letters from her || adrienette | ??

Published: May 10, 2017. 11:12 AM.
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Adrien's heart halts in his chest. He rereads the most recent letter again. He hadn't expected to get another letter so soon, that makes it three days in a row, but he's not complaining.

He's come to look forward to Ladybug's letters. He's already become adept to picking her letter from the bunch. Her beautiful handwriting is scrawled into his memory permanently, and he'd recognize it anywhere.

His heart pounds roughly in his chest, and the feeling is painfully exhilarating. A flush colors his tanned cheeks, and a breathless sort of expression adorns his face.

The thought hits him like a freight train.

I want to write back to her.

But how? Adrien knows nothing of this girl but her alias name, and her dislike for Chloé. And Chloé's dislike of her.

His locker door suddenly slams closed, and Adrien comes face to face with Alya. She looks from his face to the exposed letter clutched in his hand and smiles almost... wickedly?

"What's that you got there, Agreste?" The smirk on her face grows as Adrien feels his cheeks heating up further.

He scrambles to put the letter back into its envelope. "N-nothing," he stammers, fumbling with the seemingly impossible-to-open pocket that can hide his letter away.

Alya swipes the envelope out of his grasp, and Adrien gives a little gasp. She cocks an eyebrow and grins mischievously. "Adrien," she drawls in a mock dreamy voice, reading the name written in Ladybug's delicate cursive. "Is this a love letter?" The ombré steals the letter itself from Adrien's loose grip, and Adrien makes a grab for it only to miss. The significantly shorter girl skims though the contents of the letter. She eventually looks up at Adrien with a perplexed expression.

Adrien fidgets nervously. "U-um... it's a..." He struggles to look for a good excuse or something to cover up what it so obviously is, but gives up after searching for about 10 seconds. "I guess it is a love letter..." The thought makes him giddy for absolutely no reason, and he feels the sudden urge to run up to the school rooftops and shout it to the world.

"Ladybug is in love with me!"

Now, if he can just figure out who she is...

The ball! Of course! I could look for her in the crowd! She dropped a hint about what she'd be wearing, so she shouldn't be too hard to spot... I just punned, didn't I?

"Agreste!"

Adrien startles out of his stupor and blinks a couple of times before meeting a pair of hazel eyes. "Huh?"

Alya face-palms. "I just gave you the world's biggest hint and you weren't even listening..."

Hint? Could she mean... No, she must be talking about something else... She can't know who Ladybug is... can she?

The school bell reverberates off the hall walls obnoxiously just as Alya opens her mouth to speak again. She frowns and shrugs. Adrien hears her murmur something along the lines of, "Your loss, Adrien..."

He makes a move to call after her, but she rounds the corner and is now out of sight. Adrien relinquishes a sigh and trudges off to mathematics.

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You can do it. Just ask her, Agreste.

Adrien swallows and slowly walks over to the girl that drives all possibilities of friendship away. Chloé Bourgeois was once a very nice girl. Sure, she was a little rough around the edges, but she had some kindness in her heart.