A/n: oOooO 9 follows, 7 favorites, and 1 review! Is it Christmas? :p Thanks guys, glad you're enjoying it! Made this chapter longer because of the wait!

2="Speaking"

1='Thinking'

Chapter 3

"Honey, is that snoring I hear? It's noon already, surely that isn't Marinette?! Will you go check for me please? I'm almost done icing this order that's due soon…"

"Sure, thing Sabine, I'll be right back." He makes his way up the steps and pushes open Marinette's trap door to her room. He scans the room and frowns. First, he notices rolls of fabric laying around from a latest project, a school bag, a phone thrown carelessly on the floor blinking an alarm time of 7am, and Marinette sleeping soundly in her bed. He sighs and goes all the way into her room. "Marinette! Do you know what time it is?!" He doesn't raise his voice often, however for him this could be considered as yelling.

Marinette jumps up to a standing position on her bed flinging several comfy blankets and pillows to the floor, with a crazy look in her eye, fists up as if she was jumping into a battle. Her battle cry cuts short, noticing that she is in her room and her dad is standing there with a raised eyebrow.

"Papa! Oh my…is that the sun already!? What time is it!" She yells and falls out of her bed, somehow knocking a glass of water off her craft table across the room and onto her phone on the ground. Her dad doesn't know if he should be impressed or horrified of her clumsiness, as well as the damage she can cause in a few seconds of being awake.

"Ok honey first off, you might have to keep your phone in a separate room…second you're really late for school. What're you thinking Marinette? Are you not sleeping well?"

She stumbles over her words. "Uhm…well…working late on a project…for uh…school! Sorry dad! It won't happen again!" He shakes his head and hides a smile.

"We will talk about this later. You're not getting off that easy." He tries to give a stern impression of disappointment, even though it doesn't really bother him too much. "It's already noon, I would say you can just help us finish a large order in the bakery, but I don't think your mom would like that too much since you are missing school. Get changed and come downstairs." He heads down to the bakery.

"Tikki! Tikki?!" She floats sleepily from a cozy spot in the mass amounts of fabric.

"Good morning Marinette? Is it Saturday already?"

"No! My dad just woke me up! I'm beyond late for school, we need to go now!" She changes into the first thing she gets her hands on, grabs her purse and school books, and runs downstairs.

"Marinette…you need to start setting several alarms from now on, otherwise I'll come up there every morning and wake you up. I got lost in this order otherwise I would have called for you. Make sure it doesn't happen again, and get on to school. You can at least catch up with what you missed." Marinette nods. "Yes mama, sorry…" She kisses her mom on the cheek and runs out the door. Luckily school isn't too far, and it happens to be lunch time so she slows down her pace to more of a comfortable walk. Tikki pops her head up out of the purse. "Well at least it's lunch time, although you've missed out on some important detective work today!" Marinette gives her a questionable look. "You know, to find Chat Noir! You're still going to try and figure out who he is aren't you?"

"Oh! I almost forgot! Thanks for reminding me!" She walks to the front of the school and sees Alya sitting on a nearby bench and eating lunch.

"Marinette!" Alya waves and Marinette joins her on the bench. "Girl! Where have you been!? I've been dying to show you a picture I got of Ladybug and Chat noir last night! I haven't posted it on the Ladyblog yet, I've been pretty busy with sleeping and coming to school…unlike someone else I know…girl you look tired…you have circles under your eyes and…did you even brush your hair?"

She lets her hair down and brushes it out with her fingers. "Yes…now I have. I overslept and.." she pulls out her damp phone, "my clumsiness knows no bounds…somehow I knocked over a glass of water on the other side of the room and onto my phone…" Alya bursts out laughing.

"Girl, only you. You haven't missed much honestly. There were other people late for school too, and Chloe isn't even here yet. Must be contagious, by the way I like the shirt." Marinette looks down and raises an eyebrow. 'Well that wasn't intentional but it might give Chat a hint.' On the front left of her shirt there's a little black cat with green eyes chilling on a shirt pocket. "Oh thanks…normally wear this around the house but I just grabbed the first thing I could find today. It's strangely quit here without Chloe around." Alya snorts.

"Oh girl, there's Nino! I'll catch up with you in a few, ok? He owes me some…candy and I'm going to collect." She rocks her head left and then right with some attitude." Marinette nods and Alya takes off. 'Oh, she forgot to show me the picture…' She stretches and takes a deep breath, and heads to a shaded area to chill out for the rest of the lunch period. She goes around the corner of the school steps and stops abruptly 'I think I'm either dreaming or…' She checks her pulse. 'Yep still alive.' She takes in the scene of Adrien siting on the ground with his back leaning against the wall, his head slightly hunched over, sound asleep. She quietly sneaks to another area in the shade, close but not too close. She settles down in a spot and quietly sneaks her phone out dead set on taking a picture. She curses, realizing that her phone still isn't dried out and just stares at him to commit it to memory. A light bulb goes off and she pulls out her sketch pad and starts to draw Adrien's sleeping form. Suddenly sleepy she blinks a few times in attempts to wake up but nods off halfway through her picture despite her efforts.

The bell goes off and Adrien stirs from his cat nap. He slowly takes in his surroundings and notices that he isn't alone. He stretches above his head and realizes that it's Marinette sleeping sound through the bell. He chuckles, 'I think she can sleep through anything…no wonder she's always late to school. Oh, I wonder what she's working on, she is very talented.' With a genuine interest, he scoots closer to see what her latest project is, and blushes. Plagg peaks out of his shirt. "Ohhh look who it is Adrien, you know you should just ask her out already, you've had the hots for her since the first day of school.' He pulls out a piece of cheese from nowhere. "Oh! I knew I left some cheese in here a few days ago, or was it a week? Either way it smells even more divine than usual!" He gulps the cheese down.

"Ugh Plagg, you're gross, we need to have some boundaries…and I don't have the hots for her, she's just a friend." Plagg snorts.

"You really want to go there about boundaries? Humans are disgusting."

Adrien looks at him with horror, "Fair enough, you win this one." He puts a hand on her shoulder and she stays sound asleep. He chuckles and taps her shoulder lightly, and still she sleeps. He sits shoulder to shoulder with her and gets comfortable again. He chuckles at the little black cat on her shirt. 'So much for looking for Ladybug today, oh well there's always tomorrow.' He drifts back to sleep next to Marinette.

"EEEEEEEE...oh..My GOSH!" Alya whips out her cell phone and takes a picture of Adrien and Marinette sound asleep. Nino walks up behind her and takes out his phone to get a picture too.

"Dude…I can't believe they both slept through the dismissal bell. Good thing we didn't do much today…"

Alya gives him a quizzical look and chuckles. "Well at least for the first half of school anyways…hope there isn't any homework otherwise they are screwed too hah." He wiggles his eyebrows and she rolls her eyes.

"We can only hope…she has the major hots for him. Maybe we can get Ladybug to lock them up in a cage, like she did to us. Oh, that reminds me! Check out this picture I snagged last night!"

Nino whistles, "Looks like we aren't the only couple getting it on! Awesome picture, why haven't you posted it to the Ladyblog yet?"

She shrugs. "I took it pretty late and haven't had the chance yet. I kind of want to speak to Ladybug first too and make sure I have my story right before I post it. Get her permission and what not. I don't want to be the cause of any argument in their relationship, I want to see them together so bad!"

Marinette stirs and lifts her head off something soft. She takes a deep breath and relaxes at the familiarity of the smell and opens her eyes. She opens them wide when she sees Adrien resting his head on her shoulder with one of his arms snaked around her arm. "Wh…wha…. what just happened? Where am I? Alya! What's happening? Am I dead?"

"No girl! You're very much alive and we have pictures to prove it! BWAHAHAHAHH" Alya runs off cackling, dragging Nino behind her.

Adrien nestles into her neck further and mutters something incoherent. Marinette's face gets even redder and sits there frozen. 'Omg…he is sleeping on my shoulder…omg he probably saw the picture too…can this day get any more embarrassing?' He wraps his other arm around her waist in his sleep and mutters Ladybugs name. Her face is very akin to a tomato at this point and tries to save herself of more embarrassment by shaking him awake.

The first thing he notices is a familiar scent, unable to place it now. He opens his eyes and smiles. "Oh hey there Marinette! Sorry I fell asleep, went to bed late last night. When I woke up I saw you were working on something so I had to get a closer look, I guess I fell back asleep." He scratches the back of his head, "I knew you were very talented Marinette, but I didn't know you could draw that well too! You're amazing!" She stares at him with her mouth hanging open.

"I…you…sleep…me…anytime! I mean uh…thanks!" He stands up and holds out a hand for her. She carefully takes his hand and he effortlessly pulls her up. He checks the time when he sees a few students leave the building. "Oh! Uh looks like we slept through the rest of the school day. I will get notes from Nino, we didn't really do anything the first half of school. Can I see your phone? I'll put my number in for you, so you can get the notes too." She robotically reaches into her pocket and suddenly remembers the incident this morning.

"Well, uh…I kind of spilled water on it this morning…not sure if it will turn on…" She tries turning it on and fails.

"Oh, well I can help you with that. I've spilled water on mine several times. I can take your phone home and bring it back to you tomorrow almost brand new…or I can always come over later?" She stares at him and tries to summon her inner ladybug." Yes, come over anytime! I mean…either way!"

"I'll see you later then Marinette." He smiles and walks over to his ride, and gets into the backseat. "Sorry if I've kept you waiting today." His driver nods and off they go, leaving a stunned Marinette behind.

A/N: So much for searching for each other? Or maybe they found out something after all? Only time will tell :p. Looks like Adrien might be going over to Marinette's house. What're some of you're favorite sweets? Leave a comment! :)