Apologies came in the most unpredictable ways as Marinette stared down at flowers that Penny Rolling had to have picked out and as she glanced at a card with a pair of what was probably sunglasses drawn on the corner. 'To my favorite little rocker, because you are awesome and to say sorry.'
It wasn't much, but as she sat down and cradled the flowers closer, she couldn't help the smile that bloomed on her face. They were new friends led on by mutual admiration, and yet it still felt so surreal. No matter how often she saw Jagged Stone and Penny Rolling, she still felt so, so stunned.
Marinette hadn't grown up close to celebrities, and though her hard work and dedication to that work had led her here, it still felt so unreal. A friendship blooming between a lycee aged girl and a rock star, so unbelievable, and yet that had quickly become her world.
She still wasn't sure how she'd managed to impress him, not once, but twice! And then, he became impressed by her family's bakery, and the rest was history though he really had found good reason to apologize, and though it had taken a couple days to send the flowers, she was still grateful.
Jagged Stone only grew more incredible and more cool the more that she came to know him, and while he made mistakes, plenty of them just like everyone else, he'd always been so supportive of her. He'd found her passion inspiring, and he'd encouraged her crush above all things.
When a rock star tells you that the boy of your dreams is not impossible to one day end up with, it's more encouragement than Marinette had ever known or expected. Sure, she knew Adrien, but somehow a rock star's support made it seem all that more attainable to end up with the model that she considered a very good friend and hopefully more one day.
Jagged Stone became an even more special friend of hers when she considered that he'd even dedicated a song off of her superhero persona; he'd found inspiration from Ladybug. It felt almost as unreal as when he'd been blown away by Marinette's designs for him.
Just to know that they both inspired each other, and that her favorite rock star really did like her work left her stunned. Even though, everything had seemed like more of a mess than she ever could have imagined the day that Penny was turned into the Troublemaker, and yet the apology left her so grateful and stunned.
Marinette still couldn't believe that this friendship was mutually inspiring for the both of them, and yet she couldn't imagine it any other way. Jagged Stone was more than just a role model of hers, he was a close friend of hers now too.
With every dedication and every chance to grow as friends no matter how much it still surprised Marinette, they grew closer, and while Jagged Stone wasn't her best friend like Alya was, his friendship still meant the world to her.