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A Miraculous Halloween

Chapter 5: Ice Cream Dream

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It was a Tuesday, and tomorrow and the day after that, there would be no school in order to prepare for the Halloween dance on Friday.

After school, Marinette planned to go to the cloth store with Alya so she could start working on her designs.

Fortunately, class seemed to go by very quickly, leaving Marinette feeling like she had surpassed a minute for that school day to end.

For one, Chloe and Sabrina had gone back to school, on their usual behavior except for the fact that they were clearly avoiding and ignoring Marinette. Aside from this, Chloe was less threatening and less of a bully. Chloe's ego was probably still bruised from the mean comments Marinette had given her. Well, she deserved it.

Yay. No more evil Chloe.

That kind of helps the fact that whenever Marinette sees Chloe, the poor girl feels like barfing just looking at the girl with no brain, and all power, considering the fact that Chloe's father is the mayor of Paris.

Anyway, Marinette didn't have to look at her face much because of the fact that school went by fast. Very fast.

So after classes, Marinette went to her locker and began placing her stuff neatly inside, so that she wouldn't have to bring anything with her to the store.

Except for her trusty pink pouch, of course. Tikki was in there.

Alya approached her best friend.

"Hey Alya!" Marinette smiled, "I was wondering if it'd be okay if you would go with me to the cloth shop to buy the cloth for our costumes?"

"I'm sooo sorry Mari, I got a babysitting gig today!" Alya looked genuinely sorry, but lit up as she had an idea. "But I'm pretty sure Adrien here could take my place, right Adrien?"

Alya had pulled the blonde boy (who passed by them) into the conversation, although he was clueless about what they were talking about.

"Uhh, Alya it pretty much depends on what you're talking about…" Adrien raised an eyebrow questioningly.

Alya grinned maliciously. She had a great plan to get the two lovebirds together. "Well, she had just offered for you to accompany her to the cloth shop, and I highly encourage you to accept the invitation. Besides," Alya winked at the two, "Since you're each other's dates for the Halloween party, you probably might wanna spend time together."

Marinette turned as red as Nathanael's hair. She really wanted to camouflage with her locker right now. Unfortunately, she wasn't a chameleon.

Adrien, on the other hand, chuckled like it was nothing. "I sure would love to! I'll just ask for Gorilla to hang back for a while. It's the least I could do to repay you for your savageness with Chloe yesterday."

"No no no, Adrien! You totally don't have to do this! I know the timing isn't perfect, since I asked you out at last minute," Marinette babbled blushingly. "But I didn't really ask you out because asking you out would mean asking you out on a date, and I totally didn't do that because that would be embarrassing, and besides this is just a friendly shopping date, not the romantic kind of date, but I wouldn't mind if you ask me to date you, as in date date you," Marinette turned red at the sight of Adrien with his widened green eyes and Alya with a disapproving facepalm. "Okayyy I'll just shut up now."

"Uh you know what?" Adrien smiled kindly. "I'm free now I don't have anything to do. I could go out with you now, no trouble."

Marinette just stood there with a wide beam on her face and her freckled cheeks dusted with red. Alya, however, was one to speak for the speechless girl.

"Thank you so much Adrien! You don't know how miserable Marinette would be if you said no," Alya then widened her eyes, realizing what she had said. "Er- not because she is totes head over heels for you, it's just that she um, hates being lonely. Right Mari?"

Mari just nodded, sneaking a glare to her supportive BFF.

"It's okay Mari you'll thank me so much later," Alya whispered in the blushing girl's ear. She continued loudly, now facing Adrien, "Hey would you look at the time! I gotta go, my babies are waiting! The duty of a babysitter never ceases to tire. Ta-ta now, guys!"

And with that, Alya skipped off to find a pillar she can hide behind and still listen to the lovebirds' conversation.

"Uh Adrien," Marinette gave her crush a shy smile, "Thanks for agreeing to go with me."

"Not a problem Mari," Adrien nodded, "Let's go!"

He took Marinette's hand and dragged her off.

Alya giggled from behind the pillar she found. With a fist pump, she laughed out loud, "OPERATION ADRIENETTE IS A GO!"

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Adrien and Marinette stopped in front of a small store packed with various swatches of fabric.

They entered the establishment, and immediately Marinette got to work finding her needed items.

Adrien stood in awe at how Marinette started negotiating with the shop owners on how much a piece of fabric cost, with the same confidence and stature as how she confronted Chloe.

He came to wonder again, 'Why isn't she like that around me?'

After Marinette got her way and left the shop with all the materials she needs, the two heard Adrien's stomach grumble.

Marinette let out a lighthearted giggle while Adrien ashamedly rubbed the back of his neck.

"I'm sorry, I didn't eat much for lunch this afternoon," Adrien apologetically smiled.

Marinette sighed, 'How is he so perfect, he makes some other guys look like crap compared to him in my eyes,' the lovestruck girl wondered. She immediately snapped out of her daze when she realized Adrien was awaiting for an answer.

"W-well there's an amazing ice cream shop I know of around here, let's go there," Marinette squeaked.

And so off they went on their way, and while the two were walking there was a silence between them.

And yes, it was an awkward silence.

"Uh, so what are you gonna do tomorrow, since there's no school?" Adrien asked, desperately trying to make conversation.

"Um, nothing really. I'm just going to work on Alya and my costumes for the party."

"Well that's cool," Adrien grimaced, weirded out by himself because all he could say was that. Ew.

Finally, they got to the ice cream shop and a waitress there got them a table for two. They then fell in line to get their ice creams.

"What are you having, dears?" A kind lady asked the two for their flavors.

Marinette looked at the choices, and said, "Could I get a free taste of the chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream?"

The lady gave a sample of the ice cream to her, and she tasted it. "Great!" Marinette smiled, "I'll have this."

Adrien asked for a taste of the cheese ice cream. He tasted it, and nodded tastefully, "Yep, I'm getting this."

The girl and the boy then lined up at the cashier, ready to pay for their sweet treats.

"Let me pay for this," Marinette stood in front of Adrien, who immediately pushed her gently and insisted on paying the bill.

The twosome argued about this for a few minutes, until Adrien seemed to have won the argument and gave the money to the cashier.

"Oh, how cute," the cashier lady smiled knowingly. "Are you two dating or something?"

"NO!" Marinette and Adrien said together.

Adrien cleared his throat, "We're just friends, ma'am."

"Sure," the cashier lady handed them both their ice creams.

Marinette and Adrien gave a polite thanks and a tip to the cashier, and walked away.

"Aw, they'd just be adorable together, like Romeo and Juliet," the cashier looked at them sitting at their table. "The perfect couple, except without the dying part."

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Marinette sat down, sighing exasperatedly and defeatedly for what seemed like the fiftieth time since Adrien paid for the bill.

"Come on Marinette," Adrien pouted jokingly. "Don't depress me and make me feel guilty about paying the bill. It's not supposed to go that way. You're supposed to be the one guilty for not paying. But not really, because I practically forced you to back off the bill."

Marinette giggled. "I know, Adrien, but I really am guilty! I guess I'm making you guilty by being guilty, but it's not my fault I'm guilty."

Adrien chuckled at the fact that Marinette had used four 'guilty's in her answer, but whatever.

He scooped up a bit of his ice cream, lowered the spoon below the table, and let Plagg taste the ice cream. He had only ordered cheese so he could feed his hungry kwami, if not for Plagg he would have ordered the caramel chocolate flavor.

Glancing up, he checked to see if Marinette noticed him weirdly lowering the spoonful of ice cream instead of putting it in his mouth.

But she didn't seem to notice, for she was feeding Tikki too.

She had only ordered the chocolate chip cookie dough to satisfy her kwami's hunger, if not for Tikki she would have ordered the caramel chocolate flavor.

Looking up, she checked if Adrien noticed her weird behavior of eating ice cream, but instead saw him raising his head at the same time as she did.

"Mmm, this ice cream is actually yummy! I gotta go to this place more often," Adrien expressed in delight, his mouth full of ice cream melting in his mouth. "Thanks for showing me this place, Mari."

Mari giggled, gracefully putting a spoonful of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream to her mouth. "No problem, I'm glad you like it."

Playing with her semi-melted ice cream with her spoon, she sighed happily.

This was a dream.

The perfect ice cream dream.

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