Chapter 2
Info: The word "Awesome" is spelled as "Ausome" purposely.
Behind the darkness, the light turned on and it showed four gymnastic benches lying on the larger part of it on the ground. Over every bench, there was a towel of the color of each team.
"So my dear candidates, I'd like to come with you here" Said Alec then everyone from the colored couch stood up and followed the bald man to the benches.
"So here we are and I'm going to explain to you how this goes." Said Alec picking up one of the towels. One of your group has to put on of the towel around his eyes and the partner has to guide you over there, without any of you have to fall down. You know imagine the floor was lava" Said Alec jokingly and a few laughed.
"The memes of it are hilarious" Admitted Kim to Max, which nodded.
"So talk with each other about, who covers the eyes and who guides" Said Alec and all talked now with each other.
"I cover my eyes and you do the work" Said Chloé to Sabrina and she agreed.
"I think I walk over the bench, what do you think?" Asked Kim looking at his short friend.
"Our chance to win is 75%" Responded Max.
"Great," Said Kim and Lila hold the towel looking at Nathaniel.
"You sure you want to do that?" Asked Nathaniel.
"Don't worry, you're great" Responded Lila. "You're definitely better in leading someone than me" Replied Lila with a wink.
"I wouldn't say so," Told Nathaniel. "I'm afraid, if I fall down or if I cause you to fall down"
"Don't worry Nathaniel, I trust you"
"You do?" Asked Nathaniel surprised.
"I have my full confidence on you," Said Lila covering her eyes.
"Okay," Said Nathaniel and helped Lila climbing the bench up.
"You stay now looking with your face towards the long bench," Told Nathaniel and she nodded.
"Thank you," Said Lila and Nathaniel climbed on the bench too, as the others had done.
Alec walked between the benches to announce the challenge.
"Now my kids, after I say go, you guys start trying to help your friend, while you're on the bench too, to the end of the bench, without falling down alone or together. Ready?"
"Ready!" Shouted all candidates.
"Set, go!" Shouted Alec and the helpers started to help the others to the other side slowly.
"Good, good Adrien," Said Nino walking backward, while Adrien tried to follow Nino's voice. "Imagine it like were trying to escape from Chloé with some obstacles."
"Hey, I heard that!" Shouted Chloé and Sabrina had a motivating idea for the girl.
"Hey Chloé try to be faster or we lose them," Said Sabrina then shrieked as Chloé tried to go by herself a bit faster. "Be careful Chlo"
"Left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot!" Yelled Max while Kim did the passes easily without fumbling up everything.
Lila was okay but had one or another moment, where she loses her balance, but manages it, without falling down.
"Great," Said Nathaniel walking backward, while Lila walked elegantly above the bench. More or less.
"Woah!" Replied Lila, but managed to find balance again on the bench.
"Well done, come follow me," Said Nathaniel and Lila walked closer to him.
"Well done!" Shouted Max as he arrived with Kim to the end.
"Did somebody already win?" Asked Lila.
"Yes, don't worry, we might arrive second" Responded Nathaniel. "Just keep moving, you're doing it great. Just follow my voice"
"Sure," Said Lila doing her job, while Nathaniel walked back.
"Come, let's at least try to stay away from the girls," Said Nino.
"Nino!" Shouted Chloé.
"I'm mean, we don't want to be last, where you just are" Corrected Nino.
"Sabrina, move it!" Shouted Chloé shrieking Sabrina which felt down, pulling Chloé with her.
"Arrgh!" Shouted Chloé as she lied on the bottom with her friend.
"One problem less," Said Nino and observed Nathaniel arriving with Lila. "Come we're closer to the end," Said Nino and saw Nathaniel arriving at the end and stopped looking down at the ground. He went down then turned around to Lila, which was already about to fall down the bank.
"We arrived…." Said Nathaniel then wide his eyes as Lila fell from the bench on him. "Ouch, my head" Replied Nathaniel scratching his back of the head. Lila pulled the towel off her face and looked at Nathaniel's twisted face he got from the rubbing on his head.
"You're alright?" Asked Lila.
"Yeah I'm fine" Said Nathaniel and the brunette helped him getting up. "Thanks," Said the red head to the smiling Italian.
"Well, well, well Miss Bourgeois?" Asked Alec and she stood up looking away from him.
"This was an accident, we aren't used to this kind of challenge from the school," Said Chloé and a few laughed. "Hey, what's so funny?" Asked Chloé and Sabrina whispered into her ear and turned the girl around. "Oh my bad" Replied Chloé. "See?" Asked the blonde.
"Sure, but in this round, nobody needs to fly out yet, we have just started this game," Said Alec. "Shall they continue?" Asked Alec and all agreed. "What about you two?" Asked Alec.
"Of course we want to" Responded Sabrina.
"Yeah and now take this off me," Said Chloé and Sabrina easily tied the knot from her head, letting the towel fall down.
"Come, let's all seat back and go back to the third round. A few more questions" Said Alec walking back followed by the others.
"Jean can I now the results for our teams?" Asked Alec.
"Of course and are these teams interested in having a team name?" Asked Jean. "Or can we just go by their names or couch colors?"
"Interesting question," Said Alec looking at the kids. "Kids you got ten seconds to decide a name for the team, go!" Shouted Alec and Lila and Kim quickly took their sheet to write down a name. The other two Nino and Chloé took it too, after having the idea, then turned their sheets around.
"Interesting names," Said Alec. "Did you see them Jean?"
"Yes and now I'm announcing the results. Team Bro-ham have four points, Team Ausome (Awesome misspelled) has four points and so does Tomatofox" Said Jean.
"Tomatofox?" Asked Nathaniel looking at Lila.
"It's way better than Ausome," She said to the redhead.
"I guess you're right," Said Nathaniel.
"So 4-4-2-4" Said Alec now let's collect some more points with the quizzes, do we agree?" Asked Alec and the students nodded. "Okay, this question is for you Nino. What is Adrien's favorite color?" Asked Alec.
"It's the same color as my shirt, blue" Responded Nino and Adrien turned his sheet around and the answer was right.
"Good!" Said Alec while the audience applauded.
"He's so smart," Said Marinette to her friend Alya, which rolled her eyes.
"Next question goes to Kim, what's Max's favorite color?" Asked Alec.
"Funny question. I once used to believe it was green, but while he's a techno freak and computer geek, it's Cobalt" Responded Kim and Max had done a color code on his sheet.
"And?" Asked Alec.
"Positive" Responded Max and the audience applauded.
"Very clever," Said Alec walking forwards to the next duo.
"Chloé, what is your friend's favorite color?" Asked Alec.
"It's Pink" Responded Chloé. "Duh," Said Chloé and Sabrina turned her sheet around showing the exact same answer as Chloé's.
"Great!" Shouted Alec along with the applause of the audience.
"Now to the bello boy here," Said Alec causing Lila to giggle.
"Wait what?" Asked Nathaniel looking at the girl.
"What is Lila's favorite color?" Asked Alec and Nathaniel looked at Lila.
"Uhm..." Replied Nathaniel looking at the brunette, which winked at him with her left eye and rolled her pupils down at her. He just saw Lila's gray romper and the red jacket of her, then he had an idea, what she probably meant.
"I always see her with this red jacket here, which is her favorite. Just like the color red….you know she likes that color..."
"So red is her favorite color?" Asked Alec the red head, which agreed.
"So, do you think the girl does agree with you?" Asked Alec and Lila turned the sheet saying the word Rossi on it.
"He's right!" Responded Alec.
"What does Rossi mean?" Asked Nathaniel looking at Lila. "Red?"
"Yes" Responded Lila nodding. "Or also Rosso means red"
"Well, your meaning is at least better, than mine," Said Nathaniel. "Mines means short mountain," Told Nathaniel making Lila giggle. "Well, it kinda suits you"
"Hahaha" Replied Nathaniel sarcastic and got petted by Lila on his head.
"Don't be mad at me," Said Lila looking a bit flirty at him.
"No, never" Replied Nathaniel.
"You're so sweet Nathan," Said Lila pecking him on his cheeks, making him blush, which Alya and Marinette saw from the seats.
"Did you see that?" Asked Alya looking at Marinette, which was staring at Adrien the whole time.
"Marinette!" Called Alya and the bluenette turned her head at the Martinic girl.
"Oh sorry, what did you say?" Asked Marinette.
"Nathaniel and Lila" Said Alya. "They seem to have something with each other"
"Like what?" Asked Marinette.
"You know, maybe a crush on each other. I have the feeling, that Nathaniel's instant blushing moments, when Lila talks to him, isn't just pure coincidence, right?" Asked Alya.
"Maybe you're right," Said Marinette. "We need to bring them soon together, they're so good for each other" Said Marinette and kept watching the show.
"Monsieur Kurtzberg, what is Miss Rossi's favorite parent?" Asked Alec the red head.
"She likes both" Responded Nathaniel.
"Both you gotta choose one," Said Alec and Lila quickly crossed out her answer and wrote something on the sheet.
"Well, I try to guess it," Said Nathaniel scratching his neck. "Your dad?"
"Not bad" Responded Lila turning her sheet around to see the word mother crossed out, while father still was standing there.
"Lucky guy," Said Alec. "I would have failed," Said Alec making a few of the audience laugh. "So another boring question to Adrien," Said Alec walking to the blonde. "What is Nino's favorite singer?"
"His favorite singer is a known DJ from our country. It's Daveed Baguette" Responded the blonde and Nino turned the sheet around, earning applause.
"Another right question," Said Alec walking to the next group. "This episode has at the moment the most right answers, than the previous ones. How far will it go?" Asked Alec then looked at Max. "My boy, what is Kim's favorite singer?"
"It's also a DJ, he's been working as long as Daveed, but wasn't known until a few movies aired his songs….his name is DJ Cobra"
"That's right buddy" Responded Kim turning the sheet around and earning applause.
"Very good Max and now to Miss Raincomprix. What is Chloé's favorite singer?"
"Dustin Beaver" Responded Sabrina and Chloé looked astonished at her friend. "Or not?"
"It's XY!" Shouted Chloé making a face palm.
"Well, sorry Sabrina, this was according to your friend wrong, so let's continue the game," Said Alec walking to Lila.
"Miss Rossi, who's Nathaniel's favorite singer?" Asked Alec and she nodded.
"That's easy. It's Jagged Stone" Responded Lila then the red head turned his paper around to show his name on it.
"Nice, nice" Said Alec. "And now our last question round and a little warning, you might get hungry!"
"I already am" Said Kim and laughed along with all male concurrent, except for Nathaniel.
"Well, then you gotta wait for the break, then you can get something to eat my friend, but now let's keep going" Said Alec walking back to Nino. "Are you ready my friend?" Asked Alec and the dark skinned boy nodded.
"Sure" Replied Nino and Alec looked at his question.
"What's is Adrien's favorite dessert?" Asked Alec.
"He always said he loved macarons" Responded Nino. "Mostly the ones from Tom and Sabine's bakery," Said Nino and waved at the audience. "Hi Mr. and Mrs. Dupain. It's me Nino" Said Nino and Alya giggled.
"So and Monsieur Agreste, is he right?" Asked Alec then the blonde nodded turning his sheet around.
"Very nice," Said Alec as the audience applauded for the brunette boy.
"Now Max the same question for you. What's Kim's favorite dessert?"
"This guy loves everything that has caramel and his favorite caramel flavored dessert is caramel flan," Said Max and Kim showed his sheet with the right solution.
"Fantastic!" Shouted Alec including the people's applause.
"They're all doing great," Said Nathaniel looking at the Italian.
"Uh hum" Nodded Lila.
"Do you think we will manage to hold with them, until the end?" Asked Nathaniel.
"Of course, we know each other so well. I don't doubt that"
"Well for almost a year," Said Nathaniel scratching his neck out of anxiousness. "The others longer"
"I don't care about how longer the others know each other. Chloé and Sabrina know each other the longest, but still got a few things wrong"
"Yeah"
"Come and if we don't win, we still had an amazing evening together" Said Lila then Alec showed up looking at the girl.
"Mademoisselle, what is this young boy's favorite dessert?" Asked Alec then Lila observed Nathaniel picking the sheet to write on it down.
"Well, he's a wolverine when it comes to desserts, but his most favorite is chocolate créme"
"And is she right?" Asked Alec and Nathaniel nodded turning the sheet around, earning applause.
"Well, well, well," Said Alec and one of the assistants brought some potato bags and gave them to one of each group.
"So my kids I want you to walk up there to the side, where you all entered before into the stage together and enter into the bags as a group. Then when I say go, you jump all in the bag to the other side of the stage to win. The last one will get disqualified." Said Alec and they nodded, walking to that specific place.
"Jean, can you tell the current punctuation" Demanded Alec awaiting the response.
"Well Alec, Team Bro-ham, Awesome and Tomatofox got eight points and Team Fabulous has five"
"Thank you my friend," Said Alec seeing the others getting ready.
"Max I go in front of you" Suggested Kim.
"I think the best is, if I go in front, you know due to our different heights"
"For real?" Asked Kim and Max nodded.
"Well, if you say so. Let's do it this way" Said Kim pulling the bag over themselves.
"We do it like Kim" Said Adrien pulling the bag over him and Nino.
"We kind of are the same size bro," Said Nino looking at the blonde.
"I don't think so," Said Adrien looking at an unimpressed Nino.
Nathaniel looked at the others, then back to Lila, which was looking at the same direction too.
"Shall I go in behind you?" Asked Lila looking at the red head.
"If you want" Replied Nathaniel.
"Unless you want to fell down, while we jump" Said Lila joking.
"No, this is fine for me," Said Nathaniel pulling the bag over the both.
"Alright then let's try to manage this situation," Said Lila holding the bag with her hands, close where Nath's hands were. Nathaniel noted her hands close to him and blushed.
"S...sure" Replied Nathaniel looking at the girl, which glared with a smile at him.
"Get ready!" Demanded Alec as all stood there, ready to jump. "Go!"
All started to jump fast in the bags forwards.
"Wow, are they fast!" Replied Alec surprised by the speed of the teens.
"Go Max, go Max!" Cheered Kim his friend while accompanying him on the hopping.
"Man, this is so difficult" Said Chloé while jumping with Sabrina inside the bag, then they fell down in front of Adrien's team, which ended up tripping over the girls.
"Watch out Nath" Warned Lila and Nathaniel slowed down, then Lila pointed to go to the left side, which he did and they followed their way while jumping.
"Not bad" Complimented Lila while hopping along with the redhead closer to the other group.
"Go Max, we're almost landing in second, go higher" Demanded Kim and Max jumped higher along with Kim. "That's right!" Said Kim, then both tripped inside the bag together and crashed on the bottom.
"Go faster Nath!" Shouted Lila and jumped higher along with Nathaniel and they tried to jump over the two, however, they tripped over them, but still managed to pass over the finish line, crashing on the ground.
"Here we are again" Shouted Nino arriving with Adrien at the destination as the second duo.
"So us!" Shouted Max arriving with Kim behind him. "We are third!"
"And not disqualified!" Added Kim looking at Chloé and Sabrina arriving with a grumpy look.
"Well, I'm sorry girls, but you're not out of the game" Announced Alec. "But maybe next time, you'll do better"
