Wolves

Ch 13

The rest of the weekend flew by, Chat stayed with me and I snuck him food when I could. He left Sunday evening, he said that he had already stayed too long and wanted to see his father. I understood and saw him off, the room felt empty after he left.

Monday was a snow day after everything with Stormy Weather, the snow was scheduled and she just worsened it. I called Alya up to see if she wanted to go skating.

“Hey Girl!” She called standing by Nino just outside my bakery, my parents were still insistent on me not going anywhere without someone else. I approached them grinning from ear to ear. I missed just hanging out with my friends.

“Hey Dudette! Adrien says that he’ll be awhile but he will make it.”

“It’s okay, as long as we all have fun.” we stood in silence for a moment.

“So, do you both want to start heading to the rink?” Alya finally asked, breaking the silence and the awkwardness. Me and Nino agreed immediately.

As we made our way Nino pulled out his phone and shot a quick text to Adrien. It was a few moments before we heard a ping from his phone from Adrien. He paused reading it, me and Alya stopped and looked back at him, curios on the reply.

“Sorry dudettes, Adrien says his old man said he wants him to stay, something about if it’s too icy and dangerous to go to school, then it’s too icy and dangerous to go out at all.” Nino pocketed his phone and caught up to us.

“Really? Aww.” I commented.

“We could go to his house and try and convince his father otherwise.” Alya suggested.

“Yeah, cause that works every time. Arguing with his old man is like trying to reason with a brick wall.”  Nino sighed, remembering his Akuma. “We could push back the date maybe. I’m really busy this December, how does the first week of January sound?”

“Same here, me and my family are visiting our relatives for christmas,” Alya added. “We’ll be back before New year’s so maybe then, if not, the first week of january works. Marinette?”

“Um, yeah, that sounds great.” I lied.

“Sounds like a plan, this was a great idea Marinette, I can’t wait for January now.” Alya cheered. I watched them walk away, excited for January while I could only stand there dreading it.

I receded back into the bakery, not having anything to do, I helped my mom at the counter. There weren't many customers today so mom trusted me to take care of the counter while she fixed us something warm.

I leaned back in the chair, waiting for another customer. I heard the jingle of our bakery door open and heard footsteps approach.

Wait, I know those footsteps. I looked up to confirm my thoughts finding Chat’s face smiling down at me. There was a hush that settled over the customers in the bakery at the sight of him.

“Wa-what can I get for you?” I stood even though I didn’t trust my legs.

“I’ll take two croissants.” He decided. He payed and as he left my mom came in to take over.

“I made you some hot chocolate, why don’t you head up stairs?” I nodded and once I was through the doors I ran up the stairs to my room where I found Chat pacing on the balcony.

“Chat!” I got his attention and let him down.

“Sorry, I just was patrolling around town and saw you working through the window and thought I’d stop by. You looked down, is everything alright?”

“Ye-yeah, everything’s fine, couldn’t be better. What about you? How are you doing?”

“I’m okay, how’s your arm?”