Asked by crispypata

Prompt: Adrien asks Nathalie for girl advice (whether he asks purposefully or accidentally blurts out the question is up to you)

At the third sigh, Nathalie looked up from her tablet to peer at Adrien.

“Is your homework difficult?” she asked as Adrien started guiltily, straightening in his chair as Nathalie walked over. She glanced at the papers sprawled on the dining room table. “Do you need extra tutoring?”

“No! No, nothing like that,” he said, shaking his head. He spun his pen in his hand before a thoughtful look crossed his face. “Actually…you might be able to help.”

Nathalie lowered her tablet, her full attention on Adrien.

“What is it?” she asked.

Pink tinted his cheeks. “There’s this girl…”

Immediately, Nathalie’s mind went blank.

“…she’s incredible.”

No.

“And awesome.”

No.

“Crazy awesome!”

The whole reason she supported Adrien going to public school was so that she wouldn’t be forced to teach him sex education!

“She’s brave and fun and smart—the smartest girl I know—and she has the most amazing blue eyes—”

“I don’t think I’m qualified to help you,” Nathalie interrupted.

Adrien boggled at her. “What? But you don’t even know the problem!”

“By your description, I’m assuming you’re harbouring some form of affection for this girl,” she guessed, resigned to her fate.

Her charge blushed brighter. “Y-yeah…,” he said.

“And you’re gathering the courage to ask her on a date.”

“I already did,” he told her. “She always turns me down.”

Surprised, Nathalie focused on Adrien Agreste, heir to the Agreste estate, fashion print model, accomplished trilingual athlete, and literal ray of sunshine.

…He wasn’t very sunshine-like at the moment.

Adrien should be having this conversation with his mother, she thought abruptly. Instead, he was left with a work-obsessed father, a stoic bodyguard, and a personal assistant who loathed the personal.

She pulled out a chair, sitting next to him.

“Start from the beginning,” said Nathalie.