Red String • Marichat

Chapter Five

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It's been a few days since Chat last visited Marinette. She also took note on how Adrien was acting weird around her but shrugged it off.

"Girl what did you do to Adrien?" Alya asked as they met up outside.

"I don't know? Did something happen on Monday?" The bluenette thought back to that day but was unable to remember much.

Alya felt her evil within bubble up as she smirked at her best friend. "Maybe." Was all she said as she shrugged before walking inside.

"Maybe? Alya!" Marinette ran to catch up with her, tripping in the process. She braced for impact as her arms instinctively were held out straight in front of her.

Her blue eyes squeezed shut as the ground got closer but something dove in front of her, cushioning her fall.

Her eyes popped open as she stared at a black shirt with three lines crossing it. Marinette placed her hands on the ground as she pushed herself up off of the person.

"A-A-Adrien? Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry!" She scrambled backwards, away from the blonde boy in front of her.

"It's fine. Are you hurt Pr- Marinette?" Adrien caught his slip up and stood up, brushing himself off.

"Y-yeah, fine I am, er I mean I'm fine." She stammered. Adrien gingerly held his hand out to her, beckoning her to grab it.

She slipped her smaller hand into his as he heaves her up with ease.

"Are you okay?" She asked, craning her neck to see him.

He smiled and nodded as he looked down at her smaller stature. "Yeah I'm okay. Come on, we should get to class Mari."

Marinette froze when she heard him call her by her nickname.

Chat called me that a few days ago...

She thought lonesomely. She would never say it out loud but she actually did miss her kitty. For the past several days she kept going through different reasons as to what she did to make Chat stop coming to her room.

"Marinette?"

She profusely rubbed her eyes, quickly ceasing the water that started to brim and put on a smile for the nice boy in front of her.

"Let's go shall we?"

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"Mari, are you okay? You've been sighing a lot lately. And I don't think it's because of Adrien." Alya asked during their lunch. Marinette was walking to her house and Alya decided to tag along.

"Yeah I'm fine. Just thinking."

Alya looked skeptically at her but said nothing as their parting point came up.

"I'll see you at school?"

Marinette nodded, her pigtails bouncing and waving in the wind. As Alya crossed the street, Tikki popped out of her purse.

"Marinette is it about Chat?"

Her high pitched voice asked softly as Marinette walked on to the bakery her parents owned. She nodded again as the bell chimed as she walked in. She said hi to her parents before going up to her room.

"Yeah." She sighed as Tikki flew up to her face. "I mean, did I do something to upset him or make him uncomfortable? Or did he just not want to come over anymore?"

She laid herself on the floor, staring at the wooden legs of her desk. Tikki floated to the ground in front of her, her lavender eyes staring into Marinette's blue ones.