Miraculous One shots

Kisses and Happy Endings<°~Ladynoir/Adrienette~°>

To Bits and Pieces part V

Silence. He couldn't move. He couldn't talk. He couldn't breathe. Time seemed to stop as he replayed the words over and over in his head to try to make out the meaning. "What‽" Was all he could utter in pure disbelief. "You'r.. You're in love with.. with..me?"

"I'm in love with you." She repeated muffled in her hands.

There was a long silence. She was sobbing softly and he was frozen in shock. "You..You mean that?"

"Why would I say it if I didn't?" She wiped her tears and looked to him. "After you started avoiding me, I realized how much I used to miss you, your jokes, your talks, just your presence and ever since then the feelings just kept growing." She lowered her gaze, "I don't know exactly when but I fell in love with you."

"Sorry for dumping this so suddenly on you, I know I'm too late and you don't love me anymore so I'm sorry for getting upset. You deserve better. Better than me." She hugged herself for comfort, keeping her gaze everywhere but on him, his reaction would only hurt her more.

He didn't know what to think so he just spoke. "I never stopped loving you." She looked at him in confusion before nodding in negation, "You don't need to pretend, it's okay." 

"I started avoiding you cuz I had a girlfriend." He continued despite her reply, "She loved me and I knew if I tried, maybe I could love her back and get over you. But it didn't work. Then I started falling for someone else and-"

"There's a third girl?" She snapped taking him by surprise. "Sorry continue." She muttered.

"I fell in love with her and I thought that I maybe somehow got over you but anytime we got close, I'd still feel it, I'd feel my heart beat and I was confused. I'm in love with the both of you."

"You can't love two people equally. People say if you fall in love a second time then the first time wasn't real." She still looked away.

"You're right, I do love her more. And it wouldn't be fair if I led you on, I'm sorry I kissed you. And it wasn't a mistake, you know, it felt amazing. You just remind me so much of her. I thought you were her." He looked away too. If it were under previous circumstances, he knew he would have gone to hell and back to hear her say she loved him.

But all he could think about was Marinette. Even when he knew he didn't have a chance with her, he wanted to do anything to get her. "I'm sorry." He repeated. It wouldn't be fair if he weren't sincere to Ladybug so he explained it all to her.

There was a long silence when he finished and he finally looked at her gauging her reaction. But he couldn't read her expression, it almost seemed blank.

"You know..." She started and suddenly paused to think then continued. "I was in love with Adrien, yeah, I guess I still am but then I fell in love with you. It was stupid to think you'd still have feelings for me."

"You're in love with Adrien?" He was appalled, almost losing his footing, "As in Adrien Agreste?"

"Yeah.." She slowly moved to the edge of the roof and rested on the railing to view the quiet city. "It's funny, you chose her over me but I chose you over him. I thought I would only ever love Adrien this way, but when I fell for you, I fell so deep and hard."

And now he really couldn't breathe, his legs rooted to the ground in disbelief. Ladybug loved him. And not just that, she fell in love with him twice. She loved both sides of him. His head spun. Ladybug loved him. Completely.

"I fell so much in love with you." He was sincere with her, she might as well return the favor. "He even tried to kiss me earlier at the party." She chuckled dryly. "And I rejected him. For you. If someone told me I'd do that months ago, I'd say the person was delusional."