Agreste-Wayne?

17

"Hello again, Paris!" Adrien smiled and waved to the camera.

Sitting next to him was Marinette Wayne. Alya covered her mouth in shock. She wasn't sure how she felt seeing them. She hadn't really seen Adrien much, except for billboards and magazines after college. Marinette left Paris around the same time. It had been years since she had seen her former best friend; she looked so different. She still thought of Marinette as the clumsy girl in pigtails, but that wasn't what she saw on the screen. Marinette sat confident in an off-the-shoulder black top, her hair was now as short as Roses' use to be, but her smile seemed as bright as ever. Alya could barely keep the tears from rushing down her cheeks.

"Today, we invited Adrien Agreste and Marinette Wayne to talk with us. They are calling us from Wayne Manor." the reporter announced, "We were hoping you both could shed some light of Mr. Agreste former model. We know you both went to college with her. Ms. Cesaire wrote a blog denouncing Ms. Rossi and we were wondering if any of it was true."

'They didn't believe me. They thought I was lying; just like with the article.'

"You did send us the link and we have looked over it." Marinette spoke, "We have no problem talking about her."

"We know this all started with an article Ms. Cesaire wrote about the both of you. That you both were having a 'secret affair'. It brought many things into question, including the father of your other children." the reporter stated.

"That is true." Marinette spoke, "We had no idea anything had been published until Damian and I were surrounded by the press, on the way to our lunch date. The only thing we could make out from the press was 'affair', 'child' and 'Adrien'. Damian quickly took control of the situation and we sorted it out. With Adrien's permission, we did speak up about the surrogacy."

"At any point were you going to announce you were carrying his child?" the questioned.

"We planned to keep it a secret until the baby was born." Adrien spoke, "Many people in Gotham have seen me around the Wayne family and they know I'm close to Marinette. I think there was speculation, but the girls called me 'uncle' and that was the end of that. I also go out with Marinette's may brother-in-laws."

"We did ask Alya about what led her to conclusion about Ms. Rossi not tellign the truth." the reporter declared, "Was there any hints for either of you? Adrien, were you caught off guard by your former co-workers behavior?"

Adrien laughs, "I've known she was a liar since the first day I met her back in college. She told this lie about how she 'saved' Jagged Stone's kitten from an airstrip. She claimed to have developed tinnitus. That as an apology for causing a disability, he wrote a song just for her. As a Jagged Stone fan, I knew he hatched a crocodile from an egg and had it for fifteen years. I was really shocked that everyone fell for that lie. Many of them claim to be Jagged Stone fans! Marinette made his Eiffel Tower sunglasses at thirteen! He went to her house on a TV special and she designed his Rock Giant cd cover! I asked for her autograph with other people around; Alya Cesaire was one of them."

"So, that's one disability debunked." the reported spoke.

"Oh, we're disproving disabilities?" Adrien asked, "There was also the time she asked me to help her with piano lessons. Layla told me she wanted to surprise her uncle, but her arthritis made it hard on her wrists. When she told me the name of her uncle, I immediately told her we could be friends if she stopped lying. The 'uncle' in question was a great pianist who had been dead for seven years. He never married, never had children, and many believed he slept with men."

Alya remained silent. She couldn't believe Adrien knew immediatley that Lila had been lying to them. He never called anything she said into question. At the same time, he was right. They knew Marinette help design things for Jagged Stone and when she called Lila a liar; they turned on her. They said she was jealous.