Red String • Marichat

Chapter Four

When Marinette finally woke up, it was around 11 pm. She darted up as she looked around the familiar pink room she was in.

How did I get to my room?

She didn't have a lot of time to ponder that as something, or rather, someone tapped on her window.

She felt a smile grace her lips as she opened the window, letting a green eyed black cat in her room. Chat Noir smiled back as he walked into his Princess's room.

"Hey purr-incess. You look purr-fect as usual." He grabbed her hand as he knelt down and kissed her smooth knuckles.

Marinette rolled her eyes at his cat puns and yanked her hand away. "Two puns, that's  just great." She whispered under her breath.

"What was that?"

"I said, what are you doing here?"

Chat sat himself on her pink chaise and lightly patted the spot beside him. Marinette walked over to the chaise but sat on the other end.

"I wanted to make sure my purr-incess was okay. A little birdie told me you left school today." He answered as he began to scoot himself closer to Marinette.

"Uh- er, I mean yeah, I-I'm fine." She stuttered back as a faint pink dusted the tops of her cheeks. Chat gave her a toothy grin as he winked.

"Good to know."

Chat Noir is back to being his normal flirty self.

"Chat Noir, do you want to watch a movie with me?"

His cat ears perked up and he looked at Marinette startled.

"What?"

"A movie. Do you want to watch a movie with me? There's this movie I've been dying to watch but I haven't had time. So do you want to?" Inside Marinette was freaking out as she bit the inside of her lip.

Why am I doing this? What if he says no? Oh no, I'm embarrassing myself. What if I'm making Chat uncomfortable? What if-

"Sure purr-incess, I would paw-sitively love to."

After about 15 minutes, Chat Noir and Marinette finally had everything ready.

They were both on her bed, laying on their backs with a bowl of popcorn between them and a DVD player set on their legs.

Marinette grimaced as she felt her whole body weight on her back but tried to fight through the pain. Chat saw her look of discomfort and had an idea pop into his head.

"Here Marinette, put the popcorn to my right," Chat patiently waited as she did so. "Put the player on my stomach."

Hesitantly Marinette picked up the player and set it down slowly on Chat Noir's hard, flat stomach.

"And now this."

He turned Marinette so she was on her side, facing him. He pulled her closer to him so she was practically on him. At last, with her head on his chest and her left leg over his legs, they started the movie.

She felt her heart beat pick up as she was cuddling with her partner. Chat Noir silently sighed into her midnight blue hair as the warmth he's been missing finally came back.

He could feel his heart race too, and electricity shocked him at every spot Marinette was touching him. He looked down at his classmate.

Marinette was happily watching the movie in front of them, secretly enjoying the closeness Chat has given her as she basked in his smell.