One shots || Miraculous Ladybug (MLB)

3:- Outside Observers

Tags: PoR, AN

Alya is confused. Truly and utterly confused.

Since when did Marinette speak to Adrien normally?

It's been happening all week, and she's been trying to pretend like she's okay with it and not freaked out at all, but it's getting worse.

One minute, Marinette could barely string together a sentence around Adrien, and now she's holding a full conversation with him. And he's listening. Better than usual.

This is weird.

"Hey, Alya. How's it-" Alya grabs him by the mouth, shushes him and beckons for him to hide next to her. She can't be the only one seeing this.

"Is that Marinette and Adrien?"

"Yeah." She breathes.

"Talking?"

"Yeah."

"Are you sure neither of them have been akumatised?"

"There have been no akumatisations in the past week. What ever has happened has nothing to do with Papillon." She cringes. "This is genuinely confusing."

Nino and Alya watch as Marinette waves at Adrien and walks towards them. Oh no.

"Hey guys," she says, with a grin. "Who are we spying on?"

"You." Nino says, and Alya slaps her forehead. Why did she decide to go out with Nino in the first place?

"He doesn't know what he's on about. But, girl, what's going on with you and Adrien?"

Marinette raises an eyebrow and smirks. Alya hates that smirk. It only happens when Marinette knows something no one else does, and she's willing to milk it. She underestimated her. She's a mastermind when it comes to people who aren't Adrien, and everything but explaining her 'Marinette specials'.

"Adrien? No, he's just a friend." She smirks. "Allez, we're going to be late for gym."

Alya doesn't believe it, and she never will.

After gym, the Marinette-Adrien situation gets worse. Alya watches as Adrien leans in close to Marinette, and all she does is flick his nose and walk off. And Adrien follows! He has this stupid lovesick grin on his face, and Alya has absolutely zero clue where it came from. All she knows is that she wants an explanation.

"Nino, am I going crazy? I need to lie down."

"No, babe, I saw it too."

"Then I need an explanation."

"It's Marinette. And Adrien. Nothing in this world can explain those two."

So Alya moves on, like Nino says she should. She's going to be late for lunch if she doesn't get moving, and she does not play with her food. As she's walking, she notices that the store room light is on. The school's on some energy saving programme, and the students have been told to help out. Plus, if she is seen actively trying to help, she'll get a boost on the budget for the school blog. If that's not a motivator, she doesn't know what is.

She opens the door to turn the light off, and finds Adrien locking lips with Marinette. What has this world come to? She thinks.

Instead of having the nerve to look embarrassed, Adrien looks mildly inconvenienced.

"Do you mind? I'm having some alone time with my girlfriend." He says, and Alya almost faints. This crazy day is going to kill her.

"Boyfriend-Marinette-Adrien-snogging?"

Marinette rolls her eyes. "Don't worry, Alya." She says, and Alya is sure she's going to get an explanation. She can finally sleep tonight. "I'm just a friend."

"Are you serious, Mari? You're still on that? I've apologised! Multiple times!"

Mari? Nicknames? What in the name of the LadyBlog and everything else I call holy is going on?

"And I've told you for months and months that you're going to have to do more than apologise, Minou."

"MONTHS?" Alya shrieks. She's not going to discuss the kitten bit. She doesn't want to think about anything that's going to traumatise her.

"Yeah," Adrien shrugs. "She still doesn't believe me when I say I like her as more than a friend."

"More than just a friend?" Alya can't cope. "I'm leaving. Have fun with whatever it is you're doing."

"Will do!" Adrien says, earning himself a frosty glance. "Aww, come on, Bugaboo. I said I'm sorry."

"DID YOU JUST CALL HER BUGABOO?" Alya doesn't understand. She wanted to let this go, but now Ladybug's been mentioned, it's her duty to get to the bottom of it.

Adrien goes red instantly. "Er, yeah?" He shrugs. "She's my everyday Ladybug. I said that on Hero's day, didn't I?"

Alya thinks hard. She does remember that, because Marinette stepped in the pie he brought and kissed his cheek. It wasn't even that major and Marinette wouldn't move on. That also explains Marinette calling him kitty. It's some LadyNoir thing they're trying to replicate. She doesn't blame them.

Just as she's about to leave, both Marinette and Adrien burst out laughing.

Can this day get any weirder? Really?

Is she going to try and rationalise it? No.

But if she remembers correctly, she noticed a change in Ladybug and Chat Noir's patrols. They were less awkward, and Chat completely stopped trying to chat Ladybug up. And that was a few months ago. She gets distracted for a single second, only to hear Marinette perking on Adrien.

"You know what? I think I like you better in leather."

"Is that so?"

Alya wishes she could walk away. She doesn't want to hear all of this. But she's glued to her spot on the floor.

She's jumping to wild conclusions again. She needs to stop. Plus, there's no way Marinette could be Ladybug. She has absolutely no chill whatsoever.

"Akuma Alert, Akuma Alert. All students are to go to the basement immediately."

She turns to Adrien and Marinette, but they're running in the opposite direction to the basement. Alya doesnt care. She doesn't want any more theories. She's done. Adrien and Marinette want to share spit? Fine. That's on them. They want to do their weird role playing thing, fine as well.

She's going to go to the basement, and sleep through this Akuma Alert. She's done.

This was funny to write lmao.