Adrien was surprised. His brain raced a mile a minute trying to think. Had he let too much of his Chat side out? He had been relaxing and enjoying the company. Very quickly he ran over the last moments of their conversation, they had just been chating, was it the unintentional pun? He sometimes couldn't stop them, but that on it's own wouldn't be enought to think of Chat Noir. He had heard a lot of people using his puns. What else...he had purred...
Underneath the blindfold his eyes widen. Only one person knew Chat purred. He leaned closer to the voice that had called him Chat Noir and whispered back, "Ladybug?"
He heard Ladybug sit back in her chair fast enough to cause it to scrap the floor a little. That was confirmation enough for him.
"Please, my Lady," he tried to reach out to her again and found her hand on the table. He tugged her close and said in a hushed voice. "I had no idea, Nino just told me that Alya knew you from school and she told him almost nothing about you. Just that Alya felt that the reservation shouldn't go to waste. They each knew someone who needed to socialize more. Nino has no idea that I'm Chat Noir. I had no idea that it would be you." He didn't want her to think he set this up. It was an unbelievable set of strange circumstances that brought them together tonight. He didn't want to scare her away.
After a moment of silence from the other side of the table. He came to a decision to end the evening early and sighed. "If you want, we don't have to see who each other is after the meal. One of us can leave first. I won't even ask Nino who you were. I'll say while we had fun we weren't interest in each other. I could even say we didn't get along at all and don't want to see each other again. I could even leave now, I'll fake a phone call calling me away and then you can leave when you finish eating. Or y.. you can fake the call."
It pained him to say that. He so wanted to know who Ladybug was, but it was more important to him to keep her respect and abide by her wish that they don't know each other's identities. He could ask Nino after but, that would still be disrespecting his lady's wishes and he couldn't do that to her either.
While he waited for her to answer, a server came by and excused them-self to remove the dishes from the first course and offer the cloths for wiping their hands. He wiped his hands and hoped Ladybug would continue the 'date'. He really would like to get to know her better. Even if they couldn't let anything slip about who they were directly, he could at least spend some time with her in a relaxed environment. No patrol, no akumas, just two people have a meal together as it was originally planned.
A soft voice came from across the table, "I know kitty. I understand. They don't know who we are and it's all just a big coincidence." There was a soft chuckle and a scoff left her throat. "Imagine that. Somehow we both know them and they set us up." There was more soft chuckling and Adrien relaxed.
"Yup, imagine that. Of all the people they could have set up, it was us. And here we are on our night off having dinner together." Adrien chuckled too. He had to keep himself from outright laughing. They didn't need to attract attention.
There was more throat clearing from the server and the next course was put down in front of them. Adrien was glad. It seemed like Ladybug was willing to let the date continue. This was a wonderful chance. A chance to have dinner with his lady. He started to think of all the things they could talk about. Campus life, general school courses, can't mention teachers but could mention TV shows. Oh places that were calm and quite on campus. There had been a festival to celebrate literacy not that long ago.
If he didn't blurt out the wrong thing then this was a chance to get to know the woman behind the mask just a little better.