All credit for the song I had stuck in my head while writing this goes to Avril Lavigne (credit for it being stuck in my head goes to my sister). Ship requested by FantasyGirl1001.

Also, I prefer "Marinoir" or "Chatonette" over "Marichat". Don't know if anyone else says that, but that's what I call it.

CHAPTER THREE: MARINOIR

He was a boy

Chat Noir was always alone. As Adrien, he lived in a loveless home, going to a school where he always had to be Perfect Model Boy, never himself. As Chat, his Lady, the only person who could understand him, rejected him repeatedly.

She was a girl

Ladybug had friends. Marinette had friends. Beautiful, popular, free Marinette. Of course the embodiment of Creation would be the polar opposite of Destruction.

Can I make it any more obvious?

But opposites attract. Everyone knows that. "Birds of a feather flock together" is for friends. Platonic relationships. "Opposites attract" is for romance.

He was a punk

Ladybug hated his puns.

She did ballet

She hadn't even appreciated it when he called her greats-ful.

What more can I say?

Granted, it had been a pretty bad pun.

He wanted her

He'd never tried to hide his feelings for Ladybug.

She'd never tell

She always rejected him, but she'd never told him exactly how she felt about him. Only that she was in love with another boy.

Secretly she wanted him as well

Marinette liked Adrien. That was a fact of the world. Everyone knew that. So she kept her feelings for Chat hidden, even from herself.

All of her friends turned up their nose

Besides, her girlfriends were more obsessed with getting her and Adrien together than she was, now.

They had a problem with his baggy clothes

They'd hate to have wasted all that effort.

He was a skater boy

It wasn't like Marinette liked Chat. Not really. He just visited her sometimes, that was all. She couldn't like Chat.

She said "see you later boy"

The next time he visited, her window was closed.

He wasn't good enough for her

Marinette refused to see Chat unless she was in costume.

She had a pretty face

She tried dating Luka, then Nathaniel, Marc, even Max, and Kim.

But her head was up in space

But each time she kissed her boyfriend, she saw black ears and green eyes.

She needed to come back down to earth

On the eve of her twentieth birthday, Marinette, living in her own apartment in Paris, opened her window and made a wish.

five years later

He's just a boy

Marinette leans in towards the mirror, checking to make sure she doesn't have any lipstick on her teeth.

And I'm just a girl

There will be no akuma tonight. No Ladybug.

Can I make it any more obvious?

She closes her eyes, letting Tikki comb her hair out.

We are in love

Adrien looks at the two rings in his hands, whispering his transformation phrase.

Haven't you heard

Chat Noir bounds silently across rooftops, a shadow in the night.

How we rock each other's world?

He lands on his fingertips and toes as gracefully as any cat, then straightens up to tap gently on the door.

I'm with the skater boy

Marinette opens the door.

I said "see you later boy"

She sees the boy she once rejected for himself.

"I'll meet you backstage after the show"

The man she didn't know she loved for six years.

"I'll be at the studio"

Her kitten, all grown up.

"Singing the song we wrote"

Chat Noir.

"About a girl you used to know"

"I do."

Only 670 words. Wow. I swear it looked longer on Google Docs.

(Hopefully) last note: if you suggest a pairing and don't specify platonic/romantic, I choose. If you have any plot suggestions, include that with your pairing suggestion(s). Thanks!

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