Day 4 and 5: Croissant Murder and Yarning for you

"There all finished!" Marinette carefully pulls out the well baked croissants from the oven and places them in a container. "I really hope Adrien likes these for his birthday. I know how much he loves them."

"They look delicious Marinette I'm positive Adrien will love them." Tikki said as she floated next to the girl.

Marinette and her kwami walked back up the stairs to her room and the blunette set the container of pastries on her desk. Then she picked up a piece of fabric over on the side that was shaped into a hat.

"Now I can focus on finishing his other gift." She was knitting a blue hat out of the same yarn she used to make his scarf, she figured she'd give him something to match it since he loved to wearing it all the time, even if he didn't know the gift was from her.

"Do you think he'll recognize the same material from the scarf?" Tikki questioned.

"I'll just say that I intended for the hat to match the scarf since I know he likes to wear it all the time. I'm not taking away the one thing his dad made him happy with." Marinette searched the desk looking for something, but couldn't find it. "I must have left the rest of the yarn downstairs."

Marinette hurried back down into the living room and grabbed the blue ball of string from the coach. She went back upstairs to her room and sat back over by her desk. That's when she realized something was different.

Getting a strange feeling she looked around and realized Tikki was no where in sight then she saw that the container of croissants was also missing.

"Hello purrincess." Marinette turned around and saw Chat Noir sitting on her lounge, but that wasn't the reason why she was staring at him in horror.

The reason was because he was eating the croissants that were specifically for Adrien.

"Chat what are you doing!" She shouted.

"I just came to pay you a little visit." He said as he continued eating.

Marinette stood up from her chair and ran over to snatch the tray away from the cat. The entire thing was already empty and he was already half done with the last one.

"You stupid cat those weren't for you!" She shouted angrily. "I made those for a friend!"

"You made them? No wonder they were so delicious." He said with a grin.

The blunette groaned and trudged back over to her chair. "Great now I have to make more. I'll never get the hat finished in time..."

Chat Noir spotted the ball of yarn on her desk and felt a rush of excitement. Marinette noticed the look on his face and followed his gaze towards the blue ball of string and quickly snatched it off the desk.

"No no no no absolutely not! Don't you even think about it." She warned.

"But princess I'm just yarning to play with it, just like I'm yarning to play with you too~" the blonde flashed a flirtatious smile.

"That pun was bad and you should feel bad for making it." She groaned. "I need this to finish the gift I'm making for the friend that the croissants were for. I can't have you ruining this too!"

"Must be some friend. Who is this friend of yours that is so fortunate to receive not one but two wonderful gifts from you princess?"

Marinette thought for a moment and she figured there was no harm in telling him. "His name's Adrien."

Chat froze for a moment at the name. "Adrien...as in...Agreste?"

"Well he's the only Adrien I know." She said with slight teasing in her tone. "His birthday is tomorrow and I wanted to make him something special. He also really loves croissants so I made some to give him."

Chat walked over to Mari's desk picking up the blue headwear and observing it. "So you're making him a hat?"

"Yes." She answered. "It matches the scarf that I made for him last year."

"Scarf."

"Oh...I wasn't supposed to say that." She said realizing her slip up. "Well I guess there's no harm in telling you...last year I made Adrien a scarf for his birthday, but there was a mix up and he thought the gift was from his dad."

Chat blinked and he asked despite already knowing the answer. "Did you ever tell him the truth?"

Marinette shook her head. "He was so happy when he thought it was from his dad. I didn't want to take that away from him." When Marinette looked back over at Chat she noticed the hardened expression on his face. "Chat are you okay?"

"Huh? Oh...yeah I'm fine." He shook away his thoughts and smiled at the girl. "It's really sweet of you to do all this for your friend Marinette. I know he'll love it."

"I hope so..." She sighed before standing up and picking up the empty container. "The hats gonna have to wait though. I have to make more croissants since SOMEONE decided to EAT them."

Chat Noir rubbed the back of his head with a nervous smile. "Hey why don't I help you make them? To make up for eating the first ones."

Marinette tapped her chin thinking about it. "Well considering that it's your fault I guess I can let you help, but you better not eat these ones you hear me? Paws off!"

"I promise I won't take a single bite. Cats honor." He said with one hand on his chest and raised the other.

Marinette turned away with a smile and headed downstairs towards the kitchen with Chat following behind.