Masked | Adrienette/LadyNoir Fanfiction

Chapter 6

School was almost done for the day, and Marinette was feeling more and more nervous by the minute, she was really contemplating if she should visit Adrien or not. She was thinking too much about this, and Alya saw that from a mile away. Alya decided to lighten the mood and get Marinette's mind off of what she was thinking intensely.

"Hey, Mari?" the brown haired girl heard a "mhm" from her best friend in return. Marinette's attention was now on Alya.

"How is your relationship with Adrien?" This made Marinette's eyelids fling back, her blue eyes big and her cheeks a dusty shade of pink.

"Um... Um, a, what do you mean? Why did you bring this up?" Marinette was desperately trying to hide her blush and her stuttering, but failed miserably. 

"Well..." Alya trailed off, looking and scrolling through her phone when she made a 'yeah...' sound "Here it is!" She said with a huge, dorky smile on her face and finally showed Marinette the photo on her phone. 

Marinette looked at the photo, trying to figure out, what she was looking at, when she connected the dots, her blush turned bright red and she was sure she was going to explode. The photo was of her AND Adrien HUGGING! OH. MY. GOD...
Marinette was a stumbling, stuttering and blushing mess. The only questions that were flowing in her head were: How? When? Who? And did everybody already see those pictures?

She looked up at Alya, eyes covered in fear "Alya, where did you get those photos and are they on the internet?" She practically squeaked out, her face flushing to impossible shades of red.

Alya just laughed and gave her a satisfying smile "Nope, these photos are completely private. It was mine and my spies job" 

Marinette chuckled "Wait, whose your spy?"

Alya blushed at the word your, but shook it off "Nino. And he's not my spy. He just saw you two hugging and took a picture." She was overly excited about the picture, to be exact.

"Oh my God, Alya! Send me this picture!" Marinette smiled, grabbing the phone out of Alya's hands.
They were both laughing while Marinette was looking at the picture with her blue ocean eyes, pretty much burning in the photo, wanting to remember Adrien's every touch.

*RING!!*

"Oh shoot! Let's NOT be late for class, I don't have an excuse this time." Marinette giggled running off with Alya's phone and into the class room.

A terrified Alya chased her to the class room "MARINETTE! Don't fucking drop my phone! Everybody knows how clumsy you are!" the whole class room burst out into a fit of laughter as well as the two best friends.

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Adrien was laying in bed, feeling even worse than before. His head was pounding, his body was sore, everything seemed to be awful. Adrien knew that he will not be able to meet up with his amazingly beautiful and smart partner, Ladybug, to go on a patrol together. 

At this point he didn't care who was behind the mask, he just knew that he would love her no matter what. Especially if that girl was Marinette. He would love the girl behind the mask even if she wasn't the girl who he was expecting. He loved Ladybug. Her. 

'God, Marinette was so sweet to me today and all I could say to her was thanks. No hugs. No real way to tell her my gratitude.' Adrien thought burying his head into his pillow as if searching for comfort and relief from his own self.

He wanted to see her. Marinette. He wanted to hug her again. Feel her. She was everything, that he could never have, and yet, he had her, even as a friend, that was good enough for him, for now. Of course, he would never stop trying to make their relationship stronger.

~BZZ~BZZ~BZZ~

The blond boy looked over to his phone, seeing that he got a message from Nino, unlocking his phone he saw that Nino sent him a photo and attached to it was a message:

"I see your making friends, let me know if something interesting happens ;)"

Adrien was confused of what his best friend had in mind by that message.

Until he took a closer look at the picture that was sent to him.

Him. Marinette. Hugging.

This made Adrien's body jump up and blush intensely, he was practically as red as Ladybug's suit. He didn't feel tired or ill anymore, he felt overjoyed, happy, warm inside. 

"Did Marinette see this photo? Did Nino take this photo? What is happening?" Now Adrien was certain that he wanted to see Marinette. He heard a couple grumbles coming from Plag, as he got up and went to eat some camembert.

"Marinette..." Adrien's green eyes burned into the photo, he felt warm inside, and it wasn't the blush that was clearly visible. He felt a soft smile tug on his lips.

"My Lady..."

"My princess.."