The hazards of being a bakers daughter# adrianette & ladynoir

Harder than she thought

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Oh god, she hadn't thought it possible, but somehow she had fallen even deeper for him.

Stop being greedy, she scolded herself. Getting to see him every day and talk with him more is enough. It's enough.

Except it wasn't.

Maybe ... maybe he would want to hang out with her after school. A part of her mind kept warning her not to get too clingy—what if she scared Adrien off before they ever even got to go on their date? She ignored that whispering voice just as willfully as she ignored the smug grins Alya kept shooting at her.

But how was she even supposed to ask him to spend time with her? Maybe she could think up some kind of excuse?

I didn't understand the Physics homework—would you be willing to help me with it after school?

Marinette struck that idea down almost as soon as it entered her mind. Adrien did seem to be good at Physics, and Marinette most definitely was not. But they hadn't even HAD Physics class yet—it would be way too suspicious. Besides that, asking for help with homework just seemed too ... transparent.

Things have been too quiet—maybe we should look into it tonight?

No, no, definitely not. Even with their patrols, they had always taken a rather passive approach to addressing Hawk Moth. They had no way to track him, after all. Suggesting it now would probably be too obvious. And besides, that was work. She wanted to just hang out with him.

God, why was this so hard? Marinette slumped in her seat, fingering her phone. Maybe she should just drop it for now. If she was patient enough, she could just wait until she actually was struggling with the Physics homework and just ask him them. Carefully she opened her purse, ready to put her phone away, then stopped. Tikki was sitting at the bottom, smiling happily up at her. Right, Tikki.

Elated, Marinette quickly yanked her phone back into her lap. She glanced up to make sure the teacher wasn't looking, then typed, I got to meet Plagg, but you still haven't met Tikki. She hesitated, trying to figure out how to phrase this in a way that seemed ... not annoying. Eventually, she added, Want to swing by my place after school?

She hit send, then bit her lip as Adrien's phone buzzed softly. He straightened suddenly, obviously taken off guard, and Marinette wondered belatedly if he would be irritated that she was texting in the middle of class. Maybe she should have waited. Maybe this was too obvious. He probably wasn't even going to reply until after class, in which case wouldn't it have been better to just wait patiently and ask him then? Maybe—

The teacher turned away, and Adrien quickly bent over his phone. Marinette felt her pulse pick up, and she watched with pleased curiosity as Adrien's ears slowly turned pink yet again. That was a good sign, right? He wasn't upset?

Her phone lit up a moment later. She opened the message, then felt her heart stop.

I'd love to.

He had said that he would love to spend time with her. He wanted to come over her house. He wanted to hang out with her. Ostensibly, he probably also wanted to meet Tikki, and Marinette tried not to read too much into it. But then why did his ears turn red again? No matter how she looked at it, it was hard to deny that he also seemed excited.

The knowledge set off a thrill that seared through Marinette's stomach. Determined to keep his ears burning, Marinette threw her good judgment to the wind and quickly replied, Great. Meet me after class, handsome boy. She hit send before she could second guess herself, though she felt the heat already beginning to blossom across her cheeks.

Adrien's phone buzzed right as the teacher turned back toward the class. She waited in pained silence, fervently hoping she hadn't just made the most embarrassing mistake of her life.

Finally, the teacher turned back to the board, and Adrien quickly ducked over his phone. Marinette bit her lip, watching carefully for his reaction.

It didn't take long. Within moments Adrien's ears had turned bright red, and the color quickly seeped down into his neck as well.

Oh... oh no. He was too cute. Her chest felt so full of happiness that it was difficult to breath. For the billionth time today, Marinette decided that she was in way too deep.

Dazed, she slipped her phone back into her purse and attempted to focus on at least part of the remaining lecture. But it was far too late for that. Her mind was filled to the brim with buzzing, flittering thoughts of Adrien. Who she was going to get to see. After class. In her ro—

Marinette's mouth dropped in horror. She had just invited Adrien over to hang out. In her room. In her very Adrien-bedecked room.

This ... was going to be harder than she had thought.

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