Chapter 20

Marinette's P.O.V:

"Please stay together class." Madame Mendeleiev looked up from her clip board. "One last headcount and we can leave for the bus."

"You really have no idea where he's taking you?" Chloe asks me as our teacher checks off names on the clip board. "No. But he did just text me that he's out front next to the bus." I look away from my phone. "I guess I'll see you all tomorrow at the Gotham recycling plant." I put my arms out for a group hug.

"Marinette." Madame Mendeleiev looks at me. "Has your ride arrived?"

"Yes ma'am." I smile brightly at the teacher. "The car is waiting for me out front."

"Good." The science teacher nodded. "We can all depart then." She guides our class out the front door."So, what kind of slums are you forced to live in now, Maritrash?" Lila slows down to talk to my group of friends. "That's none of your business, you lying snake." Alix speaks up for me.

"Oh, it's that bad, huh?" She cackles at my group of friends. "I'm just glad that we don't have to see your ugly mug as often."

"The feeling's mutual." I deadpanned at the Italian. "But its nice to know that you think of me so much."

"Whatever." She scoffs. "Have fun in whatever rat hole you're staying at."

"You know I will." I give her one of the most forced smile I could muster up.

"Woah! Look at that car dudes!" Nino yells from a few feet in front of us. My class looks over to see Damian casually leaning against his black 1961 Jaguar E-Type. The moment his eyes lock onto mine, he pushes off the car to stand and smile at me.

"That's my ride." I wave at my friends. "Bye everyone!" I yell to my class as I walk over to Damian. I glance one last time at Lila to see her staring at the car and Damian with her mouth hanging open.

"Hello, Angel." He opens the passenger door for me as I get closer. "How was your day today?" I stand up on my toes to give him a quick peck on the cheek before sliding into the car. "A million times better now that you're here."

Damian reaches up to touch his cheek where I just kissed him and he blushes before looking down at me in the car. "What was that for?" He asks with a soft smile. "Nothing. Just felt like it." I give him a soft smile as I pat the driver's seat. "Are you coming?"

"Yes." He shuts the passenger door and walks around the car to get in on the driver's side. "I think your class is staring at us." Damian starts the car.

"Yeah." I break into a large smile. "I think you just proved Lila wrong and also, I don't think any of them have seen a car like this." I look around at the beautiful interior.

"Proved her wrong how?" He asks.

"Pretty sure she's been telling people that I'm living in some shack with a bunch of poor people. I think she thinks that Jason is a homeless man or something." I laugh at the thought of it as Damian backs out of his parking space.

"Did you tell him she said that?" He raised an eyebrow at me. "No. I do NOT need her to mysteriously go missing." I giggle.

"You are too nice to people, Angel." He fondly looks at me. "She doesn't deserve your kindness."

"Maybe I'm just taking the whole 'kill them with kindness' thing too seriously." I say sarcastically. "Where are you taking me anyways?"

"Just out to dinner." Damian looks over at me. "You okay with that?"

"Dinner sounds nice. What's the restaurant called?"

"We aren't going to a restaurant." He looks over to see her confused face. "We are having dinner on a rooftop."

I give him another one of my signature smiles. "Oh! We actually first met on a roof top. Coming full circle, are we?"

"Sort of. Only this time we won't be on top of a hotel."-----------------Damian drives into an underground parking garage next to a vary large building. "Up there's where we will be. This building is still under construction so its not too likely anyone will find us up there."

"Are we trespassing?" I look at him worried.

"No. Technically it's fathers building and he knows we are here." He opens up his door and quickly gets out to open mine.

"Really?" I step out and he closes the door behind me. "What's this building going to be anyways?" Damian takes my hand as we walk towards the building.

"This building is mainly for Wayne Tech's science department among other things." He gives me a knowing look.

"Oh." I nod. "I gotcha."

Once at the front door, Damian pulls out a key and opens the door and after we walk inside, he locks it behind us. Looking around, I see plastic lining the floors with ladders and stray paint cans lying around.

"Come on." He smiles at me as he holds his hand out for me to grab. "The elevator is this way."

I take his hand again and he leads me to the elevators on the far wall. Stepping inside, Damian presses the button for the top floor. The entire ride up, I felt nothing but excited and nervousness for our date. I can tell Damian felt the same. When the elevator doors open, Damian lead me around the corner to the rooftop access door that is up a flight of stairs.

"Close your eyes." He turns to face me.

Closing my eyes, I smile to myself when Damian starts to lead me in the correct direction. I hear a door open and shut and can feel the rooftop gravel shift under my feet as I walk.

"Okay." Damian says softy. "You can open your eyes now."

Slowly, I open my eyes to see everything before me. In the middle of the roof is a small circular table with a chair on either side. A covered plate was on the table in front of both chairs and a singular rose was in a vase on the center of the table. Looking off onto the horizon, I could see that to the west was the port where all the boats come into the city and to the east was the perfect view of Gotham's city skyline.

"Wow." I say breathlessly. "I had no idea we were so close to the water. The city looks so beautiful from up here."

"Wait until you see it at night." I look over to where he moved and see him holding out the chair for me to sit on.

"Thank you." I sit down as he pushes the chair in for me. "This is probably the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me." I smile at him as he takes his seat across from me.

"I'm glad you like it. This whole set up was actually Grayson's idea though." Damian looks into my bluebell eyes. "I had no idea what to do. I've never been on a date before."

"Well this is perfect." I look down at my plate. "I guess I don't have to steal anyone's food today."

"If you want, we can steal something else of Todd's." He gives me a mischievous grin.

"Do you do that often?" I raise an eyebrow at him.

"Not as often as I used to." He admits.

"Mmm." I nod at him. "So, what's on the menu today?"

"Spaghetti." He lifts up the lids to show the delicious looking pasta is still steaming on the plate.

"Oh, I love pasta." I say excitedly.