Hi there.

I'M SORRY I'M SORRY I'M SO SO SORRY!

I didn't mean to go MIA. I just...schoolwork happened. Work-work happened. Life happened.

Not just 'argh' stuff, either. I've been majorly rewriting my novel because I'm going to a writers' conference soon, and I finally figured out what my beta meant by "writing a different story than the one I want to tell". Which...yeah. Lotta work. But! My novel is soooooo much better now! Or the rewritten chapters are, at least. I want to get as much rewritten as possible before I go to the conference.

Anyways, I basically wrote this whole thing last night and today, so I may rewrite it.

I know, I know. You're excited to review. But between you and the review button is some really awkward Adrienette fluff, so read it first, 'kay?

(Alya knows LB's identity; Nino doesn't. LB and Chat do not know each other's identities; Chat doesn't know anyone's but QB's; QB doesn't know anyone's.)

ADRIENETTE

"Happy Valentine's Day, Adrien," Marinette said calmly, a slight blush rising to her cheeks. "I...uh...got you this." She looked away, holding out a heart-shaped box with a lovely hand-decorated card taped to it. "You see, I've had a crush on you ever since the first day of école, when you gave me your umbrella. It's only grown since then, and it's developed into real love, not just a schoolgirl crush. A-and I know you're with Ka-Kagami now," she gulped, "but I just wanted to tell you how I feel. I'm in love with you, Adrien Agreste."

Marinette looked back up through her lashes, cheeks flushed, heart pounding wildly.

Everything was silent.

Then Tikki burst out from behind the mirror. "Good job, Marinette! You finally confessed your feelings to Adrien!"

Marinette hung her head. "But I didn't, Tikki. He's not even here. He's probably at his house." She groaned and threw herself dramatically on her bed. "Twenty years old, still living at home with a schoolgirl crush I stutter to think of! I can't believe myself."

Tikki grinned hugely, brandishing a small rectangular object. "Yes you did. Would you rather lip-synch it to his face, or should I just text it to him?"

Marinette yelped and grabbed for her phone. "Tikki! No! I'm never bringing you to movie night with Alya and Trixx ever again!"

"Lip-synch or text?" Tikki asked, flying higher.

"Lip-synch! Lip-synch!" Marinette shrieked in a panic.

"All right. But I'm texting this to Alya first." Tikki's tiny paws flew over the screen as she balanced the phone on her feet. "No cold feet, Marinette! Think about it."

A small eternity later, Tikki dropped the phone into Marinette's hand, and Marinette gave a piercing scream. "TIKKI!"

"What?" Tikki asked innocently.

"This isn't Alya's number! It's Adrien's!"

"A-D and A-L! They're right next to each other."

"Not in my text history!"

"Oops?" Tikki offered. She'd really been spending too much time with Plagg lately, she reflected. He was a bad influence...almost as bad as Alya and her movies.

Marinette screamed again when Adrien's response popped up:

Adrien: Hey Marinette! Sorry I don't have time to watch your video right now. I'm in a Valentine's Day photo shoot which starts in 10. I'll watch it ASAP, promise! Happy Valentine's Day!

"This isn't a problem," Marinette told herself. "Not a problem. Just steal his phone again! Or, no, I could get arrested. I'll go into hiding! Fake my own death and live as Ladybug. Adrien has a crush on Ladybug, right? I can marry him as Ladybug, live with Alya until the wedding, and we can still have three kids and a hamster! Unless I just become an old maid with Alya, that works too."

Tikki took Marinette's phone away and called Alya.

"So what are you saying again?" Alya asked, glancing at the clock. Adrien's photo shoot was scheduled to end in just five minutes. She had to keep Marinette talking.

"Adrien! Has a video! Of me confessing my love for him!" Marinette hyperventilated. "IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!"

Alya rolled her eyes. "Trixx, let's pounce. Mirage." Rena Rouge played a brief melody on her flute and created an illusion of Adrien.

"Marinette, I saw the video," Illusion-Adrien said, causing Marinette to bury her head in her pillow, face flaming. "Do...do you really feel that way about me?"

"Meep."

"I love you too, Marinette," the illusion continued. "I broke up with Kagami as soon as I saw your confession. Please, will you go on a date with me?"

"...meeep…?"

Rena stopped playing and looked at Marinette. "Girl, you're twenty. Get over it! You need to be able to talk to hot men."

"Meep."

"Trixx, let's rest. Mari?"

"Meep."

"I think you broke her," Trixx observed.

"An illusion Adrien might have been too much," added Tikki.

A knock at the door proved that Marinette was not completely broken, as she was out her trapdoor and behind a small potted tree that did nothing to conceal her in less than five seconds.

"It'sAdrienhidemeeee!" she whisper-squealed.

Alya groaned.

Trixx vanished through the door, then reappeared. "It's Not Adrien."

"Oh, phew." Marinette unfolded herself from behind the vase, then squawked, "ADRIEN?!"

"Hi?" Adrien said. "Um, I got your video-"

"AHH THAT WAS A PRANK ALYA MADE ME SAY IT HAHAHA ISN'T IT FUNNY?" Marinette let out a huge fake laugh.

"Don't listen to her," Alya called. "She's totally for real. Head over heels for you."

Adrien's cheeks were almost as red as Marinette's. He mumbled something that made Marinette practically burst into flames.

"What was that?" Alya called.

"I said I love you too, Marinette!" Adrien blurted. "Kagami and my relationship was always business- Father wanted me to have a girlfriend, for the brand image, and Kagami was the only girl except you, Alya, and Chloe I knew well enough. I always thought you never felt the same way about me!"

A half-coherent Marinette mumbled something unintelligible.

"I was just waiting for you to ask." Adrien tilted her face up and gave Marinette a passionate kiss while Alya looked on and two hidden kwamis looked away.

"Aw, gross!" the third hidden kwami complained loudly.

Marinette broke the kiss. "CHAT NOIR?!"

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! Do you have a significant other, or are you spending the most romance-oriented day of the year single, like me? Leave a review maybe?

Due to homework, life, and rewrites, I can't promise anything about the next chapter, or when I'll be back regularly. However, if you're looking for a good read, the stories on my favorites list almost all have great grammar (some stories I really like aren't on there, because if I like multiple stories by the same author I usually favorite the author instead of each individual story). Or my FictionPress stories, if you'd like to see the original stuff my brain comes up with.

Enjoy the love in your life, romantic or platonic. Both are absolutely wonderful, and you deserve love.