Accident of the Evening

Fun Times

By the time Madame Cheng had come down stairs to get them for dinner, all four of them were covered in flour.

"My, my, what happened here?" she asked and Adrien's smile shrunk as he realised they were caught. He braced himself for a scolding but blinked in surprise when someone, probably Alya, threw a chocolate chip at him. It bounced off his hair and fell down his shirt, causing her to laugh.

"I'm so sorry, Madame Cheng, it was Alya," Nino began, pointing to the girl responsible. She gave a cry of outrage.

"It was not! You started it!"

"I'm sorry maman," Marinette said looking down at her feet but unable to take the smile from her face.

Madame Cheng just shook her head with a kind smile. "Just clean up, you four. Dinner is almost ready and I expect you all washed up and upstairs in no more than five minutes."

"Yes Madame," Adrien answered and she just gave him a kind smile before going upstairs.

"Wow, I thought we were so screwed then," he confessed, running a hand through his hair and hearing raisins and chocolate chips falling to the floor. He heard the girls giggle.

"Maman is used to it. My papa and I always make a mess, so does Alya," Marinette laughed as she brushed off the flour from her dark shirt. "I never realised you could not look like a model, but here you are."

Adrien felt himself blush and he saw her cheeks go pink as she realised what she said.

"Hey, she's right," Nino added as he took off his apron. Alya did the same.

"We better get up there before she comes back down," Alya told them. Adrien pulled off his own apron as Nino and Alya began to head upstairs. He looked at Marinette as she untied her pink one from her waist and gave him a small smile.

"I-I'll put them in the wash, just follow Alya and Nino to the bathroom to clean yourself up," she told him, looking at the floor as he spoke. There she was acting weird around him again.

"Marinette, I-" She was gone before he could even begin. He sighed and pulled his phone out of his pocket to let Gideon know he was staying for dinner. He received a reply saying there was a package for him out the front of his house. Adrien thought for a moment before asking Gideon to bring it with him later.

Adrien put his phone away and then made his way upstairs finding Nino leaving the bathroom. He went in afterwards and almost laughed at his reflection.

His hair was thick with flour and he had a fine dusty layer over his face, making him look pale. He ran some water and took off as much as he could before he ran his wet fingers through his hair, seeing another raisin fall from his hair. Marinette had to have been the culprit for that one.

"Alya, Marinette?" Sabine called. Adrien stuck his head out of the bathroom as he saw the two girls head back down stairs. He turned his attention to Nino who just shrugged before gesturing for Adrien to join him. Adrien took one more look in the mirror, dusted off his jeans and fixed his shirt, watching the chocolate chip Alya had thrown at him fall to the floor. He picked it up and put it in the bin before heading out.

"Oh wow, something smells amazing," Adrien said as he entered the main living area. He saw Sabine and Tom had set up a fairly large dining table and covered it with food. There was fresh bread which had been sliced to perfect thickness, a crock pot with a stew, baked potatoes, roasted vegetables... Adrien couldn't believe how wonderful it looked.

"Madame Cheng, Monsieur Dupain, it looks and smells delightful."

"Oh Adrien, you flatter us," Sabine smiled.