Day 4

Adrien opened his eyes groggily. It took him a moment to remember where he was. He was surrounded by a mass of pillows and blankets; something soft was wrapped around his middle. Adrien smiled when he realised what, or more accurately who, it was. Marinette clung to him like he was her favorite teddy bear. It took everything in him not to pull her closer and snuggle, she was so warm and smelled incredible. Instead he gently put his hand on her shoulder and shook her awake.

"Five more minutes," She grumbled and attached herself more tightly around his side.

"Marinette," Adrien said softly, trying to rouse her from her sleep, although he didn't particularly want her to let go.

Her eyes fluttered open. "W-what. Adrien?"

She suddenly seemed to realize that she was gripping him like a cobra. She sprung onto her feet with speed he didn't know was humanly possible.

"Adrien! I-uh sorry about that! When I'm asleep I grab whatever is closest to me. Alya hates it. Usually she sleeps on the settee so she doesn't have to deal with me." She was obviously flustered and he smiled in an attempt to calm her nerves.

"It's okay I don't mind."

Her face turned pink and scratched the back of her head nervously.

"The blizzard stopped," She said in an attempt to change the subject, "I guess that means you should probably head home."

She must have seen his face fall because she quickly corrected herself.

"Not that I don't want you here! I love having you- I mean it's fun when you come over! And my parents don't mind at all, they love you too! Er- I mean, they love having you over too."

"Yeah I should probably get going, my dad's going to wonder where I'm at." He couldn't help the frown that came to his face. He'd almost forgotten that he'd have to return to his lonely house.

"W-well," Marinette stammered, sensing that he was reluctant to leave. "You could probably stay a little longer… It's going to take them a while to clear the roads enough for people to drive on them."

"That's right!" Adrien beamed, "What do you want to do until then?"

Adrien sucked at building snowmen. He'd been out in the snow for an hour already and all he had to show for it was a weird looking lump with a carrot sticking out the top. Marinette on the other hand was some sort of snowman building Michelangelo. Her snowmen had turned out perfectly. While Adrien was struggling to make something that sort of resembled a snowman, Marinette had the time to make a whole snow family! Complete with a snow man, woman, child, and even a snow cat!

"Useless skill to have anyway." Adrien grumbled under his breath.

"I'm sorry what was that?" Marinette turned toward him quizzically. She had just been putting the finishing touches on the little snow cat.

"Oh, Er- I was just saying how good you are at building snow men!"

Marinette blushed.

"Thanks! My family and I build some every year. I'm sure yours is great too…" Her words trailed off as she turned to look at his disaster of a snowman. She tried, and failed, to keep from giggling when she saw what he'd come up with.

"It's not that bad." Adrien pouted. Anyone's snowmen would have looked like crap next to Marinette's.

"No, you're right," She said, biting her lip in an attempt to contain more laughter. "I think it's kind of cute."
"Liar." He grinned at her.

"No, I wasn't lying I was just- Hey!" Marinette words were cut off as Adrien hurled a snowball at her head. It crashed against the side of her face, spraying snow all over her. Suddenly she fell to the ground, and looked up at him dolefully.

Adrien rushed over immediately and offered her a hand.

"I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to hit your face, I was just-"
As Adrien helped her up he was met with a face full of snow. He wiped the snow from his face to find Marinette grinning at him devilishly.

"Oh, it's on!" He cried as he picked up another handful of snow. Marinette yelped and ran to hide behind his snowman.

He tried to sneak up on her, but was met with another face full of snow.

"Hey!" he cried indignantly.

He tried to fire his snowball at her, but his vision was obscured by snow.

Marinette giggled as she easily evaded his attack.

She about to aim another snowball at him, but he was ready for her this time.

Before she could hit him again, Adrien tackled her to the ground. A flurry of snow came up around them, covering them both. Marinette shrieked with laughter as they both fell. Adrien was laughing too, it had been awhile since he let loose. He liked not having to carefully monitor everything he did or said.

Marinette looked up at him with a smile on her lips. Her cheeks were red from the cold and she had snowflakes scattered in her hair. It was the cutest he'd ever seen her look. He opened his mouth to say something when a car horn sounded behind them.

Quickly, Adrien stood up and dusted himself off. He offered a hand to Marinette, who looked like she'd just come out of a trance.

"I guess that's my ride." He said nervously "I'll see you at school?"

"Y-yeah, See you at school."

As Adrien drove home, he saw that he had a new message from Ladybug.

"Cats are my favorite animals."

And so concludes the fourth day of Chatmas. I didn't know whether or not I was going to post this chapter. My computer broke and so I couldn't finish it in time for Christmas. I already had most of this chapter done, so I figured I might as well upload it. Let me know if you guys think I should finish this fic even though it is obviously no longer Christmas. If I do end up continuing it then I probably won't be able to upload everyday. I'm also going to need lots of ideas for future chapters because my mind is kind of at a blank.

That's all for now,

Kamryn.

(P.S. if you're reading this comment something embarrassing that happened to you around Christmas time.)