Marinette stood in the doorway with her mouth open. "Adrien? What are you doing here?"
"Do you still wanna practice?"
"But I thought you had to go home? Didn't your dad call?"
"Yeah," he said scratching his head,"But I uh… figured that practicing was more... important."
"Really?" Marinette was shocked. Did he really wanna practice that much? Did he like the idea of doing a play? Or was it something else? "Well then come in."
"Where are your parents?"
"Oh there at a pastry competition."
"That's cool."
"Yeah. Did you want something to eat?"
"Sure." She moved to the kitchen and began grabbing some muffins. Adrien watched her and thought about how cute she was. As Adrien was lost in his thoughts a plate was shoved in his face.
"Here Adrien. Are these okay?"
He grabbed the plate from her hands. "Yeah. This is fine." On the plate were 3 mini muffins each a different flavor.
"Come on," Marinette said as she began walking to her room. Adrien followed. When they entered her room they both sat on their respective chairs. Marinette opened her script to the page with the kiss. She wanted to ask Adrien what he thought, but she was a little nervous.
Adrien looked at Marinette and saw that she was staring intently at a certain page. From where he was sitting he couldn't tell exactly what page it was. He grabbed one of the muffins and shoved it in his mouth. It was pretty delicious. Although that would make sense he was in a bakery.
"Hey Adrien?"
"Hmm?" he said with his mouth full.
She took a deep breath. "I don't know if you saw or not but on the last page… it says that the prince and princess are suppose to kiss." Adrien began to choke on his food. "A-Adrien! Are you ok?" She stood up and began to pay his back. A kiss? They were suppose to kiss?! Nino never said anything about that? he thought. He quickly grabbed the script and flipped to the last page.
"Nino."
"What?"
"Ah nothing." Dammit Nino. Why?
"Um I just wanted to let you know about it and ask you what you think?"
"It's just like Nino to write something like this."
"Nino wrote the script?"
"Yeah." Adrien sighed. "Hang on a second." He got up and walked out the door. He grabbed his phone from his pocket and dialed Nino's number.
"Yo Adrien. What's up?"
"Why did you add a kiss to the play?"
"What do you mean?"
"Why is there a kiss?"
"It brings the story together. It is a love story. How else are we supposed to see the prince and princess show their love for each other."
Adrien sighed. "I guess you have a point."
"Besides you get to kiss Marinette."
"W-What's that suppose to mean?"
"Oh come on Adrien. I know you like her. I see the way you look and act around her."
"I-I.."
"You don't have to hide it from me." Adrien didn't know what to say. It was true that he liked Marinette but for Nino to know.
"A-Anyway I've got work to do. Bye." He hung up his phone as quickly as he could. He took a deep breath. Now he was all nervous thanks to Nino. He needed to calm down before he faced Marinette again. He heard a knock behind him.
"Adrien are you ok?"
"Yeah I'm fine." He opened the door and came face to face with Marinette. Her beautiful sapphire colored eyes were staring into his emerald ones. He got embarrassed so he had to look away. Marinette did the same.
"L-Let's get back to work." Marinette let Adrien in first and closed the door. They began reading their lines. A few hours later they had finished.
"You did a lot better this time Marinette. You put a little more emotion into the lines."
Marinette smiled. "Thanks Adrien!" They smiled at each other.
"Well I should probably get going now." Marinette started to fidget. Adrien noticed and said,"What's wrong Marinette?"
"Well…" Come on Marinette. Just ask him. No chickening out. Adrien raised an eyebrow. "I was just thinking that maybe… if you wanted… we don't have to pretend to you know, kiss…" She took a breath. "It might just be easier if we you know, actually k-kissed." Marinette could feel her entire face burning and turning red. She was afraid to look up and face Adrien. They sat there in silence so Marinette decided to finally look.
She saw that Adrien's face was as red as hers. Oh no! What did I say?! "I-I'm sorry Adrien. J-Just forget that I said anything."
"Ah… I-It might just be better i-if we just p-pretend." Adrien was so flustered that was all he could manage to say.
"Y-Yeah, you're right." What were you thinking Marinette?
"S-See ya Marinette." Adrien ran out of her room as fast as he could. Marinette slumped in her chair covering her face with her hands.
"W-What was I thinking?"
Adrien ran out of the shop and slammed the door behind him. He slumped down onto the sidewalk. He brought one knee up to his chest and rested one of his arms across it. He pushed his hair back with his other hand and tried to calm his racing heart.