the form (adrinette au)

Day 04.5 » Revelation

[ marinette ]

Adrien was acting strange.

When I joined him as he drank warm milk at 4 am, he was eerily quiet. No, wait - we were eerily quiet.

Well, weirdly, I would have cracked up a conversation, but I sensed that he was not in the mood or something, because something was really off with Adrien.

After that small 'I-am-probably-homesick' exchange we had, I left him to drink his milk alone - yeah, I know, I admit that that's kind of rude - and went back to sleep. Thank god, I got myself to sleep after that.

I woke up at 7 - which was a record - and went down to eat breakfast. It had already been laid out on the silver platters, but Adrien wasn't here yet.

I sighed. Maybe he didn't like me? I was probably too annoying.

I dug into my breakfast, finished it up, and put it in the dish washer. Same old, same old; the only thing that was different was the fact that Adrien didn't join me for breakfast in the twenty minutes I spent to eat. I may sound like a whiny, overreacting fangirl, but I had to admit that I was kind of disappointed.

What did I do, exactly? I didn't say anything wrong, did I? He couldn't have been offended when I said I was homesick - could he?

Thoughts were swirling in my head like a whirlpool, and I tried to shake them off. Sadly, they stuck to my head, and it made me even more disappointed at myself.

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Adrien didn't even show up for lunch.

So, I just did what I usually did - eat, put the dish in the dishwasher, and then go upstairs to brush my teeth.

Once I was in the bathroom, I realized that I had brought my phone for some unknown reason, making me shake my head.

"I wear disappointment as if it were perfume.", I sighed, then glared at myself in the mirror. I was about to pick up my toothbrush and toothpaste, but my phone started ringing. An unknown number was calling me.

Something inside me was telling me to pick up the call, so I did. "Hello...? Who is this?"

"Marinette, it's Nino and Alya, we--", Alya had started to say, but was cut off.

Apparently, the call ended. Huh. Maybe they had something to tell me, but accidentally pressed the "end call" button?

I shrugged it off and brushed my teeth.

===

It was about two in the afternoon when I heard a knock on the door.

My heart was beating rapidly. "Adrien? Is that you?"

"Uh, no, it's Chéyenne. Just wanted to tell you that we're going to the Catacombs today, so go get ready.", the voice from the other side replies, "Where's Adrien?"

"I don't really know - I haven't seen him all day, so...", I trailed off, not knowing what to say.

I heard her grumble something inaudible under her breath before her heels started to click away as she walked down the hallway.