Can You Keep It A Secret?

Chapter 41: Promposal

"Marinette Dupain-Cheng will you do me the honor of being my date to prom?" Adrien asks as he walks up to me with a red rose.

"Mari wake up." I groan and sit up in the bed. "You're torturing me Agreste." He chuckles and kisses my forehead. "How?" "I'm having dreams about you asking me to prom. I can't wait much longer." "Luckily for you, you won't have to wait a long time."

"Stop teasing me." "I'm not Mari. I'm going to ask you sooner than you think. But right now, my mom wants us to eat before we go to school." "She made breakfast?" He nods. "She doesn't want you to go to school on an empty stomach."

"I usually eat an apple before school though." "That's not enough Mari." "Well that was sweet of your mom." I say as we walk out of my room.

I get to the stairs and see them covered in red roses leading all the way to the floor. "Woah. What's going on here?" "Phase 1 of 3 of my promposal." "3 phases?" He smiles. "Get ready for the rest m'lady." He says and gives me a kiss.

"I love it Agreste, but how are we supposed to walk down the stairs?" "I didn't really think about that." I giggle and start picking up enough roses to clear a walkway and Adrien helps. We put the roses we picked up in my room.

"We only have a few minutes to eat now." "Wait before we go." I grab his arm and pull him into a passionate kiss. "Thank you for the flowers." He smiles and gives me another quick kiss. "Let's eat."

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"Has he asked yet?" Alya says as we take a seat in the class. "He started." "The flower stage?" Chloe asks as she sits beside me putting me in the middle of them. I nod. "Just wait for the next stage." Alya says with a slight giggle. "Oh no. What's the next stage?"

"Here it comes." Chloe giggles as the school choir comes into our classroom. "Mari, Mari, Marinette. You're the best don't you forget. I love you so dearly. I'm glad you're always near me." The group sings and I sink into my chair as I burry my face in my hands.

Adrien chuckles as he walks into the classroom and sits behind us as the choir continues singing. "12 years of loving you. I'm glad that you're my bugaboo. After phase 3, say yes to going to prom with me." He leans over and whispers with them as they finish. I sink even lower into my seat.

After class Adrien rushes out and hides behind Nino. "Adrien Agreste!" He laughs and Nino moves out of the way. "I'm sorry Mari, but it wouldn't be fun if I didn't embarrass you a little."

I hit his arm. "In front of our entire home room class?" He chuckles again. "It wasn't the entire class. Ivan wasn't in class today." I roll my eyes and glare at him.

"Come on Mari. It was funny." He says as he wraps his arms around my waist. As if it's instinct, I wrap my arms around his neck. "I'm going to kill you Agreste." "The 3rd phase will make up for this." He places a soft kiss on my lips. "It better."

He walks away but I grab his arm once again and pull him into another kiss. "Even though it was embarrassing, it was still sweet. Thank you Agreste." He chuckles and kisses my forehead.

"I know that the 2nd phase was embarrassing but trust me the 3rd stage makes up for all of it." Chloe says. "Really?" Alya nods. "It's one of your dream promposals." "One of?" Chloe asks.

"Marinette had a prom journal when we were younger and she wrote a few of her ideal ways to get asked along with her outfits and hairstyles."

"He already did 2 of my dream promposals and don't even ask me why I added the choir one." I say and face palm myself as they giggle. "What's the other one?" I ask. "Just wait and see M."

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"When is the phase 3 happening Agreste?" "In a bit Mari. Just wait a few minutes. I'll be right back." He gives me a kiss and rushes off. "I'm really curious now. What's the 3rd phase?" "Give it a few minutes." Alya says as we walk out of the school.

"Just stand right here." Chloe says as she stops me at the bottom of the stairs. "For what?" I turn my head and see Adrien coming to us in a horse-drawn carriage. I notice he's wearing a knight costume and I immediately start laughing at the sight.

"Since you got embarrassed it's only fair that I wear something to embarrass me." He says as he steps out of the carriage. I giggle as he takes my hand and places a kiss on the back of it.

"Marinette Dupain-Cheng in 1st grade you told me you wished that one day you can become a princess, but little did you know you were always my princess." He pulls out a tiara and places it on my head.

"Agreste-" "Shh. I'm not done yet." I giggle and nod for him to continue.

"I know you've been dreaming about a few ways that you'd get asked to prom and today I wanted to make a few of them happen. I know the choir one was a cheesy but if you didn't want it to happen then you shouldn't have wrote about it in your journal."

I giggle and roll my eyes. "I know I have you a lot of roses already, but I wanted to give you 12 more along with this." He hands me a bouquet and pulls out a ring. I gasp at how beautiful it is.

"It's a promise ring. I promise that one day I'll replace this promise ring with an engagement one. I love you so much and I promise that one day we'll get married, have kids, and a hamster." He says as he slides the ring on my finger.

"Adrien i-it's beautiful. I-I can't except this." He rolls his eyes. "Of course you can Mari." "Agreste it's too much." "And you deserve it. You deserve everything in the world. Especially me." He says with a wink and I roll my eyes.

"Before the moment ends, I still have to ask. Will you go to prom with me?" "Hmmm. I need to think about it." I tease. He rolls his eyes as he wraps his arms around my waist to pull me into a kiss.

"Yes I'd love to go to prom with you." I say as we pull apart. He smiles and rests his forehead against mine. "I love you so much Mari." "I love you more Agreste."