A Picture of You [An Adrienette Story]

Chapter Four

Marinette woke up at 7am giving her one hour to prepare for Adrien's arrival. Her sleep last night had been incredibly fitful; she couldn't get the text messages from Adrien out of her head. They were embedded so much that every time she shut her eyes Adrien would appear, and her sleep began to turn into a tiresome loop. Fall asleep, dream of Adrien flirting, wake up sweating and repeat. Would it be too much to believe he was actually flirting? Did she want him to be flirting? This was going to be a long day.

She set out what she was going to wear the night before. After all, Monsieur Agreste wanted her to look 'nice'. She'd trailed though the whole of her wardrobe and decided on a light pink knee length skater skirt, a white short sleeve shirt supporting a low 'V' neck line, her pink long cardigan with sleeves rolled up to her elbows, and white sparkly ballet shoes. If she was walking around with Adrien all day she needed to make sure she'd be comfortable.

She rushed into the shower coating herself with her favourite strawberry body wash and massaging her vanilla extract shampoo and conditioner into her hair. Both Adrien and Chat Noir had commented on her smell before and the moment caused a shy smile to creep over her face. The two gorgeous guys she was crushing on, both liked her smell. She continued to wash over her body when Adrien's text popped back into her head.

I can't wait to get lucky with you 😉

Unfortunately the memory came at the worst possible time. She dramatically skid out the shower and into the sink, finishing off the routine with a dramatic fall to the floor in a half split. This was going to be a very long day.

She got changed into her clothes and looked in the mirror feeling happy with her choices. Tikki had persuaded her to leave her hair down, and also apply a slight lip gloss and mascara. As she looked herself up and down in the mirror she made a conscious decision there and then that this would become her daily routine. Her eyes popped and her lips look desirable.

Placing Tikki in her usual pink side bag she made her way downstairs.

"Morning, Maman; morning, papa."

Marinette's parents looked at her dumbfounded.

"Are you ok?"

"Yes I'm fine, why?"

"It's only 7.45am." Tom looked at his wife thinking she might have the answer. She shrugged at him and they both looked back at their, usually hibernating, daughter.

"I've got that assignment today remember."

"Ohhhh, the one with Adrien. Of course." Tom winked to Sabine who proceeded to put some pastries in a bag.

"Take these with you honey, that boy looks like he's in need of some good food." Marinette looked into the bag and saw cookies, macaroons and, Adrien's personal favourite, croissants.

"These are great thank you." She gave her parents a hug and slipped a few extra cookies into her bag for Tikki.

Marinette looked out the window just in time to see Adrien's silver estate car pull up. It stopped right outside the door and she decided to make her way out to save on the embarrassment of him coming in and speaking to her parents. She scurried towards the door with her head down at the same time as the blonde boy outside was walking in checking his phone.

Nino: Have a 'lucky' day! 😉

Adrien knew he'd have to get Nino back for this. Telling him was a big -

He pushed the door open and felt something restrict it on the other side. Putting his phone in his pocket he saw a raven haired girl in a pile on the floor. Rushing inside he bent down next to the girl. Tom and Sabine were holding back laughter as they stared at the teens. They really were unlucky when it came to each other.