Miraculous: Marinette's Promise (Book Three Of the "Marinette's Baby" Series) ✔

Chapter 18

Unbeta'd. Sorry for any grammatical errors.

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Most of it felt like a dream.
    Marinette felt guilty for leaving Adrien behind, but it was known to be bad luck for the groom to see the bride in her dress before the wedding.

  She felt incredibly sentimental. Marinette even decided to wear the new pair of earrings Adrien had gifted to her the night prior.

  The blunette glanced at herself in the mirror, her heart racing at how wonderful her dress looked on her.
   She pressed her lips together, in complete denial that this was actually going to happen. She was going to marry the man of her dreams, her high school sweetheart. Marinette was on cloud nine. Nothing would be able to bring her down at that very moment. She was elated, she felt like she could walk on air.

   "This is it..." Marinette murmured, her fingers tracing the sweetheart neck line before she turned towards Alya who stood behind Marinette with a grin wider than the seven seas.

   "This is the dress..." Marinette nodded. The excitement bubbled to her toes.

Alya cupped her mouth, her body trembling as she tried not to cry.  "Marinette, you look amazing...I'm so happy for you..." Alya spoke, standing beside Marinette so that they both were able to have a good look at the dress in the mirror.

Marinette cupped her cheeks, her heart hammering against her chest.
  " You're going to make me cry..." the blunette conceded.

Alya wrapped her arms around her best friend, squeezing her to her body enthusiastically.

The brunette pulled back to look at Marinette her brow perking as she spotted the studs Marinette was sporting.

"Oh? Looks like you've got new bling to match your dress." Alya replied, her fingertip tapping the diamond stud.
   The blunette blushed and she shied away from her best friend.

"Shh!" She hissed, her cheeks only growing more and more dark.
"Adrien gave them to me as a gift. He said they'd look great with my wedding dress, so I decided to wear them. Just for today." She explained.

  Alya giggled, stepping back to get a good view at the train on the back of Marinette's dress.

"You look amazing, Marinette. I can't stress that enough..."

Marinette bit her lip bashfully, reaching up to tuck some hair behind her ear.
   "Thanks, Alya."

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    Adrien carried Louis in his arms as he returned to work to retrieve something.
   The last thing Adrien wanted to do was to return to work on his day off. He worried about Lila prowling around, especially after what had happened a few days prior. He certainly didn't want her to catch a glimpse of Louis either. She was just someone that he didn't want around him or his family.
  The model stepped over cords and passed by sets in a hurry.
Louis held on to him and watched, his blue eyes curiously glancing over at the crew that he was actually interesting in playing with.

Adrien poked his head behind a backdrop, hoping the coast was clear. For a brief moment he was thankful that his father had other models.
Granted, his dad didn't like when he took spontaneous days off but at least he had other fill ins when Adrien failed to step in for the job, which was a lot more often than anyone would expect.
   It was more of a desired outcome for Adrien than a failure.

Adrien had just barely made it to his dressing room when he heard someone behind him.

   "Did you really think it was a good idea to bring your baby here?" Camille asked, her expression clearly reprimanding his decision as she crossed her arms.