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This couldn’t go public, not yet. He already got too much attention from the media and fans, he didn’t want to bring her into this mess until he had to. And if he could help it, the mother of his child would be able to keep out of the spotlight as well. But he needed to tell someone, he hated secrets and being Chat overfilled his secrets tank. So he decided to tell Nino.
Nino was the only person he told about trying to get over a colleague. A girl he fell for immediately after meeting her 2 years earlier. And while Nino urged Adrien to really try dating and give someone a chance, Adrien took a different path. He became receptive to girls that flirted with him at photoshoots, both models and staff. And he got together with Aurore from school. But he didn’t date them, not in a traditional sense. He just wanted to have fun and be casual, even a bit irresponsible. Well that certainly came back to bite him.
He had slept with a few girls before he got the news. He was upfront with all of them, and they all agreed to keep things simple. Even just a few months earlier, he never would have imagined being a ‘playboy’ and sleeping around. He thought he would date Ladybug and they would marry. After another rejection from Ladybug however, he had a photoshoot with a model named Sophie and she noticed his sad demeanor and tried cheering him up with jokes and light touches. It was nice to get the attention, and she obviously cared for him. When they left the shoot together and ended up back at her family’s apartment, he still didn’t expect for things to become physical. But he enjoyed it. And he enjoyed the next few times as well.
Afterwards, he told her he wasn’t looking to date at that time and needed to figure things out. She was surprisingly understanding and had no hard feelings and was still interested in being casual, so they continued. The same conversation happened with Aurore after running into her at a cafe near the school were they had coffee together and then went for a walk. He enjoyed her company and asked her directly if she wanted to continue their time together. She agreed to keep it quiet and he had a sort of epiphany that he could keep his mind off Ladybug, enjoy himself, and make girls happy. He didn’t deny that this was partly an ego boost mixed with having fun, but he convinced himself that as long as he was honest with them, then the girls could make their own decisions.
It was the next girl that would change his life forever.