Me and You - Adrienette/Ladynoir/Ladrien/Marichat

Chapter Six: It went to Voicemail (Copycat)

"Tikki?" Marinette calls to her red kwami who was eating her way through her second cookie.

"Yes Marinette, is something on your mind?" Tikki asks her holder who was leaning on her balcony border.

"Actually yes," Marinette responds, "You know when I used lucky charm to stop Chloe and Adrien from dancing?" Marinette starts and Tikki nods, "I felt quite weird when I saw them together...then you-you s-said that it was because I was...I was j-jealous. I didn't understand so you said that you would explain so...can you explain?" Tikki nods then puts the rest of the cookie in her mouth before she started speaking.

"Marinette there is not really any other way of telling you this but you getting jealous of Chloe and Adrien being so close means that you possibly like Adrien." Tikki states straight forwardly so she could just get it over and done with. Marinette widens her eyes and slumps down to the floor.

"No, no, no, no, no, no, Tikki! I can't like Adrien in that way. We're best friends and we tell each other everything! I can barely keep being Ladybug away from Adrien, how am I supposed to keep having a crush on him a secret? I wouldn't be able to talk to him properly; he would think that I'm weird; he would stop being my friend; I'll be alone; I'll grow up and end up as a boring old cat lady with nobody!" Marinette exaggerates making Tikki roll her eyes and fly by her side.

"Marinette, stop exaggerating. Having a crush on somebody isn't bad, it's part of life." Tikki soothes Marinette.

"Thanks, Tikki. But isn't there any other explanation for what I'm feeling?" Marinette asks trying to hope that there is.

"Let's see. Being jealous may be because you think that Chloe is stealing Adrien away from you," Marinette let's out some air before Tikki could finish, "But, I need to know if you feel weird when your around him." Marinette nods then thinks about what Tikki said.

"I have been feeling weird around Adrien lately." Marinette justifies and Tikki nods.

"When did this start?" Tikki asks and Marinette starts to giggle at the fact that Tikki sounds so much like a psychologist, "Marinette, do you want to find out about how you're feeling or not?" Tikki huffs then puts her hands on her hips.

"Sorry Tikki. It's just that you sound a lot like a psychologist. You know for a little creature like you, you seem to have a lot of experience in the love department." Marinette states and Tikki gives her a big smile.

"I have had a lot of experience through my life, Marinette," Tikki states, before Marinette could ask a question about her experience Tikki carried on talking, "Now, when did these weird feelings for Adrien start?"

Marinette put her hand to her chin and starts thinking back to the first time she started feeling weird around Adrien. There was that time when the photographer asked me to be an extra in Adrien's photo shoot then Manon asked me if I was Adrien's girlfriend so I went red. Does that count? On that same day Adrien laid his head on my shoulder and my hands started sweating, stuttering and getting this weird feeling. Being so close to Adrien never made me feel so...so weird! That was definitely the first time I started feeling that way but there has to be an explanation for what I'm feeling. Maybe the fact that Adrien was so close to me made me feel warm so I started sweating...that's right. What about the stuttering? I could've just been stuttering because Adrien's head was blocking my throat so I couldn't speak so well. What about the weird feeling? Maybe...maybe...maybe I was feeling, uh, feeling. What is happening to me? Why am I worrying about these new feelings? Even if I had a crush on Adrien he would never want to be my girlfriend because he only thinks of us as best friends...best friends and nothing more than best friends. Marinette Dupain-Cheng you better find out what is going on with you and put a stop to this before your friendship with Adrien goes wrong!