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Chapter 9 - Chapter 9

Thursday

Luna slept in for the day since she her week off starts today. She was peacefully sleeping when Kelly suddenly barges in her room and screamed, waking Luna up of course. "Bitch! You didn't tell me last night that freaking Adrien confessed to you!" Kelly yelled before jumping on Luna. "Bitch get off me, you're ruining my beauty sleep" Luna said and pushed Kelly off her, making Kelly fall off on her butt. "Meanie! Wake up and tell me the tea" Kelly said, standing up and shaking Luna to wake up. "I'll tell you if you buy me my favorite frappe and my favorite cookies" Luna requested. Kelly didn't even bother to respond and went out her room to buy her what she wanted. "I'm too spoilt by you, I am so sorry" Luna quietly said and chuckled. After a few moments, she finally sat up and checked her phone to see that Adrien texted her.

Adrien: Good morning Luna, just wanted to ask if you're free today?

Luna just stared at the text before responding back.

Luna: Yeah, my week off starts today, why'd you asked?

Adrien: I was wondering if you want to hang out today? We can stop by the mall near the headquarters. There's this store that I want to show you

Luna: Alright, what time should I meet you, and where?

Adrien: I'll be picking you up around 11 am, is that good?

Luna: Good for me, I'll see you then

Luna then switched her phone off after having a conversation with Adrien. She did her short morning routine and went downstairs to find Kelly sitting on the couch in the living room, she also noticed the box of her favorite cookies and her favorite coffee as well. "tea" Kelly simply said with a grin on her face. Luna rolled her eyes and sat beside Kelly. She took her coffee and took a sip before telling Kelly what happened.

After explaining what happened yesterday and finishing one dozen of cookies, Kelly squealed in excitement and jumped around like a little kid. "he texted me earlier, we're going out today since he said he wanted to hang out" Luna added. Kelly stopped jumping, ran towards Luna, and gripped her shoulders. "then what the hell are you waiting for? Go get fucking ready!" She yelled, making Luna scrunch her nose. "Bitch, you didn't need to yell at me for Christ's sake" Luna exclaimed before standing up to get to her room.

10:50 am

Luna is just finishing up her make up and hair. She wore a casual, knee-length white dress, partnered with beige heels and bag. She curled her hair a little bit and put on a light make-up look; winged eyeliner, eyebrows, mascara, and nude-colored lipstick. She also hid her small but sharp knife under her dress, a leather strap with a belt to hold the knife was tied around Luna's right thigh. After finishing up her look, she looked at the mirror and checked if she's all good.

"Why did I even put this much effort," her conscious mind thought

"You want to impress him," her subconscious mind answered.

Luna rolled her eyes at that thought and grabbed her handbag. The moment she went downstairs, her doorbell rang. "coming!" she yelled and walked towards the door. She opened it and saw Adrien standing there. He's wearing a casual white long sleeves, black pants, and white rubber shoes. His hair is let loose since Ace told us that if ever, we're out in public, we need a cover-up look, so that when we're "working", no one can recognize us. His hair is not tied up like he would usually do when we're training.

Luna didn't realize that she was staring at Adrien until he spoke. "earth to Luna?" He said and snapped Luna out of her thoughts. "Sorry, it's just, it's been so long since I've seen you in your cover-up look" Luna excused. "sure, let's go?" Adrien asked. Luna nodded and they both started to walk towards Adrien's car.

After a few minutes, they finally arrived at the mall. They walked in side by side and looked around while talking and laughing a little. Adrien then took Luna to the store he was talking about earlier. "I know you're not the type who buys these things, but I just had to bring you here. Their jewelry here is amazing" Adrien explained as they arrived at the little jewelry store. Luna looked around and was unexpectedly astonished, considering she's not the type of girl who likes wearing jewelry. While she was looking around, she came across a two matching necklace and its pendant shows the yin and yang. "Pretty," she thought while staring at the matching necklaces. Adrien noticed Luna staring at something. He walked towards her and saw what she was staring at.

"Ms. Washington?" someone slightly yelled from outside the store. Luna looked at the direction of the voice to see that it was one of her coworkers. "Hey Ara" she greeted and walked out of the store to have a small conversation with her coworker,

Meanwhile, Adrien took this opportunity and bought the two matching necklaces Luna was staring at earlier and went to Luna after. "oh, aren't you the one who visited Christine before?" Ara asked as Adrien walked beside Luna. "He's-" Luna was about to introduce him properly, but she got cut off by Adrien. "I'm Lucas, her boyfriend," he said and placed his arm around Luna's shoulders. Luna was about to deny, but Ara suddenly spoke. "Oh my, you didn't tell us you have a boyfriend Christine" she exclaimed, feeling a little envious since she thinks that Adrien is good looking. "well, I don't want to take much of your time, enjoy the rest of the day you two" Ara added and walked away.

Luna slapped Adrien's hand so that he gets his arms off her. "the hell was that dude?" Luna asked, a little mad. "what? As if something bad will happen" Adrien said and walked ahead. "sure, telling people that you're my boyfriend won't do any harm, considering you just told that to one of my coworkers" She responded while catching up with him. "oh look, your favorite store is up ahead" Adrien said to distract Luna. She was about to speak but stopped when she saw the store ahead of them. she walked quickly ahead of Adrien and went into the store.

"I haven't been in here for so long," Luna said in awe. Adrien just admired her, it's a rare thing to see Luna with an amused facial expression. Luna quickly walked towards an aisle and looked for something. After a few minutes, she finally found what she's looking for. "Oh, my, God, it's still here!" She exclaimed as she picked up an elegant looking planner. Adrien heard her little scream and went to where she was. "why are you yelling" He asked. "when I was still a kid, I secretly went out with some friend and we went to this store in our city, and then I saw this planner and I wanted to buy it before, but I couldn't since mother would throw it away if she sees anything unnecessary in my room" Luna explained. "But now, I can definitely buy it" she added before looking around the store some more.

Adrien and Luna went out of the store, Luna had a paper bag in hand. She bought the planner, some sign pens, and a pouch that has a "my shit" printed on it.

For the rest of the day, they just played some games in an arcade and ate dinner together. Both of them enjoyed their time, which is surprising, considering that Luna doesn't go to the mall often or do fun activities that don't involve guns and knives since her definition of "fun activities" is when she's training or killing her targets.

"Oh shit" Adrien blurted out while Luna and he was about to go out of the mall. "what is it?" Luna asked

"One of my friends texted, he said I need to meet him by his house and that it's urgent"

"Oh, okay. I can just call Kelly to pick me up" Luna said, grabbing her phone from her bag.

"I'm really sorry. But before I leave, I want you to have this. Good night Luna, see you tomorrow at the headquarters" he gave a small silver box to her and left.

Luna puts back her phone in her bag and opened the little box Adrien had given to her. It was the matching necklace she saw earlier, but without the yang one. She already knows that Adrien is wearing the one with the yang pendant, and with that thought, she smiled. She picked up the necklace, put the box in her bag, and wore the necklace. She was admiring the jewelry that's hanging around her neck when someone suddenly tapped her shoulder. She turned around and her smile immediately dropped.

"are you kidding me?" Luna said and rolled her eyes. "aw, my fiancé isn't happy to see me" Michael said with a grin

"what the hell do you want Michael?"

"I'm just here to pick up the love of my life"

"gross. I don't need you to pick me up. and how in the world did you know I was here"

"well, little Ara told me you're here with your boyfriend. Lucas was his name, right?"

"Adrien, you nitwit," she thought

"He's not my boyfriend, he's just a friend of mine who likes to mess with people, not that it matters anyway. Now, if you'd excuse me, I have a call to make" with that, Luna walked away from Michael. She grabbed her phone and called Kelly to pick her up.

"hey Lu"

"Hey kell, can you pick me up?"

"I thought Adrien is with you?"

"he had somewhere else to go"

"so not how a boyfriend should act"

"Oh shut up and pick me up"

"Alright alright, be there in a few minutes"

After some minutes, Kelly arrived and went back home with Luna.