Koi Fish; A new hero in Paris (Chat Noir x Reader!Mermaid)

Chapter 20 - Animan

Collège Françoise Dupont courtyard

(Y/n)'s P.O.V.

Marinette, Alya and I were reading a horoscope from a magazine. Marinette asked me; "What is your star sign (Y/n)?"

"I'm a Cancer" I said to her. As she found what my horoscope says, she tells me; "Cancer; someone from your past is coming to see you soon."

"Hmm, sounds interesting." I said. Then Marinette tried to find hers and when she found it, she said; "Leo: Your heart's gonna roar."

Then she turns a page from a magazine and sees pictures of Adrien in both pages. She said; "Wow, roar!"

We giggled and went to sit down on the second step on the stairs.

Adrien's P.O.V

"FYI, (Y/n)'s never going to fall in love with a statue." I said to him as I appear behind him and tease him as he was spying on the girls. Then Nino pulls me so we can hide. He said to me; "Shhh! You know I'm no good with the ladies, especially this one out of a sudden. I mean, dude, do I go up to her and crack her a joke? Shoot her a compliment? Invite her to the zoo? Play it serious?"

I don't know why Nino has developed feelings for (Y/n). I never told Nino about my love for her, but I didn't want him to know. I said to him with a smile; "Nino, you're way overthinking this. "Invite her to the zoo", you serious?"

"Well, they have this really new cool exhibit there." Nino said to me. I said to him; "Listen, just be yourself, man."

"That's easy for you to say, Mr. front-of-the-cover-Teen-Model-weekly. I'm not that cool." Nino said to me. I said to him; "You're cool too, dude. Trust me, or you wouldn't be my best bud. Invite her to the zoo. She'll say "yes", I promise."

He begins having confidence as he starts walking over to (Y/n), Marinette and Alya. But he panics at the last minute and runs back to me. I sorta hoped that worked. As he came next to me, he crouched down and said; "What if I act like a moronosaurus, so she'll disses me and think I'm lame or–?"

"Okay, I got your back." I said to him as we fist-bump. Then we head outside the school, where the girls where going. As (Y/n) bumps into Nino, the magazine that she was holding fell to the ground. She said; "Huh?"

Nino stands very still in front of her. I appear behind him, nudge Nino and said; "Oh, sorry. Right, Nino?"

"Sorry." Nino said while he was still. She giggles that cute giggle of hers and she looks down to see the magazine pages with pictures of me. She said; "Ahh!"

I walk over to pick it up for her and we ended up bumping into each other's foreheads. At the same time, we apologised and she grabs the magazine away. I said to her; "Sorry about that. How can we make it up to you? Any ideas, Nino?"

Nino didn't answer. I said; "How about we check out the zoo today? Word is that they got a new..."

"They-they got a new panther." Nino said as I snapped my fingers in front of him. Alya said to (Y/n); Awesome idea, right, (Y/n)? You like animals.

"Uh, yeah. I, uh, I'm really into zoonimals. Ah, I mean anizooals. I mean zoonimals. I..." (Y/n) said and sighs. I said; "Cool. Say: after school, four o' clock? Nino, sounds good?"

As I looked at Nino, he nods nervously and I said; "Cool, four o' clock then."

"Four? Four o'clock. Yeah..." (Y/n) said. I nod before I pull Nino and walk away.

Seine riverbank.

Nino and I are sitting on a bench, talking about his date with (Y/n). Why am I doing this? This is a bad idea, but she's also out of my league. Nino said to me; "How did you do that, dude?"