AmyNChan: The epilogue, written by Madmoiselle Marinette Dupain-Cheng. I don't own ML!

Dear Diary,

I can't believe it's been three months already! Time went by almost too quickly!

But I'm kind of glad about that. Adrien is doing so well and he tells me that his peré is, too. He told me that after he lost the semi-finals in the fencing tournament last week, he had dinner with him. And M. Agreste didn't say anything about the loss! He said he was proud of the effort!

I know, I couldn't believe it either. But when Adrien was smiling so widely, I couldn't say anything about it. I just had to let it go and be proud for him.

Actually, I've been seeing a lot more of M. Agreste lately. That match was the first time he actually came himself, but he actually had Nathalie recording the matches for the past few times. I think he's been watching them after he thinks Adrien's asleep? I only know because Adrien said he saw a light on in his peré's room on his way to my house.

Yeah. He comes over to my house at night. You'd think that Monsieur Agreste knows he's Chat Noir he would tighten up on security a little bit, but noooo. Chaton just has to come visit me.

Well, I guess I'm not complaining. Between you and me, it's helped us figure a lot of things out.

Things like he was asking for advice about him and Ladybug instead of him and Nino on that day we went for hot chocolate.

Things like he avoided Nino because Alya was with him and Adrien was afraid she'd connect the spots.

(Ugh, now I'm making subconscious puns in my own journal! Chat! Adrien! You and your punning ways!)

Things like he was afraid of his father recognizing him and that he was Adrien at the same time, so he obviously couldn't go with me to the Agreste house to talk to Adrien.

Things like holy crap, we are so oblivious, how did we both miss the fact that our partner was literally three feet away?

Yeah. I'm sure you can remember me pretty much stabbing you with excitement and meltdown over that. I had to get new paper. Sorry about that. But the good thing is that now we're somewhat normal? I don't stutter around Adrien as much as I used to and even though I've always listened to Chat, it's gotten easier to let him lead from time to time. I'm a control freak, okay, I don't like being led around! But now it's easier to follow his lead.

As for Adrien, he's still polite and kind at school, but now I hear him drop a pun every now and again, and he keeps looking over at me. The first few times it happened, I just got confused and it made him upset? And then, about two weeks ago, I was so tired I just sort of groaned and rolled my eyes. It's nothing special, just what we always do, but he lit up like I gave him the world or something.

I think he was missing the banter we have as Ladybug and Chat Noir at school. Now whenever he gets in a punning mood, we just kind of start the banter up. He's happy with it. I'm pretty happy with it. We talk and banter and joke and it's great because we're proper friends now and I think I mentioned I'm pretty happy with this.

Alya's still asking me when we're gonna 'get together'. I honestly don't know. Adrien and I just figured out what our version of normal is over the past two weeks with the puns and the bantering and he's started with the nicknames. I don't mind them, but it feels like we're just exploring our friendship first before we start on anything else.

Would I love it if he asked me out? You bet your spotless white paper I would! But for now, he's two things to me. He's my partner. My dependable partner who has been and will always have my back. And he's my best friend. My best friend who just found a bit of normalcy in his life. My best friend who's so happy right now I think it's going to infect the entire world!

He's my partner. He's my friend. And for right now, I think that's enough.

Maybe later we'll be something more, but for right now, I think we're both happy with how things are going.

Gotta go. Adrien and I are going out for patrol. Hawkmoth may be gone, but there's still little crime to take care of. Plus, I like running around the city.

Bye bye!

AmyNChan: Thanks to all for coming with me on this story where I was literally just running around with my head cut off! XDD I'm glad ya'll enjoyed it! *^_^*