Ch.1

"By the way, I don't care."

"Excuse me? What do you mean you don't care?" Chloe huffed, crossed her arms and pouted in the usual 'Chloe way'.

Nathanael sighed, put down his pencil and turned to face her. "It means that I don't care how outrageous it was of her to ask that of you or what not. Just get to the point already!"

"Hey! I am trying to ask a favour here! It's hard okay!"

"Alright, just get on with it."

Chloe took a deep breath to calm her nerves. This was way more nerve wracking than she thought it would be! And she doubted that Nathanael would actually say yes and agree to it but it was a chance she was willing to take as she did not know any other boy who could live up to her mother's expectations. Well, there was Adrien but he was currently in a relationship with Marinette Dupain-Cheng and believe it or not, Chloe actually felt happy for her best friend.

"Okay! Here goes nothing! Or everything? No, no panicking, alright girl c'mon! Oh God! Now I'm rambling, will you be my fake boyfriend in front of my mother, Please?"

"What?"

"Oh God! I can't believe I said that!"

"Me neither."

Nathanael sighed, again, as he furrowed his brow in thought while Chloe gave him a look which said that his comment wasn't helping. "But seriously I wasn't expecting you of all people to ask me to be their fake boyfriend as we don't even say 'Hello' when we pass each other."

"Hey! I smile at you every time."

"Yeah, yeah I noticed. And my friends kept asking too that why I was being given looks by Chloe Bourgeois." Nathanael had now started fidgeting with his pencil, looking at Chloe for any hints of deceit in her. But he didn't think she would do something so low like asking him to pretend to be her boyfriend as a joke. No, Chloe Bourgeois had changed since school. She had become much nicer and had apologised personally to everyone too, including him. The biggest change of all was that she and Marinette were actually friends. That was a shocker to everyone. She was still best friends with Sabrina though and she had gotten much closer to Adrien too. Well, the past was history now and she had amended all her mistakes. None held a grudge against her now. Perhaps a very few who had no mercy but most of it was forgotten for the best. People had moved on and so had Chloe.

"Yeah, because I thought we were friends. We are friends, aren't we?"

There was a pause, a slight hesitation, before Nathanael finally spoke up, "Yeah, we are".

"Okay, I am glad we got that out of the way. Now, your answer?"

"Hmmm, let's see... What do I get out of it?"

"What do you want?"

"I don't know yet. You can't just suddenly ask me. Well, I'll think about it and as long as you agree to do what I want later too, then okay I can think about it."

"As long as it's not weird or out of morale or something you know, I can do it."

"Okay..."

"So is it a yes?"

"Let me think about it for a day. I'll let you know tomorrow."

"Alright, thank you."

"I've not said yes yet"

"At least you're considering it. That's enough of a reason for me to say thank you, isn't it?"

"Yeah, it is. Now please go, I have a due date and want to finish this project. And I'm already running behind schedule as somebody wasted half an hour in rambling."

"Oh! I'm sorry I'll leave you to it now. Bye."

"Bye"

And as the door to his dorm closed, Nathanael pondered over one question which he was desperate to ask. Why him? It wasn't as if they were good enough of friends except a few hand waves so why would she want him, out of all the boys she could choose from, to be her boyfriend. Fake boyfriend at that. Well, he could always ask tomorrow.

Now, the question was, should he accept?