Another tumblr prompt, this one from 'somethingmoreclever.'
15. accidental kiss
Why Does Ivan Even Have Bunk Beds In His Room?
"I swear to god, you guys are the biggest nerds I know," Adrien mused.
With a dubious eyebrow lift, Nino peeked up at him over his handful of cards from across the bed. "Something something black kettle. Your turn, Nath." He nudged the redhead to his right after throwing one last card down.
"Aw crap!" Nathaniel groaned as he examined Nino's latest play. "You gotta be kidding me…" He poked around his own deck and reevaluated his strategy for a moment before setting his hand facedown to wrinkle his nose at Adrien. "Also, what? You are the biggest nerd here, Adrien, hands down. I seem to recall a quantum physics pun that you made literally three minutes ago–"
"Ivan's cat jumped into a box!" Adrien crossed his arms. "What was I supposed to do? Not make a Schrodinger's Cat pun?"
"Yes," Ivan deadpanned with a smirk, taking his short turn with no fanfare and indicating with a pointed look that it was now Adrien's turn again.
"Okay, so I'm a nerd," Adrien blushed angrily. "But this magic card game is way nerdier than punnage, and you are all nerds by proxy for playing it!"
"He's just mad cause he's losing to me," Nathaniel snickered to Ivan. "Since I suck at this."
Nino chuckled maniacally as Adrien threw down a card that would play into Nino's unfolding master plan. "He's just mad that he's never gotten to play it before, since M. Fashion Dad never allowed him any visitors in his ivory tower when he was a kid."
Feigning offense and throwing his cards up in a flutter of defeat, Adrien decided to leave them to their magic cards. "You guys have fun. I'm ditching you for the girl bunk." With that, he turned around and slid off the edge of the top bunk so that he was hanging upside down like a bat by the legs, hair downward. The girls were immersed in some other card game he was also unfamiliar with.
"Hey," he grinned. "Can I crash the party?"
"Girls only!" Alya shrieked, and threw a pillow at his face.
The pillow bounced off and hit Marinette, who was the closest to him at the edge of the bed. She grabbed hold of it and held it to her chest like it was a stuffed animal, which was adorable. "Bored of Magic the Gathering already?" she mused.
"It takes so long," he complained. "What are you guys playing? Some kind of…" he squinted as he tried to read the cards in her hand upside-down. They were covered in pictures of zombified animals. "Is that pig eating that other pig's brain?"
"You have a pig cannibal?" Mylene gasped. "Oh my gosh, and I almost played my zonkey just now. Thanks Adrien! You saved my butt! Your turn, Juleka."
"Whoops." He grinned weakly as Marinette hit him with an unimpressed glare. "Can I still come down or should I see myself out?"
"You can come down, but only if you– Hang on. Guys, you're jostling the whole bed," Marinette shot over her shoulder at Alya and Juleka, who were now wrestling over whatever card Juleka had played. "You're gonna make Adrien fall."
"Oh, I won't fall," Adrien assured her with a sly toothy grin. "Trust me on–"
His words were cut short when Juleka tackled Alya, who fell backwards into Marinette, who lurched forward and hit Adrien directly on the face. With her face. Meaning, her lips managed to make direct contact with his. It wasn't gentle, either. She fell hard, and would have gone straight off the bed if Adrien hadn't been hanging upside-down directly in the way. Their teeth clacked and a shocked wordless exclamation escaped her, dragging his lips open as she spoke due to the fact that they were pressed so firmly together. She was still falling, so his automatic reaction was to tense his arms and catch her. All he managed to do was destabalize her even more, because the instant his arms locked around her she started to flail.
After a split second of frantic, spastic, arm-flapping, Marinette managed to break away (knocking their noses harshly together in the process) and finish falling off the bed. She landed on Ivan's floor in a heap of limbs and polka-dotted pajamas, where the tiniest, most high-pitched sound he'd ever heard began to ease itself from her chest.
Adrien chanced a single glance at Mylene, Juleka, and Alya, who looked apologetic, mortified, and over the moon (in that order). Then he eyed the pile on the floor that used to be Marinette. His face burned.
"Told you I wouldn't fall," he wheezed, and then a moment later he was hauled back up onto the top bunk by three very amused boys.
