Fallen For A Cat ||Chat Noir||

Chapter 24

🐾Y/N's POV🐾

At the next day at school, Adrien was really out of it. He looked tired, and mostly sad. He was like that all day and spoke in a depressing tone. In the afternoon, he sat on a bench outside in the park without lunch or anything. Alya must have been as concerned as I was, but she knew that neither her or Nino could understand what Adrien was on about. At most, he didn't speak much at all. Even Chloe knew better than to talk to Adrien right now. I've never seen her act that way.

My thoughts were interrupted by a small elbow jab in the side. It was Alya. "Hey Y/N, I'm sure he would open up to you. Your very easy to talk to." I give her a look indicating that I wasn't feeling up to it. "But Alya, do I really have to?"

She crossed her arms and looked me straight in the eyes. She nodded and I started walking towards Adrien Agreste himself. I sat next to him, hoping that he wouldn't notice me at all. "Hey um.. Adrien?" I said in a soft tone, hoping to make him feel sort of welcomed, I guess. His head moved from looking at the ground to me. "Oh hey Y/N! Sorry, I've been a little out of it recently. How have you been?" He said to me, clearly pretending to be jolly and happy in general.

"Oh it's fine, I've been out of it too lately. I'm just fine, what about you?" He smiles softly and closed his eyes for a split second. "I'm fine too. Thanks for asking Y/N. What's on your mind right now? I mean like, why did you want to talk to me?" He might've figured me out already. Just keep it cool and I'm sure that he won't know anything if I don't give anything away. "Oh! I just wanted to talk to you, I guess. You looked kind of sad so I thought a friend would cheer you up." He nodded and looks back down.

This was a very awkward moment until he spoke again. "Hey Y/N, could you give me some advice about a issue I've been having lately?" His voice broke the silence, which I was thankful for, but I already knew that he was talking about my superhero form. "Uh sure Adrien! What's on your mind? What are you thinking about?"

He takes his hands that used to be crossed and put them at his sides, both in a fist. "Y/N... how are you supposed to love someone if they don't give you a chance..?" He continued to look down, avoiding my gaze. Without letting me answer his first question, he continued on. "I mean like, if you love someone shouldn't you trust them to?" This time he looks into my eyes and I quietly whisper a small "yes" I see a smirk come across his face as he looks down at my necklace. "Y/N, does this mean anything to you?" He asked, gesturing at my necklace.

He must have had to figure me out by now, right? "What? No! It's just a plain old necklace." I quickly say in defense. Now, instead of looking at my necklace, he looks straight into my eyes. "Is that so? You seems that you wear it quite often. I mean, it's not that is a problem." I could feel my cheeks ever so warm and slight droplets of sweat running down my forehead. "Oh I just like to wear it! That's all! It's not like I need to wear it or anything!" Gosh Y/N, why do you make such a fool of yourself?

"Oh just ordinary huh? My ring is just the same. Well, until my kwami gets sucked into it." He replies, holding up his ring at different angles, looking at it. "Yeah, Plagg is very lazy to be honest. He always wants to eat, and all he eats is Camembert." He continues looking back at me. I start to fidget with my hands talking back to him quietly. "Oh is that so? Well.. Bandit is very nice and-" I cut myself off my clamping my hands over my mouth, as if trying to stop myself from revealing anymore information.

"Oh your kwami's name is Bandit? Come to think of it, I never seemed to mention what a kwami is." He puts 2 fingers, his thumb and index finger, on his chin as if he was trying to look like he was thinking. He takes off my hands that covered my face and put his own hand on my cheek. "Finally, I found you my thief!" He whispered in my ear. I didn't know what to do at this point. He figured me out. I guess there's no going back now.

"Oh come on! That was hardly fair!" I felt slight tears burn the edge of my eyes, not from sadness, but from my own disappointment. I let Mater Fu and Bandit down. I can't believe that this just happened. I even let myself down. I pledged that I wouldn't reveal my secret identity to anyone. I mean, granted, I wasn't the one that replaced it to Adrien. I was the one that figured out his identity, and he figured mine out by himself too.

He removed his hand from my cheek my back now. "Oh come on Y/N, look at it this way, now we have no more secrets! It's not your fault that this happened. It was just a effect of you finding out who I am." Adrien smiled sweetly at me, ensuring that I would be fine and no one else would know who I really am. "I-I don't know Adrien. What if someone else figured out who I am. Or who you are too. Then we would be stuck in a hell hole forever, since Hawkmoth could send any villain against our civilian forms and we would be helpless."

He looked sad, but then replaced his frown with a silly grin. "We won't let that happen." I smile back at him and we just sit together. Suddenly, we hear an akuma attack warning come from the loudspeakers. "We advise every Parisian to go inside until the akuma is dealt with by Crauloia and Chat Noir. Stores and parks will be opened soon after the akuma is defeated. Thank you for your help."

Adrien stood up while I was still sitting down. He held out his hand to me, still with a fun grin on his face. "Shall we go Kitaroo?" He asked me. I grabbed onto his hand and stood up.

"We shall, my kitty."