Princess Patissiere ( A Miraculous Ladybug Fanfic)

A Phone Call

"Nino?"

"Yeah,"

"You and Alya are kinda close... right?"

...

"Um... Maybe?" Came the unsure reply from the other end of the phone. Adrien sighed.

"Well, she seemed a little upset earlier and I wasn't sure if you knew what was going on, so-"

"Is this about Marinette?" His friend interrupted, the confusion slipping from his voice as he realized, with a smug smile, what this call was really about.

"Kind of," Adrien sighed, waiting for the teasing to begin.

"Oooo," Nino teased, and Adrien could picture him wiggling his eyebrows.

"Listen it's not... Like that." He replied, defeated, "It's just, Marinette was really kind when she helped me out with the project the other day, and you know how it is with my father and making friends..." Adrien slowly rambled on as he spun around in his chair, and Nino sighed.

"Yeah, yeah, I get it. But I've got no idea what's going on between them," he answered thoughtfully, putting his feet up on his desk in his own room. "I was gonna ask you about this at school tomorrow, actually. Just in case you knew anything."

"Oh, alright," Adrien said, slouching a little.

"Yeah, it'll be okay, man. They've gotten in fights before, remember?"

"Not really," Adrien said, sitting up some as the chair knocked lightly against his desk, causing the large screen above to come to life with a picture of Ladybug.

That's it!

"Oh, well there was this one time when they didn't speak to each other for a whole week, and I think it was over some silly thing like-"

"Hey, sorry Nino I gotta go," Adrien said quickly, feeling a little bad about interrupting him.

"Oh, dad stuff?" Nino asked.

"Uh, yeah... sort of," Adrien lied, wanting to get off the phone as quickly as he could.

"Alright, see you at school."

"Yeah." Click

Adrien sat for a moment, looking up at his ceiling in thought as Plagg flew beside his face, yawning a little.

"Transform me. Camembert later." Plagg didn't have time to argue as he was sucked into Adrien's ring. Chat Noir unlatched one of his huge windows to climb out.

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"Marinette!" a loud squeak bounced off the walls of Marinette's bedroom, and she rubbed her red, puffy eyes sleepily.

"Chat's calling!" Tikki yelled again, and Marinette shot up, her mind jumping to the worst case scenario.

"Transform me," she said, wide awake as she began the transformation into Ladybug, a quick check in the mirror reassured that the mask covered the redness from her earlier tears. She pulled out her yo-yo, Chat's face appearing inside.

"Is there an akuma?" She asked as a serious expression donned her face, ready for whatever was out there.

"No," came Chat's slow reply, looking into his baton sheepishly. "Sorry to startle you, m'lady, but I kind of wanted to talk," he said, paling as he saw her slightly annoyed expression. "Were you doing something?"

"No," she sighed, glancing towards her bed. "Nothing too important anyway. What's up?" She asked, her annoyed expression leaving as she tried to figure out what caused him to call her so suddenly.