Chapter 19
The coach had arrived at the coach port near the eleventh arrondissement and half of the passengers were already on the outside looking for their luggage in the baggage compartment and Adrien got out of the bus, then waited for his friends, which were coming down together.
"Where are you going now?" Wayhem asked the blonde stopping behind the crowd, that were to get their suitcases.
"For now I'm going to take my suitcase home and put everything back. Afterward, I might go out for a walk. I've got enough from sitting"
"That's a good plan" Wayhem answered moving on the queue forward. "I need to take a walk too. I'm telling my friend to bring Scarlet home so I can directly take a walk with her and enjoy the warm afternoon,"
"She sure is going to be happy,"
"Yeah, you can come along if you want…...erm…..well you don't have to, but you can" Wayhem explained a little confused earning a nod from the Frenchwoman.
"If you don't mind, I'd love to," Aurore answered watching Wayhem smile at her, followed by the blonde copying his face.
Adrien approached the two, then placed his hands on the shoulder of the two to see them look towards him.
"I'm sorry to bother you two, but I wanted to thank Wayhem for helping me back home. Name me anything, I'll do for you in return,"
"You don't have to give me anything Adrien. I just helped you out of trouble,"
"I know, but you can always count on me when you need something. Okay,"
"Sure," Wayhem answered holding his fist up at the blonde, then the two fist-bumped each other.
"In a few minutes there's a metro to the center and I will see, if I manage to catch Kagami, before she goes home," Adrien pointed out earning a nod from the blonde.
"Wouldn't it be better, if you would directly go home?" Wayhem suggested. "Or wait there until she arrives?"
"Maybe it is" Adrien wondered listening to Wayhem's opinion. "You're right, I'm going straight off home"
"Do you need help?" Wayhem asked making Adrien shake his head.
"No it will be fine, don't worry about me" Adrien assured. "Have a good day you two" Adrien wished running off leaving Wayhem back with Aurore.
"He forgot his cookies I remember" Wayhem mentioned making the woman shrug her shoulders watching the blonde cross the road over the orange traffic light.
Alya stood inside the metro driving home gazing at the reflection of the passengers on the window, then she sighed and looked around at the passengers, most of them using their smartphone and Alya remembered to take out her smartphone and turn off the flight mode then noticed she received a message from Adrien Agreste.
"I'm back in Paris and I'm heading towards the mansion of my parents. Did anything happened while I was gone, besides what you've said the other time?"
Alya began to type down a message to Adrien, then send it back to him.
"Wait before you get in, I'm asking Nino to come with you. Together you can bring Felix into confessing everything. I will inform him as soon as I get home."
Alya placed her smartphone back, then looked back at the window to see the metro stop at one station, then Alya saw Felix talking with a suggestively dressed woman and he showed the woman an envelope filled with cash bills while he smiled at the person, making Alya frown.
"What are you planning to do, Felix?" Alya mumbled, then the woman took out from her hot pants a small paper and handed it out at Felix, which looked at it and took out his smartphone to take a picture of it. Alya moved at the door, which got closed, then she pressed on the button to unlock the door, but it didn't and the metro began to tax. Alya took out her smartphone and pressed rapidly on the gray button to take pictures of Felix shaking his hand with the woman and she disappeared in the tunnel afterward she opened the images to see some well-made pictures. Alya took her phone back and kept standing during the ride.
Kagami was back home eating a peach in the dining room, sitting vice versa to her mother-in-law Emilie, which had finished eating.
"I haven't noticed anything different about him. He seems the same to me for now" Emilie pointed out. "Has he done anything to you, he has or would never do to you?"
"No, I just have this weird assumption, that he's different. Maybe I'm just making up things,"
"Maybe you should talk to him about it?"
"I talked. But he wonders, what exactly I find so different about him and I can't tell it either. I just feel that he is different,"
"Hmmm why don't you try to analyze, what exactly is making you think that. If you think it's necessary, talk to Adrien about it. Or just follow your life as you and Adrien planned to and something begins to change, just mention it,"
"Maybe I was too worried about the night Felix disappeared, that Adrien had been gone for the entire night and now I'm a little confused,"
"Go take a bath Kagami, relax a little, let all your worries out. Take your time and do something for yourself," Emilie suggested watching Kagami get up.
"Maybe it's a good idea" Kagami mentioned. "See you later," Kagami said heading towards the exit at the hall to see Gabriel come the stairs down heading to his office, then he glanced at the woman.
"Have you seen Adrien?" Gabriel asked making Kagami shake her head.
"Not yet" Kagami answered. "Maybe he had to stay longer"
"Alright, thanks" Gabriel answered, then watched Kagami walk the stairs up, heading to the bathroom and the fashion designer entered into the office and passed by the window, then stopped as he saw Adrien walking by fast and Gabriel squinted his eyes to see over Adrien's eyebrow a small red crust from an injury and Gabriel shut his eyes in shock.
"Adrien?" Gabriel asked, then he left his office and opened the door before Adrien could open it.
"Father" Adrien spoke, then Gabriel accompanied Adrien into the house and he shove Adrien by his back into the office and closed the door behind him.
"What happened to you?" Gabriel asked watching Adrien frown.
"Where is Felix?" Adrien began. "Where's is he?!" Adrien repeated and Gabriel shushed his son.
"Shhh quiet! What went into you?" Gabriel questioned. "You told me, that Felix got kidnapped. I have nothing to do with his kidnapping nor would I have gained anything with it,"
"I know, but for getting rid of me you sure have. Otherwise, you wouldn't have said something like that,"
"What getting rid of you?" Gabriel asked shocked. "You're my son. I know I've done a lot of mistakes in the past, but I would never want to erase you out of life or harm you. And I'm talking about the now and not the past as I was Hawk Moth,"
"I want to know, where Felix is!" Adrien growled. "He's been faking my identity around you all. He told me the other day he was doing that because it was his job,"
"Why should he been doing that?" Gabriel asked. "You're talking nonsense, Adrien. I think we should better bring you to the doctor and make a CT scan or another check-up. I believe that accident you told me about it, might be affecting your head,"
"What attack?" Adrien asked raising his left eyebrow, then behind him, the door opened slowly to show Felix with his hair styled like Adrien enter and wide his eyes in shock as he saw his cousin.
Gabriel noticed Felix, then had the idea to improvise an excuse to his son.
"You've forgotten about it, didn't you?" Gabriel began making Adrien shake his head annoyed at his father.
"I'm the real Adrien, Felix has been lying to you all convincing them he was me," Adrien explained as behind him Felix sneaked closer to him and he takes out his smartphone from his pocket and smashes it on Adrien's head causing the blonde to yelp and fall on Gabriel's arms. Gabriel shrieked at Felix's deed and glanced at the man surprised.
"Wouldn't just using your fist to do it?" Gabriel asked.
"I believed it wouldn't knock him out faster" Felix stated. "I'm sorry I couldn't make it better,"
"Alright, as long as he's well afterward," Gabriel and lied Adrien down against his desk and Felix saw at the entrance of the plot Nino Lahiffe ringing on the doorbell.
"Uncle, we've got a problem" Felix pointed out, making Gabriel groan.
"Quick, try to keep him busy and I'll hide Adrien somewhere," Gabriel mentioned. "Don't worry about me"
"Okay" Felix responded and left the office and Gabriel dragged Adrien under his arms across the room, then stopped in front of a yellow painting of his wife Emilie and held his son up hard against his body trying to hold him tight. He pondered about how he should use the secret buttons hidden on the painting, then he stretched his arms carefully while Adrien was leaned towards the man and slid his fingers all over the triangle pattern to find four loosen forms, then pressed with his finger onto them activating under his feet a secret door, which leads him to the secret lair, which he used to go during the time he was Hawk Moth.
At the outside, Nino was angry at Felix, which still was pretending to be his best friend instead of acting like his real him.
"You know karma one day will haunt you down one day for all this you've been doing to your cousin and the ones he loves. He doesn't deserve this shit you're doing to him. Even less his family or Kagami. Like him, that woman suffered a lot in her mother's hands as he did on his father's. He was happy, man! He was the happiest dude It almost was a crime" Nino told Felix slowly beginning to have tears in his eyes thinking about his best friend. "How horrifying can you be to ruin his happiness like that?"
"It's just a job I have to solve. I'm getting paid well for it and Adrien won't die or anything. I'm just ruining his relationship with Kagami as I was ordered to do,"
"Man you rich jerkasses really would do anything for money, even if you already are rich. You're just one of those jerks, that has a lot of money, cars, houses, pools, and whatnot, but do you know, what you don't have?" Nino asked. "Real friends. Tell me at least two friends that are you, friends, because they like you and not because of money, come. Tell me?"
Felix began to think about Nino's question, then he frowned and turned his back to Nino and walked back leaving Nino back.
"The truth hurts, doesn't it?!" Nino asked loud, then watched Felix disappear into the house, then he took out a key cellphone and searched for his girlfriend's contact and pressed on the green call button.
"Hey babe, I think Adrien's not here or Felix lied to me and they've done anything bad to him,"
"Crap, I've seen he hasn't read my message from before. He must have walked in there without informing anyone about it."
"Can you try to talk to Kagami and try to convince her, what's going on?"
"I try. I feel like she doesn't seem convinced at all,"
"If she doesn't we both just break into their house and go look for ourselves. With Kagami and Felix there, it might be easier to show her he's Felix and not Adrien,"
"Good, I will try to call her right now"
"Good see you later" Nino answered and pressed the red icon to finish the call, then pulled the classical phone back and left the plot of the Agreste family.