Everything Changes –Chapter Eight

Adrien POV

I stood frozen to the spot. I couldn't move. My jaw was hanging open in shock and my eyes were wide as saucers. She heard the whole thing. I was about to open my mouth in protest when I realised that Marinette was already one step ahead of me.

"ALYA! I- WE- YOU- HE- ME- CAMEMBERT!" Plagg? Well she started out making sense, but then I wasn't really sure that she knew what she was saying. She was honestly struggling, so I decided to give her a hand.

"Alya… I- I mean, we- I mean, us- you- me- camembert again?" That didn't end well either. We both had no idea what we were saying so we just let a shocked Alya do the talking.

"Ok, so let me get this straight," Alya sighs, pinching the bridge of her nose. "You slept with him and now you're pregnant?" Marinette and I gave a small nod. "Adrien Agreste. Adrien Agreste got Lad-" I don't know what she was going to say, but Mari clearly didn't want her to say it. She clamped a hand over Alya's mouth before she managed to speak a word more. Mari whispered something in Alya's ear. I couldn't hear well but it sounded like: "He doesn't know…" Which was followed by Alya jumping up and shrieking.

"HOW COULD HE NOT KNOW?!" She raged before clamping her own hand over her mouth, and smiling awkwardly. I raised an eyebrow at them in suspicion.

"What? You don't know the gender yet do you?!" I panicked, clutching Mari's shoulders.

"NO! Not yet… Adrien, it's nothing really… just… girl stuff?" She attempted to cover up.

"Then why was Alya shocked at the fact that I didn't know?!" I shook her shoulders frantically. I only stopped when I noticed a very dizzy Marinette glaring at me.

"Really Adrien. It's fine," She turned to Alya.

"Well, now you know…" she said awkwardly laughing. "But you have to promise not to tell. Not Nino… not The Ladyblog…" I quipped my head up to Marinette.

"Wait, why would she put this on the L-" I started but was quickly interrupted.

"Oh jeez, I don't know Adrien! You know how Alya is!" She yelled impatiently before covering her mouth with a hand. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to yell…" She mumbled quietly through her hand, before turning back to Alya.

"I swear I won't tell anyone! I wouldn't do anything that could remotely hurt my best friend…" She held on hand up as though she were taking an oath and the other crossed her heart. "Ok, well… I'm gonna leave you two to it…bye…" She slowly backed out the door, but not before giving Mari one last crucial wink, that was kind of hard to miss.

"I'm sorry about-" Marinette starts.

"You know what? Just forget it… let's just watch that movie…like we were supposed to do in the first place…" I interrupt. Mari sighs.

A few minutes later we found ourselves seated on the couch with a bowl of popcorn. As Mari pressed play on the movie, I unknowingly leant my head onto her shoulder. I felt her stiffen before relaxing and throwing a piece of popcorn in her mouth. A couple of minutes into the movie, Marinette sits up and looks around. I raise a questioning eyebrow as I watch her pause the movie and continue looking around. I swear, if she had cat ears they would be twitching.

"What's that noise? Where is it-" She starts before her eyes finally settle on me. She breaks into a wide grin and I realise what I was doing.

"Adrien… can you?" She smiles, trying to contain her laughter. "Can you purr?" I feel my face turn hot and I blush a deep crimson, which only makes Mari smile wider. I clamp a shaking hand over my mouth, trying to stop the vibrations echoing the room. I was desperately hoping that she wouldn't connect the dots to Chat Noir. Thankfully, she was too caught up in laughing to notice. Meanwhile I couldn't stop purring! It seemed that, for some reason, Marinette's laughing made me content. I groaned and brought a couch cushion up to smash my face.

"Aww! Is the little kitten embarrassed now?" Mari laughed once more. I cringed. That's what ladybug used to call me. Used to. She doesn't talk to me much or care for my jokes ever since I rejected her. Me reject Ladybug? That's something I never thought would happen. But then again, I never thought that I would get Marinette Dupain-Cheng pregnant and fall in love with her. But I suppose, everything happens for a reason, right? Marinette continued to laugh and I scowled at her, finally being able to cease my purring. Mari stopped laughing and pouted. She crossed her arms over chest and stared me straight in the eyes.

"Once more?" She pleads.

"Nope, I'm not going through that humiliation again," I was putting my foot down.

"Please?" She looks up at me with her bluebell baby doll eyes. I saw that coming. First it's the pouting. Then it's the pleading. Finally, the baby doll eyes. I broke. Sitting back and leaning into the couch I sighed. Closed my eyes and laughed. Felling myself relax again, I knew what was next. As I felt contentment rush over me once again, Mari broke into a huge smile as I began to purr again. I draped a hand over my forehead, and chuckled slightly to myself, as she regained her laughter. I sat up slightly to look her in the eyes.

"You know, you can be pretty persuasive with those eyes, Purr-incess."

Crap.

Don't judge! Hope you like it!

Sticks and Stones don't normally hurt me…

But words sure can hella hurt!

~Allie