Marinette, Adrien, Alya, and Nino all laugh together while running to catch André before he went to a new spot.
"What time does he usually leave?" Nino asks through slight heavy breaths. "Uh, he usually moves to a new place at 3:30." Marinette answers him. Adrien looks at his phone with wide eyes, "It's 3:25!" "It's okay. It's okay. We're not that far." Marinette looks at him while running. "We're cutting it close."
Before they make it, Marinette catches sight of an amok floating in the air. "Hey, I'm gonna stop by my house. It's right down the street, I don't wanna carry this school bag all day." "We can walk you." Alya says. She shakes her head, "You guys need to hurry to André before he leaves! I'll meet up with you, save some ice cream for me!" She says already running away. "This way." Nino says walking with his hands in his pockets towards the ice cream man who was now in view.
Adrien sees the amok and freezes in his place. Getting memories of his mother, his mother who he should of been with when she passed but he was busy as Chat Noir. Seeing a vivid image of his mom on the hospital bed, he looks around with a scared expression and all the chatter around him becomes louder and louder in his ears drowning out the sound of his own heavy breaths.
Nino turns around with concern, "What's wrong?" Adrien snaps back to reality, "No, it's nothing." His hand trembling with a picture of his mom still in his mind.
**
"Wow, she was really cool, wasn't she?" Alya stared bewildered as Ladybug turned the amok back into a normal feather. "So cool!" Nino said agreeing with his girlfriend.
Adrien stayed back staring at his old partner who was only a few steps away from him. Two little girls were holding flowers handing them to her, "U-uh here you go! We're so happy you're still around! We wanna be like you one day!" He saw her smile sweetly, "Wow, they're so pretty! Thank you!"
She noticed Alya and Nino and waved. "Thank you again for the flowers! Bye!" She called out one last time to the girls. The superhero who had just saved them came running towards them. Weaving through people who wanted interviews and news stations, flowers in hand, almost like a scene out of a movie.
Adrien instinctively started walking towards her how they did after every fight. Alya running in front of him and making him realize what he was doing as he stopped walking. "That was awesome, Ladybug!" Alya exclaimed and smiles. "Thanks!" "I meant it! So awesome! The Ladyblog will love it!" Ladybug smiles and laughs as she noticed Adrien a couple feet away shifting awkwardly. She runs up to him, "Hey, what did you think?" "Huh? M-me?" He looks around, worried that his partner would recognize him and be disappointed. "W-Well, you see..." He stammered, caught off guard by her. "What did you think?" She asks again one of her arms falling to her side.
"Uh... I've never seen you get flowers after a fight before. It's not like they had flowers ready because they knew this would happened. They rushed out to buy flowers to give you, it's a day they'll never forget." She touches her earring as it starts beeping, "Not bad, huh?" She laughs as she runs off before she transforms back. Just like a scene of a movie, he thinks to himself.
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"Hey girl, where'd you go yesterday?" Alya asked Marinette setting her bag on the table they share. "Oh, I wasn't sure if we'd still get ice cream. I don't think I'd want to share mine with a sentimonster." She laughed as Alya joined in. "That would be a sight to see."
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Adrien laid his head down in the library, sighing remembering the smile Ladybug had given him yesterday. "What're you up to? Besides ditching class and banging your head against the table?" Nino asked walking up to him. The blonde haired boy sat up, "Nothing, I was just clearing my mind." "Are you okay? You're more spaced out than usual today," He pauses, "Ooh, could it be you were thinking about a girl you like?" "W-what?" "Could it be Marinette? You always seem choked up around her." "N-never in a million years! Besides... "Adrien stammered and sighed as he looked down, "She hates me. She thinks I put gum on her seat, remember? No way she could ever like me." Nino rested his arms on his lap and leaned forward, "Not that any of that matters. It's only natural for the girl you're crushing on to love someone else. That's why she sparkles. That's why people fall so irrationally in love." Adrien laughed slightly at him, "I think I get why you're in a relationship and I'm not." Nino smiles widely, "You bet! I'm the coolest, dude." "Not me, no one could ever feel like that for me."
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Adrien walks home his hands in his pockets. Nino's right, I'm out of it today. He stares up at the sky never noticing how red the clouds are and how utterly beautiful it was. The slight blue peeking through, reminding him of Marinette's eyes. The eyes he wanted to see just once more. He wanted to see her, yet he didn't wanna see her because she doesn't like him. This kind of feeling. What do you call this kind of feeling?
He stops walking as he sees her leaning against a tree in front of him. Marinette notices him and turns fully to him, her arms behind her back. Their eyes meet and they stay in that moment, until she takes a few steps forward walking right past him, "Where's Alya?" She stares down the road that leads to their school.
"Alya?" "Yeah, we're supposed to walk home together. Think she'll show up? Not a glimpse of her in sight." She said with her hand above her eyes blocking the sun. "Alya went home with Nino. Didn't she tell you?" He turned to Marinette who was still facing the opposite was of him. "I see. Maybe I'll be able to find them. It won't be too hard being a third wheel." She began walking forward and Adrien walked behind her. "I'm sure Alya loves having you around, but she loves having time with just her and Nino too." He almost bumped into her as she abruptly stopped walking. "You do have a point. If I interrupt their date, she'll hate me, right?" She finally turns around and faces him.
"Then it looks like you'll have to take her place." She tilts her head and smiles. Adrien's mouth parts in surprise, "Huh?"
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Connected Skies
Fanfiction"Maybe there's only a dark road ahead. But you still have to believe and keep going. Believe that the stars will light your path, even a little bit. Come on... Let's go on a journey!"
