Hey y'all, sorry that this one is so short. I had to say goodbye to a really good friend of mine today (they are moving across the country) and so I wasn't really in the mood to write, especially not about heartbreak. However, it is here! So have some Ladrien angst.                                                                -Colorado

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Ladybug was feeling strangely optimistic. She had a plan this time. Things would be different this time! Hiding behind her mask, she would actually have the confidence to say the words she's always wanted to say.

Today was the way she would ask out Adrien Agreste.

She knew that was a large statement. It was something that she had wanted to do since she met the man. After no less than 329 failed plans to get her to hold a conversation with the man, she knew that today was the day. She had put her lucky socks on, and perfected her speech.

What could possibly go wrong?

It all started with one simple action: Ladybug knocking on his glass window panes.

Her and Adrien had struck up a tentative friendship after they had gotten stuck during an akuma attack. About once a week, Ladybug would swing out by his house to say hi. She knew that his home life wasn't the best, and she wanted to be another source of support. Even if she couldn't always be there all the time, it might be helpful to have a superhero on his side. 

Over the course of the past month or two, her weekly visits had turned into nearly daily. And throughout time, Ladybug had begun to believe that maybe Adrien had feelings for her, too. There were moments when she caught him staring at her or sometimes he would blush around her. Every so often, he would say a flirty line or two before instantly backpedaling.

So Ladybug had come to the reasonable conclusion, after consulting Tikki, that he most likely had a celebrity crush on her. And hey! She could work easily with a celebrity crush.

Ladybug took in a deep breath, and waved over to him. Adrien went to let her in, but there was a look on his face that Ladybug didn't necessarily like. While he normally greeted her with a smile, there was a large frown on his face. She immediately knew that something was wrong, and she was terrified to learn what that would be.

"Hey, Ladybug." He gave her a small grin as she entered his room.

"Hey, Adrien. Is everything alright?"

"Fine! Fine, why would anything be wrong?"

"You seem upset."

"Nah, don't worry about it, okay? It's not a big deal." He tried to reassure her.

"But there is something." Ladybug put a hand on his shoulder. "I'm here for you Adrien, if you want to talk about it."

"No, it's okay. I just want things to seem normal for right now. Maybe I'll tell you later, but it's really not that big of a deal."

"If you insist."

"Trust me, on this, I'm fine." Adrien sat down on the couch, patting the seat next to him. "So, what brings the lovely Ladybug around?"

"You think I'm lovely?" She said, blushing the slightest bit.

"Duh." The smile on his face only added to her growing suspicions. God, she hoped that he liked her back.

"Well, I just thought I would stop by and see how you were doing. I saw on the news the other day that your father is going to make some big announcement soon."

Adrien's grin momentarily slipped in a scowl, but it was back before she could blink.

"Oh, yeah. I've still got no clue what that's about. Probably a new line or something, he doesn't really tell me much."

"Oh."

The conversation fizzled out from there. Ladybug wondering idly if she should still go through with her plan, Adrien obviously wasn't in the best of moods. No, maybe a confession would make his mood that much better! Or make his mood even worse... and there really was no way of telling which one. 

"Yeah...anyways, you never answered my question. Is there a reason why you stopped by today? Or did you just feel like it?"

"Oh! A reason? Um, well, there was something that I wanted to talk to you about..." She trailed off, choosing to look elsewhere.

"Alright, what's up?"

"Wait, you mean right now?" Ladybug's head snapped back to him.

"Yeah, when else were you going to tell me?" Adrien gave her a smile that only added to the butterflies in her stomach.

"I don't know, later?"

"Is it something bad?" The smile quickly turned into a frown. Ladybug would've given anything to put the smile back.

"No, no, no! At least, I don't think it's bad."

"Okay... so what's going on?"

"Well, uh this is something that I've wanted to tell you for quite some time. It's something that I've tried to tell you over, and over, and over again, but I never really succeeded. I figured that today was the day to finally admit it."

"Admit what? You're making me a bit nervous, Ladybug."

She squeezed her eyes shut, summoning all of the courage she had. If all else failed, she still had her friendship with him as Marinette. She just prayed that things wouldn't be too awkward.

"Admit that I like you, Adrien."

There, it was out in the open.

"What?" He breathed.

"I like you. I've kinda gained feelings for you over the course of the past few months." She admitted half of the truth. It's not like she could tell him the actual truth. "And uh, I wanted to know if you felt the same?" She finished with an awkward smile.

Adrien's face was hard to read. At first, Ladybug could've sworn that she saw nothing but joy. His eyes shone and a large smile grew on his face.

"Really?" He said, leaning forward.

"Really. I like you."

"I-." This is the part that Ladybug doesn't like remembering. His smile fell off his face and his eyes grew cold. "I can't."

"What?" She breathed, her heart dropping to her feet.

"I want to say yes, but I can't."

"You like me too?"

"Yeah." He gave her a hopeless smile. "But we can't do anything about it."

"Why not?" Ladybug tried to grasp what was happening, but something in her head wasn't clicking. If Adrien returned her feelings, then why did he look so sad about it?

"You know how something was bugging me earlier?"

"Yeah."

"It's about that announcement you said my dad was going to make. It's for a new line promoting international fashion. We are going to be traveling around the continent for an entire year." Adrien choked on his words, obviously not approving of the news. "I had wanted just one last day today, that way things could be normal! I didn't mean to tell you, but you deserve to know the truth."

"You're moving?"

"Yeah. I'm moving. I don't want to, but I don't have a choice, and..."

Ladybug's hearing went fuzzy after that. Adrien was moving away, and he wouldn't be back for who knows how long! She was going to lose him, and their friendship. If only she had confessed sooner, then maybe they could actually have been something or something. She didn't know! But they certainly wouldn't be in the situation they were in now. 

"I tried talking to my father, and he wouldn't have it. I'm so, so, sorry. I've thought of everything, trust me I have. I can't leave Paris, I just can't. It's my home! Yet, my father won't listen to reason. He thinks that it will give me a good experience! Which I mean, yeah, it will, but I don't want to leave. I want to finish school and stay here where my friends are. And you! Goddammit, I've wanted you to like me back for the longest time, and now that you do we can't do anything about it!" Adrien ranted, his hands curling into fists.

"W-when do you move?" Ladybug tried to keep her tears to herself.

"My father makes the announcement tomorrow, then we go the next day. Apparently, he's been planning this for the past few years. That's why he let me go to school I bet! Because he knew I would have to leave it!"

"So we have two days together. Two days to act like we're just normal teens who like each other. We don't have to say goodbye yet, do we?"

"Ladybug, come on, be reasonable."

"I am being reasonable!"

"There's no way that we can spend all day together for the next two days. We both have duties to attend to, things that we have no control over. I'm booked with photoshoots and fencing practice, I know you're busy in your civilian life. There's no way it would work. There's no way we would work. You know that as much as I do."

"I know." Ladybug whispered, a stray tear escaping herself.

"Hey, hey, don't cry! I'm sorry, Ladybug. I'm sorry." Adrien moved forward to hug her, pulling her into an embrace. She returned it, beginning to cry into his shoulder.

"I'm sorry, too. I just wish things were different."

"You and me both, Ladybug. You and me both."

Ladybug curled up in his arms, beginning to cry. She had been so sure about how today would go. But of course, she should've known that her Ladybug luck left her in the worst times. She sat there, crying in the arms of the boy she loved, the boy that was going to leave her, and let the feeling of heartbreak wash over her. 

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I really really really like this concept and will most likely expand on this later. I'm not entirely sure about how I feel with the result, but hey! I did it. Vote and comment if you liked it!                                                                                                               -Colorado