The New Guardian

Game Night

Previously: I tap on the glass, causing her to jump but putting a smile on her face as she waves me in.

This is it, Adrien. Don't fuck this up. I think, opening the glass panel and pushing myself through.

~This chapter is in Marinettes POV~

I finally walk into my room again, relieved to be back in my own space. I sit at my desk for a while, writing in my diary and in my calendar to remind me of classwork and meds for my injury.

"Marinette?"

"Yeah, Tikki?"

"I hope you have fun with Adrien tonight, just be careful and remember you're still injured, okay?"

"Uhhh, okay." I say climbing up the ladder to my bed.

As I ascend to the top of my bed, I hear a tapping on my window. I look up and see Adriens sweet face. I wave him in and plops down onto my bed, smiling like a proud kid. He's holding a bag of fresh clothes, which promptly spills out off the side of my bed and onto my floor and chaise below. He waves a hand at it to signal it wasn't important.

"How did you get up here?" I say, surprised but extremely impressed by his skill.

"I, uh, used the fire escape from the building over and walked along the roof." He says, beaming with fake pride.

"Oh my God! Are you crazy! What if you fell?" I smack his arm lightly, "You have to be careful!"

"Ow, I know but I didn't fall and even if I did, Ladybug or Chat Noir would save me, just like earlier today."

"I forgot about that for a minute! Are you okay from that? I'm so thankful Chat was around to save you in time. I don't know what I would've done if..." I trail off, thinking awful thoughts about what could of happened, shaking at the thought.

"Hey," he says, putting his hand on my hand, "it was an accident. I'm okay, you don't have to worry about me, I didn't even get hurt. Let's focus on your injuries now."

I try to protest but he shushes me and grabs my pillows, dramatically fluffing them so I can sit back comfortably. Next he pulls my covers up on me and sits next to me very stiffly.

"You can lay down. I-I mean only if you want to!" I quickly add hopefully not making it so obvious that I want to lay with him.

"Thank you," he exhales in a joyous but small voice as he tucks himself under the covers with me. "Do you wanna do something? Maybe watch a movie on my phone or play a game?"

"We can play a game of you'd like, I hate to admit it but I have the game Alya and Nino always play- Super Penguino."

"Wanna know something terrible?"

"Huh?"

"I play it too." He laughs, "Do you wanna play on my phone or yours? I'm not very good so I don't have all the levels or the skins for it if that matters."

"I've beaten the game 3 times already, we can play on mine so we can have full access if you'd like." Confidence lines my words and I reach for my phone to play on.

"How are you so good at games?"

"I really don't know, if I'm being honest. My dad and I have always played video games together and I think because I design so much I've just been super detail oriented that I notice things others sometimes don't." I say, picking up my phone and settling back into a comfy spot.

Holding separate edges of the phone, we beginning tapping away like our lives depended on it. Technically they did, but only our virtual ones. Through the pressure of the game we slowly get closer and closer to each other, our heads nearly resting on each other's shoulders. Time escape us until my phone starts ringing for a FaceTime mid game and Adrien accidentally taps the answer button.

Alya and Ninos faces display across the screen happily when "I" answer. "Hey girl, we're calling to check up on y-" there's a long pause as the couple's faces smoosh together and get closer to the screen, examining us sneaking around in my bed. All four of us gasp at the exchange and Alya proclaims "We're coming over!" And hangs up.

"Oh my god." I say, staring intensely at the black screen.

"What now?"

"We'll just have to wait." I look over at him with concern. We stay quiet for a few minutes until there's rustling around downstairs. There's footsteps below my room, approaching the trap door and I shove Adrien under the blanket in case it's my parents.

Alya flips the trap door open loudly and barges through the floor, looking around like a detective looking for clues. She whips her head around excitedly.

"Where is he?"

"I, uh-"

"We saw you dude, come out." Nino calls for Adrien.

After a silent second, Adrien slowly comes out from under my blanket.

"This isn't what it looks like." He says.

"That's weird, because it looks like you guys just had sex." She looks around the room seeing Adriens clothes spilled across the floor, a condom sticking out of his jeans pocket. Her eyes dart at Nino and he stares at her wide eyed, trying to figure out how he ended up with the condom they gave Marinette.

"We did not just have sex, Alya!" I whisper, "You can't say that so loud, my parents don't know he's here! What if they hear you!"

"Relax girl, your parents are in the bakery and they think we came over to play games to keep you company, which isn't exactly wrong.." she trails off and spins around to grab her bag from her boyfriend. She pulls out cards for truth or dare then starts climbing ladder up to my bed.

"You brought truth or dare? Aren't we a little old for truth or dare, Alya?" I protest.

"She thought you might say that," Nino says rubbing the back of his head.

Alya whips out four stacks of cards then evilly shuffles the two sets of them together. She meticulously folds them and holds out the deck two decks to Adrien, telling him to pick a person.

He hesitates and asks Nino truth or dare.

"Uh, truth."

Adrien picks a purple card up and reads it off, "'What's something you tried really hard to like but just couldn't?'"

Nino tilts his head, thinking about things he's tried. "I think I'll say Lila."

Everyone laughs at this as he moves his arms in an x formation. "No honestly though. We all tried really hard to get along with her and for a while she had me fooled. Turns out she's just a needy, lying bitch and I can't help that. Anyways, Marinette, you're up." He announces.

"T-Truth?" I say shyly as he picks up a red card reading "'If you had to choose between having a vagina on the back of your neck or penis fingers, which would you choose and why?'"

I start laughing at the gross thought, "Alya, what the hell? When did that card get in there?"

"That's the surprise, I got an NSFW pack so there's a bunch of weird shit and a lot of sexual ones. This is your warning, now you gotta answer, penis fingers or vag neck?" She says, throwing her head back laughing.

"I guess I would say vagina neck because then I could wear a scarf and just cover it."

"Smart choice, dude."

"Thank you," I say winking at Alya for her turn, then watching her nod at which deck. Obviously she picks dare so I grab a red card from the dare pile and choke at the words on the card. "Uhh, Alya, a-are we playing with c-chickens?"

"No, it makes it more fun that way. Just gotta do what you gotta do."

"O-Okay, well, uh... 'Flash your neighborhood, go outside and lift your shirt up to the city.' Look you don't have to if you don't want-"

Her eyes bulge out of her head and she gasps cutting me off. She sucks in a deep breathe before standing up, going to the roof and lifting her shirt up for all of Paris. She comes back down, red faced as ever.

"Are you-" Nino starts, being cut off by her asking Adrien to play.

"Truth or dare, Agreste."