Just Friends

24. In Love

Adrien's POV

Somehow I was back in a familiar bed, with M'Lady by my side. It seemed like I was reliving what had just occurred, like I had gone back in the past. The only words that I remember were to "not let Marinette leave." And somehow those words were now stuck to my brain.

After the fight against an Akumatized Marinette, I had forgotten practically everything, only remembering that Marinette had been akumatized and I had somehow gotten her unakumatized.

Suddenly, I felt the lady in question move further away from me, making me alert of what was going to happen. Since the last words I remembered was to "not let Marinette leave." So I panicked, grabbing her and tucking her into me, not caring if she had a problem with it.

"Adrien!" Marinette practically screeched as I shoved her body onto mine even more. "What are you doing?!"

"Shhhh... M'Lady, go back to sleep." I sighed, trying to calm her down.

"You just randomly grabbed me to you, how am I supposed to go back to sleep!" Her voice showed how enraged she was that I had woke her up.

"I have other ideas." I said flirtatiously, giving her a look.

"In your dreams, Kitty." She said before pushing my face away. I chuckled before looking at her jet black hair.

"I bet I could persuade you." I winked, even though she wasn't even looking at me.

"I could feel that wink from here." She whispered, bringing her back to my front side.

"Careful Marinette." Her butt was dangerously close to hitting that area.

"Now that you woke me up, I'm bored, wanna watch some-."

"NO!" I said loudly, causing her to jump and then almost roll of the bed. "I meant, no." I said in a bit of a softer tone. It was a bit comical really.

"Do you have to yell that loud Adrien. You just scared the crap out of me." She almost shrieked. I chuckled, getting up from the bed and looking around the room. I heard a small creak from the bed, making me look at Marinette. She was in a sports bra and spandex right now, and Damn did she look appetizing.

"Huh, now that I got away from the devils of our school, I need to find a way to convince them that I'm not Ladybug." She huffed, walking towards the TV of the hotel room. I quickly shuffled towards her, grabbing her hand and bringing her to me.

My eyes connected with her deep blue ones as we stared at eachother for a couple seconds.

"Do I make you nervous, Princess?" I asked, leaning my head near the side of hers to kiss her head. I felt and saw her visibly shiver before she pushed me away.

Her face was vibrant read as she started to become a mumbling mess. "I-I, w-what. N-n-no... I-I..." I waited patiently for her to continue, entranced by her beauty. She paused for a second before taking a deep breath, I loved that I had this effect on her. "I think I know how to make it work."

***
The plan was simple, first, try to get Ladybug and Marinette in the same room, so that people could see them together. But the only way to do that was to get the fox miraculous which was all the way at Marinette's house in the miraculous box. Apparently, she had hidden it in a secret drawer in her closet.

I didn't tell Marinette about the news of the whole city knowing she was Ladybug, but instead thought that our plan was great enough to fix two birds with one stone. It took us about 5 hours to get back into the city of Paris, and another 15 minutes to sneak into Marinette's room unnoticed.

Our classroom was still on there trip, and would stay there for a few more days as originally planned. I hoped that they weren't looking for Marinette anymore, seeing that it was a lost cause since she was with me.

When we got to her room, I let her do her stuff of fumbling around her closet before she came out with the Fox miraculous in her hand. I released Plagg from my ring and stared at the orange jewelry. Marinette's eyes were glued to the miraculous for a while until I decided to lighten the mood.

"If only being able to create two of you was possible." I smirked, looking at the miraculous. Marinette looked up to me then giggled.

She paused for a second in deep thought before she started to talk. "You remember Felix?" She asked, glancing up to me in her Ladybug uniform. I nodded, wanting to know what she was going to say. "Never mind, I'll tell you later. We need to get this situation fixed."

I nodded my head, walking up towards her and looking at the miraculous from behind her. For some reason it seemed I made her uncomfortable, because her face became red and she took a step away from me.

I felt a little hurt, but decided not to comment. Maybe I was being stupid and was just misreading everything.

"Okay, I need you to put on this miraculous, take a video of Ladybug standing next to me while you create an allusion, then send this out to Alya so she doesn't hate me anymore." The last part came out softly, and I began to feel bad again for Marinette.

I knew she didn't want me to comment, so I didn't.

***

After we finished everything and the video was sent out, it turned a bit awkward as we stayed up in Marinette's room, trying to remain quiet as to not alert her parents.

Marinette sighed, before I heard her stomach growl. I smirked, walking closer to her. I stopped when she took another step away from me, and her face became red again.

Had I done something wrong?

"Marinette?" I asked, It seemed like she had turned back into her old self, the old self who I thought hated me because of how flustered she got. Although she told me she had a crush on me, I still found it hard to believe, even though I knew it was true.

She closed her eyes hard, then went to her closet to grab a large sweatshirt and some sunglasses. I'm guessing it was to hide her face from the public.

"Marinette, are we okay?" I asked.

"Y-yeah... sure! Great as we could ever be!" She smiled before taking my hand, "let's just go get something to eat now.

***
Thirty minutes later and we had somehow landed ourselves in a 5 star restaurant, looking very out of place. I still had on my clothes from yesterday, and Marinette just had on a sweatshirt and some leggings.

She hasn't said a word since we got here.

"Marinette, are you sure we're cool?" I asked, reaching over the table to touch her arm. She took her arm back and then glanced down at the menu in front of her. I retraced my arm, feeling hurt that she was rejecting my touch. "Marinette, do you hate me?" I asked.

Her eyes widened as she looked at me for once, skating her head obnoxiously. "No! No, I don't hate you. It's not that, I promise... I don't hate you." She rambled. I blew out a breath, b then heard a sniffle come from Marinette's side. When I looked back at her face, small droplets of tears were sliding down.

"Marinette, what's wrong, please tell me!" I knew I looked like a lunatic in this quiet and formal restaurant.

"I promise it's not you. But I think we have a problem."

"What is it Marinette, I promise I can fix it!" I said, spewing out words to calm her down.

"Adrien," her bright blue eyes looked up at me, "I think I'm in love with you."