Adrien's point of view

Outside in the Dupen-Chang bakery

This is it. I'm going to ask Mari to be my girlfriend. We just finished what I meant to be a date, but I don't know if that's how she took it...

"Uhm, hey Mari, will you stop walking and talk to me for a minute?"

"Sh-sure Adrien." She stops walking, as do I, and looks at me. "Is something wrong?"

"No, I don't think so." I start to rock back and forth on my feet out of nerves, trying to think of a way to ask. "Well, uhm, tonight was fun right?"

"Ya, it was. Are you sure nothing's wrong?" She says skeptically while razing one eyebrow.

"No, nothing's wrong. I just, uh..." I clear my throat and begin to speak as confidently as I can. "Marinette, I've thought you were beautiful since the day I meet you and have longed for you to feel the same for me. However hard I try though, I can never figure out what you're thinking. Though I do enjoy being your partner against crime as Chat Noir and Ladybug, I want to be more than partners. I want to be able to call you m'lady or bug-a-boo whenever I want. I see you every day at school, of course you sit behind me so I don't get to see you as much as I wish and I know what your thinking. Yes Marinette Dupen-Chang this is a proposal, maybe not of marriage," Not yet I think to myself, "but this is me asking you to be mine. To let me tell you how I feel about you truly. So, will you be my girlfriend?"

My face tuned red and so did her's as I gave my big speech. Plagg may have called me a drama queen for writing and practicing it, but this was the only way I could say what I needed to.

"Yes, I will."

Marinette leans over to me and hugs my waist, as that's about all she can manage. I was surprised at first, but I soon began to hug her as well.

Then the rain starts. Marinette and I are standing on the sidewalk as it starts to pouring down rain. Since we went out right after school we still have our bags and I have some rather important stuff in my bag that loves cheese and hates water, I try my best to keep my bag dry without prevail. Then I don't feel the rain anymore. I look up and see an umbrella with my name on the inside, the umbrella I gave to Marinette on the first day of high school! I look to Marinette as to confirm my theory and am greeted by a beautiful, and drenched, Marinette with her jacket now zipped to cover her white shirt that I figure is now practically see through and she is holding my umbrella.

"I can't believe you kept that thing for 3 years." I say with a blush and a smirk now plastered on my face.

"Well it is a souvenir from the first day that I knew I had a crush on you." She says turning her head to hide her blush, but moving the umbrella in the process.

"Hey, Whoa!" I yell as I jump back under the umbrella, my head hitting the top, causing it to close on both of us.

We have a good laugh and I look at her.

"Well, we're dating now so you can call me what you wish." She says looking at me happily.

"M'lady, the day I gave you this awful and broken umbrella was the same day that I had made my first friend and developed my first crush, all on you. So bug-a-boo, may I kiss you as I have longed to do for so lon-" I'm cut off my Marinette standing on her tip-toes to capture my lips in a kiss.

"Kitty, hush. Of course you can kiss me. I've already kissed you as Ladybug so it's not our first kiss. Adrien please just come to my room. It'll have to be as Chat entering from the roof, as my mother would never let me have a boy in my room this late. You can take me home, go check in at your house and then come see me. I just don't want to be alone tonight." She looks at me sadly and then starts to make puppy dog eyes when I don't answer.

I sigh and nod to her as I reopen the umbrella and start walking her home again. She holds the umbrella with her outside hand and holds mine with the other. I love this girl.