Mysterious Rose by Summer Cheng

Chapter 6 A Dozen Roses?

      Friday morning, school was as slow and dull as usual.  Marinette notices there is no rose on her desk or in her locker this time. She does not really care.  Why should she?  It is not as if she ever knew who sent the other flowers, anyway.  She could only guess who the sender might be!  She felt as if all her guesses made no sense.  Why anyone should bother to send her one rose was mysterious in itself, yet so far she had received four roses from the guy!  Granted they were all at separate times, yet still the fact he had sent her any at all was a puzzle in itself.  It was not as if she were someone rich, or well known.  She was just a simple school girl like most girls her age.  

    Today, makes another year since Marinette first discovers she has a crush on a certain blonde haired, green eyed boy.  She blushes as she sees him enter the classroom. She feels as if it is almost like he could read her thoughts or something. She giggles to herself about the silliness of it all. There is no way he could know she has a crush on him!  No way at all, why Nino does not know as she never told him about her crush, and the only person she had told other than her parents, was her best friend, Alya the same best friend who was no longer around. The same one she misses so very much as the days turn to weeks, the weeks to months and so on. 

  After school, Marinette collects her homework from her locker as usual.  Adrien sees her and smiles. He can not believe that no one else thought to offer her a ride home, or to walk her home at the very least. He is glad though because he must admit he does not like the thought of some other guy with her!  The very idea is enough to make his blood boil, his eyebrows crease and his heart race.  He might even go so far as to say he was jealous of the idea of someone else with her!  He blushes at where his thoughts take him as he approaches her.

  "Marinette?  May I accompany you home as usual?"  Adrien asks.

 "Y-yes, you sure m-may, A-Adrien!"  Marinette manages to reply.

  "Great, than shall we?"  Adrien says as he holds out his hand.

Marinette just nods her head, as she takes his hand. She thinks, wow, he is ever so kind.  She wonders, why does he hold my hand again?  whatever could it mean?

  Adrien smiles as she holds his hand. He thinks, I wish I did not have to let your hand go!  He blushes.

  When they arrive at her place, Adrien turns to her.  "Marinette, do you uh,...?"  Adrien begins.

  "Do I w-what, A-Adrien?"  Marinette says.

   "Do you want to go with me to the Jagged Stone concert tomorrow?"  Adrien asks.

   "M-me w-with y-you?"  Marinette replies.  She blushes.

   "You don't have to do go if you don't want too," Adrien says. He blushes and looks a little sad.

    "I would l-love t-too, A-Adrien!"  Marinette says. She is excited.

   "Great, it is a date then!  See you at nine am tomorrow, Mari!" Adrien says.

    "Y-yeah, s-see you t-tomorrow!" Marinette says.

    Marinette smiles. She blushes even more as she waves by to her crush!  She can hardly believe it!  Her crush asked her out on a date!  Wow, is this a dream?  If so, then she never wants to wake up.

   Adrien waves to Marinette before she closes the door. He sighs dreamily as he thinks about his date with her. He can hardly believe it.  He actually asked her out and she said, "Yes!"  He is so excited!  He thinks, wow!  I  get to go on a date with Marinette!  He blushes.

   Adrien's POV: 
     Marinette agrees to go with me to the Jagged Stone concert tomorrow!  She did not protest when I call it a date!  What does this mean?  Does this mean she wants it to be a date as badly as I do?  Maybe, or she could just be this way so as not to hurt my feelings. Maybe she is just being polite. Yeah, that is probably it!  I mean why else would she agree to go with me!  It is not like she likes me, or anything.  I do know that no matter what I shall always treasure our time at the concert.  I know it will be a blast!  I love her and even if she hates me after this, I plan to show her that I care about her!

  Marinette's POV: 

     I can hardly believe it!  My crush, Adrien Agreste just asked me to go out with him to a Jagged Stone concert tomorrow!  I mean, I knew we share the same taste in music. Only, I never knew he had tickets to it until now.  I also had no idea that he would invite me to come along with him!  Why did he invite me though?

        I mean wouldn't it be more appropriate for him to be seen with Kagami, Aurore, Mirelle, or even Chloe?  I am not a model, never been on the news or done anything remotely special, so why me?  Well, whatever the reason, I intend to enjoy every moment of it.  Even if he hates me after this, I intend to enjoy the time spent with my crush!  Oh, Adrien!  I look forward to our date tomorrow!  I blush when I recall how he calls it a date.

 Luka's POV: 

       I see how happy Marinette looks after I hear Adrien ask her out!  I can't believe he actually went through with it.  I mean I know I teased him about it.  I just never thought he had the guts to actually ask her out!  Yet, he did and she said yes.  I  know now that I do not stand even a little bit of a chance with her.  I  am okay with this though  as Kagami seems to have taken an interest in me.  I am not sure what she sees in me.  I just know the attention from her is great!  Who knows maybe in time I will fall for her and forget all about Marinette!  Until then I intend to spend time with Kagami and ignore all other girls.  Yep, that is an excellent plan indeed!

      Around two am on Saturday, Marinette hears a noise on her balcony. When she goes to check to see what woke her up as this early hour in the morning, she sees no one. She does see a nice sized box on the ground though.  This one is similar to the one that was delivered weeks ago with the same blue ribbon around it and everything.  She brings it inside her room and makes sure to properly latch the trap door behind her.  

        She opens the box, careful not to damage the ribbon, and sees not one, but multiple roses inside!  She looks closely at them as she removes them to give them some water.  She counts them, "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve!  Why there are a dozen roses this time!"  She is not sure what to make of the change. It appears the sender got carried away this time as sent her way more roses at once this very night than he has any other time.  She smiles as she places them inside the water.  She yawns and goes back to bed.  She attempts to get more sleep before her alarm clock is to wake her up for her date with Adrien!  

   to be continued in Chapter 7  The Concert!