A Picture of You [An Adrienette Story]

Chapter Eleven

Ladybug sat on the Eiffel Tower swinging her legs.

"Come on kitty, where are you?" She was praying Plagg had managed to persuade Adrien to transform. She knew if he did he would head straight here, as always. This was their thinking spot, and also where they'd come to if they wanted to try and find the other.

A loud clanging noise behind her settled her nerves. He was finally here.

"Hey, bug. What you doing up here?" Chat Noir had arrived, she'd owe Plagg a wheel of Camembert when this was all done. He came over and sat beside his partner.

"Hey kitty. I just felt like getting out and about. It's a beautiful day." Ladybug looked out over Paris. She wasn't lying. Even though it was only the beginning of Spring, the weather had been fantastic. Sunbeams surrounded the area providing a nice warmth out of the shadows. The trees were starting to bud bringing new life to the streets of Paris. She smiled to herself, hopefully she'll have something budding by the end of today too.

"How about you? Mon Chaton." She was so praying Chat would confine in her, if not this plan was not going to work. Hopefully her kitty wouldn't let her down.

"Is there something wrong with me, Ladybug? Like are my personality and looks so dislikable?" Ladybug was taken aback, she didn't want him to feel like this.

"No. Why?" A frown pulled at her eyebrows.

"For over a year now I've been trying to get your attention in a none friendship way with no luck and now there's this girl I have fell absolutely head over heels for and she's said there's someone else too." He looked out at Paris and let out a huffed laugh. "It would be just my luck that you are both in love with the same guy."

Too right, Ladybug thought.

"What happened Chaton?" Ladybug asked, looking over at him intently.

"Her ex-boyfriend and I kind of had a disagreement. He said somethings about me not loving her the way she loves me, then I admitted that I do actually really like her and she said there was another boy." Chat slumped down resting his forearms on his knees.

"Hum ... sounds a bit like my day too. I had my ex-boyfriend and my crush arguing over me but neither of them expected there to be a third guy, who is actually pretty much the same as my crush." Chat looked at her like she'd just been transported from Arkham Asylum. Perhaps she'd finally had one too many hits to her head.

"The only difference is their clothes and their name; depending on what they're needed for." Chat looked up at Ladybug.

How can someone have a different name which depended on their clothes? Was she on about someone like a superhero? Spider-Man was his superhero name and Peter Parker was his civilian name. Batman and Bruce Wayne, Tony Stalk and Iron Man, Clark Kent and Superman.

But Superheroes don't exist, he thought to himself laughing in his head until ... wait I'm a superhero; I have two names which depend on what I'm wearing. Was she talking about me?

"You see the first guy, the ex, he was amazing but there was no spark. It was what it was, just nice. The second guy, well I liked him ever since he gave me his umbrella. I'd completely misjudged him on the first day of school; I thought he was just a spoilt rich kid like this other girl in my class, but I'd got him wrong. He's the guy who I always turned you down for, I fell in love with his sweet gesture."

Hang on ...

Chat started going through the information in his head.

He gave Marinette an umbrella.
He was taking gum off her seat, she thought he'd put it there with Chloé, a spoilt rich kid.
Marinette says she split with Luka because he was too nice. He distinctly remembered her saying there was no crescendo.

She continued to talk. "Then this third guy, who as I've explained is the other half of the second guy. Well, he's my best friend in the whole world, I would do anything for him, he risks his life for me on a daily basis and, to me, no love could ever match what I feel for him. He was my first kiss too, I didn't understand why I'd kissed him until today. Unfortunately it'd took me a while to admit it to myself, that I, Ladybug, am madly in love with him," she leant in towards Chat's ear, "He's the cats pyjamas." Chats eyes opened, he was sure Marinette said that to him just before they'd separated earlier, why was it all suddenly seeming so simple.

Marinette was Ladybug ... Ladybug was Marinette. His heart began to quicken.

"Alas," she continued as she stood up and stretched, "he's quite oblivious to my love. I'm constantly friend zoned you see, he thinks of me as just a really good friend."

A ... really ... good ... friend? She knew who he was! He now knew who she was? Chat had to steady himself so he didn't plummet the three hundred metres down to the solid ground.

He knew who Ladybug was, she was one of his best friends full stop. He'd asked her to help him date Kagami, he'd turned down the opportunity to kiss her in the wax museum. Oh no! What had he done?

"Well anyways kitty, I've got to go. I'm meeting my friends for ice cream. See you soon." Ladybug winked at Chat, giving him one of her brightest smiles, and with that she launched herself off the Eiffel Tower. She didn't think Chat's jaw could drop any lower without physically falling off.

His girls were one ... he was madly in love with one girl not two. He didn't need to feel conflicted anymore. This was amazing, how had he not seen it before? Actually that's not true ... he had guessed, but she'd managed to trick him. The clever little bug. He stood up and danced around the top of the Eiffel Tower, then remembered he needed to go and meet his lady for ice cream, and video games.

Tonight was going to be a good night.