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“Bye bye, little butterfly,” Ladybug said as the pure white bug left her yoyo. He turned towards her partner and raised her fist.
“Pound it!” Ladybug and Chat Noir said in unison. Right after, Ladybug’s earrings beeped signaling that they would soon detransform.
“See you later, kitty,” Ladybug said with a smile as she left the area. She flew over rooftops and cars until she reached the school. She sneaked inside and detransformed into one of the bathrooms.
Tikki flew up to her holding a bitten cookie, looking around confused. “Why are we still at school?”
“I have to let Marc and Nathaniel out of the supply closet,” Marinette replied poking her head out of the bathroom stool to make sure no one was around.
“You said you wouldn’t interfere directly, anymore,” Tikki complained flying back into Marinette’s purse.
“I had to, Tikki,” Marinette said in a hushed whisper. “Who knows what would have happened if I didn’t do it.”
Tikki didn’t reply after that since too many people had gathered around them. Marinette walked up to the supply closet, twisted the key in the lock and opened it, immediately noticing the two boys sitting on the floor.
“Thanks, Marinette, ” Marc said as he got up extending a hand towards Nathan to help him as well. So they weren’t fighting anymore, Marinette thought.
“Marinette!” an approaching person exclaimed. “You got them out?”
Marinette turned towards the familiar voice and noticed that it was Adrien. “Hi!” she said in greeting. “What are you doing here?”
Adrien stopped in front of her and glanced at the room besides her where the other boys were sitting awkwardly. “I came to unlock the door for them. I saw Ladybug and Chat Noir lock them up in here and thought I should let them out.”
Marinette mentally facepalmed. Why else would he be there.She smiled and nodded, but on the inside she was dying.
“I see you beat me to it,” Adrien continued.
“Yeah, I just,” Marinette said trying not to stutter. “I was just about to ask them if they made out-- uhh, I mean, made up! ‘Cus you see, they had a fight before and-”
Marinette stopped herself from saying anything else. She was rambling and Adrien wouldn’t care about stuff like that anyway.
“We kind of did both actually,” Nathaniel muttered.
Marinette turned to look at Nathaniel wondering if she’d heard wrong. To her delight, Nath’s eyes were wide as if he just realized he said that out loud and his face was bright red in embarrassment. Marc’s expression was similar.
“Seriously?” Marinette asked wondering how they managed to get over their obliviousness.
Marc nodded. “Yeah, that... happened” he trailed off and Nathan’s gaze snapped at him.
“What?” Marc asked. “It’s true. Unless…”
Marintte noticed Nathan taking Marc’s hand in his. “No,” Nathan barely whispered and Marinette felt like she had to look away. She turned towards Adrien who smiled at her and she felt her chest feel up with butterflies. She wondered if her and Adrien would one day be like the boys besides her.
She gazed back at them noticing how calmer they looked as if they just had a long conversation only by gazing into each other's eyes. Marinette could see that Nathaniel still hasn’t let go of Marc’s hand.
“I should get going,” Adrien said before looking at the boys. “Congratulations!”
“Thanks,” Marc muttered as his face began flushing again.
“Bye, everyone,” Adrien said and with that he was gone. Marinette watched him leave and allowed a dreamy sigh to escape her lips.
“Uhm, Marinette?” Nathan said placing a hand on her shoulder. “You ok?”
“Why wouldn’t I be?” She straightened up and put her hands around Marc and Nathaniel’s shoulder moving to stand between them. “I can finally rest. You two have finally got together. I am so proud of you!”
Nathan rolled his eyes, but Marinette could tell there was no ill-intent. She began walking leading them along as she tried to convince them to tell her the whole story.
They reached the school gates, but Marinette still had to take her stuff.
“I’m off here,” Marinette said smiling and the boys nodded.
“Hey, want to come over for lasagna tonight?” Nathaniel asked as he was looking mostly at Marc. “Mom is still mad at me for skipping class, but if there is someone else there she might go easier on me.”
Marc nodded. “Of course.”
Nathan turned towards Marinette. “Marinette?”
“Oh no,” she said knowing that he had asked only to be polite. She could tell they wanted to be alone together. “Thank you, but I have to be somewhere else tonight.”
Nathan nodded. “Alright,” he said. “See you on Monday.”
They all said their goodbye and Marinette watched as they left hand in hand.
Marinette entered the art room on Monday, feeling excited about the new design she wanted to work on. She said hello to everyone and immediately noticed Alix sitting in Marinette’s usual spot. She walked up to her.
“Hey, Alix.”
“How did you do it?” Alix asked instead of a greeting. Marinette followed her gaze and realized she was looking at Marc and Nathaniel who were chatting.
It wasn’t an unusual sight, but this time it was different. Marinette couldn’t tell what was different for a few seconds until she noticed how close they were sitting. Nathan’s hand was on Marc’s knee and their shoulders were brushing. She smiled.
“I didn’t do anything. Ladybug did,” Marinette said.
Alix rolled her eyes. “Yes, I’m sure that Ladybug knew how hopeless those two were and decided to help them.”
“Yep,” Marinette said grinning.
Alix sighed. “If you don’t want to tell me that’s fine. It doesn’t matter anyway. All that matters is that we don’t have to deal with the romantic tension anymore.”
Marinette smiled and nodded. “I agree.”
She sat down at the table and took out her sketchbook. She flipped to a new page and began drawing. Only a few minutes passed until Alix’ voice got her attention.
“Where are you two going?”
Marinette raised her head and noticed Marc and Nathaniel about to leave the classroom holding hands.
“André’s,” Nathaniel said trying to hide his flushing face, but Alix had seen it anyway. She laughed
“Have fun, lovebirds,” Alix said a little too loud gaining the attention of the other students.
Nathaniel groaned and dragged Marc away who was wearing a sympathetic smile. Alix shook her head fondly.
“They are so sickeningly sweet, they almost disgust me,” she said with an honest smile. “Almost.”