Marinette finished wiping away her tears left on her cheek as she recuperated. Then she heard a light tapping on her trapdoor. She looked to Tikki before she stepped towards the door. Marinette slowly opened it to see Chat Noir crouched there.

"Hi." He breathed, looking at how puffy her cheeks were.

"Hi." She said, laying her arms on the edge.

"Can I talk to you . . . real quick." Chat Noir said, nervously. "It will just take a second. Then I'll be off and I'll stay away if you want me to."

"Just come in." Marinette spoke with no expression, confusing Chat Noir. She backed up and motioned for him to come inside.

Chat Noir jumped inside and began to apologize.

"Marinette . . . what I did was wrong and . . . I'm sorry-"

Marinette had interrupted him with a tight hug. "Thank you." She sighed, squeezing him tighter. Chat Noir was still puzzled by her response, but hugged her back. "Thank you." She repeated when she let go.

"Why are you thanking me? I ignored what you wanted and stole your miraculous. I'm no better than Hawkmoth."

"You don't release akumas that evillize people constantly throughout the week like Hawkmoth does. So you are not him. And . . . you just wanted to know who I was." Marinette looked down. "I was the one who didn't think about how much it was killing you."

"But . . . " He said, lifting her head up. "I stole your miraculous when I kissed you and didn't care to consider what you might think or do. I didn't mean to make you cry or let run away."

"It could have been worse." Marinette announced.

"Really?" He asked, still confused. "How?"

"Well anytime that I've tried to talk to Adrien Agreste as Marinette, I can't seem to stand still or speak. The only way I could have possibly talked to the normal you without foaming at the mouth would have been over a phone. So . . . at the park, I could at least speak enough to yell at you. You understood my anger."

"So in both of those situations, I played with your emotions?" Chat smiled.

"Yes." She admitted, hitting his arm. "Now stop making me confess all of my secrets and feelings to you."

"There's more?" Chat leaned closer, ready to question her.

"I'm not telling you anything else." She pushed his nose back.

"What? I'm just trying to get to know my girlfriend."

Marinette crossed her arms and glared at him.

"We're still dating, right?"

"Duh. I'm just not telling you anything else." Marinette said, hitting him again. "You're not getting away that easy. I've been waiting so long for this relationship."

"Yes, I know . . . you have had a crush on me for a year now . . . and you have a picture of me next to your bed."

"What?!"

Marinette turned around to see that she did have a small picture of him on her bed. Chat Noir began to laugh at her.

"Stop laughing." She said, throwing the picture over the railing. "Now it's gone."

"Hey!" Chat Noir looked over the railing down at the picture and smiled. "Oh look . . . more pictures." He turned around to Marinette, smirking. "You have so many pictures of me. Kind of creepy and a little bit obsessive, Marinette . . . " He smiled, putting his hand on her shoulder. "I think you have a problem."

"Oh shut up." Marinette pushed him back when she felt her cheeks burn.

"At least I know you really love me." He announced, hugging her.

"That's true."

"Marinette!" Sabine called.

"Get out!" Marinette said, pushing Chat Noir back towards her trapdoor.

"No. Wait. I wanna stay here with you." He whined.

"Then come back later . . . like . . . I don't know, around eight."

"Should I bring anything?"

"Obviously food." She answered as he climbed up. "Think of it as a sort of date."

"Can't wait. One kiss before I go?"

"Marinette!" Sabine called again.

"Oh no. Too slow. Bye . . . " She closed the trap door and sprinted down the steps of her room.

Sabine opened her trap door and found Marinette sitting on the chaise.

"Marinette, I've been calling you. Come on down. It's time for dinner."

"Okay, mom."

Marinette got up from the chaise and followed her mom downstairs.

"Dear Diary,

So the past few days have been insane. Turns out,
Adrien's Chat Noir. Who would have thought right. Now
me and Adrien are dating, but it didn't exactly start out
as him dating me. I accidentally told him that I've been
in love with him for over a year and then we started dating.
It all started in a tree. By the way, I have a tree that I visit all
the time in the park now. It's my thinking tree. It's been good
so far. I've figured out my problems in that tree and I started
dating Adrien/Chat Noir in it. Crazy, right.

Then today, I nearly died presenting our project at school,
but Adrien helped me through it. Then we went back to our
tree for lunch when another akuma attack happened. Once
we were done with the akuma, we went back to the tree
where Chat Noir stole my miraculous. I screamed at him and
ran back home. Then Tikki gave me a speech about how Chat
Noir just wanted to know who I was and that we are the same.
Chat Noir appeared at my house, I thanked him and we're still
dating. He's coming back soon, so I better start designing my
outfits. I won't have as much free time to do that now that
we're dating.

That's all for now diary."

Marinette sat at her desk, working on her designs and sewing. Then she heard someone tapping on her trap door.

"Come in my Feline Superhero Lover." Marinette called, not looking up from her designs.

"Your Feline Superhero Lover?" Chat questioned hopping inside her room.

"What's wrong with that?"

"It's weird."

"Am I wrong?"

"No." Chat answered, quietly detransforming. Plagg flew over to a corner to meet up with Tikki. "So what are you working on?" Chat leaned over her as she continued to work.

"Tikki!" Plagg zoomed over to her and hugged her tightly. "It feels like I haven't seen you in forever."

"It's only been like . . . fifty years. We've been apart way longer than that."

"I can still miss you."

"Yeah." Tikki agreed, hugging him back. "I missed you too."

"I'm making a dress."

"Cool. Is it Ladybug themed?"

"No. That would give me away."

"Well even if it did give you away, all you need is me, so it wouldn't matter. Forget everyone else and be with me forever."

"I think we have to finish school first." Marinette spun her chair around to face him.

"Ugh! Why?! School is ruining my life." He whined, plopping down on her other swivel chair.

"Wasn't it your dream to go to school?"

"Yes, but now I've met you and I don't need anything else in my life."

"You wouldn't have met me without school." She grinned.

"Fine! I guess . . . school's not entirely ruining my life."

"Speaking of school . . . we should probably slow down our relationship when we're there."

"What?! Why?!"

"Because people might be suspicious if we just show up to school all in love." Marinette answered.

"But I wanted to show you off." Adrien sulked.

"Oh well. You'll have to wait."

"Can't you just tell Alya that we got coffee or something and instantly fell in love?"

"No." Marinette demanded. "Alya will be the most suspicious because she knows how nervous I would get around you. She even witnessed me try to tear open a mailbox when I wrote you a Valentine's Day card."

"You wrote me a Valentine's Day card?"

"Yeah, but I didn't sign it."

"Was it a pink heart?"

"Yes." Marinette put her finger over his lips so he would stop talking. "Now remember . . . we have to not be so in love when we're at school."

"Fine." He agreed. "Can we have our date now? I brought food . . . my picnic basket from earlier is up on your balcony."

"You brought food? Why didn't you start with that? Let's go eat?!"

Marinette jumped up from her chair and sprinted up to her balcony.

"Don't steal all of my food." Adrien called after her.

"I'm so glad that Marinette and Adrien finally figured out who each other was." Tikki said as they watched the two run up to the balcony.

"It took forever though. And Adrien's stalking didn't accomplish anything."

"Well Marinette was stalking Adrien too. She was practically his shadow." Tikki added. "At least we can talk to each other again though."

"Should we tell them that we knew who each of them really was before?"

"Are you kidding me?!" Tikki shouted. "They would be really angry at us and they might actually murder us."

"Yeah. You're right."

Tikki and Plagg stayed there, continuing to laugh and share stories about their oblivious chosens. This they would never forget.

The End

A/N

That's it. I couldn't think of anything else to put in for this story. I hope you all liked it though. I have more stories coming soon. Some will be shorter than this. Tell me what you think.

-Alice Pink