Miraculous Short Stories

Toliet Paper Trees

Adrien, for so many years you've stuck by me. No matter if I was your cute little childhood friend or the mean brat you had to see in school, you have never given up on me. You've been the light that defeated my darkness, and you still are. You are the dearest person to me and I realized today that I can't imagine my life without you. Will you marry me?" Chloe asked not willing to exhale until she confessed everything she pent up inside.

Those last four words mingled in his mind. “Will you marry me?” A complex question with a simple answer. He felt as if he should say ‘Yes’ after all she was his Ladybug or as she preferred to be called, Scarlett Lady. Even though Lady Scarlett rolled off the tongue better.

“I don’t know what to say.” He replied. This was the honest truth. Plagg had always joked about how the past ChatNoir and Ladybugs ended up married or dead.

“You win some, you lose some.” Plagg once told Adrien. “However in your case it’s a lose, lose situation.” His comments were usually followed by intense snickering. He relished in Adrien’s suffering when it revolved around Chloe.

“Don’t make me kneel on one knee, Agreste. It’ll dirty my two hundred dollar designer jeans.” Chloe stomped as if she wasn’t going to leave him alone it the word ‘Yes’ passed through his lips.

“Chloe...” Adrien started. The nonchalant tone in his voice made Chloe quickly cut him off.

“I MEAN IT AGRESTE!” She shouted loud enough for all of Paris to hear. To think Adrien thought that he was just hanging out with a friend. Eating at a expensive restaurant, taking a walk in the park, and then having the manners to escort her home. It sounded similar to a date but Chloe had high expectations and he felt it was his duty as her friend to entertain her.

“If you say No, I’ll get akumatized.”
Chloe dramatized.

“Then get akumatized.” Adrien replied before turning around and walking away. He had immediately regretted those words as soon as he heard himself say them.

‘I poured my heart out risking our beloved friendship with him and he doesn’t even care if I’ll get akumatized.’ Chloe thought before she slammed her door and slumped down onto the floor.

A few hours later, on a rooftop in the most recently dubbed ‘unromantic’ city in the world sat the famous superhero Scarlett Lady. Her black spotted legs dangled off the building’s ledge. She was both on the edge of a unrepairable heart and her and her teammates’ usual meeting spot. Marigold, the first to arrive, was the holder of bee miraculous who could be a total stranger out of costume but she was Scarlett Lady’s most dearest friend. More dear then Sabrina. And now even more dearer then Adrien.

“Scarlett, tell me wants wrong.” Marigold suggested. Her and Scarlett Lady used to hate each other with a fiery passion but as they got older, they grew on each other.

“It’s nothing.” Chloe said with as much attitude she could muster. Marigold raised her mask-brow not believing that it was just ‘nothing’.  Marigold knew that all three heroes had one thing in common beside being Paris’s protection (or as Chat would say “PURR-tection”) against Papillon.

They all deflected their true emotions but they all did it in different ways. Scarlett Lady uses her attitude as a way of shielding herself from forming relationships whether friendly or romantic because in her experience they would inevitably not live up to her standards. ChatNoir uses his puns as a way of avoiding a serious issues. Marigold uses pranks  as ways to vent out her frustration. Her frustration was caused by not telling ChatNoir that she's stupidly in love with him and that nobody is going to reveal their identities which will cause her to end up a single woman with twelve too many cats.