Miraculous One-Shots 2023

There's this guy at Lycée (Adrinette/Ladynoir)

Identity Reveal / Established Adrinette / Jealous Adrien Agreste

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Marinette settled down on the opposite side of the sofa to Adrien, swinging her legs up onto his and taking a drink of the hot tea nestled between her hands; his own hands automatically came down to squeeze her feet in the way she loved so much. Heel to toes; toes to heel.

"How was your day?" he asked, his green eyes meeting hers and sending a shiver down her spine. It had been 2 years and Adrien could still make her brain short circuit with just one look — one smile and she was a goner.

"It was good. Not too much longer to go until the BACs; then we can go to university and live together." The sigh leaving her lips was as dreamy as the words. She really could not wait to be spending more time with Adrien.

Since they had continued their education at different lycées, Marinette had realised just how much she had missed everything about him. So what if they'd only dated for a couple of months before the end of collége and she saw him pretty much everyday anyway, that wasn't the point. She adored him so much she just wanted to be around him all the time.

However, there was one major positive in the fact that he no longer attempted to protect her during akuma attacks, and that she could easily talk about her counterpart as 'someone from lycée'. It was so nice to talk about Chat Noir with someone other than Alya.

"Did you do anything exciting?" he asked.

She considered the question for a moment before answering. "Actually, yeah... My friend told me this joke today. Honestly he's so funny, one of the funniest guys I've ever met in my life. Listen to this, what do you call the ruler of a pencil case? No, wait, that's wrong... what was it?"

Moving her feet from Adrien's lap, she moved up onto her knees shuffling herself closer to him. A hand to her chin as she attempted to recall the joke Chat Noir had shared mid battle. Dammit! She knew his timing was bad — she couldn't even remember the joke!

"It'll come back to me." She brushed off, snuggling into his shoulder and dropping an arm over his waist. "But, yeah he was so funny I actually snorted. Do you know how hard it is to make me snort?"

Who's in charge of a pencil case? The ruler. Adrien was close to punching something. He'd told her the exact same joke last week and all he had was a small giggle in response. How could someone else telling her the same joke cause her to snort?

"I have no idea," Adrien said through gritted teeth, his arm dropping around her shoulders.

"Really hard," she continued gushing. "He's the funniest person ever, you'd love him."

Adrien tried to keep his cool. Another guy was making his girlfriend laugh to the point she snorted. He'd only managed to do that himself a couple of times, so what the hell had this guy got which he hadn't? Adrien knew he was a funny guy! Everyone said it. He was hilarious.

Marinette thought Adrien would love this unnamed friend.

Adrien, however, was quite certain he would not.

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Adrien had spent the better part of the past two days researching jokes, puns and funny quips. There was no way this guy was going to continue to be the funniest person Marinette knew. Not a chance!

He'd prepared a vast array of side splitting jokes and even had a couple of practical tricks up his sleeve ready to whip out if needed, and there was no better time to show it.