-time skip to after eating-
"Wow Marinette! That was delicious! But I mean no surprise there... your good at everything."
"Thanks!", marinette started to blush.
"Soooo, what now?" Asked Adrien nervously.
Marinette scanned the park, when she spotted some rental bikes.
"Oh, um we could go on a bike ride.", suggested Marinette.
'Uh oh', Adrien thought to himself. He started to turn red and made a nervous face towards his flower.
"What's wrong?" Asked a concerned Marinette.
"Well you know. Most of my life I was homeschooled and I was never let out of the house...."
"And since your body guard drives you everywhere..."
" I don't know how to ride a bike..."
He was prepared for her to start laughing and to make fun of him, but she didn't.
"Why aren't you laughing?"
"What do you mean? Why would I?"
"Well, I don't know. I mean it's kinda pathetic."
"It's not your fault Adrien. Your father is never there for you. I don't mean to be rude, but it seams as he doesn't pay much attention to you what so ever..."
Adrien looked sad. So she did the only thing she could think of.
She hugged him.
She pulled him close to her chest. And wrapped her arms around him.
The teen model started to tear up. Marinette was such a caring and amazing person. And he loved her... but not as much as ladybug.
Yet he still wrapped his own arms around his flower. He dug his face into her silky hair.
As much as she wanted this to last, marinette pulled away. Her hands on his shoulders.
She wiped his tears away with her sleeve and brushed his hair back with her hand.
Before she did, she noticed that he kind of looked like chat noir with his messy hair. But she didn't think into it too much.
"Look, I know this is about more than not being able to ride a bike. But I need you to know that I'll always be there for you."
Adrien smiled his cute smile and nodded.
"How about I teach you. We can ride together."
"Yea! That would be great!"
She laughed as Adrien stood up.
"Come on!", the golden blonde boy held his hand out for his flower.
She took his hand and stood up. They rented the bike for one hour. Just enough time to teach him how to ride and enough time to maybe go on a romantic ride.
"Ok. So sit on the bike and grab the handles. I'll hold on while you adjust."
"D-don't let go..."
"Never.", she responded.
-25 minutes later-
"I'm doing it I'm really doing it!", shouted Adrien.
He rode around in circles and once he turned back to marinette, he jumped off the bike and hugged her.
They fell backwards on their blankets and pillows. Adrien was on top of her.
They both turned BRIGHT RED...
So Adrien did the only thing her could think of.
He made a pun.
"Marinette, I'm afraid your under-Agreste!"
She couldn't help but burst out laughing. And soon Adrien started to laugh as well.
He climbed off of her and they lay
down looking up at the clouds. After about 10 minutes of silence, Adrien spoke up.
"Thank you."
"For what?"
"For everything."
Adrien turned to her and he smiled.
Marinette smiled back.
They spent the rest of their afternoon spotting shapes in the clouds.
While sitting in silence it got Adrien to thinking that he loves being with Marinette, but he loves Ladybug more and had decided to stay loyal to his lady.
"It's getting late.", marinette finally said.
"Yea your right.", responded Adrien.
Adrien helped Marinette up and they packed up the picnic stuff.
The walk back to the bakery was mostly quiet. Until they arrived...
"I need to tell you something.", they both said in unison.
They both laughed nervously.
"You go first.", said Adrien
"No, you go first.", insisted Marinette.
"Ok. Well, I'm not gonna lie.", he said as he grabbed her hands.
"Spending time with you and just being here with you is probably the most fun I ever have. And I love being around you more than anything."
A sad expression grew on his face.
"But.... I can't be with you. I-I love someone else and I can't be doing this. It wouldn't be right."
"Then I guess theres no point in asking you my question.", she said as she wiped away tears.
"If thats how you feel, then I'm fine with that. I care about you too much, so I have to let you go."
She pulled her hands away from his.
"But we can still...", he was interrupted by his now broken flower.
"Don't say we can JUST be friends, because we can't."
"I'm sorry..."
"Goodbye Adrien", she said as she opened the door to the bakery.
"Marinette, please...", pleaded the (stupid) blonde boy
She closed and locked the door behind her.
Adrien kicked the cement and walked away.
Once he left, Marinette ran upstairs towards her room.
"How was your date with Adrien?", Asked tikki
She ran right past her curious kwami and onto her bed where she started to sob.
In anger and frustration, she tore down her posters and countless pictures of Adrien on her walls. And threw them on the floor and continued to cry.
Once she could stop crying, she told tikki about her date with Adrien.
"Aww.. it's ok Marinette, I'll always love you!"
"Thanks Tikki."
She cuddled her kwami against her cheek.
"Honey, Alya's here to see you!"
"Ok, thanks Mama!"
Alya came rushing up the stairs.
"Soooo? how'd it go girl?!"
Alya's once curious expression turned into a concerned one as she saw her friends face.
She immediately rushed to her best friends side and held her in her arms to comfort her.
"It's ok girl. Adrien is stupid to not want you. HE'S the one missing out."
"Thanks Alya.."
"You know that what you need to do?"
"What?", the sad girl questioned
"Stick. To. The plan! You need to forget about Adrien and go to Luka."
Marinette wiped her nose and stood up tall.
"Your right! If Adrien doesn't want me then fine! It's time to move on."
Even though inside she was still sad, she figured that there was no point in chasing Adrien anymore.
She remembered that Luka had given her his number on the day of the Akuma attack. She figured he was just being friendly, but maybe he was being more than that.
She texted Luka and chatted with him the rest of the evening while Alya worked on her blog.
Meanwhile, Adrien had gotten home and told Plagg how he messed up.
"Well, you screwed up kid. But who needs girls when you have camembert!"
"Speaking of which, FEED ME!", complained Plagg
Adrien tossed him a piece of stinky cheese and laid in bed thinking of all his mistakes.
And little did he know not even ladybug would be his...
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I tried to make this chapter a bit longer since I'm going to be busy for the next few days. I hope you enjoy it. I love you and thank you my readers! ❤️❤️❤️