Adrien

"Why does she have to be so hard to get over?" I groan, tugging at my hair. It's currently 7am on a school day. Instead of getting ready, I'm trying really hard to get Ladybug out of my head. I don't know if you can tell by my previous outspoken words but...It's not going so well.

"This is why you should just fall in love with cheese instead. You don't have to get over it and it tastes delicious," Plagg states, drooling slightly on the floor. Ew-Remind me to get my personal cleaner in my room tonight.

"You don't get it, Plagg. Ladybug is just so amazing. How am I supposed to move on when no one can compare to her?" I sigh, knowing he's not going to give me a very helpful reply before he even speaks.

"There's always Marinette."

Her name causes guilt to build up in the pit of my stomach. "With the way she spoke to me yesterday, I'm guessing she'll also be someone I'll have to get over." Knowing this makes me sad. When it comes to Marinette, I've always found her to be such good company. She's so understanding, kind and just generally awesome. A world without her is like a world with no light. A world with no beauty. Wait, no, I didn't mean that-I mean I do but in a friendly way, you know?

"Sooo what I'm hearing here is that you like Marinette as more than a friend?" Plagg teases, pulling me out of my thoughts. I feel my cheeks heat up at his words. I don't like Marinette; she's just a friend.

Sure, she lights my world up but so does Ladybug. Ladybug is the sun and Marinette's the moon. Sure, Marinette radiates light and all but she's not nearly as captivating as the sun, right?

What am I saying? I'm supposed to be getting over Ladybug. And downgrading Marinette isn't making me feel any better in myself either. "I like Marinette as a friend and just a friend, Plagg. She's great, but we're more compatible as friends..." I hear Plagg sigh and mutter something about me being 'stupid and oblivious' but I just choose to ignore it.
"Anyway, I need to get ready for school."

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"Marinette!"

"Adrien!"

We say each other's names at the same time, making me flush and also draw my brows together in confusion. Why does she want to talk to me? I thought she was mad? She awkwardly chuckles at our synced greeting. "Um, I wanted to-"

"Never be my friend again? I completely understand if you don't. Marinette, I'm so sorry. I was so awful to you yesterday and completely oblivious to your feelings," I interrupt her, nervously rambling.

Her jaw drops. "You were awful to me?! More like I was awful to you! Adrien, I came over to apologise to you. I was completely out of line for judging your love for Ladybug; I didn't understand it. But I do now and I'm so sorry for yelling at you and I hope you'll forgive me," she rambles back.

A beam breaks out on my face and relief washes over me. She forgives me! I mean I feel guilty for making her feel as though it's her fault but with that aside, she's not mad at me anymore! "You have no idea how glad I am to hear you say that. By the way, don't worry. I'm trying to get over Ladybug-I've realised being with her would never work out anyway so I won't be asking you about her anymore." For a split second, I see her smile drop, before it reappears just as quick.

"Well, recently I realised I liked someone I could never be with as well...so we can get over them together," her smile turns into a sad one, and I just want to hug her. How could anyone not want to be with her? That being said, I wonder who it is that she did like. "Oh! I'm also babysitting Manon again tonight; would you like to come over and help out?" she quickly changes the subject, a hopeful look on her face.

"I would love to. Shall I come over after school?" I offer, as we begin to walk to class together. Her eyes brighten at my acceptance as she nods her head.

"Yeah that'd be great! I was thinking this time we could play with the dolls again since she loves those and go to the park afterwards maybe?" she clasps her hands together, slightly tilting her head. She looks quite adorable.

Not as adorable as Ladyb-OH MY GOD ADRIEN STOP THINKING ABOUT HER.

"Yeah, sure, sounds fun," I grin, trying to hide the fact that I'm having a battle with myself in my head right now.

We get to class and walk to our usual seats. I feel Chloe's eyes on me. Oh great. Here we go again...

"Adrikins! You're here! I have a special surprise for you! Daddy said that you can come over today to help me pick out some outfits for that fashion show in a week! I know that your impeccable model fashion sense won't let me down!" Her voice is loud and annoying to hear and I just want her to leave me alone to be honest.

"Sorry, Chlo but I'm helping out a friend tonight, maybe I could help you tomorrow?" I offer, feeling too bad to just turn her down. Her eyebrows furrow in confusion and annoyance.

"What? Am I hearing correctly? Adrien, honey, I'm your longest known friend! Are you seriously going to stand me up for someone who is obviously less awesome than me?" she folds her arms angrily.

"I'm not standing you up, I just made plans with my other friend first! If you were really my friend then you would understand," I sigh, aggravated with her unbearable attitude.

"But Adri-"

"Right, class settle down, settle down. Time to learn." I breathe out in relief at the teacher's interruption. Never have I been more eager to start a lesson before.

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I get to Marinette's room with her following behind me. "Sorry, I hope you don't mind. Manon' mom said she'd get here a little later than I anticipated," she nervously laughs.

I scoff. "We're friends! Of course I don't mind. I did mean it when I said I like hanging out with you, you know." A pink blush spreads across her cheeks at my words.

"O-oh, aha, cool then that! I MEAN that's cool then..." she awkwardly stutters out, sighing.

The room goes quiet as we sit down and I search for something to talk about to decrease the awkwardness that's rapidly arising. When my eyes settle upon the dolls, an idea comes into mind. I walk over to them and pick up the Ladybug and Cat Noir dolls. "So, I heard from a certain someone that you made these? If so, then that's amazing. I mean, you got the costumes exactly right! And the akumatised villains' costumes are amazing as well. It's almost as if you got close enough to each one to study their outfits!" I marvel, running my fingers along the mask of Ladybug.

I bring my eyes back up to Marinette and she lifts her hand to scratch the back of her neck, nervously smiling. "Thanks! Um, I....Ladybug was the one who told me about the small details so..."

Ladybug is so nice...

"This is going to sound so stupid but do you think we can play with the dolls now, before Manon gets here? I just...I wanna see what it's like to play as Ladybug and I know that she likes that doll..." I quietly request. This idea sounded so much cooler in my head. What did I just do?

A few moments of silence pass by before Marinette bursts out into a melodic laugh. My cheeks heat up. "You-you want to play with the dolls without Manon? You want to-to play as Ladybug too?" I look down and upon seeing my embarrassed expression she abruptly stops laughing. "Wait, you're serious? Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry! It's just that you're a guy so do you really think that you can voice her doll in all seriousness and nail it?" her tone changes to one that's challenging, as if daring me to show her my Ladybug voice.

Well, she's going to be shocked, because "I didn't make my personal designer design a Ladybug cosplay suit for nothing."

"Wait what?"

"What?"

"You have a...Ladybug cosplay suit?!" She bursts out laughing yet again and I mentally face palm at the fact that I said such embarrassing words out loud.

"You're just jealous you don't have one," I defend, just wanting to throw myself off her balcony right now as I dig myself a deeper hole.

This is going to be a long afternoon...

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A/N:

HEYYYY GUYSSSSSS

So I hope you liked that chapter, I had a lot of fun writing it! Marinette's P.O.V will be next and prepare yourselves, because there's going to be some major Adrienette fluff!!!

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Btw here's an image that I'm pretty sure represents Marinette rn 😂 and also thank you so much for over 500 reads!