Here is the outline, as promised. I may be flakey, but I'm not so cruel as to leave you guys hanging eternally. Each paragraph was planned to be another chapter, starting with chapter 19.

They go back to his place after because Marinette is tipsy and would rather not have her parents see that, but they are photographed leaving the party together. They hang out on a balcony, and they talk about the last time they were on a balcony together. They finally kiss. Marinette goes home, where her parents are fast asleep, leaves them a fridge note saying she is home, and goes up to her room. She falls asleep in her underwear.

The next day she is awakened way too early by a phone call from Alya. She is told to check the gossip websites, which show her and Adrien leaving the party together, then arriving at his place together. Marinette explains that nothing happened, which Alya calls her on because Nino told her everything. Marinette 9/10 thought kissing Adrien was a dream. When Alya hangs up, Marinette barely has time to pick out a comfortable outfit for a day of stay at home and work, when Adrien calls. He asks if she made it home alright, she confirms, he asks if she maybe wants to go out for lunch. She says no because she is swamped with work and also embarrassed.

Adrien is crushed. He talks to Plagg about it, who is zero percent helpful. He then calls Nino, who he called right after Mari left, to talk it over, and he is also not super helpful as he is barely awake. He is then called down to his father's office, where he is shown the tabloid articles, and assumes that is why Mari turned him down, because she doesn't like being intruded on. He has a serious talk with his father about his future. Marinette runs into her parents, who barely follow important news, and know nothing about her adventures except that she had a good time.

At school on Monday both Adrien and Mari get badgered about if they are official or not. At lunch, Adrien asks if Marinette would mind having lunch with him, and she says yes, despite that people will talk, because they need to clear some shit up. At the same place as their first lunch, they discuss if they are a couple now. Mari tries to act nonchalant, asking if he wants them to be a couple. They both are very "I don't know what do you want to do?" while screaming internally. Eventually they determine not to label it, but that she would keep attending events with him.

After final exams, through which they did a good amount of comfortable platonic studying, there is the July fashion shows. The first night of the week long event exhausts Marinette so much that she just crashes at the Agreste house, sleeping in one of the long unused guest suites. This happens again the second night, and Adrien asks the next morning if she would like to just stay there until fashion week ended. After calling her mom, who thinks it is a fine idea, as long as she sleeps in a guest room, she accepts and goes home to get all her outfits for the rest of the week, along with some of the pieces she is working on for her store.

The third night, Marinette, tipsy again because she is all about champagne, falls asleep on the couch in Adrien's room, he carries her to his bed and goes to sleep on the couch but she stops him and pulls him down next to her. Trapped by her arm, he tries to get comfortable beside her and eventually falls asleep.

The next morning, Marinette wakes up alone in Adrien's room. She goes to look for him, stopping by the kitchen to get coffee, only to find him working out in the "fitness studio", shirtless. She watches him, not wanting to interrupt and also admiring the view, until he notices her standing in the doorway. She passes him his water from the bench by the door and asks why she woke up in his bed when she remembers falling asleep not in his bed. He explains, not mentioning the part about him sleeping there as well, but as he talks she totally remembers him being there.

They both shower and get dressed before heading out to get lunch at a hella trendy, celebrity favorite, cafe. They are photographed, which Adrien apologises for, but Marinette explains it doesn't really bother her. She has years of experience being photographed as ladybug, even if it had been a while. He is confused for a sec, before going back to gushing about his soup.

That night, not wanting Marinette to get drunk again, and operating on bad logic, Adrien keeps taking her half finished champagne flutes and then drinking them himself. He gets kinda trashed and starts acting foolish, so Marinette has them leave. In the car he can't stop complimenting her. His drunk ass thinks he is being poetic, but he is really just sounding kinda dumb, which Marinette thinks is cute. She has Madeline, the Agrest head of household happenings, get him to bed while she goes and changes to sleep. She goes to check on him to find him still awake and staring out his huge windows.

Adrien rambles about missing Ladybug, how he looked for her after the Mayor called for the desist of superheroics. He says he found Volpina once, just hanging out, but she hadn't seen her either. He said he thought he saw her on their ski trip, but it was just, her Marinette. He looked so broken inside that Marinette was tempted to tell him, but instead she just said she was sure Ladybug was fine, wherever she was and helped Adrien to bed. He asked her to stay and she did, trying to forget about how sad he had sounded as she was wrapped up in the arms of the guy she had been hoping would fall for her for years. Thinking that maybe he had fallen for her alter-ego a long time ago.

Marinette awakes first, poorly rested. She slips out of Adrien's arms, noticing his morning wood, and goes to get breakfast. She take it to the guest room to talk with Tiki, who slept a lot lately. She talked with the Kwami, who said, after thinking about it for a while, thought she might want to tell Adrien who she was. When asked why, Tiki said she would be leaving soon, which Marinette had expected, and that she would need proof if she was ever going to tell anyone. Adrien has a conversation with Plagg when he wakes up in which the cat tells him he almost blew it last night, and gave away his secret identity to Marinette, saying it's best to tell her outright, and not let it slip when you are drunk and sad.

Adrien is about to knock on the door to Marinette's room when she opens the door. She invites him in and he apologises for last night, which she tells him not to do, then he says he needs her to keep what he says next a secret. He then reveals himself, then she reveals herself. They say nothing for like a solid two minutes before releasing their transformations, and Adrien leaving immediately.

They go to another fashion show and act like everything is fine, both of them drinking rather heavily and then leaving early. In the car, Marinette leans on his shoulder and says how much she missed him. He expresses the same sentiment, leaning down to kiss her head. They stay like that, then walk into the Agrest manor hand in hand. When Marinette goes to break away and head to her room, Adrien kisses her deeply. It turns into full on hallway makeouts, with him whispering apologies and her whispering, it's alright. And it was.

Hope y'all feel like that would have been an ok way to wrap the story. Stay tuned for a cute little epilouge I wrote way in advance and would hate to go to waste!