To Wake a Sleeping Bug- Chapter 2

Hellooooo!

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Marinette Dupain-Cheng was officially the most embarrassed person in Paris. Not that anyone really knew that, though, but she felt that the title was worth recognising. As soon as she had arrived home after the latest akuma attack, she had dropped her transformation and gone straight to her computer to check out the news about it. Her memory of the battle was seeming a little fuzzy and she had a feeling that she might have been hit by the akuma because all she remembered was waking up in Adrien's room. She had only stayed for half a minute after that as he had ushered her out pretty quickly, completely flustered for some unknown reason. She had gone through the rest of the battle feeling completely confused and disoriented and had wanted to clear things up.

But what she had found had only made her cheeks burn. The akuma had apparently been sending people into deep sleeps, and judging from what she could remember, she had fallen asleep. On Adrien. And as if that wasn't bad enough, he then had to drag her off the floor onto his bed where she would be comfortable.

And once she had done a little bit more digging into it, she found that the only way to wake someone up from the akuma's spell was by a kiss, and she hadn't been able to calm down since. Adrien would have had to kiss her. He had somehow thought that it would work, and it had. She had woken up. That would explain why Adrien had been so red-faced when she did. Maybe he hadn't been expecting it to work. Did he decide to do it himself or did someone tell him to? Her mind had not stopped racing and she couldn't stop thinking about it. He had kissed her.

To clear her head so she'd actually be able to focus on the homework she had to catch up on, she decided to briefly transform and take a run around the city. She was soon suited up and racing across the rooftops, letting the harsh breeze hit her face.

Soon, she found herself standing on the roof across from Adrien. She felt her face warming despite the cold wind, and she stared into his room. He was seated at his desk, bent over what was presumably his own homework. She bit her lip and debated whether or not she should drop by and say hi. After a moment, she swung down and knocked gently on his window. His head snapped up and he swivelled around, his eyes widening once he saw her there. She waved shyly at him and that seemed to snap him out of the stupor he was in and he jumped up to open the window for her and let her in. "Ladybug!" He gasped. "Wh- what are you doing here?"

It was then that she realised that she didn't have any actual reason for being there. She had simply just decided to drop by. "Oh- I uh..." she flustered for a moment, unsure of what to say. "I just wanted to say thank you," her hands waved vaguely in front of her. "For helping me out earlier. I uh- I read up about the akuma and I probably would've been in a lot of trouble if it wasn't for you. So thank you." She ducked her head shyly, then glanced back up and smiled at him.

Now it was his turn to get flustered, but he still managed to return her smile. "I was glad to help."

Before Ladybug knew what she was doing, she winked at him. "Though maybe next time kiss me when I'm actually awake." She suggested, then her face flamed red and she realised what she said, immediately regretting everything. Abort, abort!

That was not what she had come by to say. She was just going to say a simple thank you, not suggest that she wanted to kiss him. What was he going to think of her?

Adrien, to his credit, was handling the situation surprisingly well, considering that Ladybug had just revealed that she knew he had kissed her earlier to wake her up. The two of them stared at each other for another painfully long moment, with equally red faces, before Ladybug cleared her throat and tore her gaze away. "Uh... I should go. Thanks again." She rushed out, then turned to flee.

Adrien reached out to stop her. "Wait!" He cried out, even though he had no real plan except to get her to stay longer. His fingers wrapped around her hand and she froze in surprise. "If you- if you'd really like me to kiss you again, I'd be happy to comply." He murmured, desperately hoping that was what she had been implying with her earlier bold statement.

Ladybug's eyes went wide and she twisted back around to face him. "Wh- what?"

He glanced away. "If you'd like to, of course." He repeated.

Before he could say anything more, she leaned up and let her lips brush against his.

It was completely silent in his room for a second before a quiet snicker that she surely imagined broke them out of their surprised state and Ladybug turned and flung her yoyo out the window, pausing to give him a little wave before swinging away.

Adrien sighed happily, watching her go. That was definitely not what he had been expectingwhen Ladybug dropped by. But he wasn't complaining either.

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These two are such cute dorks I love them.