I'd never say I ship it more but Marinath will hold a happy little place in my heart. More to come!

It was useless.

She didn't notice him. Didn't love him.

Marinette had been his first love.

Maybe he still had feelings for her.

It would be a damaged relationship, if it ever became one. He'd been so mad at her. Crossed out her pictures. But that wasn't really what he'd been getting rid of, he realized as he lay awake thinking about her. He'd wanted to banish that other version of himself. The version that had hurt her. He shuddered thinking about having hurt her. It was one of his deepest regrets. The other crossing out her pictures.

The beauty of art though is that things could be reimagined and improved.

So he set to work with pencils and erasers and drew his beautiful classmate. He didn't miss a single detail. As he drew he relaxed, and as he relaxed he made a decision. He looked around his sketch littered room and tested the words out loud.

"I still love Marinette." His eyes widened, and he set to work. All night he worked in charcoals and pastels. What came out of it was a masterpiece. Just like Marinette.

"This is against school code Nath..." Max warned as they stood near the lockers.

"What's against school code?" Kim slid up with a sly grin.

"Matters of the heart. In and out, she's not here and nobody will see us, if they did they wouldn't call us out."

"Alright."

"What are we doing?" Kim begged.

"Kim, keep watch. We're putting a note in my crush's locker." Kim grinned and kept watch as Max broke in expertly. Nathan placed the picture of roses and the note inside and shut the door, unnoticed as predicted.

"That's Marinette's locker." Kim noted.

"Yeah."

"So you really...?"

"Yeah."

"Good luck dude." Kim finally declared as they filtered into class.

He'd put his soul into that note. Of course he had.

"Marinette, take the picture as you will. I will not let resentment settle in my soul again. I hope at least that you pin up these roses and look at them every day. I can't draw them into reality like I once could. But I think we can agree that these are much better. I want to apologize for ever hurting you, for ever yelling and treating you like you betrayed me. I know you didn't. In reality you saved me. I adore you for that. Before you saved me I didn't truly adore you. I didn't know enough about you. When you saved me I noticed everything about you. Your glorious personality and the way you want to protect everyone, I know when you called on Cat Noir you just wanted to protect everyone from me. That you just wanted to bring back the real me. It matters so much that you would risk being hated to save my life. Thank you.

Marinette I don't need you to feel the same but I want you to know that I love you. I am in love with you.

Enjoy your roses.

Love, Nathaniel."

Now, he waited.

Hey do you like it? The she in the first line refers to his previous crush on Ladybug so... Enjoy. Oh and what about Adrinette? You'll see.