A/N: I, well...I have nothing to say for myself.

...I'm such a sap sometimes. Oh well.

I hope you enjoy this attempt at cotton candy.

Disclaimer: no one's actually reading this anymore, are they?

EPILOGUE

The party went well, by any standards. There was laughter, dancing, good-natured teasing and shoving. Chloe was presented with the Bee Miraculous to keep- she was ecstatic. Marinette and Adrien transformed, and did a magical (literally) dance routine.

Lila apparently tried to get in at one point, but Adrien's bodyguard was one of the few people she'd never taken in, and he was the bouncer.

Alya never showed. She did apologize at class a couple days later, but it took some time for Marinette to completely forgive her.

Things were happening at that party. At least, I think it was at the party. Could've been before, or after. All I know is, Chloe and Nathaniel were holding hands next day at school, and Nathaniel's drawings of Marinette were replaced by drawings of Queen Bee and Chloe. Never a transformation sequence though, just in case I suppose.

They weren't the only couple to get together recently. Aside from Marinette and Adrien, Juleka seemed to have something with Marc; Luka and Kagami started hanging out a lot more; Rose informed us that Prince Ali didn't even know who Lila was (and also that he definitely remembered her, for more than her akumatization).

With Chloe "hanging out" with Nathaniel more, Sabrina had started "doing homework" with Max. And Alix and Kim's races often ended with a lot of laughing.

And Krystal, it seemed, had somehow met and fallen for Alastor. The second part of that was less believable than the first; how anyone could fall for him I will never know.

As I write this, my friends- because that's what they've become in the past eight years- wait for me outside. Marinette and Adrien's daughter Emilie is already close to Chloe and Nathaniel's Andre. The two four-year-olds are incredibly impatient. Marinette says it serves their babysitters, Ella and Etta, right.

Rose, Ali, and their daughter Daisy couldn't make it. Daisy is only five months old, and Ali's parents barely let her out of their sight. The rest of my old classmates, aside from Lila, are all here. My heart is overflowing.

I never did figure out whether I still had my powers or not. Maybe I never will. But does it really matter? I got a happily ever after after all, one-time supervillain or no.

I close my journal, set it aside, and stand carefully. No matter what day it is, Marinette would kill me if I tore one of her designs with no time to fix it.

I open the door, and there are all my friends waiting for me, silently cheering me on as I walk towards my future.

A/N: Four things.

First, I intentionally left that ending open. What do you think happens next?

Second, no hate on the ships here. I think they're all cute, but sometimes I love conflicting ships (ChloeNath and Nathleka, for example). So no hate, please and thank you.

Third, if anyone's interested, I also have a non-Marinette-Ladybug fic, and a Lila-centric fic, as well as some non-Miraculous ones. Check them out and let me know what you think? I mean if you got this far you have to like my righting, write?

Fourth, I'm so sad this is over, but so happy that so many people liked it! Thank you all for sticking with me through this whole story. I'm so lucky!

Bug out.