"Alya I swear he is freaking blind or something." Marinette exclaimed in frustration into the phone.

She was lying on her back onto the couch, still wearing her light pink pajama pants and her white with black polka dot camisole. Adrien had already left the apartment an hour ago because of a photo shoot he had to attend, which gave Marinette the time to rant to Alya about her oblivious boyfriend.

"Come on girl, it can't be that bad. Maybe you just put the mistletoe too high?" Alya asked.
"Alya I doubt it I hang it up too high, I'm barely 160 centimeters tall… he is like what, 184 centimeters tall or something… like he is huge, how can't he see it hanging?"
"Let me guess you had to wear those sweet Lolita platform heels with bunny ears and tail, and stand on a chair to even be able to hang the mistletoe up?"
"Alya, I'm calling you to rant about my oblivious handsome boyfriend, not to get made fun of because of my tininess and insult my adorable shoes that helped me out many times as well as make me look less like some dwarf next to all my ridiculous tall friends. Also Adrien thinks they are cute."

Alya let out a laugh, she found it hilarious to make fun of Marinette's height from time to time. She was the smallest of her group of friends after all. Alya was around 172 centimeter tall and Nino was a little smaller than Adrien so she guessed Nino was around 179 centimeter tall. The fact they all where above average height for French Men and Women didn't made it much better. She really blamed the Asian genes she got from her mom. However she was lucky her father was a French man and so it compensated a bit in her own height. If her father was Asian as well, then she probably would have been as tall as her mom, which was below the average heights for Chinese woman.

"Okay, okay I'm sorry… It's just that I can picture it how you hang it up at high places. The shoes are cute and there is nothing wrong with it, really. I'm even jealous of your tiny feet because of that, I wish I could wear those kind of shoes but they aren't available in my size most of the time."
"Guess that's one of the bright sides of being small. I can buy a lot of cute clothes as well shop at the kids section and so save up money on thighs and socks. Really I don't even know why kid's socks and such are cheaper than adult sized socks."
"I don't know. Maybe it's because they use a little more cotton for the adult sized ones?"
"It doesn't really matter why… but we're getting of subject."
"Yeah… so Adrien is being blind you said. What did you already try? Maybe I can come up with something?" Alya asked, getting back on the subject.
"I've tried a lot already. Like my first try was just to walk up to him and hold the mistletoe above his head, but all he did was taking the plant over and put it in a vase with water."

She remembered how she had decided to just be straight to the point with him. She had grabbed all her courage together for it, only for Adrien to think it was some sort of bouquet of flowers while it didn't even had flowers to begin with. Marinette was dumbfounded when she saw Adrien walk away with the plant, she got even more dumbfounded when he came back with the plant in a vase and placed it on the table.

"My second attempt was to hang it above the couch were we always drink our hot chocolate together, but he didn't even saw that it was hanging above us with some ribbon." Marinette continued. "And then I'm not even talking about the third attempt where I put it above the entrance to the living room. I just stood there casually at the door with a book and all he said was that I was holding my book upside down before walking to the couch. Once he sat down he noticed the plant hanging at the door and got up to take it from the door and out it back in the vase. While muttering to himself why that plant keeps being hanged at random places."

Alya was laughing into the phone loudly. She just couldn't hold it any more.

"Alya this is serious!" Marinette called out.
"Pff… I'm… I'm very sorry… It's indeed… Very serious…"
"Really even if I would lie on the couch in sexy lingerie with a mistletoe above me he wouldn't do anything. He would probably wonder why that plant is hanging there instead of giving me a glance. Really what have I done to deserve this?"

Another fit of laughter left Alya's throat. She could totally picture Marinette trying so hard to look sexy, probably ending in 'the draw me like one of our French girls titanic pose.', with the mistletoe hanging above her. She could picture Adrien walking in going straight to the mistletoe to remove it and put it back in the vase.

"Alya this isn't funny! Stop laughing at my misfortune!"
"It's… It's not… Oh my gosh… I'm so… sorry… I can't… I'm dying…"

Marinette let out a groan in frustration before she sunk her face deep into a couch pillow. She waited for her best friend to finally stop laughing, however that probably will take a while.

"Okay… okay." Alya said after a while before she breathed in and out for a few times. "I'm done laughing."
"Good, if you went on for a few more minutes, I would have hung up on you." she said as she sat straight up on the couch.
"How harsh…" Alya said. "Anyways, have it ever crossed your mind he might not know the tradition of the mistletoe?"

Marinette stayed quiet for a while as she let Alya's words sink in. What she said didn't cross her mind when she was trying to get a kiss from him under the mistletoe. Now she thought about it, Adrien was usually lonely on the holiday, that before she started dating him. So of course he couldn't really know those romantic kind of traditions, unless Gabriel had told his so about it but Marinette doubted that.

"I never thought about that." Marinette said.
"It would make a lot of sense though."
"I think I should explain it to him. Thanks for pointing that possibility out."
"You're welcome girl."

Marinette stood up from the couch and walked over to the table which still had the mistletoe in a vase on top of it. Or so she thought.

"Alya… I got to go, the mistletoe is gone… talk to you later bye, bye."
"Bye." Alya said with a chuckle.

Marinette hung up the phone before she rushed through the house searching for the mistletoe, maybe she had put it somewhere but forgot about it?

Ten minutes later she plopped down on the couch, she couldn't find the mistletoe anywhere. She let out a sigh, she was too exhausted from rushing through the apartment that she would just get a new one later in the afternoon. She closed her eyes as she tried to relax, when she heard the front door getting unlocked. Adrien must have gotten home.

"Marinette, I'm so sorry I had no idea." Adrien exclaimed as he set a foot into the living room and came rushing towards her.
"You had no idea about what?" she asked confused as she opened her eyes and sat straight up.
"The Mistletoe." he said as he showed the plant in his hand.

The plant Marinette tried to find a little more than ten minutes ago, the plant that has given her more and more frustration the whole week. It was there in her boyfriend's hand.

"I was so confused I kept finding it out of its vase the past week, so I decided to take it with me to a flower shop after the photo shoot. The florist told me that it wasn't a bouquet, but a mistletoe as well as she told me the tradition of it and I'm so sorry."
"It's alright, you didn't know."
"But you seemed to be so upset about it whenever I took the mistletoe away… and now I know what the tradition, I understand why you felt that way."

Marinette smiled softly at him. She couldn't stay upset with him all the time. He was too much of a cute dork to be able to stay mad at him.

"I'm sorry." he apologized before he held the mistletoe above their heads.

Marinette looked up at it and blushed slightly. Adrien leaned closer and pressed his lips against hers. Marinette melted into the kiss, she had finally succeeded in getting a kiss under the mistletoe from Adrien.