Blamed for Murder | finished

Ch. 13 My Heart Skips A Beat

My transformation dropped and so did Adrien's jaw. He definitely didn't expect this to happen and I actually just did this because it made everything short and quick. It was now or never.

"Mari...Marinette! You are my lady? How did I never notice? Wait...I thought I kept the wardrobe closed." Adrien's jaw was still dropped, as a little black cat Kwami flew out of his hiding spot and closed Adrien's mouth. "You guys are so blind. You see each other every day and still don't get it. That's why I opened the closet as you dropped in last week."

"YOU DID WHAAAAT?!" Adrien, Tikki and I yelled in unison. I couldn't believe this little furry ball of a Kwami just set us up. Tikki rushed over to him to give him the talk of his life. "You know we aren't allowed to tell anything! What were you thinking?"

Plagg sighed. "Do you know what it's like to live with an oblivious kid who talks about his lady all day and fails to recognize her while sitting right in front of her in school? This is so annoying! I swear this kid is a hopelessly lost cause! And with everything that happened I decided to speed things up." He gasped for air as he forgot to breathe in his rambling.

Tikki took a deep breath so I prepared for the worst. "Do you think Marinette is any better? There were pictures of Adrien all over her room, under her bed, on her phone, on her computer and I've seen this stupid perfume ad at least a hundred times! I had to listen to her talks about how much she loves Adrien and how she will never be able to tell him. This girl is quite a handful too and I still didn't tell her!"

Adrien and I were looking at each other in embarrassment as our Kwamis got in an argument with each other. He blushed and it felt like my head was turning red like a tomato. The whole situation was strange, but at the same time, I felt relieved that it was pretty much the same on his side. "Adrien, are you disappointed it's me? I can understand as I'm not really much like Ladybug without the mask." I looked back at our Kwamis who were basically flying around the room as Tikki tried to catch Plagg. This sure was a big deal for her.

Adrien broke the awkward silence between us by pulling me into a tight hug. "I never thought that you could be Ladybug, but I can't tell you how glad I am that you are. I couldn't wish for anyone better." He kissed me on my cheek and my face probably just turned even redder.

My head got suddenly hit by Tikki. "Hey! Stop this you lovebirds! We have to find Alya!" Her words hit me like a baseball bat. I broke out of the hug and told Adrien about Alya's evidence video, so both of us concluded that her being kidnapped had to with the new video. Adrien turned on his computer and we watched both videos Alya made on this case. The one she filmed at the press conference and her edit of the footage Chat got from the police station.

Something suddenly reeked of camembert. I turned around as Adrien said: "May I introduce you to my personal camembert monster? This is Plagg, he is the reason why I'm always smelling like this, he is obsessed with his stinky cheese and becomes really whiny about it if I don't feed him every hour or so."

Plagg pouted, as Adrien said this. "I think he is cute." Plagg sat down on my left hand as I was petting him with my right one. "You see, that's how a miraculous holder should treat his Kwami", Plagg stated. I could see how the jealousy built up in Adrien.

He noticed something as we watched the videos the second time. "Hey, stop right there. I know these eyes. I've seen it somewhere. But where?" He was thinking about something, but I couldn't follow his thoughts right now. "I got it! I met a worker inside the hotel as I tried to get this camera footage. She caught me strolling around, that evening and told me that she works in the maintenance crew. I asked her about the incident and she claimed that a fuse box had a malfunction, but it's such an obvious lie right now."