Salut! It's time for some Adrinette! ^^
It's been a week since the day she got blind, and things have changed a lot. Sadly, it's mostly been going in waves. At first it was scary, then confusing, and then all of the sudden it got great and then bad like a downhill. The good time was when she was spending time with her family all weekend, her parents had closed the bakery to spend time with her and make sure she was happy. Unfortunately when she started school again she had a tough time with being blind and stopping an akuma again. It was the worst. Since Alya didn't want to leave her side due to her blindness it was much harder to get away and transform without anybody looking. And when she thought it couldn't get worse when she turned back as Marinette she just had to stumble on Chloé when she was looking for Alya. And sadly, Chloé just had to be in the mood.
"Hey! Look where you're going! Oh, wait, what am I talking about. You can't!" she laughed her mean laugh.
Marinette just wished she could hit Chloé or something, but since she couldn't see her and she was too tired she decided to just walk away from her. But where? She tried to walk around her but instead of going through the door she stumbled right into the wall and fell to the ground. She could hear the brat's laugh as she rubbed her forehead, suddenly she felt hands grab her arms and lift her up gently. At first she thought it was Alya but they felt different, she then heard his voice.
"Chloé! Stop it!"
It was Adrien. She knew that voice anywhere, it gave her shivers when she noticed the hands hadn't left her yet when she was up. She hoped they didn't ever leave her. She felt so safe.
"What? It's not my fault she's blind and can't see where she's going, she almost made me spill my coffee!" said the brat behind her. Ugh, Marinette wished there was some way for her to say something back, but since she got blind she's had sleepless nights and very hard situations while being blind. So the exhaustion stopped her from saying anything, she only stood there with a small gap between her lips and eyes half-open.
"You know she's blind so why not be more careful around her! You don't know how hard it is to be like this!"
"Oh, sorry, I'll be more careful. Poor, Marinette, I really hope you'll get better. What tragedy it is, you won't be able to work properly and you can't design anything for special occasions. Oh, so sad." she used a fake pity voice and it made Marinette wanna use her fist on something or someone. She instead tightened the grip she had on the boy's arms. And he could feel it. He understood her, so he decided to help her out.
"Please, Chloé. Leave Marinette alone." he said before leading Marinette out of the room, he then turned his head to the blind girl and said "Don't listen to her, Marinette."
"It's hard not to, because she's right. If I'll continue to be this blind I'll have to give up my dream about being a fashion designer." the girl sighed.
She felt him pull her closer, "Don't say that! Someone must be able to help you. Can't they operate or something?"
She sighed, "I don't know, my parents are looking for a way but they haven't found anything they can afford yet. It's kinda hopeless, we can only wait and see if it can heal." she said as they walked, probably towards the classroom. She felt him stop and moved one of her hands to the railing and she understood they were going upstairs. They went slowly so she didn't trip over any steps. It felt weird but at the same time nice to get help from Adrien, she began to blush when she thought more about it. Why did he help her? Why was he so kind to her and stood up to Chloé like that? Why did he even care? ...and most of all, why did it feel so familiar?
When they reached the end of the stairs she felt how they moved towards the classroom, she heard the bell ring and they arrived just in time. She felt how Adrien lead her to her place and she sat down next to her friend she couldn't see grin. She thanked him for the help and heard miss Bustier arrive and got ready to start the lesson.
"Wow, you got help from Adrien!" her friend whispered, happiness filled in her words.
Marinette rolled her eyes, "Yeah, I know. He also saved me from being stepped on by Chloé." she whispered back, first words were excited but the ending was with a hiss because of the anger she still had.
Alya's voice got angrier, "What!? What happened!? Ugh, she'll regret it-"
"Shh! The lesson has started!" Marinette hushed. Sure, she wanted to hit Chloé but she knew it wouldn't change a thing. If she could change the blond brat she had to be smart, and violence doesn't make a difference. Except in an akuma fight but that doesn't have much better choices.
The boy in front of her, the one who had helped her earlier, was actually thinking the same thing. He didn't want to hurt his childhood friend so he needed to come up with some plan or just simply be near Marinette (who was Chloé's most common target of the week). Now when she's blind she does have a reason to accidentally bump into things. But since he's so busy... his daily schedule is stopping him from helping her. He can only help her at school and come to her in the evenings as Cat Noir.
The lesson was the last one, and when it was time to go home Adrien leaned to his friend, "Nino, can you help me with a thing?"
"Sure, what is it?" the DJ asked.
Adrien lowered his voice so Chloé, who was about to walk past them, didn't hear. "Chloé's going too far with her bullying, she was mean to Marinette after the akuma attack today. She was joking about her blindness and laughed at her, I just want her to stop but I don't know how."
Nino thought for a second, it actually was a hard thing. But then he smiled, "Don't worry, I can talk with the vice president about it. She'll know what to do." he said and pointed at Alya who was talking to Marinette. He got up and went up beside her, right in time to hear her raging reaction.
"WHAT! Ugh, she's just the worst. She's such a witch!" she almost screamed.
"Sorry for interrupting your conversation but I'll take a wild guess and say you have the same issue as we have." he interrupted.
Alya looked up and her rage faded a little from her eyes as she saw him, "Most likely, Marinette just told me what Chloé did. Ugh, I wish I was there and filmed it so I could have proof and accuse her!" she raged up again, but then let out a sigh as she remembered a small but important detail, "But, she's the mayor's daughter. She'd just pick up her phone and... call her daddykins." she sighed and crossed her arms.
Nino nodded, "Yea, that's the bad thing. But the good thing is that we do have the others. Maybe we can make sure she won't bully anyone if we all work as a team, we can maybe strike back by disobeying her orders and ignore her threats."
"And work like a team. Or more like a family. If she knows any of our secrets and reveals them to us we can just respect them." said Alya as she brightened up.
"Remember Kim's fear of spiders? No one really laughed at that." Marinette stated, "And only Chloé and Sabrina laughed at Mylène when she didn't do well as an actress."
"You're right, so there shouldn't be a problem with acting like a team." said Adrien who came up next to Marinette. His presence gave her shivers of nervousness. "We'll all have your back Marinette, don't worry. If Chloé is being mean again then we'll make sure to be there and protect you."
"Wow, and I thought I was supposed to protect you guys." she chuckled.
She felt a hand on her shoulder, "And you have. Now it's time for the payback." said Alya.
Or you could stay out of it and let Ladybug do it. Marinette thought in a sing-song tone. She actually thought it would be a good idea instead of letting them try and get themselves in trouble. She knew what Chloé was capable of and she knew she was a fan of Ladybug and was willing to stop being mean to Sabrina just because Ladybug told her to. So she maybe will be able to convince the girl to stop bullying Marinette too.
They continued talking on their way out, and when they were outside school the girls said goodbye to Nino and Adrien and continued walking towards the bakery.
"I'm impressed, Marinette. You stuttered less than usual this time!" said Alya with a very proud tone.
The girl smiled, it wasn't actually that hard, she couldn't really see him so... "It was maybe because I couldn't really see him."
"Yea, too bad you couldn't see how cute he was when he looked at you." her friend teased.
But somehow she didn't really seem to get crazy about it like she usually did, she just widened her eyes and blushed a little instead of telling Alya to describe it for her. Something in her seemed to have changed, she was still in love with him but it seemed like she's finally managed to keep herself from freaking out. But how? Was is just 'cause of the fact that she couldn't see him? Or was it 'cause he was reminding her so much of someone else?
"Here you go, some newly baked cookies." Tom placed two plates filled with cookies on the table in front of the two girls, they thanked him and Alya helped Mari with finding her plate.
"So, you're serious now? You're gonna ask for Ladybug's help?" Alya asked, Marinette had actually told her that she doesn't want her friends to get in trouble so she was gonna ask said superhero to help.
The girl nodded, "Yes, since I know her a little more than you think I do. And I'm pretty sure she'll gladly help, have you even seen how she is around Chloé?"
"Yep, very annoyed and very irritated." Alya said before taking a bite of the cookie, "She doesn't really seem so comfortable with her so called "biggest fan" as Chloé calls herself." she said quoting the words "biggest fan" with her fingers.
Marinette nodded before taking a bite of a cookie, "Yea, she must have a problem with her too."
"That's one reason why my theory of her being a student in our school is positive. If Ladybug is attending at our school she surely has some problem with her." she stated.
Marinette got a little nervous like all the other times when Alya mentioned anything true about Ladybug's true identity. "Eh... he he. Yea it actually does make sense, or she could just be someone who lives at the hotel? Or she just have a friend or a sibling in our school, or maybe have just heard about her. It can be anything, really."
"Yeah, you're right. But I still wanna know how you're gonna talk to her, either way I'm sure I'll need to be with you when she comes so I don't have to worry about you stumbling."
"You don't have to, I'm pretty sure I know how to get her to my room." By just letting me be up there alone and transform she thought. But the response was not really what she'd expected.
"Or, you can ask the kitty cat who comes to you every night." said Alya and took a sip of her glass of milk.
A panicked Marinette almost choked on her cookie, "W-what!? H-how did you-...?" she leaned towards her friend and whispered "How did you know that!?". She didn't really want her parents to know about her secret visitor... even if it's the same guy who's protected her and took her to the hospital not long ago.
Alya laughed, "Simple, remember Friday? I peeked up to see if you were sleeping but then I saw him sitting next to you and I just had to sneak back again so I didn't disturb you."
Marinette felt like fainting by the blushes, "Did- did you tell..." she tilted her head towards her dad who was standing in the kitchen fixing a dough.
"No, I said you were sleeping and I didn't want to disturb you, so I went down and helped your dad with some cookies for Saturday."
That was a relief, but still a little embarrassing since her best friend knows about Cat Noir... suddenly a small feeling told her Alya was grinning, "You're not thinking what I think you're thinking, right?"
Alya couldn't help but laugh, "I'm just thinking how cute he is! Checking up on you since the day you got blind! So thoughtful!" the girl chuckled, keeping her voice low since she knew Tom was still in the kitchen behind them.
"Yes but... remember to keep it a top secret. I don't wanna have people thinking we're... together or something if you know what I mean." she whispered back, because what would people say if this got out; Cat Noir, Ladybug's partner and a protector of Paris, was visiting a simple girl with blindness issues every night.
"It's okay, these beans are trapped in their can. Besides, Cat Noir doesn't seem to be the type of guy who goes out with two girls at the same time."
Once again the girl almost choked on her cookie fearing she'll never be able to eat more with this conversation going on so she placed down her cookie on the plate, "Come again?"
"I'm talking about the fact that it's quite obvious he's getting Ladybug's attention, and as I saw it when I interviewed them it seems like they actually do like each other. As in more than friends. And if he comes to you every night then it's kinda weird if he doesn't do it because he cares about you as a friend." she pointed out and took another cookie.
Marinette didn't believe it, her friend ships her with her partner!? Well, she doesn't know it's Marinette but still... did she really let her feelings show that easy? Must have been the headache that made her forget that. Ugh, if only there was some way out of this! She's told herself before that Cat Noir would only get a chance if Adrien wasn't an option. As in if he likes someone else or... disappears somehow.
"What!?" Adrien asked shocked, he and Nino were at the Louvre to gather information for a project.
Nino scratched the back of his head after realizing what he had accidentally slipped out without noticing, "Eh, yea- but please! Don't tell Alya I accidentally told you, she'll KILL me!" he begged.
Adrien sighed, he should've seen it coming. It's not enough to know a feeling is pushing him to Marinette all the time, now he gets to know she's in love with him. As Adrien! "It's okay, I won't tell her." he smiled. Somehow it actually felt good. It explained why she was nervous around him as Adrien and not as Cat Noir. But what can he do? He can't really say the truth about his crush on Ladybug because that would probably make her sad and she'd have a much harder time than she already has. But if he'd accept her feelings then what would happen to his crush on Ladybug? Inside he felt so confused, he didn't know what to do at all. And how can he be so sure Marinette is in love with the true him and not the model-Adrien?
He decided to let his inner self ask her personally, he was going to meet her anyway. Once he gets back home.
"She's a very cute girl, you know that. And she's kind and has that enthusiastic personality..." Nino went on. A smile grew in his face as he stared at his friend.
Adrien noticed that and smiled back, "Well, I... I'll think about it. I mean, I need to say the right words, you know. And I think I need to take it slow so she doesn't get scared or something."
"Alya, I know you're up there." Marinette groaned. Her friend tried to trick her but it was not as easy as she thought it would be.
Alya moaned as she climbed down the stairs from Marinette's bed, she'd closed the trapdoor pretending to go down but Marinette isn't deaf so she could hear Alya when she tried to sneak up and hide in her bed. "But I wanna see how it goes." she complained.
"You can't, but I'll maybe tell about it later if you just go down and wait." Marinette tried.
The girl sighed and nodded, "Okay, but I wanna hear every single detail when I get back." she said before walking down the stairs for real and close the door behind her.
Marinette sighed, "Phew! Finally!" she said and heard the familiar sound of Tikki flying out from her purse, "I hope the cat is coming soon so Alya doesn't need to wait too long."
The kwami chuckled, "Yea, if I know her right she'd get too anxious if she gets to wait more than five min- *gasp*..."
Marinette got worried when the kwami stopped speaking and it didn't really give her a good feeling, "Tikki, what is it?" the girl asked.
Tikki didn't answer, instead she stammered nervously and couldn't get out a full word. "B-behi- h-..."
Marinette gasped too when she heard the sound of her window slowly open behind her, "Oh no."
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