15:30

Dupain-Cheng Bakery

Marinette sighed. Adrien would be here in less than 30 minutes. Tikki had already help her tear down her pictures of him, and she had changed her computer background. All that was left was to wait.

She was restless! She had already fixed her hair over 100 times during the 30 minutes it took Adrien to finally arrive at the bakery.

"Marinette!" her mother shouted, "There's someone here to see you!"

Marinette ran down the stairs quickly, knowing that if she didn't get there fast enough her parents would say something that would unintentionally embarrass her.

"Oh! You're Adrien!" Mrs. Dupain-Cheng exclaimed happily "Marinette is always-"

"Hi Adrien!" Marinette said, purposely raising her voice over her mother's. "Why don't you come into my room? It's a bit distracting down here." She laughed nervously and led Adrien up to her room.

" Your parents are nice as always." Adrien said from behind her as she led them up the stairs.

"They are! But sometimes they can be a bit…" Marinette searched for a word to describe her parents as she swung open her door and they stepped inside her bedroom. "strange," she finally said.

"Oh, that's not too bad. I bet your parents are much more caring than mine anyways. My father…"Adrien's voice trailed off as if realizing he didn't want to finish his sentence. Marinette was curious of what Adrien was going to say but could see it wasn't something Adrien wanted to talk about so she decided not to press and instead changed the subject.

"Umm, so what did you have in mind for the project?" Marinette asked as they sat on the chairs they had sat on last time Adrien had come over.

"Well, it was written in our directions," he said with an amused look.

Duh, Marinette. He probably thinks you're dumb now, she thought.

"Right,right. I knew that." Marinette said trying to make up for her slip up.

Adrien gave her a patient smile. It sent chills down her spine. A blush blooming on her face as she looked away giving him an awkward grin.

"Well, shall we get started?" He asked pulling his papers from his bag.

"Heh, yeah!"

With that the two teens started working. Marinette wasn't going to lie, she snuck glances at Adrien while they were working. He looked handsome even while thinking, if it was even possible he looked even more attractive while he was working, with that cute way he chewed on his bottom lip and the way his eyebrows furrowed in the middle….

Woah, I need to focus, Marinette said in her mind, but he's so cut- ok focus!

She reached for her eraser but realized she didn't have one. She looked all around her desktop trying find where it had gone. With no luck she sighed and decided she should just ask him to grab her another from one of her various art boxes.

"Hey um, Adrien?" She spoke at last. After not speaking she felt a bit awkward. "Could you pass me an eraser? It's in one of those boxes on my desk."

"Oh sure," he said nonchalantly reaching over to the other side of the desk.

As he was reaching he had accidentally hit her lock-case which held her diary. Resulting in it falling off and onto the floor. Thank goodness it was locked, Marinette thought.

"Oh I'm sorry," he said quickly, picking up the box and placing it back on the desk.

"It's no problem it happens," she said awkwardly. An uncomfortable silence filled the space between the two.

Adrien was the first to break the silence, "That was a cat-astrophe."

Marinette whipped her head up and stared at him. She had not heard that right. Oh, please don't let it be a pun!

"What did you say?" she asked studying Adrien with calculating eyes.

"Oh, I thought I would make a pun, you know to break the awkwardness.." He glanced at her confused.

It was awkward? She thought, no wait focus!

"Oh yea, it was really funny," she faked a laugh trying not to make it more awkward than it needed to be. "Uh, can you hand me an eraser?"

Realization seemed to flash onto his face, "Yea! Just hold on."

He started to reach over again. Marinette waiting patiently, deciding she would check out his toned arms while she waited.

She was broken out of her stupor when she heard something fall and Adrien sighing. Her lock-box, which held her diary, had fell once more. He gave her an apologetic look and he bent down to pick up the box again. She sighed and smiled at his back. She liked it when he was a dork sometimes, it was endearing.

He chuckled and said, "You've got to be kitten me right meow.."

She groaned. Here she thought he was cute for being a clumsy dork and he had to go make a pun.

"You and him are going to be the death of me," she stated.

"Who's ruined you on puns, Marinette?"

Her eyes widened. She had to think of an excuse.

"Just a friend of mine." He raised an eyebrow.

"Does he make cat puns too?"

"Well sometimes," she looked at her paper trying not to meet his intense gaze.

"My lady?!" Adrien stated in disbelief.

"Chat!?" Marinette's heart seemed to have stopped, it was if a someone had stabbed her in the gut. Words caught in her throat as she stared at Adrien open mouthed. Adrien couldn't be Chat...could he?

Adrien seemed to be just as shocked as she was. His emerald green eyes were as wide as saucers and his mouth hung agape. He ran a hand through his hair and finally said "Oh wow." Then he laughed, which was one of the last thing she expected.

"Nice to meet you m'lady."

"Pleased to meet you too, kitty cat."

Bonus:

"So you don't like my puns," Adrien said crestfallen.

"No! No it's not like that!"

Adrien pouted and Marinette grinned. Then a thought crossed her mind.

"Can I see your kwami?"

Adrien seemed taken aback, "ah sure, come on out Plagg."

Out of Adrien's book bag, came out a tiny black thing. It seemed to resemble a cat. It was kind of cute, but not as cute Tikki of course.

"Adrien finally! I smelled cheese everywhere. You had to choose a bakery."

"Plagg!" Her own kwami flew out of her hiding place and crashed into the other. Plagg and Tikki circled each other chattering happily.

The two kwamis seemed to enjoy each other's company. They talked so fast the two teens could barely keep up. It made Marinette happy to see her kwami happy. It was quite adorable to watch. It seemed as though the awkwardness that threatened to consume them had been pushed away by two excited kwamis. At the end of the day Adrien and Marinette laughed and had fun together swapping stories. Things had changed for them, that was true, but Marinette was certain that no matter what happened Chat/Adrien would always be her partner. Always.

~fin~

Thank you for reading Pun-astrophe! I really enjoyed helping Narwhal write and put together this story. She's a fantastic writer and she was great to work with. Of course, our fanfiction days aren't over and you should expect to see a new fic soon. Thanks to all the people who followed and faved. I would also like to thank Silver Ocean Jackson, LadybugXChatnoir, and Herewegoagain for reviewing. I appreciate your support and it helps to know there are people out there who took the time to review, thanks for that. Well, that's all and I hope all of you have a magical day!- *MagicalMay*

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-Narwhal (name suggestions are also welcome)