Okay so this is late because I've been busy with my graphic design course as well as constantly trying to keep up to date with deviantART, as I go further into this course it's becoming more and more difficult to keep up to date with everything. It's not that I don't like doing this story, it's just that I've only begun to realise how my priorities are set up, and hopefully you understand that my course is more important than this story.
Believe me, I'd love to update this regularly on the days I say I will, even daily if I could! XD But unfortunately lately, I've barely had any time to myself because of this homework overload, but hopefully you guys understand. :) Anyways, I did leave you guys hanging off your seats in the last Chapter, I do apologise about that but I couldn't help myself! XD If I kept on going I wouldn't know what to write next!
So, I think this chapter might end up being all about Ladybug and Adrien but we'll see how I go. ;) Enjoy Chapter 15 of Revelations! ^^
Miraculous Ladybug © Thomas Astruc/ Zagtoon
Chapter 15 – Some Bad Luck
Neither of them knew exactly what they were doing, all they could do was stare into each other's eyes as their heart beats synchronised in mutual feelings and attraction. Ladybug was blushing a deep crimson while Adrien's cheeks were no different, both of their eyes now focused on their fingers intertwined with each other's.
It was a moment that Ladybug wanted to cherish forever, but she wished he liked her as Marinette too. Her mind was riddled with the thought of how he could like her when they've barely met this way before?
"H-how can you like me…?" Ladybug asked, the words stuttering out of her mouth. "We've never met like this before…"
Adrien felt like this was the perfect time to tell her everything, yet somehow in the back of his mind this seemed to have bad luck written all over it, but so far so good, he was extremely relieved and happy that he had made it this far to tell the one he truly loves his feelings with that other person showing mutual feelings for the other. Ever since Adrien truly knew it was him that Ladybug had feelings for, he knew then and there he had to confess his feelings to her as Adrien, yet he didn't know how this would all work out for the two of them.
Unfortunately Ladybug wanted to confess to Adrien that she had feelings for her as Marinette, but somehow he already knew about those feelings. She never got a clear answer as to why, but she could only assume that how she acted around him was enough evidence to prove that fact.
"I've liked you since I first met you…" He began to say, feeling like this was the moment he would tell her who he truly was. "I've just never had the true courage to tell you…"
Ladybug could her heat literally beating out of her chest, her mind tangled in deep confusion. She couldn't understand how Adrien would have met her, his words seem too pure to make it seem like this was their first meeting, but to Ladybug this was their first meeting while she was Ladybug. She felt so conflicted inside, she wanted to embrace him tightly but at the same time she wanted to run away and cry.
"Wh-what do you mean…?" She asked, her lips trembling in fear and worry.
Adrien began to stutter at the thought, before he looked up at her.
His emerald eyes met with her sparkling blue eyes, every time he looked into those he was lost in the thought of her, he couldn't think when he was like this. The two of them edged closer to each other, leaving no less than a finger's gap between their lips, their warm breath felt around each other's lips. Ladybug felt so entranced by him that she was under his total control, she could feel his confidence overwriting the overwhelming shyness and fear within her.
With a small whisper as his eyes slowly began to close with Ladybug's lips very close, Adrien finally said the words he had been begging to tell her for a long time.
"I love you Ladybug."
His confession was sealed. Their lips locked and a gush of warmth flowed through their bodies, the warmth felt from the kiss made everything seem like a giant fantasy come true. Ladybug pressed her hands gently against his chest while Adrien wrapped his arms around her. The moment felt like it could last forever.
"Adrien, where are you?"
They both parted their lips from each other with a gasp and turned to see Adrien's photographer looking around for him, a blush was still fresh on both their cheeks, yet Adrien quickly made his way towards his photographer, shooting Ladybug one small glance before resuming the photo shoot.
All Ladybug did was stand there in utter awestruck of what just happened, she didn't know how to react to what just happened, it was filled with more emotions than she could count. Her mind was wiped clean of any words to process into a verbal reaction, the overwhelming amount of different emotions locked her words away from control. But she knew one emotion stood out more than the others.
And that was love.
It was the first time she kissed Adrien, her first kiss with him and it felt like heaven just as she imagined. Yet what she didn't imagine was him kissing Ladybug instead of Marinette, it made a grunt escape her mouth before she flung to the nearest building and eventually to home all without saying a word or giving a reaction to what just happened.
She landed on her balcony, undoing her transformation and going back into her room and standing in front of her mirror displaying no emotion. Either she was overwhelmed with too much emotion that it stopped her emotions from showing or she just couldn't react to it. Then her eyes trailed over towards the picture of Adrien, it was then that it all came crashing down on her.
"I kissed Adrien!?" She cried, tears pooling at the bottom of her eyelids as her hair stressed at the amount of pulling her hands were doing to it. "What was I thinking!?"
Tikki flew next to her with a deeply worried and sympathetic expression. She knew this would happen eventually, she sighed before she landed on Marinette's extremely tense shoulder.
"Look Marinette, you have to face the facts. This doesn't change anything." Tikki stated firmly, wanting Marinette to face the reality of this situation.
Marinette felt the cold sting in those words, yet the reality of it melted her brain. She knew it to be true, she would feel different when she was around him at school now, but she saw nothing else change besides what remained hidden. Adrien would feel different too if he were to encounter Ladybug again, next time if they were to meet again he would truly be lost for words to respond to his actions.
"You two will still behave the same way at school." Her kwami reminded, holding a serious expression.
Tikki was right, although hearts melted and their feelings for each other soared across the skies, there was no change. Everything would remain the same. Marinette would remain the clumsy shy girl she was at school, while fighting alongside Cat Noir as Ladybug, and Adrien would act kind and friendly around Marinette every time they were around. Marinette felt more than eager to tell Adrien that she was Ladybug and that she was the one that he loves.
But at the same time, she felt doubt weigh out the positives of that situation. Her image as Marinette was faded, she stood in the background trying her best to make herself be seen by Adrien all the time, almost always never jolting out a perfect clean sentence to him. And there she was, Marinette with the lips that had just touched Adrien's. It was something so unbelievable that Marinette was smacking and pinching herself just to see if she was dreaming.
She couldn't believe it, Marinette had just kissed the love of her life for the very first time.
Or so she thought.
After the photo shoot was wrapped up, Adrien had that kiss on his mind the entire time, throughout the shoot he struggled to maintain certain expression, he wanted to have a reaction to what happened earlier, but he needed to be alone to do that. So with his emotions fighting inside of him demanding escape and freedom, he remained relaxed against the seat of the limousine as he was driven back home.
He entered his bedroom in silence, with no Nathalie or Gabriel to welcome him home, although it was very common for his father not to welcome him home, his missed his own mother welcoming home, even if she had only just realised who she really was.
But Adrien was drawn too far away from his family's mishaps by the enchanted kiss, he remembered the sweet taste of her glossy lips as they crept across his lips. The touch of her hands on his chest made him feel in control as he wrapped his arms around her, pulling her in for a tighter embrace. It made Adrien sigh as a smile widened across his face, easily defining his cheekbones as he thought more and more of that one small moment that gave such and enormous impact on him.
Plagg flew out from where he had been hiding this whole time and saw the dreamy and entranced expression on Adrien's face as he laid down on the bed with his arms out. He knew that it was going to be very hard to take Adrien out of his trance; he knew all too well that Adrien had to think about this logically.
"Adrien, get a hold of yourself! This doesn't change anything!" The cat kwami exclaimed.
With his smiling lips loosened into a small frown of confusion, Adrien sat up with his hands balancing his upper body. "What do you mean?" He asked.
A pout formed on the kwami's little lips as his eyes narrowed at the clueless lover boy. Plagg could see that Adrien was so wound up in the kiss with Ladybug that he couldn't see the reality of the situation. He wanted to stop this kiss when he could see it from Adrien's bag that he was hiding in, but couldn't so he wouldn't be spotted by anyone. And why of all people did it have to be Ladybug hiding behind that tree? Plagg thought, cringing in annoyance at the thought.
"Think about it! How will things be around you as Cat Noir and Ladybug now?"
Adrien had other thoughts towards Plagg's exclamation; he didn't understand how the kiss wouldn't change anything between the two of them. As he thought about the scenario when he meets up with Ladybug next as Cat Noir, he could see himself and Ladybug...just doing the same thing they would usually do. Adrien shook his head in denial that the kiss didn't change anything, he tried to think about it being different but it didn't add up. He had to admit that Plagg had a point with this one, and he had been right for a while now, it was starting to get to him that his kwami was being right and getting great ideas all of a sudden.
He shot a glare at his kwami, annoyed that Plagg was frustrating him yet again. "Why are you so right about everything all of a sudden? You're not as willing to cheese now either, why do you care about my life all of a sudden?" He asked with a suspicious eye.
Plagg floated back a little in shock of that statement. "Excuse me? I love cheese and I always will! I'm just making sure you don't hurt yourself or reveal your identity for the sake of everyone!" Plagg cried, turning his head away, feeling insulted.
It was then he realised what his kwami was trying to explain, he sighed as he looked away with a regretful look on his face, he now felt terrible that he said that to Plagg after his kwami was only trying to help and protect him. He buried his face in his hands as he groaned, then looking back up and apologising to his kwami.
The next day, Marinette woke up to the sound of her phone buzzing off the desk, she and her kwami jumped out of bed and dashed to the phone. It was Alya; Marinette accepted the call and quickly looked at the time before responding, her eyes widened slightly as she realised how early it was.
"Alya? It's six thirty...what are you doing up so-"
"Marinette! You will not believe what someone just posted online!" Alya exclaimed, sounding serious as she cut Marinette off.
Marinette raised an eyebrow as she tilted her head slightly towards her computer, Tikki landed next to the mouse before the little kwami pressed on it to wake up the monitor. The navy haired teen sat down with one leg bent and the other hanging freely. She opened up the internet, still confused as to what Alya meant by something happening on the internet.
"Look, I know you really shouldn't see this...but I just have to tell you!" Alya cried, sounding a little more excited towards the end of her sentence.
Marinette shook her head; she had no literal idea as to what her best friend was going crazy about. She knew that Alya would only go crazy over stuff she would record of Ladybug and Cat Noir...and that's when it hit her.
The kiss...Marinette thought as her eyes widened.
It was then that Marinette found already posted on the Ladyblog by someone anonymous a photo of Adrien and Ladybug kissing slightly hidden by the trees. The phone that she had gripped tightly had now loosened and fell straight to the floor, causing Alya to call out to Marinette in a panic. Tikki shared a similar reaction, but unlike Marinette who was utterly speechless, she could give a verbal reaction to it.
"Who would photograph that?" She asked, floating closer towards the screen, squinting one eye in curiosity.
The sounds of a panicking Alya emitted from Marinette's phone as Marinette stared at the photo with shrunken pupils, her mouth opened with a gasp as one of her eyes began to twitch in fear. She felt so careless, how could she have been so blind? Marinette felt like she could collapse on her bed and stay there forever, there was no way she was going to school like this.
Tikki floated away from the monitor, tilting her head slightly in thought before thoughtfully picking up Marinette's phone and placing it on the desk with the speaker on.
"Marinette? I'm really sorry you had to see that...but you probably would have seen it eventually..." Alya admitted, with a sorrow tone in her voice. "But please still come to school; I'll be with you the entire time I promise." She assured.
Marinette was glad to have a very supporting friend like Alya by her side, she felt so much more protected with her around. It was the same relief feeling she would get when Chat would protect her in a fight.
It was then that Marinette realised who could've taken the photograph as she remembered why Adrien was at the park in the first place. She slammed her head against the desk, deeply regretful of her actions and wanting to do nothing but hide away forever. But, with Alya's encouraging words she decided to go to school anyway, in spite of all this happening.
"Oh no! He was in the middle of a photo shoot and one of his photographers must have snapped a picture of us!" Marinette cried as she looked at her kwami.
Tikki replied with a shocked expression printed all over her face. "That would explain everything!" She cried.
She started to wonder if Adrien had seen the photo yet, she wondered how he would react to it. It was no doubt that he would react in a similar way to how she reacted, it made her cringe in worry and guilt that it was entirely her fault for the kiss actually happening. Marinette fell into her bed in tears, deeply wanting to stay there forever but at the same time moved by Alya's encouraging words to actually come to school.
So for the next hour or so Marinette went over and over to herself how she would play out the day, sincerely hoping that Adrien was alright after this happening but her fears outweighed her hopes as she could only tell by looking at the photo once more how he was going to feel about seeing that posted on the internet.
Walking to school on her own, Marinette felt her heart beat out of her chest in deep anxiety. She knew very well that it was Ladybug he kissed and not Marinette, but she couldn't help but cover her face in slight embarrassment whenever someone looked at her, they raised an eyebrow in confusion as they walked past her. Marinette had a pink tint of blush spread across her cheeks all the way up until she saw Alya running towards her.
Alya embraced her best friend, deeply regretful and serious about showing Marinette that photo. She knew it would hurt Marinette but she would never keep a secret as big as this away from her own best friend. And telling Marinette straight away was the best option so she wouldn't be oblivious to it when they see Chloe extremely annoyed at Adrien.
"I'm sorry but I had to show you. It's for your own good." She said in a caring tone. "And don't worry; I won't talk about it if you don't want to." Alya assured, giving some much needed respect to Marinette.
The only thing that was on her mind was if Adrien had seen the photo yet, she could tell by Nino's loneliness and anxious waiting that Adrien hadn't arrived yet, and it was only a few minutes until the first bell for class would ring. It was then that she deducted that Adrien wasn't coming to school today because of that photo. Since Marinette was Ladybug at the time, to everyone else they saw absolutely no reason for Marinette to hide away from something like this.
But then, Adrien's limousine pulled up. Nino was the first to dash to the car as the door slowly opened.
"Adrien, what were you doing with Ladybug!?" He exclaimed, pulling out his phone to show the picture.
As Adrien closed the door, he turned to see the photo in full view. His emerald eyes widened in shock and his cheeks turned crimson in embarrassment as he felt the sting of many pairs of eyes staring at him, each pair displaying a similar reaction to his.
"Adrien Agreste! You vowed to be with me and only me!" A voice cried from inside the building, before the door was slammed open by Sabrina, revealing a furious and steaming Chloe.
Chloe made her way down to Adrien, stomping her way as all the other students watched the scene unfold in front of them, Marinette and Alya gave a worried and shocked expression towards the scene. Meanwhile Nino turned and stiffened in fear as he saw the scary blonde female angrily stomping her way towards him and Adrien.
Adrien felt his heart beat quicken in fear as he saw how furious Chloe was, he cringed a little as she was inches away from him before his already reddened cheek was met with a powerful slap from Chloe's hand. The blonde girl whipped her hair at him before she and Sabrina walked off.
Neither Marinette or Adrien were prepared for today's events.
Oh snap! Aha I think halfway through this chapter you saw that one coming eh? XD Oh well, we got a kiss people! A kiss! :D I think that will be enough to let you faint and recover until I post the next Chapter! XD So, not sure when next chapter will be since things are very tight like I mentioned at the beginning of the chapter, but I hope to get the next chapter up by the end of Thursday.
See you all soon for Chapter 16! ^^