True Love Kiss

7 - Saturday morning

On Saturday morning Marinette jumped out of bed at sunrise. Adrien could have said what he wanted, but she preferred to be prepared in case he came sooner than at ten o'clock. She started with an un-Adrienating her room. She removed all his pictures from the walls, changed the wallpaper on the monitor, hid a crumpled piece of paper with the poem he'd written on Valentine's Day – deep into the drawer, thinking that she would keep this forever.

She gave the room a careful look. Well, now it was possible to invite a colleague, whom she dreamed of since the beginning of the schoolyear to last Wednesday... To Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day had changed everything. She still didn't understand it, but she felt that something had changed. She had felt it evidently during yesterday walk – the walk with Adrien. The walk that three days ago she would kill for. The walk that didn't trigger the expected euphoria. The walk... which turned out to be just a walk. Despite all the romantic surroundings created by Parisian cloudless and warm evening – so unlike February one...

After cleaning her room Marinette went downstairs for breakfast.

"Good morning, darling. Did you sleep well?" mom asked her.

"Sure, mom." Marinette smile in reply.

"How was your date?"

"D-date?" Marinette stuttered, blushing terribly.

"Yesterday, I saw a boy who walked you home. Was it Adrien?" mom smiled meaningfully.

Marinette wanted to turn back time and stop talking about Adrien all the time. Her parents were convinced that she was in love with him. Well, actually they were right. Until three days ago.

"Mom..." she moaned.

"I wasn't watching you!" mom explained with a smile. "But you were out for so long and I looked out of the window from time to time. Do you know that yesterday was the akuma attack? I was worried."

"I should call, I know." Marinette replied.

"Call us next time, OK?" Mom asked.

"Of course, mom. I will." Marinette promised.

"Good. Now, what do you want for breakfast? You must be hungry after cleaning up?"

"How do you know...?" Marinette asked in astonishment.

"That you cleaned up your room?" Sabine smiled. "Moms know everything, honey."

"Oh, right..." Marinette snorted.

"And they are not deaf." Mom finished. "What did inspire you for cleaning up so early in the morning?"

"Oh..." Marinette blushed terribly again. "Because... Uhm... Mom, Adrien will come today..."

"You have a date again?" Sabine asked with a smile.

"We are to prepare a presentation for the next chemistry classes." Marinette explained.

"Ah..." Mom sighed, as if she understood everything.

"Mom, it's really about the presentation." Marinette moaned again.

"Of course, honey." Sabine smiled at her daughter. "So, what about breakfast?"

Marinette glanced quickly at the clock on the kitchen wall. She still had more than an hour to Adrien's visit. Enough time to prepare breakfast with her mom.

"So, I thought that maybe we'd make waffles together?" she offered with a smile.

"Great idea, honey!" Sabine laughed. "Just don't touch flour!" she joked.