Uptown, Downtown (Chat Noir x Reader) - Book 1

28 | If I Left, Would You Care?

Something about Chloé going to a fashion show made you nervous. Maybe it was that Adrien was probably going to be there; or maybe it was that Adrien was going to model Marinette’s hat, and that would probably give her a relapse into her obsessive phase; or maybe it was going to be full of famous, bourgeoisie people.

Most likely a combination of all four of those things.

The entire ordeal made you sick to your stomach. Chloé had seemed ecstatic at her mother coming back, although it made you anxious; you’d done some research on Audrey Bourgeois, and came to the conclusion that she was an awful person, and the exact reason as to why capitalism was so bad.

Scary. Real, fucking scary shit right here, you’d rather be in The Shining, to be honest. You were sort of glad that you hadn’t been invited.

Oh, right — and Adrien. Oh, sweet, sweet Adrien, who’d revealed in the most chaotic way possible to you that he was the cat boy who had come into your room every night for the past three months.

You’d had a long conversation about it, so he was less worried about the entire ordeal, in which you swore you wouldn’t tell a soul that he was Chat Noir; and then he cried a little bit, and hugged you, blubbering something about you being the best friend he’d ever had.

You were still trying to process why he’d chosen you of all people to tell, but here you were. It wasn’t like you could just go back on it all now, was it?

In fact, ever since that incident, he'd become even more attached to you. Joining you at lunch, popping into your room more frequently during the evenings, and generally being more… touchy than usual.

He even managed to convince his bodyguard to let him stop off at the Starbucks you worked at after school, so he could have a drink made by you. And that was certainly a huge effort on his part, you'd give him that.

Also, you’d met Plagg, which was a weird type of creature that caused Adrien to transform, and gave him his powers. Now, you’d say it before anything else; Plagg was an entire mood. He valued cheese over everything else, and putting food first was something you respected very much, so you two got along quite well, much to Adrien’s annoyance. It was also the fact that Plagg would sometimes tell you, when Adrien wasn’t listening, about how much the blond boy talked about you.

It was embarrassing, but also sweet. Though, Plagg didn’t really specify whether it was platonic or romantic love, but you could live with that.

What you didn't expect was that the fashion show you’d mentioned previously would reveal some things you never thought you'd know.

Chloé; Chloé of all people, was Queen Bee; and then she attempted to impress her mother by knocking out a train driver, and trying to stop the vehicle from crashing. This then resulted in her getting akumatized, and then finally giving the miraculous back to Ladybug, and apologising on live television for what she’d done.

Reckless? Yes. Stupid? Yes. Awful? Yes.

But… could you blame her?

Chloé was a child, who didn't understand what the real world was like, and was more than willing to go to the farthest extents to get her mum's approval. She was hurt, very hurt, by how everyone around her seemed to just… hate her. Her actions had been terrible, but they had been understandable.