from the center of the earth (i have loved none but you) ⋆ ch 6: put your head on my shoulder
After texting to see which day suits both of their busy schedules, Jason takes Marinette out the following Friday.
She has what feels like the entire cavalry helping her get ready; while she rummages through her closet, Alya and Chloé are busy roleplaying and making up ridiculous scenarios over the phone, while Luka lounges on the chaise and pets Fang’s snout. She hadn’t intended on telling him about her date, but Jagged had spilled the beans for her.
“I’m just telling you to expand your options, Dupain-Cheng,” Chloé scoffs, pointing a freshly-manicured nail at the screen. “I thought you designers were supposed to have an open mind.”
“Okay, one: I’m not going to Bali with a man I just met. And two: in no universe is a man I just met going to ask me to go to Bali with him!”
“C’mon, Nette, where’s the imagination?” Alya teases.
“If he’s not willing to do something as simple as that,” Chloé sniffs disdainfully, “maybe he’s not the one for you, Dupain-Cheng.”
“As if going to Bali is simple,” Marinette replies loudly, knee-deep in her closet as she looks for that one skirt she swears she’d tossed somewhere upon moving in.
“Puh-lease. It is when his last name is Wayne.”
Jackpot! The designer turns on her heel, facing her phone with the skirt in hand. “That’s—wait,” she frowns when she realizes they’re just trying to rile her up. They often do so for the main purpose of fun and the occasional secondary purpose of de-stressing. “You are too good at this, you know?”
Chloé flips her hair over her shoulder. “I’m good at everything, darling.”