Where did you go?

16~ Back up

(Adrien's POV)

Nino continues to tease me all the way until we get to the towels. I lay my towel down next to Marinette's and Nino lays his next to Alya's. I'm super tired from all of the traveling done today, so I decide to just lay down and tan for now. I take off my shirt and throw it at my bag. I put on a good amount of sunscreen and then lay on the towel face down. I hear Nino talking to me from his towel.

"Dude, I'm gonna go join the girls in the water. Feel free to join us once you're done with your beauty sleep", he snickers.

"Will do", I reply.

I hear him leave and I end up falling into a deep sleep on the soft sand.

(Marinette's POV)

Nino comes to join us in the water as Alya and I are splashing around.

"Hey dudettes", he says as he splashes in.

"Hey!", I say. "Where's Adrien?"

"He's getting his rest. The little model boy is tired at the moment", he says laughing.

We all snicker and play around in the water for about an hour or so, getting out for a snack. When we get back to our towels, Adrien is laying face down, sleeping still. He almost looks like a corpse. Alya starts snickering and points to his blood-red back.

He is so sunburned, holy shit.

I giggle a little and then slowly hover over him, one leg on each side of his body, and I give his back a big slap. Alya and Nino start dying of laughter and Adrien pops up from his position, standing up quickly, throwing me onto the sand behind us. I start laughing and he looks around confused.

"W-What? What's going on?", he says.

We all just laugh even harder and the pain from his back starts to creep in. He stands up quickly and uses his phone to see what his back looks like.

"Crap, my photographer is going to kill me!"

"Dude", Nino says. "You have photoshoots shirtless?"

Adrien's face turns red, almost like his back.

"No! Well, Yes!", he replies quickly.

We all fall back into our laughter and sit down to eat snacks. Since we stopped at a gas station during the bus ride, I got myself some hot fries and a Dr.Pepper. My friends got themselves some snacks too, and we eat peacefully with the noise of other people and the shore in the back.

While eating my hot fries peacefully, a certain someone decides to snatch them from me.

"Hmm, I wonder how these taste", Adrien says before reaching into the bag.

I jump on him to get them back and he holds them up high as he stands up.

"Is this what I get for minding my own business?", I whine.

He laughs and while trying to get up to reach for my chips, I end up tripping over my towel. He falls with me and ends up on top of me.

I open my eyes to see his face right in front of mine, his expression as shocked as mine is.

"Sorry! Sorry! I didn't mean to fall", I say quickly.

"No, no, it's my fault. I didn't mean to make you trip", he replies.

I nod and I wait a couple of seconds then talk again.

"Adrien..?"

"Yeah? Sorry for grabbing your chips, I just wanted to see you mad", he laughs.

"No, it's not that", I say out of breath. "I can't breathe. You're on top of me"

"Oh!", he says while quickly getting up and scratching the back of his neck.

He does that a lot.

I get up with his help and shake the sand off of my body. He does the same. I find myself staring at his chest. He has such defined muscles. Every inch chiseled, very impressive for a 16-year-old boy.

Marinette, stop. You're gawking at him and you have a boyfriend.

I stop my staring and look back up at his face to only catch him staring at me too. To release the tension, I grab my chips and sit back down to where I was to continue eating. Alya snickers at me and I give her a "shut up" glare.

The rest of our beach trip is amazing. We get in the water again, this time with Adrien. We all splash around and have so much fun hanging out with each other. After having our fun at the beach, we grab our stuff and walk to the pier. We get all sorts of cool snacks there and get on some of the rides. Eventually, our time at the beach runs out and we have to go back to the bus to go back to the hotel. I wonder what we're going to do tomorrow. I hope it's as fun as what we did today.

During the bus ride, the sun starts to set. When we get to the hotel, it's already dark out. Miss Bustier dismisses us to go back to our rooms and I say bye to Nino and Alya for the night. Adrien and I reach our rooms and I flop on the bed the second I walk in.

"I'm so tired", I complain.

"Then sleep, duh", Adrien replies.

Oh yeah, sleep. How am I going to sleep? There's only one bed.

"There's only one bed though, how are our sleeping arrangements going to work?", I ask.

Adrien's eyebrows knit in confusion.

"You sleep on that side and I'll sleep on this side", he says.

I hesitate, but nothing ends up coming out of my mouth.

"Do you not want to do that? I can sleep on the floor-"

"No, no, it's okay. That's fine."

Old me would've been freaking out by now, but now I'm just nervous as crap.

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