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Marinette was on a high for the next week, she woke up the next morning after confessing her feelings to Adrien and began pinching herself to make sure it wasn't a dream. In fact, she almost died from a heart attack when Adrien sent her a good morning text with a heart. She fumbled and stared at her phone for at least forty-five minutes.
"Aren't you going to text him back?" Tikki asked, who was getting impatient.
"Y-yes! It's just, I don't know what to type!" Marinette squealed. She typed a couple messages, some way too long to reply with, some were off the topic of "good morning". Tikki shook her head and sighed.
"Maybe you should start with a good morning back to him? Ask him if he slept well or something," Tikki suggested, heading over to the cookie jar that sat on Marinette's desk.
"Good idea," Marinette felt like an idiot, it was so simple, why was she overthinking this.
[Marinette: Good morning to you as well! Did you sleep well last night? ( ´ ∀ ` )ﾉ]
[Adrien: For the most part, did you?]
[Marinette: Yeah, can't tell if I'm still sleeping and dreaming or not…]
[Adrien: Why is that?]
[Marinette: Because you're so dreamy]
Marinette hit send before she had a chance to register what she had typed. She did her usual comical scream and threw her phone across the room. She leaped off her bed and started pacing her room, biting her fingernails.
"Oh, this is bad, this is really bad! He probably thinks I'm a creep or something! He's gonna wanna break up with me and we aren't even dating! Oh, what am I going to do? What am I going to do?!" Marinette exclaimed, raking her fingers through her hair and grabbing fistfuls of it.
"Marinette," Tikki said, wiping the cookie crumbs from her chin. Marinette kept pacing and rambling. "Marinette!" Tikki shouted. Marinette stopped and looked at her Kwami.
"Shouldn't you read the text before you start assuming things? Besides, you've acted like this with him before…" Tikki reminded her.
"So?" Marinette asked panicked.
"So, he said that he'd liked you too even though he knows you act like this sometimes!" Tikki said, flying to her shoulder and hugging her neck. Marinette couldn't help but feel reassured.
"Thanks, Tikki," Marinette said, her voice still quaking a little. She collected her phone and saw a couple messages from Adrien. She hesitantly opened her phone and read them.
[Adrien: I know, right? Haha]
[Adrien: I'm sorry that was conceited of me…]
[Adrien: Marinette?]
[Adrien: Marinette?]
Marinette quickly typed out a message.
[Marinette: I'm here! Sorry, I had to do something… Σ(°△°|||)]
Adrien replied within a couple of seconds.
[Adrien: Right, you threw your phone across the room out of embarrassment, didn't you?]
Marinette gritted her teeth slightly.
"Damn, this boy is good," she muttered to herself. She typed out a message.
[Marinette: You got me this time (_)]
[Adrien: LOL, okay, as much as I'd like to keep talking to you, I've got fencing this morning… I'm thinking we should get together… Today. Maybe at 4 or 5?]
Marinette dropped her phone. Tikki looked up at her again with a slightly irritated look.
"What embarrassing thing did you say to him this time?" Tikki asked. Marinette gasped slightly and tried to speak but nothing came out. She gasped slightly.
"Ad-Adrien," she hyperventilated, "Adrien just asked me out," Marinette started shaking again. Tikki rolled her eyes.
"Duh, Marinette, he's your boyfriend, of course, he'd wanna go out with you to hang out or, y'know, go on a date," Tikki looked over at her. Marinette went rigid on 'date' and then fell over. Tikki chuckled to herself.
"Marinette," Tikki said after a couple of minutes of Marinette laying face planted on the floor, "you know it's rude to keep a person waiting," Marinette shot up, her eyes wide open like she hadn't blinked that entire time.
"You're right, Tikki! Why are you always right?" Marinette asked, spastically grabbing her phone and typing something out, before she stopped and looked at Tikki. "What do I say to him?"
"How about a 'yes' for starters, if you want to go out with him tonight?" Tikki suggested.
[Marinette: Sounds good!]
"And then ask him what he had in mind, so you don't show up in a dress to go hiking," Tikki said, looking at herself in the mirror on Marinette's desk.
[Marinette: What'd you have in mind?]
[Adrien: I'm thinking maybe dinner and catching that new movie or something more productive, like a walk in a park? The weather's perfect for that kind of thing.]
Marinette weighed her options, the movie route sounded more appealing, so she could at least dress up and possibly hold hands with Adrien in the theater, but the Adrien had a good point, going for a walk in October did sound pretty great, but there was a chance she'd get all sweaty and trip over everything. Not cute, especially for a first date.
[Marinette: Those both sound great, which one do you want to do more?]
[Adrien: I know, right? I can't decide… What do you want to do?]
[Marinette: Gee, I really don't know, maybe you should pick since it was your idea to go out? (~人^)]
[Adrien: Alright, you got me haha... how about the walk? We could do a picnic as well?]
[Marinette: Sounds good, I'll see you at six! ❤ (ɔˆз(ˆ⌣ˆc)]
Marinette worried about sending the emoji, her finger hovering over the send button. She had little time to react when Tikki swiftly flew over and pressed the send button. Marinette gasped at looked over at her.
"What've you done?!" She exclaimed. Tikki bopped her nose.
"Marinette, remember what I told you! You guys are dating! That type of behavior is encouraged!" Tikki smiled at her.
"You're right," Marinette sighed, "of course, you're right…" Marinette sighed, flopping on her bed.
"Marinette, you need to calm down, it's not the end of the world if you make a mistake. You're human! It's bound to happen at some point," Tikki said, laying next to Marinette.
"I know, I know… It's just… This is Adrien we're talking about. I've been pining after him from day one that I met him. It's just weird to think that he's actually mine now… You know?" Marinette asked.
Tikki looked at Marinette, and it reminded her of Plagg, how he used to act before they were together. Always worrying he would destroy the only thing he thought he could protect. Tikki nodded to Marinette's question.
"I do, Marinette, I do… and that's why I'm here to tell you: you have nothing to worry about. Just be yourself!" Tikki gave her a fake smile, but deep down she was longing to see Plagg.
Marinette smiled back at her and hugged her Kwami.
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Marinette stood on the curb of their meeting spot exactly fifteen minutes before they were supposed to meet up with each other. She was worried, as most girls would be for a date. It wasn't her first, well, to her it probably was, but she'd been taken out on a couple dates with one her classmate's brothers unbeknownst to her that it was supposed to be a date. Marinette kept checking her phone for a text from Adrien if he'd canceled on her or not, and not-so-subtly checking herself out in the reflection of shop windows. Making sure her hair was decent looking, that her makeup hadn't smudged from how much she was sweating, and making sure she hadn't overdressed for their little excursion.
The sun was about halfway set, the weather slowly becoming cooler with each inch the sun dropped. For it being fall, Marinette was surprised that the sun was still even out. Marinette waited a couple more minutes before checking her phone one last time.
"Marinette?" Adrien asked, his head peeking out from behind her shoulder. She gasped and threw her phone a couple of feet into the air. She looked up and tried to get it before it hit the ground, but saw that Adrien had already plucked it out of the air.
"Adrien! You scared me!" She laughed nervously. Adrien chuckled, but you could see on his face that he felt bad.
"I'm sorry, Mari… Here…" Adrien handed her her phone and he rubbed his shoulder awkwardly.
"It's okay, you should probably wear a bell though," Marinette joked, gesturing Adrien's neck, "like Chat Noir!" She remembered, giggling as she remembers the pretty useless bell he always wears. Adrien chuckled nervously.
"Maybe I could borrow it from him once in a while," Adrien joked. Marinette nodded and then extended her elbow out to him.
"Shall we?" She gestured her head in the direction of the park across the street.
"Of course, m'l-Marinette!" Adrien chuckled nervously again and, instead of talking her arm, grabbed her hand and held it, and began walking/dragging her to the park.
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Tune in next time on Dragon Ball- wait wrong story… Guess Adrien's not the only one who's having slip up's today… (i'm sorry lol) Thank you for everyone who's liked favorited and commented and continues to read this story! I lurve ya.