Adrien POV:

Once Adrien and Marinette had finished their work for the day, Adrien decided to head home. While he was there a peaceful silence enveloped them as they both tried to focus on their work. But really Adrien's mind was still reeling from everything that just happened, so he didn't mind the silence. 

Adrien called his driver and waved goodbye to her, before getting in the car.

Once in the car, he sent Kagami a quick text, saying he had heard that she was akumatized and asking if everything was okay.

Adrien knew things weren't  going well on with his girlfriend. Why else would her akumatized form target Marinette? And the things she had said when akumatized were confusing.

Granted, he hadn't paid much attention to what the Akuma had said as he had been far too focused on the realization that Marinette had used to like him. Why couldn't he get her out of his head. 

Adrien shook his head, clearing thoughts of the pigtailed girl from his mind, and stared at his phone. 

He saw that Kagami had seen the message, but hadn't replied yet.

He told himself that it hadn't been very long, that she was probably busy, that he was overreacting.

But his head kept nagging him that something was very, very wrong.

This feeling only grew as the hours passed and still no reply. He sent her another text before bed, in case one of them hadn't gone through.

Adrien ran his hand through his hair, before begrudgingly getting ready for bed and wishing Plagg  goodnight, but he was already passed out on his pillow. 

He fell into an uneasy sleep, his dreams filled with thoughts of dark-haired girls.

In the morning there was still no reply. He had been restless all night, and faint black circles traced the underneath of his eyes. Adrien was sure something was wrong, he just couldn't fathom what.

"Plagg,"

Plagg suddenly devoured a stinky piece of cambert before looking over to Adrien, "What's up kid?"

"Do you think something is wrong with Kagmi. Do... you think... that she sees me as a bad boyfriend?" Adrien said, his tone laced with distress. Why could he never do anything right.

"Kid, Kid, Kid,"  Plagg mockingly tsked, shaking his black head, "You wouldn't be have any of this lady issues if you were just more like me,"

Adrien couldn't help but chuckle at Plagg, poking him lightly in the stomach: "Thanks for the help,you really do have the best advice." his voice filled with sarcasm. 

"You know it kid!"

"Come on, you stinky kwami lets go to school before we're late," he said teasingly . 

"Hey cambert is a delicacy young ma...

Adrien blocked out the rest Plagg's undying cheese monologue and got ready for school, thinking up various theories, but ruling them all out.

Adrien cared about Kagami, and he hated that she was upset. He needed to figure out what was wrong and fix it.

He arrived at school with a mission, find Kagami, figure out the problem, beg forgiveness, and then have their relationship back to normal.

Unfortunately for Adrien, luck was not on his side. He didn't find Kagami until two minutes before the bell rang, and she didn't seem to be in a good mood.

"Kagami? Is everything alright?" He questioned, and in response got a glare.

"What's the point of dating me if you don't like me!" She yelled.

Adrien recoiled. "Kagami I like you! What made you think otherwise!" He said, his voice filled with confusion.

"Don't lie to me! When you like someone you don't cheat on them!" Kagami said, on the verge of tears.

"Kagami I would never," he said, but was suddenly cut off.

"I see the way you look at her. I'm not blind!" Kagami said, her voice filled with venom. 

"Wha... who... Kagami..." Adrien pleaded, but was cut off by the bell.

Kagami gave him one last glare, before turning around and storming off to class.

Adrien barely made it through his morning classes. He was too lost in his thoughts to pay attention to the teachers.

He was a mixture of confused and upset. He was confused as to why Kagami would think he was cheating, and who she thought he was cheating on her with.

All of the girls he typically hung out with were taken, unless she thought he was seeing Chloe?

He sure hoped she didn't think anything was going on between him and Chloe, they had grown up together, she was like a sister to him.

"You okay dude?" He suddenly snapped awake from the confusing thoughts confusing him, looking at a concerned Nino. 

"Yeah Nino... I just didn't sleep very well last night, that's all" he said weakly, trying to sound like everything was okay, that he was okay. But he couldn't hide the hurt in his voice.

"Okay then dude," Nino smiled at him fist bumping his shoulder playfully, but he could tell that his friend wasn't convinced. 

He tried to use the rest of the time to focus on making a plan for lunch. How he was going to make it up to Kagami. 

Step one, find Kagami. Then, assure her that he was not cheating on her with anyone. Then, find out who she thought he was cheating with, and hopefully have a good laugh.

Once he had created the plan, he tried to focus on the teacher drowning on about prophase.  Lord knows what would happen if his father found out his son hadn't been paying attention in class. He had to keep his grades up. He had to be perfect.

Finally the lunch bell rang as all the students rushed out of the classroom silently cheering to themselves, that they were free from Ms. Mendeleiev. 

Adrien put his plan into action.

Step one, find Kagami. This proved to be easier than he had expected, as her class was close to his. Kagami took one look at Adrien and swiveled her head in disdain.  storming off in the other direction. 

Step two was quite a bit harder.

"Kagami, can we uhh talk?" Adrien asked her nervously, trying to keep up with her fast steps. "Please Kagami," he added.

"Fine. But you better not waste my time." Kagami said, finally turning around to face him and mumbling something under her breath about him already wasting too much of her time.

"Kagami, I didn't and will never cheat on you. I don't know where you got that idea. You're the one I like, not anyone else, so you've got to believe me!" he said, trying to desperately convince her. 

Kagami was still for a minute, taking in his words. 

"Oh" Kagami said, still in shock that Adrien wasn't cheating on her.

"I'm sorry, I just thought, because of the way you look at... nevermind. The point is that you didn't cheat on me... so I'm sorry for assuming the worst" Kagami stated. 

"I would never break your trust like that. I want to be worthy of you. I want you to know that.... I would never cheat on you."  Adrien said, relieved that she believed him. 

"We should get to lunch," Kagami said, taking her boyfriend's hand and pulling him towards the cafeteria.

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Lunch was a blur, the good news being Kagami had forgiven him, but he couldn't ignore an empty feeling that rested uneasily in the pit of his stomach.

The bell signaling lunch was over and then Adrien was sitting in English class with Marinette. Marienette scooted in her sit beside him, he noticed that her cheeks were flushed  pink and she avoided meeting his eyes

"So, we should probably proofread, right?" Adrien asked the petit girl beside him.

"Right, yes. We should proofread each others! So we catch all the errors! Not that yours is going to have any errors of course... I mean!" Marinette stammered adorably.

"That's a great idea Marinette." He said, trying to ignore the fact that he had just called Marinette adorable in his head. 

Great job Adrien, you just told your girlfriend you wouldn't cheat on her and you instantly go and call Marinette cute! He scolded himself.

Adrien gave her  a soft smile before he  reached down to grab his black notebook from his school bag. He had kinda poured his heart out in this entry and he was a little embarrassed as he hesitantly grasped it and put it on his desk. 

He saw that Mariennte had also grabbed her pink notebook and he gestured to hers as he reached out to give her his entry. The entry in which he had written everything he was terrified to admit to himself on a page.  Marinette fumbled with hers as she finally grasped it and went to give it to him. As they exchanged notebooks, her hand lightly grazed his, and he felt her soft touch all the way down to the toes.

He awkwardly coughed and took hers, as she turned away looking curiously down at his notebook.

"Uhh... I'm going to warn you, I got really in character writing this," Adrien said.

Marinette laughed at his words. Marinette's laugh was one of the most beautiful sounds in the world, Adrien decided. He would have to try to make her laugh more often.

"No worries, I got really into character writing mine as well, it's kinda embarrassing" She replied.

"I'm sure it's amazing like you!" he suddenly blurted out and immediately wished he could put those words back into his mouth. What an idiot he was. 

"Th-thanks!" Marinette squeaked, before grabbing his page and starting to proofread, blushing furiously.

He looked away feeling his cheeks heat up, as he quickly looked away and began to open her notebook up to the bookmarked page. 

Entry 1: Ladybug

When I think of our love, I imagine the sun and the moon. So different, so far apart, but yet always a part of each other. The sun cannot rise without the moon's devotion as the moon has no purpose to glow without the sun's warm embrace. Our love for each other was always there, but was hidden by the shadows of the night. Too shy to be expressed, but glowed like the embers of a  passionate light. 

We are forbidden to love. Because the dark and light are never to collide. 

Most people would assume I am the sun, and that Chat Noir is the moon, but they could not be farther from the truth. Chat Noir is the sun, he glows with a feeling of happiness. I am the moon, taking that sunlight, basking in that sunlight, but knowing that there is no way to return it. I didn't realize how much I took his sunlight for granted until I was separated from him, till the earth stood between us, completely blocking me from that sunlight I cherished so much.

Now I know the value of him, and his light. I try to find a way to give him the light back, because I know I do not deserve it. I try to give it back but I cannot. The thing about Chat Noir is he gives and gives but never expects anything in return. I long to give him something in return, but I cannot. I love him, yet I am scared to love him. Scared that I will find out that he won't return my feelings ever again.

Everyday the tortue I feel is slowly consuming me. The agony of knowing that I will never be his, I will never call him mine. It is truly unbearable having everything you've ever wanted always out of your grasp. Never close enough, never close enough. 

I waited too long, being scared of my own feelings, that I didn't notice his feelings for me slowly leaving. My faithful sun is abandoning me. I can't help but think, that maybe if I hadn't been such a coward, if I hadn't been so scared, maybe we could have been something.

But our love is forbidden. The dark and light must never collide, no matter how much they want to. It is our destiny, and for now I will wait in the consuming darkness, only living through my foolish hope to once more bask in his eternal light. 

Adrien stared at the paper in shock at what he had just read. Once the initial shock wore off, he took a moment to comprehend what he had just read.

And then another moment.

And then another.

Once his brain had processed the heartbreakingly beautiful words, his brain tried to remember what he was supposed to do. 

Proofread... they were supposed to be proofreading.

Adrien tried to proofread, to look for errors, but instead found himself discovering more and more meaning to the writing.

He read it to himself over and over again letting himself get consumed by the beautiful agony conveyed with every word. Each time he felt his soul being touched with each cursive word, his traitorous heart thumping so furiously in his chest that he could hear the dull ringing in his ears.

Little did he know Marinette was in a similar situation to him.

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Marinette POV

Marinette peeked over to Adrien to see him already delving into her entry. She gulped back her pure fear, what would he think after reading it? She didn't mean to make it so deep or heartbreaking but her heart overflowed with  racing thoughts that poured into words on her blank page. What would he think? 

He would probably find it too dramatic... or maybe he'd think it is too cliche, with the forbidden love reference. She cringed imagining his face after reading it. But everything she wrote was true. She meant every word and couldn't help how it sounded. 

Oh well, the assignment was to write something out how Ladybug feels about Chat Noir, and that was how Ladybug felt. To hell if it was cringe-worthy, it was how she felt.

She quickly snapped out of her thoughts realizing she should get to proofreading soon, so with her hesitation tucked away she opened to a bookmarked page of Adrien's notebook and began to read.

Entry 1: Chat Noir 

How is it that one can claim to love someone so, when they are the cause of their suffering? And how is it fair that the world allows you to continue doing so? 

My faithful heart beats for her like no other. She was once my beautiful light, my safe haven, the lady of my dreams. The only one, the only one. And yet I traitorously broke her. I am the loathsome one to blame for smothering her passionate light.  

I thought I could spare her from my contagious darkness by pushing her away, but by doing so, I fear my darkness has infected her anyways.

Being without her is utter agony. Trying to hold the shattered pieces of my soul together, refraining myself from reaching for her, begging for her light to once more shine down on me. I soothe my aching heart by imagining that she will one day be mine as I will always be hers, but I am a coward. 

I watched in devastation as I allowed my true love, my light, to slowly slip through my fingers. I lost her. 

My foolish heart once overflowing with an abyss of wondrous light is now  consumed by the unforgiving darkness. For my lady is gone. Without her smile, laugh, and joy I am numb. 

She brought joy and meaning into my sorrowful life, filled my days with her beautiful light. With her smile. Without her, without her, I am once more empty. Angry, broken. 

 I can't stand to be parted from her, my sweet brave lady, but I do not deserve her. She does not deserve to be weighed down by me and my tainted soul. She deserves someone as pure as her, someone who can hold her up rather than pull her down.

I have chased after her affection for so long, that I didn't stop to think what would happen if she ever returned my burning passion for her love. I forgot that we were opposites, different, two halves of a whole, but never meant to be combined. 

I wish to surrender to my hopeless desire, nothing in this world do I long for more. But my blazing dream will never touch the sweet light of day as our love was doomed from the start.  

So I ask myself, why is it that we fall in love with those who we can never be with? Why is it that life chooses to hurt us so?

I claim to love her, but I am not allowed to. Our love is forbidden. Too real and raw for this cruel world. I can only hope that maybe one day, she will find someone who can love her. If she is happy, I can tuck my selfish wants for her away. I can live with the pain, but I cannot live with her in pain.

I would do anything for her, be anything for her. Because she is my lady and forever in my heart, she will remain. 

Marinette didn't know how she was expected to feel.

Marinette didn't know how she was expected to comprehend the words on the paper in front of her.

How was she supposed to proofread something that made her want to curl up in a ball and cry.

She didn't know whether to cry or give Chat to a hug.

Chat Noir didn't write this, her brain reminded her.

Marinette remembered where she was. This was a school project, it wasn't supposed to make her heart feel things like that.

Get it together Marinette!

She tried to focus on proofreading, but the words kept getting stuck in her mind.

Marinette did her best to proofread, but before she knew it, the bell was ringing and she was giving Adrien the notebook back.

Even though she didn't have the notebook in front of her, the words inside of it were etched in her brain.