Chapter 16 is up! Enjoy :)

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Chapter 16

Adrien let out a sigh for the fifth time that night as he watched Marinette dance with Luka for the third song in a row. He wanted so badly to go over and pry Luka's hands off her but he had his own problems at hand.

Kagami.

She wouldn't let him go and kept him by saying "oh this is my favorite song!" or "This song was way too short." Every excuse she brought up only got on his nerves, but because he was a gentleman he refused to let out his anger on her.

That unfortunately was what made him stick with her.

Adrien took what felt as his 20th secret glance over at his Lady. She looked like she was having a good time with Luka. He noticed she never looked over at him but he had to intervene somehow. The fast song ended and Adrien took his chance.

"Hey um..Kagami I need to use the restroom." He said before pulling his hands free and speed walking away.

"Oh..okay be back soon..," she said. However, she noticed he was not going in the direction of the bathroom but in the direction of the girl he was staring at.

"Oh no you don't."

She tapped the nearest guy on the shoulder and spoke in a weak voice.

"Please help! That man in white stole my purse." she pointed at her target.

The guy aimed his sights and went after him.

Adrien was almost close to where Marinette was but then he was tackled from behind.

The crowd around them screamed in terror at what had happened.

"I despise scum like you. Stealing young women purses is unforgivable!" the guy said.

"Wait hold on wha—" Adrien tried to say but the guy hit him in his face hard to shut him up.

"Unfortunately for you I'm a cop and you're coming with me."

Adrien felt light headed from the hit and could feel his body being picked up.

"Wait hold on.." he mumbled.

He could hear a protest from someone but it was eventually drowned out from the noise of the crowd.

With Marinette

She had been dancing with Luka for three dances so far. At first she was a bit annoyed after the first one ended because she wanted to go dance with Adrien but then she saw him dancing with another girl. A very pretty girl. She wore a red and white cheongsam that wrapped around her curves perfectly. She couldn't help but get jealous at how close she was to Adrien. Though she had to admit the girl looked familiar.

She didn't like to feel envious of others, she remembered how that turned out with Lila Rossi. So she decided to keep her attention on Luka and not look over there or she was going to cause a scene.

"Marinette you're so beautiful." Luka told her as he spun her around. The song they were dancing to was a decently fast paced one and one of her favorites.

"Thank you Luka." she said as she gave him a sweet smile.

"I'm serious Marinette..no one absolutely no one can compare to you. For the past two years my feelings for you have only grown." he said as he pulled her closer.

"I thought you were mad when you found out who I was?" she said as she pushed off him slightly.

"Well I wasn't really mad.. I guess I was just hurt that I didn't know..that I wasn't trusted enough to know," he then dipped her to the beat of the music before continuing to talk.

"Now that I've gotten the time to think I now know that I was wrong to feel that way. Your alter ego saved my mom when she was akumatized. You saved my sister. I should be thanking you."

"Oh um well you're welcome." she said with a deep blush.

The song that was playing was going to end but then there were screams in the crowd. Marinette first thought it was trouble but then she saw what was up.

Adrien was on the ground and pinned down by a bigger guy. He had just been punched real hard and was getting picked up and drugged out.

Marinette released herself from Luka and tried to get through the crowd.

"Hey what happened?!" she asked.

A random girl answered her." Apparently that guy stole a girls purse. Who would do that on Christmas sheesh."

'Hold on what? Adrien wouldn't steal a purse.' she thought. She started to make her way over to where he was being hauled out but then she felt someone tug on her arm.

"Luka?" she questioned.

"Where are you going Marinette?" Luka questioned.

"I'm going after Adrien now let go."

"Didn't you hear? The guy stole from someone. Forget about him." he said as he pulled her to him.

"No I know Adrien and he would never steal." she said.

"Marinette!" yelled Nino who was making his way over to them with Alya.

Luka finally let her go as they came up to them.

"Mari what happened?" Alya asked.

"Adrien's in trouble."

"What happened?" Nino asked.

"The fool stole a purse." Luka said. He didn't see why everyone cared about the guy. He shouldn't have never come in the first place.

"No he didn't!" Marinette defended. She wasn't liking the way Luka spoke about Adrien. It was getting on her nerves.

"I don't believe that either. Let's go check on him." Nino said.

"Which way did he go?" Alya asked.

"This way follow me." Marinette said before walking away.

ooooooo

When they got outside they saw Adrien being questioned by two officers. He was sporting a purplish bruise on the lower left side of his face and his mask was off.

"Hey officer my friend is innocent!" Nino yelled at them.

"We know that kid. We were just apologizing to him… though he doesn't have any identification for us."

"Y-Yeah I forgot it at home." Adrien said as he tried to laugh but the bruise on his face stopped that.

"Sorry about that sport...hey Jeff get an ice pack out the trunk."

"Yes sir."

The other officer proceeded to get a bag of ice out the cop car and then gave it to Adrien.

"Thank you."

"No problem kid."

Marinette came up to the two officers and asked her question.

"Is he okay to go?"

"Yeah he's good. The girl who accused him is nowhere to be found and he didn't have a purse on him when I apprehended him." the officer said.

"Oh thank goodness." Marinette sighed as she turned her eyes on Adrien.

" I think I owe you a dance." she said.

Adrien looked her intently in the eyes and smiled.

" I think you do."

A/N: Hope you enjoyed!

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