Waiting For You | MLB AU ✔︎

Chapter 12: ~Ain't Nothin' But a Heartache~

Adrien's POV

"I don't know. Why don't you open your eyes and find out?"

As I spoke I realized that I was only showing Marinette who I am because, this whole time I've slowly been falling for her. It's not like I had forgotten about Ladybug. She still holds a place in my heart. It's just that Marinette had also earned a place there too.

And it made me realize just how much I love her.

"Marinette. I'm begging you. Please open your goddamn eyes." I pleaded.

"Tell me why."

"~Ain't nothin' but a heartache~"

"No you dipshit." she scoffed "Tell me why I should open my eyes right now, when your identity is supposed to be a secret to everyone. Even a secret from Ladybug herself." she sighed.

"Marinette, I'm choosing to tell you my secret because not only are you my soulmate, but one of my closest friends and I love you. You're perfect and even if you are clumsy I still love that about you. You can be brave and a great leader and try to help everyone who needs it even if you need to give up your free time to do it. You deserve to be the first one to know who I am not just because you are my soulmate, but because there is no one else I'd trust more than you." I gasped after finishing my small rant.

Did I just tell Marinette that I love her?

Thinking over what I just said I realized that I had basically confessed my love for her.

Marinette's POV

By the time chat finished his rant, I was speechless.

Did he just call me perfect?

Did he just tell me that he trusts me more than Ladybug?

DID HE JUST TELL ME HE LOVES ME?!

Even with my mind racing with questions, I could feel my whole face, from my ears to my neck, turn bright red.

What do I say to chat? For sure ill stutter and botch the whole thing.

I thought back to the last few weeks with chat. Indeed, I've been slowly falling. From the very beginning when he found my love mark. To when he found out I liked Adrien, to when all I could think about during the day was his stupid grin.

I am in love with chat noir.

"Marinette?" chat spoke sheepishly. "Mari? Are you okay? You haven't said anyth- MFSJF"

Adrien's POV

She kissed me. She. Kissed. Me. HOLY SHIT SHE KISSED ME!

The kiss was innocent and chaste. Sweet and short. Just like Mari. I sat there with this dopey grin on my face. Until I was interrupted.

"Adrien?!" she gasped.

Welp. Now its time to explain.

"Mari listen to me for a sec-"

"If you are Chat Noir, that means that you've known about my crush on Adrien, er... You the entire time and decided to say nothing to me as Adrien about these so-called feelings you have for me an-"

While it was fun watching her put everything together, I really wanted to kiss her again.

So I did.

This kiss was nothing like the first. Her soft, sweet lips fit perfectly against mine, like the pieces of a puzzle. I had my hands on her waist, while her hands were around my delving into my blond locks. We stayed like this for a few mind-blowing seconds, until she pulled back.

"I guess I should tell you my secret, no?"

"Pfft. You don't have any secrets, you tell chat everything." she shot me a matter-o-factly smirk.

"Not, everything..." she sighed.

"You're probably going to hate me for this..." she mumbled softly.

She backed away from me and raised the back of her hand to wipe at her earring.

"Tikki, spots on!"

Within seconds, the Marinette was no longer here, and she was replaced with a downcast looking Ladybug.

I gasped. Marinette is Ladybug?! What the hell?! How did I not figure that out? They have the same eyes and hairstyle!

"I guess you hate me now. Truth be told, this was not how it was supposed to go. I was not expecting you to reveal your identity."

All I could do was sit there and sputter.

"Ladybug... Mari? I... Uh... what? How?"

"You know what? If you could just let this go and pretend it didn't happen that would be really great." she whispered, almost in tears.

"Wait! Don't go!" I grabbed hold of her arm before she could throw her yoyo.

"I still love you." I blushed.

"Why? I rejected you so many times. And then I waltz on in and kiss you claiming that I love you too. How can you be okay with the fact that I hurt you so many times?" by now she was sobbing.

"You love me?" I shyly questioned

"I... uh... Adrien! That's not the point! But, yes. I do love you. I love Chat and Adrien." she bushed through her tears.

"Well, I love Ladybug and Marinette. Even if you both are kinda smartasses sometimes." I chuckled.

She scoffed "Am not! You are the smartass! Let me remind you who is always flirting and making cat puns during Akuma battles!"

"You know what? Plagg, claws out!" I transformed.

"Last one to the Eiffel tower is the smartass!" I yelled as I took off

"Hey! You're cheating! Smartass!" And she zipped after me.

Oh my god. We've made it guys. After around ten months of writing and you patiently waiting. Here it is. The last chapter of the soon to be renamed "Soulmates?!" This was my first fanfic. My baby. I loved her with all my heart. Now I've got to let her go.  😭🤧 I know this chapter was shorter then others, but I was having a hard time keeping it together writing this.

I want to thank you all for reading my little fic, that I never thought anyone would read. And now it's got around 7k views, and I couldn't be more grateful.

If you have a title that you would like for this book please go back to my note called "NEW TITLE!" And submit it.

I'll have to think about what my next fic will be, so if you have any ideas please gimme a shout-out or something. 

For now I'll be on break from writing. Now that my main focus is finished I need to have a little time. You'll still see me commenting and reading other fics. But for now I'm not writing unless it's for my one-shots.

Love you guys ❤️🖤💚🖤

Thanks for reading!

~Unlucky Chat