Confession

Part 6

I do not own miraculous ladybug

''marinette...''

What should he do? What should he say? How does he feel? He never expected Marinette to like him, though now that he thinks about it, it would explain her behaviour a little bit. Her being nervous around him and all.

She likes him.

But is like really love? And how could she like him? The boring, never having free time, who listens to everything what his father tells him, who needs Chloe Adrien. How can she like that adrien? Chat noir is so much cooler.

How does he feel about Marinette?

He wouldn't go as far as to say he doesn't like Marinette. But as a girlfriend? He never thought about her in that way because he had his eyes on ladybug. Of course Marinette is nice, cute to and determined. Someone you can lean on. But his heart belongs to ladybug. Even after the heartbreak he still cannot forget about her. He knows he cannot be his lady's lover but he is not ready yet to love someone else. He needs time. And he doesn't really know Marinette that well. She is an important friend and he doesn't want to lose her. They know each other much better than first. But he still loves ladybug and if he dates marinette now, without having sorted out his feelings, without doing it serious, without giving it his all it wouldn't be fair towards Marinette. His feelings have to be honest. And she shouldn't be a distraction from his feelings towards ladybug. That would never work out. Maybe if they knew each other better but right now he first needs time before trying anything new.

He is interested in her, and he knows plagg would say: just try it. But he can't, not yet. The wound his heart received from ladybug is too fresh and hurts to much. He cannot move forward yet. first he needs to give the rejection a place, he first has to be able to move forward. Until then it would be better to be friends. That way he would not give her false hope.

''Um... I am sorry Marinette...''

Adrien begins, scratching his head because he is nervous. Afraid of how marinette will react. He hopes his answer wouldn't destroy their friendship.

''Um... I have some else I love, but she rejected me...''

Blue eyes meet his green ones as he says the words. All kinds of emotions reflecting in marinette's eyes.

Was it also this hard for ladybug to reject him?

'' but I'm not ready yet because I still love her and it would be unfair to date you while I still like someone else.''

The face expression of marinette turns from nervous to a horrified expression though she tries to hide it with turning her gaze away.

''I care about you as a friend but right now I cannot see you as someone I like. Maybe after some time I get to know you better. But first I want some time to progress my heartbreak.''

This is the right answer, it is the truth. The more he thinks about his relationship with Marinette the more he realised that he is interested in her but he knows that it would be better to first sort things out with ladybug so he can move forward once he has given it a place if marinette then still has feelings for him. On the other hand he is afraid he will disappoint her. If his chat character comes out will she still like him?

''I hope you understand''

(...)

After a moment of silence Marinette looks down but then looks up and gives him a fake smile, he knows it is fake because he uses that kind of smile very often.

''Yes yes of course ''

''take your time I-I will be waiting for you-o if you change your mind eh I mean if you interested I mean If you eh..'' she starts to panic an adrien feels sorry for her.

He touches her shoulder and says.

''thank you Marinette, hearing your feelings makes me feel really happy, but I am not ready for it yet. How about we first stay friends and get to know each other better like you proposed?'

''Yeah...'' Marinette responds her cheeks turning red because of the warmth Adrien's hand is emitting but tears begin to form in her Eyes.

He let's go of her shoulder and she turns her back towards him and runs away. Her running away leaves him alone and kind of lonely but that is an emotion he is familiar with. After sometime he takes his bag and walks towards the car where the Gorilla is waiting for him. He brushes an interested Nino off by telling him he will talk to him tomorrow because he is already late.

Author's note

The end...

No, I am just kidding.

I wanted it to be realistic and I really feel like adrien first needs to get over ladybug, give it a place before he can get together with marinette. There is also the issue of what marinette will think of adrien as chat and what adrien thinks of marinette as ladybug. Writing this chapter was hard and I hope you are not disappointed. First I wanted to write marinette running away when adrien was still talking but I decided it would be better if she stayed until the end. I also wanted to split this chapter too because it is really long. Over 900 words and I wanted this story to have short chapters but leaving you on another cliffhanger would be to cruel. Though the ending of this chapter is in a way also a cliffhanger. I hope you look forward to the next chapter because the story is now 50 % done. Also thank you for the 2000+ views! What do you think of the story until now?