes picks up the tray of croissants and puts it where it belongs.
"Really? I must have not remembered, you usually make a bigger fuss when someone comes over, especially when Adr..." Mrs. Dupain-Cheng says but before she can finish Marinette interrupts with a scolding, "Mama!"
"Why don't you two go upstairs to your room Marinette?" Mr. Dupain-Cheng says to Marinette's as he sees her pink face.
"Good idea," she says as she starts climbing upstairs. Her parents smile at me and I follow her up to her pink and black bedroom.
"You can sit where ever you like, let me grab us some drinks" she says as she puts down both of her bags and heads downstairs. I look around and realize that the posters of me she had were taken down, maybe she hid them like last time? Don't ask how I found out. I sit down in the chair with wheels on it and sit looking towards her wall which has a couple of her designs pinned to it.
"Pssst, Tikki!" I hear Plagg whisper behind me.
"What?!" I hear a high pitched voice whisper back.
"Where did all the posters go?" he asked her in his "whisper" voice.
"I can hear you Plagg" I announce as I turn around. I see a red bug like kwami who has a big black dot on her head/forehead, I assume it's Marinette's kwami.
"Not like I was trying too hard," he says as he takes out a piece of cheese.
"I haven't introduced myself, I'm Tikki! I'm the ladybug Kwami!" she explains with a smile.
"Nice to meet you Tikki, I'm..." I start to introduce myself.
"You're Adrien Agreste, the boy Marinette used to have a huge crush on until she started to have feelings for Chat Noir until she found out you are Chat Noir and now she has to suffer because you only love ladybug" Tikki says quite viciously giving me a glare that could kill.
"You're so cute when your mad" Plagg teases as he eats his piece of cheese. "You see... Tikki is always really fond of her Miraculous holders... even though she looks like she's all rainbows and cuddles... she can be very hardcore!" Plagg says with a frown which I guess is how he represents being hardcore, he takes yet another bite of camembert cheese.
"Have you guys known each other for a long time?" I ask.
"Duh, Ladybug and Chat Noir have been a team since the very beginning, it's fairly obvious that me and Tikki would know each other through all these years, me and her are even..." he says but can't finish since Tikki throws a cookie at him.
"Plagg!Why don't you focus on your cheese!" she exclaims as the small Kwami blushes.
"Sorry it took so long, my parents kept trying to make me bring the whole bakery upstairs" Marinette says as she enters the room holding two mugs of what seems like hot chocolate and a bag of what I assume to be pastries, I get up and help her by taking the mugs.
"No problem m'lady, I was purr-fectly fine waiting for you" I say as I sit down and place the mugs on her desk.
"AHEM" Plaggs says causing Marinette to turn around.
"Is this your Kwami? He is so cute" Marinette says as she kneels down to where both Kwami are.
"I'm Plagg" he introduces himself as he notices the empty tray of camembert cheese. "what?! I'm all out of cheese!" he says, making Marinette giggle.
"I'll get some for you, wait here" she says as she rushes out and back in to the room with some cookies and camembert.
"Here you go you two," she says as she places the food items down for them.
"We should work on the project purr-incess" I say grabbing her attention.
"Oh yeah!" she says and we go to work.
Marinette P.O.V.
"And there! We're done!" Adrien exclaims as he puts the final touch on our project, we finished it really fast considering the fact that my parents have been really nosy and our Kwami's have been distracting us (mostly Plagg). But we finished and it's barely Wednesday!
"We did an awesome job, we are going to ace this class!" I say to him with a smile as I admire our project.
"Pound it" we say out of custom from when we fight crime together. We laugh as we realize that's a Ladybug and Chat Noir thing.
"W-well, I guess I'll tell Natalie to resume my afternoon classes..." Adrien says sadly as he pulls out his phone.
"Now why would you do that kitty cat? I thought you said I got to keep you all week" I tease him as I get close and poke his nose with my finger, making him blush, he tenses up in his chair, I think I left him speechless, I put on a confused expression as I see him turn red.
Adrien P.O.V.
OMG MARINETTE JUST SAID THAT OMG WHAT AM I GOING TO DO, DEAR GOD I CAN DIE HAPPILY NOW! I NEED TO KEEP MY CALM BUT I CAN NOT, OH SWEET MOTHER OF ALL THAT'S HOLY. DID SHE JUST? DOES THAT MEAN I CAN COME OVER?! OMG WHAT DO I DO? WHAT DO I SAY?! I AM MOTHERFLUFFING CHAT NOIR! I SHOULD KNOW WHAT TO DO!
Marinette P.O.V.
"Well if you insist m'lady, I guess I can keep coming over this week in the afternoons" he says smoothly as his blush dies down to a soft pink. I giggle.
"I think you mean, if i pinksist" I say cracking a pun and laugh.
"I don't get it" he says.
"I do so it's okay!" I say as I giggle, "so what do you want to do?" I ask him as I lay back in my chair.
"What do you like to do for fun?" he asks me.
"Hmm..." I think for a moment, "well, I like to play video games and love to design and sew clothes especially when I get models like Alya ,I also like to bake and keep up to date with the latest fashion, other than that on the top of my head I can't really think of anything else" I tell him as I wonder what else I like to do in my spare time. Most of my free time is taken up with being ladybug so my hobby list has shortened a bit.
"What do you mean by when you have models?" he asks me curiously.
"Well, I make most of my own clothes but sometimes I design clothes that I like but wouldn't wear myself, usually I use Alya as my model for those type of designs and she wears them, other times I design male clothes but I can't make Alya model it so I make the clothes for dolls instead," I explain trying to say it as clear as possible.
"Oh, I get it, you should let me be your model someday" he says as he inches close to my face, I can feel my face get warm.
"Y-You? Model m-my clothes?" I ask.
"You are very talented after all, I would like to wear a Marinette original myself" he says as he inches closer rolling his chair.
"W-Well you could see some designs right now if you w-want," I say as I see how close he is.
"That would be purr-fect princess," he says as he inches even closer and grabs my waist, I can't help but blush and feel the urge to kiss him.
"Would you two like some quiche?" I hear my mother asks as she pops her head into my room. I quickly shove Adrien far away from me.
"T-That would be great mama, we'll have it up here!"I say as I rush to her, an obvious blush on my face and a dumbfounded Adrien in the corner.
"Enjoy" she says as she hands me the quiche along with two plates and a knife.
I giggle and place the quiche on my desk, I go to Adrien who is speechless and red in the corner. My best guess is that he is imagining what could have happened a couple seconds ago.
"Come on kitty, you wouldn't want the quiche to go to waste," I say as I give him a kiss on the cheek and start slicing the quiche.
"Adrien! You have to stand still!" I exclaim as Adrien moves once again "do you want me to stick a needle in you?!" I ask as I try to place a pin to hold fabric for a new hoodie together.
"Sorry bugaboo" he says making me glare at him.
"You know, I could NOT make you this sweater right!" I tell him as I place another pin.
"Sorry, I'm really happy your making it though! My very own Marinette original!" he says excitedly as I raise both his arms. I examine him and see I have everything in place. I carefully remove the pinned up hoodie, and he stretches as he is finally released. It's Thursday afternoon and a soft rain pours over the city.
"I can't believe that you chose THIS design" I say to him as I place the pinned up hoodie on my desk and get my sewing machine.
"Why wouldn't I? It is ladybug inspired after all!" he says happily. I look at the design, it's true, it's a red hoodie that has a black spotted inside, the outside has black accents to it and the zipper has a ladybug shaped zip, the hoodie has two antennas on the inside as well that you can pull out if desired.
"It's just a little funny" I say as I sew it up.
"And why would CAT be?" he asks making a horrible pun, as he rolls his chair over to me.
"As if I would tell you, you nosy cat" I say.
"Please bugaboo," he pleads as he lays his head on my shoulder and he gives me those big doll eyes. His green eyes are something I could just stare at forever.
"It's just this is a two person inspired look" I finally reveal to him as he looks at me confused, "and I happen to have part two of this look" I say as I continue sewing.
"Wait, what do you mean bugaboo, could this possibly be one of those couple outfits?!" he exclaims happily.
"Look, I never thought someone would wear part one of this outfit so you can't blame me because you wanted me to make you this," I say as I try not to blush.
"I want to see this part two bugaboo" he says as he somehow manages to rest his head on my lap. I groan and roll my eyes.
"Just turn the page" I say as I stop sewing and remove his head from my lap so I can scoot in and continue.
"Turn the page?" he asks.
"Yeah, turn the page" I say as I continue sewing. He stays confused for a couple of moments until he spots my sketchbook, it's open to the page of the ladybug hoodie I am making for him, he flips it to reveal a black hoodie design with a green inside and green zipper, it has a little metal zipper that resembles Chat's baton, on the hoodie there are cat ears on the inside that you can pull out. Just like the ladybug hoodie this one is also inspired by someone, that someone being Chat.
"I sketched the hoodies to be a couple type thing, sketching the ladybug one for a male and the chat one for a female, at first I thought I could gift it to Alya and Nino once they got together but she would obviously want the ladybug one; I liked the design so I decided to make the Chat one for myself and forget about it's counterpart. I figured I could make a reverse of this outfit some other time for them" I confess to Adrien. He smiles at me and gives me heart eyes, once again the urge to kiss him is strong but I continue sewing.
"Yep, she wears it all the time" Tikki reveals making me blush.
"Is that true bugaboo?" Adrien asks me as I concentrate on sewing the hoodie.
"What do you care" I say as I continue focusing.
"Aww are you too shy to admit it? If it's true then I'll wear mine all the time as well, I'll even wear it to school" he says to me making me red in the face.
"Please don't wear it to school, Alya would never let it die and neither would Chloe" I say to him. I''m finally done sewing it so I turn it inside out so that it looks like the completed product, only it isn't quite yet since I am hand sewing on the zipper still.
"Fine bugaboo, but you will let me come over and wear it while you wear yours right?" he asks me as I look for my black sewing thread.
"Not a chance" I reply as I grab the black thread. I sit back down and start putting it through a needle.
"Aww, pretty please princess" he says as he rests his head on my lap once again, why does he do this to me?
"Ugh, you won't leave me alone until I do right?" I ask him.
"Ex-cat-ly" he says as he manages to kiss my chin as he raises his head off my lap.
I finally sew the zipper onto the sweater and finish the sweater. Not bad if I say so myself, I hand it to Adrien proud of myself.
"I LOVE IT!" he exclaims as he hugs the hoodie and begins putting it on. He zips it up and looks so adorable! I have to contain myself from going up and hugging him until I squeeze him to death.
"Thank you so much princess!" he says as he pulls the hood over his head and pulls out the antennas looking like a small child.
"You should wear yours too Mari" I hear Tiki say as I turn to see her and Plagg (who does not look happy) carrying the matching Chat Noir inspired hoodie.
"You should princess, please" he says to me.
"Definitely not" I say as I put some of my things away.
"Please princess" he pleads as I place my needles back into their cushion.
"I don't think so kitty" I say to him rolling my eyes. Suddenly I feel a pair of arms wrap around my body and can instantly feel my face heat up.
"Come on bugaboo, I bet you'll look adorable" he whispers into my ear, his breath against my neck.
"Fine" I groan as I pull away from him, I can feel my face all red and can still feel his breath against my neck. I sigh and put the hoodie on, the ears are pulled out already since I like to sleep with it on.
"You look so cute Marinette!" he exclaims as he hugs me unexpectedly yet again, he carries me up and twirls me around, "just like a doll" he says.
"Put me down Adrien, your going to drop me" I say trying not to giggle but the amusement can be heard in my voice none the less.
"I don't want to let go of you though," he says as he puts me down so my feet are to the floor, yet his hands don't leave my waist.
"Marinette, I-" he says as he presses his forehead to mine, "I want to tell you I-" he continues but his phones goes off alarming both of us and making us break the embrace.
It's Natalie, he tells me he must leave and we say our goodbyes, leaving me confused and as red as a tomato.
"Is this really the right thing to do Tikki?" I ask her as I lay on my bed. I recall this weeks and how many times I was so close to giving in and kissing him, before that was all I could dream of, just one kiss from Adrien.
"Yes it is, I know you are confused but if he can't love you as both Marinette and Ladybug you will end up even more heartbroken, love needs to be reciprocate Marinette" Tikki says as she comes to my side. I know she's right.
"You're right, thanks for always being with me, today I just had this... this urge to kiss him and hold him so badly, and right before Nathalie called, for a moment I felt as if he was going to say something really important, although knowing him it might have been one of his chat tricks." I tell her as I roll over on my bed and hold a pillow.
"You'll find out sooner or later, for now you should shower and go to bed, you have to be up early so you can take your project to school" Tikki says.
"You're right Tikki" I nod and clean up and soon enough am in bed ready for a night of sleep.
A/N: Hello! So this was a bit more action packed (romance wise), next chapter we'll have a little Chloe sprinkled in so look forward to that!
I finally made some new cover art which I hope you guys like! Please don't forget to leave your feedback if you would like. 'Till next time lovelies!