A/N: I finally got time to make a second chapter and it is a bit shorter than the first one but I'm already writing at the next chapter and hope I will finish it earlier.
I hope you'll have fun reading this one till then~

Chapter 2

Marinette woke up by the sound of her mother calling her and yawned loudly.

Still in her pyjamas and with a bed-head she went downstairs.

It was 11 a.m. and thanks to her holidays it was not necessary for Marinette to wake up earlier.
Her mother already went down to their bakery again.
Marinette stretched her arms and yawned for a second time.
"I'm so tired." She said to herself.
It wasn't surprising due to the fact that she couldn't really sleep all night because she had thought of Adrien for too long.
Just like right now.

She giggled happily and covered her reddish face with her hands while swooning.

"I can't believe yesterday really happened."

Oh, I should have texted Alya by now. I bet she is expecting some information.

Marinette laughed.

She was a bit mad at Alya yesterday, but only for a few seconds, because her best friend had basically pushed her into the cold water.
But Alya was still the best 'wingwoman' ever.

Marinette went back to her room to grab her phone when her stomach grumbled.
I should get myself some breakfast.

She went into the kitchen and took a bowl and some cereals out of the cupboards.

After pouring some milk over her cereals she checked her phone.

As expected there were like 10 messages from Alya, who was asking what happened and if Marinette had taken the chance and so on.

But there was also a message from someone else.
Before Marinette answered Alya she took a look at the other chat.

"Wait… WHAT?" she screamed in surprise.

It was a message from Adrien!
Marinette read the message over and over again.
Even if it was just a simple "Good morning!" it meant so much to her.

She typed "Good morning." and sent it before she could change her mind.

Oh my god!

Then she started answering Alya, writing down all the details, while leaving out that he had called her 'Princess' for some reason she didn't know, and at last telling her that Adrien had texted her, followed by many exclamation marks and "Help me!" at the end.

From this moment on Marinette stared at her phone all the time while eating as if it was the only thing that mattered.
She cleaned the dishes afterwards but still didn't leave her phone out of sight for more than two seconds.

There was no sign of an answer from either Adrien or Alya.
Marinette went back to her room and let out a deep breath.

I have to calm down and distract myself for now. He could be busy and so waiting would be totally worthless… and I have things to do!

Tikki was flying around and saw Marinette.
"Good morning, Marinette" said her little kwami smiling.

"Good morning, Tikki" she said smiling back and Tikki landed on her hands.

Just one look at her kwami calmed her down already.
"Is everything alright, Marinette?" Tikki asked concerned.

"Yeah. I guess… It's just that Adrien texted me and I'm freaking out over this like always when something is about him." She admitted.

"But that's something good, isn't it?" Tikki said.

"It shows that he wants to talk to you!"

Marinette thought about what her kwami said.
"You're right! Otherwise he wouldn't even have texted me in the first place."
Cheered up Marinette sat down at her desk.
"I'll just wait and see. And till then I can be productive and work on some of my Christmas presents. But this means I can't be distracted by something else."
She turned her phone off and took out her sketch book to look at what she wanted to work on first.

A few hours had passed and Marinette looked at the finished presents.

Of course she hadn't finished everything yet but at least the matching pillows for her parents, both in light pink, with her parents names on them, and a new phone case for Alya with a Ladybug logo on it.

I hope she'll like it and it keeps her phone warm during this season.

On top of that she even had started to work on the beanie for Adrien.
It would look so good on him. And match with the scarf~

Marinette smiled proudly and patted herself on the shoulder.
She glanced over to her phone for a second. It was on her bed since she wanted it to be as far away as possible so she wouldn't dare to turn it on and check her texts.

Well, I could go and check them now.

Slowly she rolled over to her bed while still sitting on her chair.
She turned on her phone and it lightened up.
After typing in her PIN she opened her messages.
A smile played on her lips.
There was a message from Alya and one from Adrien.
Okay, many messages from Alya.
"Oh my god! That sounds dreamy! I knew it was a good idea to leave you two alone!"

"And of course he'd bring you home. I bet he wanted to know you're safe *grin*"
"You two are so cute!"
"And whaaat? He texted you? GREAT! You go, girl!"

Marinette giggled at Alya's texts.
It was great to know that Alya was supporting her and that she did a lot of things to get those two together one way or another and Marinette was very grateful considering that she would have barely talked to Adrien by now if she was all alone.

She opened Adrien's message.
"How are you?

I'm sorry I couldn't text earlier. I had a shoot."
He had sent the text just half an hour ago.
"I'm fine. How about you?"
Marinette looked at her text.
That sounds okay. Should I mention that he doesn't have to be sorry? I mean I was busy too so I couldn't even have answered.

"And it's okay. What was the shoot about? ^-^" she added and hit send.

Surprisingly she instantly got an answer from Adrien.
"I'm fine, too.
It was a shoot for a magazine."
Marinette's heart bumped loudly against her chest.
She was nervous but fortunately she couldn't stutter over text.

What should I say now? Ask what he is doing? Or is that lame small talk?
I'm so confused.

Alya sent her a text.

"Oh, I forgot to give you some 'help'.
Maybe you could ask him what he is doing over the holidays and ask him out?
I'm sure you can do this!"

Sometimes she seems like a knight in shining armour.

"Thank you, Alya!" Marinette answered and added lots of hearts.

With Alya's suggestion in mind Marinette asked Adrien if he had time over the holidays to do something together with Alya, Nino and her.
I think I can spend some time with him without embarrassing myself but not all alone.

And maybe he doesn't even have time. I mean it is only four days until Christmas Eve. So he probably is busy at home or something.

"Yeah sure, have you planned anything yet?"
Adrien answered unexpectedly fast again.
"I thought maybe we could go to the park since there is so much snow right now."
Her suggestion seemed to make Adrien happy.
"Sounds great! Should we do it tomorrow?"
"Okay!"
Marinette looked at her phone smiling stupidly and gave it a smooch.
This is a dream coming true!

She informed Alya about what they were going to do tomorrow.
Her best friend was totally up for it and promised to ask Nino too.

Happily Marinette danced around in her room.
I really don't know why but somehow since yesterday it seems different with Adrien.

She took a glance at the clock.
It was 5:25 p.m. already.
Wow, working really took some time today. Maybe I could still finish the beanie this evening after dinner.

Marinette asked Tikki if she should bring her some new sweets and her kwami nodded happily.
It was sad that Tikki couldn't eat with Marinette and her parents together. But how should they explain who and what Tikki was without revealing Marinette's secret?
So Marinette went down alone and set the table for three people.
Sabine and Tom had just closed the bakery and came into the kitchen.

Her father gave her a pat on the head and smiled.
Marinette and her mother started preparing dinner while her dad was sitting down reading a magazine.
Mostly it was like this in the evening and Marinette loved that she could spend a lot of time with her parents this way.
Yesterday they had decided to make a broccoli quiche this evening and Marinette prepared the ingredients. When she was cooking she was almost like when she was working on some designs. Fully concentrated on what she was doing and somehow in trance.

After everything was done more than an hour had passed.

"Oh, that smells great."
Her dad, who had been sitting in the living room, came into the kitchen.

The three of them ate and Marinette asked her parents about their day and they asked about hers. While they were at it Marinette asked if she could go out the next day with some friends again.
Tom and Sabine looked at each other and nodded.
There was no reason for them to not let her go so they told her to have fun but remember that it was cold and she should dress herself up properly.

Marinette smiled happily.
She couldn't wait for tomorrow to happen and as she cleaned the dishes she wished that tonight would pass by soon even though it was to early to go to bed now.

But I have to get some sweets for Tikki before.
So Marinette grabbed cookies from the kitchen and went upstairs.

"Tikki I brought you some cookies."
Her kwami flew towards her with shining eyes.
"Thank you, Marinette" she said as Marinette laid down the cookies at her table.
She looked at Tikki lovingly.

She is so cute.

Marinette sat down at her desk and decided to work on the beanie for Adrien so time would go by faster.
I'm so excited!~