Thanks Anon, I enjoyed writing this one x)
7 – fake dating
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“You’re sure this is the right way to get the media
off the idea that you and Ladybug are dating?”, Marinette nervously shifted her
weight to the other foot and buried her hands deeper in her pockets.
Chat only groaned from his spread-out position on her
chaise, shrugging.
He had just escaped a few reporters asking him again, for the third time this week, if
he was dating Ladybug.
The kiss on the cheek had apparently seemed too
intimate for Paris’ liking.
Marinette once again tapped her foot on the floor,
then she got up from her chair and went over to the cat themed superhero, her
eyebrows furrowed.
“Chat.”
He lifted his muscular arm from his eyes and glared at
her out of cat like green eyes, his chest heaving up and down. He was still out
of breath from running off the reporters, Marinette realized.
Or maybe he was really uncomfortable that people
assumed he was together with the love of his life when really, he wasn’t.
It was apparently much more important to him that she
thought.
But it was still no reason for him yet to claim that
he and Marinette were a couple, to post it to the public and to possibly make
her a target for Hawkmoth.
Not even considering yet that first, he wanted to
pretend to be in a relationship with Marinette to shake off Ladynoir shippers
(which was a huge irony in itself, he just didn’t know) and second, if she
became a target for Hawkmoth to make Chat insecure, it would make it very
difficult for her to transform.
Also, people would start asking questions. She knew
for a fact that all of her class, scratch that, all of her school was following
Chat’s Instagram.
Alya’s call right after he posts that picture would be
a nightmare alone.
And she, well, could lose all hope of ever getting
together with Adrien anymore. He’d know she was together with a superhero and that
would eliminate her chances down to zero.
On the other hand, her chances with Adrien had almost
been zero before, anyway.
Alya would probably think it’s great her best friend
was with a superhero and her class would hopefully not ask her too many questions.
Maybe it would even be a little funny, to giggle with Chat about the
misconceptions of everyone, to think of new ridiculous couple pictures, maybe
she could even make herself feel better for, well… Handling him like a second
option after Adrien.
She still felt guilty for not letting him any closer
to her as Ladybug, because she was already in love with Adrien. If she had just
met Chat earlier than Adrien…
“So, are you in? Just to get them off. After a month
or so we could ‘break up’ again.”, he sniffled.
Oh well. It would probably be hell, but whatever. His
pouty kitty eyes and his hopeful expression broke her heart. She just couldn’t
see him suffer for any longer.
“… Fine. But no interviews, no reporters swarming my
house and no big media thing. No names on the internet and no real kisses.”
“And I’m not allowed to fall in love with you?”,
Chat’s amused twinkle in his eyes came back to him as he jumped up, grinning
from ear to ear as he already pulled out his phone.
“Damn straight, alley cat.”
They quickly took a photo of Chat kissing her cheek
and he put some cheesy text beneath it, then he posted it without tagging her
and Marinette’s phone gave a little ping from her pocket.
She pulled it out, expecting it to be an Instagram
notification from thekittycat_deluxe, but instead the name agrested_blonde
popped up with a new post.
She tapped on it and to her horror, she saw the
picture of Chat and her on Adrien’s Instagram account, with the cheesy text and
everything.
Chat’s confused green eyes met hers, then he glanced
on her phone and all color drained from his face.
“… W-Wrong account?”, he tried with a weak voice but
Marinette’s scream already tore through the night.
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