"Bee peaceful." The small upcurve of his lip told her all that she needed to know about that statement of his.
"I will kill you." Yet, there was no bite to the words.
"Why?" Adrien wiggled closer to her, and Chloe felt slightly relieved that he seemed to know her so well especially since he was able to calm her agitation even when he set up a trap to make her feign anger and frustration.
"You did not just pun to calm me down." Chloe told him point blank though she knew the truth and did not need to almost ask him if he did.
"Okay, I did not." Adrien looked amused even as he said the words.
"Really?" She let skepticism paint her voice, and really hoped that he got it; surely, he didn't expect her to buy his last statement.
"Yeah, if you want..." Adrien let it trail off even as Chloe shifted in his arms to level a glare at him.
"Puns aren't the way to comfort people." Chloe pointed out as she stretched out against him anyway; truthfully, she loved her dorky boyfriend regardless of how much he could drive her up a wall. He's her sweetheart even when they fight or joke, he's still everything to her.
"O-Okay then." His smile was radiant despite being told not to make any more puns to calm people down, and she just knew that he'd do so again in the future, but she didn't really mind all that much. Adrien, in his own way, was her strongest support; in part, because her words couldn't sway him into bending completely to her will.
Chloe was great at working things out with her father and her mother, great at twisting them around to her side, and yet Adrien as constant as he's been in her life has never bent to her will completely. He holds himself steady in ways that she'd never thought too much about until she'd actually tried to figure things out more recently.
These past few months had been incredible in that regard; Adrien still had the power to drive her up a wall and yet still held the power to melt her heart, and a part of Chloe would always try to remain a certain way in public, but with just Adrien, all her walls came tumbling down. Her smile may have not appeared as lovely and as angelic as some people can smile, but even though it didn't appear as sweet as it felt, she knew that he'd understand.