The Convenient Marriage (MLB Fanfiction) COMPLETE✔

Chapter 50

What even is an update schedule anymore? Someone please stop me before it's too late.
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“Holy shit… they're real..."

  Adrien's voice escaped his lips faster than he could catch up.
 

 He was always respectful in front of his father. Hell, he barely said anything when he was in his presence. 

Of course, there were things that Adrien didn't exactly agree on, and there were times were Adrien tried to reason with his father but usually to no avail.

   His green eyes glossed over the jewels that sat in their respective places. The spotted earrings glistened by the sunlight that permeated through the window. He could even spot the black ring with a green cat paw right in the center.

   Adrien pressed his lips together at the coincidence. He could spot many of the other jewels, but he couldn't help but be taken by the two main jewels that sat in the center.

The Ladybug and the Black Cat.
 
 

 
Adrien reached up to run his finger along the inside of his lip, his green eyes shifting towards his father who had closed the box and set it aside.

  "Of course they were real. Did you think I brought the contract forward for a myth?" Gabriel mused, leaning into his chair and folding his arms.

  Adrien chuckled, taking his bottom lip between his teeth as he could picture the dupes his father tried to create so that his mother could wear them. Of course, he wouldn't admit it, but the real jewels proved to be significantly better than the ones his father tried to recreate.

Although Adrien couldn't help but picture his little bugginette with the ladybug spotted earrings. 

   But the coincidence was uncanny. 
He recalled many times when he had called Marinette his ladybug, and Marinette had even referred to him several times that he was her black cat.

  "Assuming you've read the contract and decided to put it forth." Adrien murmured, his eyes lowering as he always had trouble looking his father in his eyes. "Do you think Marinette or I could possibly have a look at it? We both got married and fulfilled this, but it almost feels like a phantom. Honestly, I was surprised that the jewels actually exist, but I feel like if we could at least see the contract with our own eyes, the unexpected arranged marriage would seem a bit more purposeful." Adrien explained, his hands sliding into the pockets of his shorts. 

  "Are you implying that I fabricated a story?" Gabriel asked, his voice sharp as his blue eyes scowled down at his son who visibly flinched at the sharpness of his tongue.

  Adrien cringed, his heart squeezing inside of his chest as he was indeed afraid of his father. A small blush dusted his cheeks and he nervously reached up to run a hand through his hair.

  "N-No, I didn't mean that it was fabricated," Adrien stuttered, his eyes trained on to the ground. "I...I guess I got curious when it came to our families' backgrounds."

   Adrien sighed, fearing that his father would lash out at him, but instead, there was silence between the two of them. 

It wasn't that Adrien didn't think the contract was fabricated, it was that he wanted his marriage to Marinette to feel real.