As the Gorilla pulled away from the cafe Adrien felt a buzz in his pocket. Thinking it was probably Nino again he pulled the phone out and opened the message without consideration.

I'm glad to see you've finally made your move.

It was Kagami. She'd sent him a picture which was obviously # trending. It was him with Marinette. He sighed and then handed his phone over to her. Looking over the picture her cheeks began to glow. It was the two of them holding hands over the table gazing into each other's eyes with the headline 'Paris' teen heartthrob, off the market?'

"I'm really sorry, Marinette, today was meant to be fun but in true Adrien fashion, bad luck is on my side."

She handed the phone back and gave him a small smile. "Don't worry about it. You just might want to contact your father before he sees it."

"Good point." He opened his messages to contact Nathalie. He knew she'd take care of it, alongside pacifying Gabriel until he was summonsed to the office later this evening.

"I don't want to be nosey but ..." she trailed off.

"You're going to be anyway?" She giggled at his response, "You know what the saying is - curiosity killed the cat."

"True, but satisfaction brought it back." They hadn't realised their faces were currently a mere inch apart. They moved in a little bit closer until Marinette pulled back. Now was not the time for kissing.

"So what did you want to know?" He coughed, rubbing the back of his neck again. Marinette raised her eyebrows at him and he swiftly dropped his arm.

"You don't need to answer if you don't want to, but I was just curious ... why did you and Kagami break up?" Adrien looked sad for a moment and looked out the window. Marinette wondered if she'd pushed him too far.

"The girl I loved kept denying me like I told you earlier, and Kagami just kept showing me she wanted to be with me. She'd kept a rose I'd given her, we spent time together fencing and at events both of us were forced to attend, and she told me that we were meant to be."

Marinette squirmed in her seat. She's the one that had pushed him to Kagami, then she was the one who'd also been brooding over him being with Kagami. What kind of a twisted game had they been playing? She knew for a fact when they got older they would find this hilarious.

"I suppose she was kind of a rebound for me. The words and attention were flattering and it's what I needed at the time. I knew Kagami wasn't with me because of the fame and the fortune she just needed a friend, she got confused between friendship and love. It also transpired that fencing and our families status' were the only thing we had in common."

Marinette stared at Adrien thoughtfully, he'd really opened up to her and it made sense, everything he said made sense.

"Now I've shared my woeful love story, it's your turn, Juliet. What happened with Luka?"

"Juliet, eh? Does that make you my Romeo?" Marinette didn't mentally face palm this time, she physically did. She face palmed so hard that it left a red palm mark on the centre of her forehead. Instead of coming to the damsels rescue, Adrien laughed out loud and took a picture. "You dare, Agreste."

"Mari, you literally face palmed yourself and left evidence. How can I not share that with the others?"

"You ... dare!"

"Try me." Adrien wiggled his eyebrows at Marinette.

"Give me your phone." Marinette placed her hand out.

"Hell no!" Marinette leaned in towards Adrien only for him to throw himself backwards and head butt the window. "Ouch!"

Now it was Marinette's turn to laugh, then something slipped her mouth that she'd been keeping to herself for so long.

"I'm worried I'll let everyone down." Adrien stopped laughing and looked at her.

"Mari, how could you ever let anyone down? You're the nicest person to walk the planet. The only way you could is by dropping the last plate of perfect croissants as Nino comes in to buy me my well deserved reward. I'm afraid if that happened we're no longer friends."

Marinette tried to laugh but it came out fake.

"Hey, seriously Marinette, how could you think that about yourself? You do too much for people, if they expect more from you then they're not worth knowing. You're selfless, smart, kind, caring, clumsy, dopey, sleepy ..."

"Now you're just naming dwarves, Agreste." She wiped fiercely under her eyes. She can't believe she was crying in front of Adrien. She quickly turned to look out the window.

"Marinette, look at me, please."

"I don't want you to see me cry." She sniffed.

"Everyone's allowed to cry. There's nothing wrong with that. Geez, you're only human, Marinette. You don't need to be perfect all the time."

"But I do! People are at risk when I'm not." Marinette placed a hand over her mouth, she'd said too much and with too much of a temperament. Adrien was looking at her curiously. He didn't know what to say. What could she have possibly meant?

He took her hand off her mouth and placed her hand tightly in his.

"I don't know why you think you need to be perfect, but you don't. Your perfectly Marinette, and that's all that matters. You are you, and you're wonderful. I don't know how you can think so little of yourself. Is it something to do with Luka?"

Marinette's eyes widened.

"No, of course not. Luka was great to be with, we just didn't have any of this." She waved her arms around the limousine.

"What? He didn't have a rich father who's over protective and likes to show off? Or he wasn't spoilt and pampered with an intense Peter Pan complex?" Marinette let out a snot filled snort of laughter.

"Well, that was disgusting." He stuck his tongue out and pulled a face at her, she smiled again.

"No ... the laughter, the bickering, the fun. It was always so serious. It was constant love from him, but that was boring there was nothing ... explosive. I'm only fifteen, I want to have fun. I think I just found his words so comforting and loving when I needed that support, I fell into his trap. To be honest I just wanted someone to want to be with me, I was stuck in an unrequited love too, but I now know I made the wrong choice. I realised you need to get to know someone, all sides, before you can decide to be with them. Kind of like a close friendship first."

There was a fraction of silence between them before Adrien spoke again.

"That was deep, not perfect, but deep." She punched him in the shoulder which started another round of laughing. She grabbed a tissue out her bag and wiped under her nose and eyes. "You look a mess, Mari. No where near perfect."

"Seriously Adrien if you don't shut up you will be modelling with a black eye."

"Would it be a perfect black?" With that she lunged at him.

Gorilla was looking in the review mirror rolling his eyes at the youths display in the back of the car.