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Chapter 5: Blabbermouth
Marinette was confused. She hadn't expected Chat to agree with the idea of her going on a date with Adrien, and she hadn't known why she'd asked, it was an impulse action. She hurried home, excited to work on Adrien's design. She had the idea to design a preppy look for his photoshoot.
She'd started on some red khaki pants, and planned to make a grey long sleeved polo to match it. It wasn't the most unique look, but Marinette had so many jitters she could hardly get the seams straight. Adrien! I'm going on a date with Adrien! She was internally flipping out. Tomorrow. Saturday. The best day of her life! A DATE WITH ADRIEN!
After she finished the pants, Marinette looked at the clock, 11:47 PM flashed at her! Her eyes shot open wide. She didn't want eye bags during her date! Quickly she set the alarm and shut the lights off. Happily drifting into a sweet slumber with romantic dreams.
Adrien was excited. His first actual date! It might even be with Ladybug! He was internally dancing with joy and externally casually sipping water from a glass at exactly 4:20 PM. Marinette had texted him the details this morning at 9-ish.
[Marinette]: Are you free at 5:30 for our date?
[Adrien]: Today's my day off J
[Marinette]: Lucky you
[Adrien]: My chauffeur will pick us up at around 4:45? K?
[Marinette]: K, Bye Adrien
[Adrien]: Bye!
Today, his father had been generous enough to give him a day off, something he hadn't got much of before. Adrien stood in front of his open closet doors, Plagg flitted around the clothes, and the Kwami pulled out a white tee with a black Gabriel Brand logo on it, an angular butterfly inside of a circle. Adrien only owned clothes from his father's brand, as it was bad advertisement when your main model doesn't wear the clothing he models. The edges of the shirt had black strips on them but the rest of the shirt was white, save for the big black logo in the middle. Adrien nodded his approval.
Plagg, surprisingly, had amazingly good fashion sense, his father would be impressed. Adrien grabbed a pair of black jeans and squinted his slightly upturned, light green eyes. "Adrien, I think these forest green sneakers and that hoodie would go well with the whole look." Plagg held up a green canvas sneaker.
"Good job, Plagg." Adrien grabbed the clothes and turned to go to the shower.
Plagg cleared his throat. He opened his mouth and pointed in, one point for every syllable, "Cam-em-bert."
"C'mon. I have to shower!"
"I just gave you fashion advice for 15 minutes, so you will give me Camembert."
Rolling his eyes, Adrien pointed to the mini-fridge. "Help yourself." While Plagg shot off like a bullet, Adrien made his way into the bathroom.
Marinette looked different. Her hair was down and curled neatly at the ends. Alya looked at her up and down. She wore a pink polka-dotted skater skirt and her sheer, white top was neatly tucked into it high up, her makeup was applied and perfected by Alya's steady hands, her legs were shaved and her self-esteem was high, after all she'd asked him out on a date, not the other way around. The doorbell rang, and Marinette allowed herself a small squeal before she composed herself again. She placed some clear lip-gloss in her bag. Alya gave her a small wave, "Go get 'em girl!" she whispered.
Marinette trudged down the stairs, trying not to fidget with her matching statement necklace and bracelet. She peered up at Adrien through her fringe of mascared lashes. "Hey!" she said, smiling.
"Hey," he said, matching her tone, "You look really beautiful."
She smiled even bigger, "Thanks. You look great too!"
His smile now matched her's too. She waved goodbye to her parents, and together they left the bakery, Adrien opened the car door for Marinette, and they both sat in Adrien's limo. Then Adrien's Gorilla, his chauffeur and bodyguard sped off, Marinette's house disappeared within no time, but she and Adrien wouldn't have noticed.
"You know, Alya thinks that Ladybug and Chat Noir are secretly in a relationship!" Adrien almost squealed.
"I didn't know you really shipped them that much!"
"Who couldn't ship them?"
"Me,"
"And why is that Miss Marinette?"
"Because I ship us way more." She immediately regretted the words after they came out of her mouth. Her face became the color of a tomato and the smile left Adrien's lips, slowly but surely he backed away from her.
Adrien wasn't sure he heard the words right. Adrien stopped smiling, and his lips were in a grim expression. Hurt flashed through Marinette's red face as he moved over a bit.
Adrien took a deep breath before he said, "Look, Marinette—" she stopped him before he could continue with his awkward speech.
"Okay, Adrien I have to confess this to you now." She paused, looking so confused at what she was doing that her face turned an even more impressive shade of red, almost purple with embarrassment, "I guess it's no secret that I like you anymore, at least not from you, but I have to tell you why. I'm not like Chloe, using you for her own personal gain, I didn't look into your eyes the day of the chewing gum incident and say my, oh, my, what beautiful green eyes. I was just mad at you. Despite your looks and your money and your fame and your life, I was still mad at you. And then you gave me that umbrella and you flipped my world upside down. This time I looked into your eyes and saw someone who genuinely cared about people, someone was nice. That's when I fell in love with you and that's why I was so excited when you kissed me, that's why I we—I sent Ladybug after you broke my heart. And I was always so awkward around you, never even able to hold a conversation with you. I love you Adrien, no matter if you love me or not. I love you and only you."
Adrien was appalled. Of course, he'd known Marinette liked him, from what a little kitty told him, but he'd always thought of it as a silly little crush, after all he was used to that, from Chloe and all of his die-hard 'lovers'. But who did they really love, Adrien or Adrien Agreste, the model. More important than that, Who did he really love?
Was it Ladybug, the courageous girl who'd took a fist, clamped it around his heart, and didn't even try to do it. Or was it the girl in front of him, the shy girl, the girl who was in tears by his reaction to her statement. Today, he realized the differences between Marinette and Ladybug, and almost felt stupid at his previous theory. Marinette carved herself a special place in his heart today and so Adrien asked her this:
"What would you say if I told you that I loved you too."
And the first piece of the Square comes together here!
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And now back to your regularly scheduled program (Continued from the Top):
I'm sooooo sorry! I seriously DIDN'T think it would be this hard to Fan-Fic and do school. OMG High-school is killer! I entered the 9th grade recently and there's so much homework! :|
Anyways… I really need to start managing my time between M:TGBR and school! Here's to a smaller time period between chapters.
I repeat: Thanks 4 Reading This and I hope you have a Miraculous Day
