Shopping with Adrien
A/N: I'm back from the dead, but let's not worry about that. Let's just get to the chapter
The Next Morning
"Adrien! Adrien!"
Adrien woke up from his long and deserved sleep to see Marinette in front of him and wide awake.
"Oh," he yawned, "good morning Marinette."
"Good morning Adrien! Did you sleep well?" She asked, giving her partner a big smile.
Adrien nodded and ruffled her hair. "Yup, it was good. I just didn't expect for you to be up so early. Anything bothering you?"
The owner of the ladybug miraculous nodded her head. Adrien- seeing something wrong- was awake and alert as a cat. He sat up and inquired, "What's wrong Marinette?"
"Well..." Marinette replied looking out the window.
"Yes?"
"I need clothes." The answer came out flatly.
"Huh?" The blonde looked frazzled.
"I saaaaaaid I need clothes. Adrien, I can't wear your big, boy shirts. I neeeeed clothes that a young, girl would wear." Marinette explained herself. She stood there as her partner looked completely and utterly confused at the situation, but slowly understand the point of view she was coming from.
Marinette was right. She was a young girl who couldn't just live off of his clothes. His was older (technically), and much bigger than Marinette. She would need new clothes now that he thought about it.
'She's right.'
He nodded. "We'll get you some new clothes, okay? We can go-"
"Today! Let's go today!"
"T-today?!" He choked out. 'So soon?!'
"Yuppie!"
'So cute. Wait- focus Adrien.'
"Today's Sunday! It's Adrien's off day when your not modeling. We have to go today," she claimed.
"Marinette, I don't think-"
"I refuse to go a week without new clothes and wearing your oversized boy-man shirts. Hmph!" The ladybug user declared, crossing her arms over her chest.
The blonde's face dropped, seeing as a child could be so serious, especially at her age. Was that even possible?
He sighed in defeat. "Fine, we'll go today. You win." Adrien knew he was never a match for her in her original form but to bested by his partner's child form... How low could he get?
Never mind that, at the moment Marinette needed clothes. "So...?"
Adrien nodded. "Okay, okay, let's go shopping. After breakfast though. I'm starving!"
"Yay! Food!"
It was after the pair had breakfast and snuck out of Adrien's mansion, that they were at the shopping district.
Adrien and Marinette walked through the various shops and vendors. Marinette held tightly onto Adrien's hand so they wouldn't get separated in the gargantious crowd.
Marinette looked down at Adrien's hand and somewhat smiled. She liked it enveloping her's but she didn't know why. It was bigger than her's, and warmer too. It was comforting and it made everything around her calm. Almost quiet. As if on cloud 9, or a world of her very own.
The girl liked it a lot.
They were walking when Marinette spotted a certain boutique. It was filled with some cute, frilly girl clothes. Some were summer dresses with a simple lace and other's with intriqute patterns and colors. There was even one dress with red and black spots. That's what really caught her eye.
"Adrien! Adrien!" She yanked his arm.
"Uh, what is it?" He asked.
"There!" Marinette said pointing to the boutique. "I wanna go there!"
The blonde looked at the shop and nodded. "Okay, let's go," and they walked in together.
As soon as they entered Marinette ran straight for the ladybug design dress, smiling bigly and pointing to it. Adrien walked up to it, and looked at the dress. How ironic, the thought crossed his mind looking at it.
She is Ladybug, so to get a dress reminded of a ladybug was weird. Well it's not that Adrien minded anyway. As long as Marinette was happy, he was happy.
They then zoomed through the store picking out more dresses with some shirts and skirts and some shoes, with some occasional accessories.
After the superhero tried them on they made their way to the register to pay. I mean, it was obvious her partner was paying. Adrien loaded all the items onto the register whie the woman there was scanning their items.
"And how would you like to pay sir? Cash, debit or credit?" She asked.
"Credit please," he replied, handing her a silver credit card.
She nodded, accepting the card and started to scan it. Adrien read the name tag, it read: Annabelle.
"So," Annabelle started, "is she your's? Or someone else's?" She finished, swiping the card. Now she was bagging everything.
"Huh?" He replied shocked. "O-oh, she's my... niece. I have an older brother. Her parents are away and I'm taking care of her for the moment."
"That's so sweet, and she seems so attached too. You don't meet a lot of men who openly admit to having an appeciation for children," Annabelle smiled. "Oh sorry, let me finish bagging your purchases."
As she finished bagging up the clothes she looked up and Adrien grinned at her, but slightly blushing at the same time. "Well thanks, but it's not that easy. I'm still getting the hang of this parental thing really," he admitted, grabbing the bags.
She blinked and handed back his card that had a slip of paper with it. "What is this?"
"I- It's my number. You can call in case you have any problems," she mumbled brushing her hair behind her ear. "Have a good day, sir..."
"You too. Goodbye. Let's go Marinette," Adrien said as the child ran back to him and snatched his hand and they left.
"You guys talked for a bit. I got bored," she commented blantly.
"Haha, yeah sorry. Since we were in there for a while how about we get a snack? We can stop by a small little cafe," he suggested.
Marinette hummed in thought. "Hmm... Alright, let's go!" She cheered.
They walked past a crowd of different people into a back way to a small, little street with a calm, quiet cafe. Both walked in and were led to a table.
And while deciding they heard a familiar voice that opened the door after they entered. "Natalie, rearrange my schedule due to this small stop." Gabriel Agreste told.
"Oh no... my dad!"
A/N: This is most likely a filler chapter in all honestly, but still I hope you all enjoyed it anyway while dealing with my shinanigans.