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Chapter 33 - croissant

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Marinette frowned looking at the hesitant boy's gaze wander away from her eyes. He quite obviously did not have a clear answer - well that was what she thought anyways.

She went to turn round to walk away, not from him, towards the park on which they were supposed to be meeting Alya and Nino in, but Adrien all of a sudden grabbed her left wrist and pulled her into his embrace. Marinette's widened, startled blues searched the blonde boy's eyes in need of an actual answer and curious to why he pulled a sudden stunt like that.

Adrien took a deep breath and went 'well... I uh -'

'MARINETTE DUPAIN-CHENG I THOUGHT WE WERE MEETING AT THE PARK' alya yelled from the other side of the river causing the two confused friends to awkwardly separate .

Shit... why did I even hesitate she probably is gonna take my hesitation the wrong way Adrien thought, rivers of regret flowing through him.

'We uh decided to stop by the river for an hour' Marinette called back towards Alya.

'Just to get lovers ice cream to share between the both of you aye?' Alya teased before making her way across the rivers' bridge and towards the friend-couple.

Nino, being forcefully dragged along by the demanding blogger, cheerfully smiled at his two friends who had made their way back into eachothers lives again.

'We should go to the park, we have so much to talk about and it's only been a week!' Alya giggled excitedly.

The 3 friends nodded and continued to head on down towards the park.

As they entered the park, waves of nostalgia and memories flooded both Adrien's and Marinette's minds. The time they hid in the water fountain, the time Adrien dived to protect Marinette from gamer, the lucky charm gift exchange, the kiss on the cheek and many more.

Adrien subtly raised his hand towards his face and gently grazed his fingertips along his cheek. Marinette noticed this little action and smirked, they both had synced thoughts and she found it quite intriguing.

Alya and Nino grabbed the picnic blanket and delicately placed it on the grass for the friends to sit on.

'You got the food right Marinette?' Nino asked worriedly, clearly eager for some delicious pastries of some sort.

Marinette let out a little giggle and presented Nino with multiple options of different appetising bakery goods. Nino dove straight for the sausage rolls, whilst Marinette decided to go for a croissant when all of a sudden a certain blonde boy's hand swiped the croissant from her grasp. She instantly looked at him furiously and saw a playful smirk on his face.

Whilst Nino and Alya were happily delving their way into all the bakery goods, Marinette took the opportunity to jump on the smug green-eyed, blonde boy. She quite literally wrestled him to the ground in an attempt to snatch back the croissant.