The new miraculous guardian

8 Adroit and Ambiguous

He stop walking too.

I turn toward the small building.

I enter with the first key, then stop in front of his old door.
"Hum would you mind staying in the first room only..?"

I can't look at him now, "yeah sure... take your time."

I open the door and it still smell the same stupid perfume he use to put.

"Take your shoes off and... hum... want to bow with me?"
I look at him, shit my eyes start to burn.

Don't cry Marinette, not until you close that door.

I'm kinda stress right now.

I never came here without Master.

He take his shoes off and so do I.
I look at him, "You do not have to do it. It's just a way to show respect-"
"No I'll do it..."

We bow for a couple of minutes, but I see him struggling to stay still, "You can stop, I'll come to you in a couple of minutes. You can go look, but only with your eyes!"

He look at me while still bowing, "Thanks... I can't feel my legs anymore, hehe"
He finally get up and I see him walk around.

I close both my eyes and start murmuring, " Hope your ok Master, I'll try my best... I promise I'll won't let you down. Maybe one day we'll meet again... when everything is over..."

I get up to look for him and there he is.

Adrien in the other room looking through the "kitchen stuff".

Cause really we ALL know that's not normal cooking ingredients.

"Hey, hey, hey what do you think you're doing?"
At the sound of my voice he drop the jar he was holding, but I was faster than him and catch it before it crash on the ground.

"Wow carful! I don't even know where I could get that stuff."

He's  flushed and stutter a little, "S-Sorry, I just couldn't help myself..."

He won't look at my face.
Wow he is as red as a tomato right now.

"Don't worry Adrien, just, please don't break anything. If you do I'll make you go search for the exact same thing"

"What's that anyway...?"

I look at him.

After a couple of seconds, I look down to read what is written on the jar and than murmur, "They are branch from the dragon king's garden..."

"What did you say?"

"Seaweed, these are seaweed!"

There a long silence when I pick up the rest off Master things like his set of tea and most of the ingredients that I make sure to cover.

There is only one thing that I couldn't find...

Where is his tablet...?

With a cardboards box in both our arm we go back to my house.

Finally we're at my house.
I say hi to my parent, and of course they had to ask what was in these boxes.

I see that Adrien's about to answer when I cut him, "Just new furniture for my project and I couldn't pick all them myself."

Adrien give me a side look, "We're going upstairs, don't come in my room."

When we're finally in my room I close the trap and lock it.

I had to since the accident with Chloé, the accident with the puppeteer, the one with Evillustrator and also the tv show...

Thanks world... now I know better...

That's why I have lock on the outside of my door and one inside my room.

So now I'm sure that no one can come here.

For safety I pull without problems my couch and put it on top of the trap.

"You're really starting to make me scared Marinette..."

I turn towards him.
He really look uncomfortable.

I go to my desks so I can pull out all of my furniture out of the bag.

"It's just for precaution, don't stress about it. Now where's my ropes!"

When I turn around to see him trying to push my couch.

I can't stop laughing.
I fall on my knees.

"Stop!!! I can't breathe!"

He look at me like I'm a psycho and I start laughing again.

"I'm sorry! But stop taking everything I say so seriously."

I say with tears in my eyes..

"Ouuuuffff, I don't think I laught this hard in a couples of months!"

He relax a little.
And even laugh lightly, "Anyway why are you so scared of me...?"

There a silence in the room that look like it's last an hour.

He look at me, than look down and again back at me.

He look ashame...
why does he have that look....

Ooooh.
Lila.

"What? Don't be scared to talk your mind."

He still look hesitant, "There's a rumour that one you took Alya in your room and... she saw something."

I look at him, "Something? What is it?"

"I don't know... she didn't said more."

I turn back to my desk and start placing my tools, "Well don't worry, I never did anything to Alya or anybody, in fact most of the time we would go to Alya's place. But, I mean why wouldn't you believe Lila..."

I turn back to take out the money that I didn't use out of my school bag and put it in my big jar hidden in my desk.

After I put it back in my desk.

To break the tension he say, "that's a lot of money you have."

He come closer and sit down on one of my chair, "yeah just in case I need to disappear for a moment..." I say without making eye contact.