Sorry for the long wait I have been very busy, please remember to read and review, I own nothing not even this computer. Any suggestions leave them in the comments or PM me. Onto the story, sorry if it is a little short in comparison to the last on or any of the following ones.

Nathaniel didn't know what to draw and it was driving him slowly insane. He moved his electronic sketch pad one way and then another, but nothing was coming. And nothing was the most frustrating thing for an artist to experience.
He opened his backpack and began to search around in it for his old paper and pencil sketch pad, sometimes staring at a screen for too long gave him a headache and actually inhibited his drawing abilities. So he would switch every now and again going back to the pad that he used to use when he was much younger. Some of his earlier drawings were still inside of it.

They ranged from flowers, to rough sketching, to superheroes. He flipped to a series that he had been working on for a little while now, it was of the class couples. Ivan and Mylene, Rose and Juleka, Alya and Nino. He had first been approached by Ivan to make a sketch of his girlfriend to give to her for a present, he had complied for a few reasons.

First it had just been a normal day and it was an incredibly sweet thing to do out of the blue.

Second he needed something to do that would keep him occupied.

And third if he said no he was positive that Ivan could beat him up and ditch him in a river or something. The request had inspired Nathaniel to continue drawing his classmates and their significant others or friends. It gave him something to do, he hadn't worked on them in a while and a few stray lines caught his eye. He rustled around in his bag again, his hand briefly smacking the back of a black tube of paint, why his mother bought it for him he had no idea. He wasn't a painted he was a sketcher, a drawer, paints didn't interest him all that much. Strange but true.

He pulled out an eraser and began going over a few lines, he wasn't satisfied with any of them just yet but they were certainly getting to fruition.

He heard a thump and felt the bench next to him creak under some new weight. He continued in his drawing, he sat at the back of the room for a reason, if he was far away from everyone else he could be left in peace. Not to mention normally it was only Marinette who came up to talk to him...and her strange behavior over the past few days had left him confused and more flustered then ever before.
If it was her he hoped that she would go away before trying any of those flirting techniques she had been employing earlier, he had seen her use them on Adrien...and he would have to be completely ignorant to not notice how she would stare at him all the time. He recognized the stare, he would give it to her whenever he was positive that she wasn't looking.

"Why you haven't started to sell these is beyond me." A crude voice said from his right. Nathaniel paused and looked out of the corner of his eye, his hair framing his face a little. It was Kim. Not Marinette, but Kim who was sitting next to him. Nathaniel began to wonder if his chances would have been better with Marinette.

Kim was...rambunctious to say the least...an overexcited meat headed jock wanna be with delusions of grandeur to say the most. And him sitting next to the quietest student in the class besides Juleka caused all of Nathaniels anxiety senses to go off.
"I draw them for me. I don't do caricatures." Nathaniel replied before going back to his work. He tried to ignore Kim but it was like ignoring a dog that was right beside you. "What is it?"

"Dude do you like girls or boys?" Nathaniel put his pencil down and turned to him slowly, his face turning the shade of a tomato dumped on top of his already vibrant hair. Kim just continued to stare at him questioningly, waiting for an answer to his very insulting question.

"I...girls...why?"
"No reason it's just I've noticed that you've never really talked to any girls before. Not even the ones in this class."
"I talk to girls all the time, I have a life outside of this class you know."
"Like what? Name one thing you do outside of this class that can be considered a life." Kim sat back smugly not aware of how incredibly insulting he was being to the boy, who just sat there in anxious silence.

The truth was that he did spend a lot of time in class, and when he was out of it he either drew, doodled or spent time at museums. Pretty much the same sort of stuff that he did whenever he was at school.

Nathaniel just quietly stared at the table top not saying a word. Kim took this as an invitation to continue talking to him and he gladly took it.
"Look I'm not trying to put you down or anything, in fact far from it, what I want to do is help you out a little bit." Nathaniel turned his attention back to the bigger boy slowly and suspiciously. He would trust Kim about as far as he could throw him, and he couldn't throw him all that far.

"How? And with what?"
"With the girls man! I want to hook you up!"
"Kim if this is a joke I swear to god-"
"No joke!" Kim held up his hand and put his other over his heart. "Scout's honor I just want to help my buddy out a little bit. I mean everyone wants to have a significant other, everyone wants some of that good old fashioned something something." Kim wiggled his eyebrows meaningfully and Nathaniel could only blush and cover his face with his hands in embarrassment.

Why was he listening to this? This was Kim for crying out loud! The guy never talked to him and whenever he did normally bad stuff came shortly afterwards. Normally whenever anyone talked to him some sort of calamity would befall him. Maybe it would be small like loosing a pencil or maybe it would be big like a super villain attacking the school and taking everyone hostage.

Still it wasn't like he had anything to loose, and it wasn't like he had any plans lately.
"Okay so you want to help me pick up girls. Out of the blue you just want to help me try and get a date. How?"

Kim grinned, he had him now, if he had asked why he might have a little bit of a problem, why always meant you had to explain stuff, but How meant that they were invested, that they wanted to know the rules and the perimeter of the dare or whatever it was that was being discussed.

"Well you know how Juleka is pretty much the cutest girl in class right? I see how you check her out." Kim said nudging Nathaniel hard in the ribs. Nathaniel just looked at him in confusion? Did he check Juleka out? If he did he wasn't aware of it, he thought he looked at his classmates the same amount. And cute? So what if she was cute, she was clearly crushing on Rose.

"I-I-I don't have a crush on Juleka, what would make you think that?" Kim bit his lip and looked around, so seducing him with some girl as a prize wasn't going to work. Honestly it was between Juleka, Rose and Sabrina who he could have used to tantalize the redheaded artist. And he just went with who he thought would hold the guys interest the most.

Now that Nathaniel had completely shot that out of the water he had to go with plan B.

"I meant Rose."
"Aren't the two of them dating? If you see me looking at them it's to sketch this." Nathaniel held up a page of the tall goth girl and the short manic pixie dream girl sitting on a bench cuddled close reading a book. Juleka with an arm around Rose and Rose mid page flip. Kim took a second to look it over, he wasn't much of an art guy but he could tell what was and wasn't well made. And this was very well made, it looked like a photo.

"If you've ever seen me looking at them it would be because I'm making that."
"I had a brain freeze, I meant to say Sabrina."
"I have never looked at Sabrina in that way my entire life." Nathaniel said testily biting out each syllable. Kim rubbed his face, this was going to be difficult. Who could this guy possibly have a crush on? A crush that he could exploit? No names were coming to mind!

Then a name did, it slowly built up and began to stumble before finally catching steam.
"I meant to say Marinette."
"How do you get any of those names confused with Marinette?"
"They're all in the same school classroom that's how!" Kim snipped back, he wrapped an arm around Nathaniel's thin shoulders and squeezed them painfully together, as if he were trying to remind him how powerful he was. And how he could probably break Nathaniel without breaking a sweat.

"I could help you get her. Really get her attention, really get her to like you if you know what I mean?" He slid the last few words out slowly and softly, as if he were sharpening a knife. Nathaniel looked down the desks to where Marinette was standing in front of Chloe, probably chewing her out for something.

She looked...powerful, powerful standing there and talking back to possibly the most spoiled and angry girl in the entire class, putting her in her place...she was mesmerizing.
Nathaniel tore his eyes away and looked down at his hands, they were rubbing over each other trying to catch the other one. He knew that he had no chance with the pigtailed girl, he knew that she probably liked someone else, someone immensely cooler and a trillion times more confident than he was. He didn't choose to be this shy and meek. He was born quiet, according to his mom he never even cried as an infant.

Maybe...maybe a few confident boosting tips from Kim wouldn't be so bad? Yeah...as he spent more time running the idea through his head the more he really began to like it, the more he actually started to take to the idea. Him Nathaniel Kurtzberg, former quiet guy, a few hours of pointers from the fastest kid in school and the next day he could strut in and be able to talk left and right...talk with Marinette...maybe get a date with her...or something like that...

Nathaniel turned to look at Kim.
"So what do you have in mind?"
Kim grinned so widely that it nearly spilled off of his face.
"Good man, I knew you would come around. I'm going to give you some pointers when it comes to talking to the ladies. Tomorrow you get a date with a lady and then boom bam you walk away a million times happier I walk away with a warm fuzzy feeling inside that I only get when I run or win a bet."
"A horrible reason to be nice to anyone for." Adrien said as he sat on the other side of Nathaniel. Nino was standing beside his blonde friend and giving Kim the biggest stink eye he could muster.

Kim frowned at the two of them, his eyebrows almost slicing through his eyes.
"What are you two doing here?" Nathaniel asked before Kim could even open his mouth, he was left gaping between the three boys crowded around him.
"We're here to help Kim train you. Think of us as your pit team." Adrien said friendly enough. Nathaniel hated his smile, he hated how charming he came off. But in all honesty he didn't hate the guy. He might hate Adrien's hair, or his dazzling eyes, but he didn't hate Adrien, the guy was an actual sweet person, an actual caring person. And those were hard to come by.

So while Nathaniel hated everything that Adrien could do so effortlessly, how he hated the parts that made him up, he did not hate Adrien as a 'whole'. He actually admired the guy a great deal. Who wouldn't?

"Wait a pit crew?" Nathaniel looked at Kim nervously. "How big is this going to be? What exactly are you planning for me to do?"
Kim just tightened his hold on the artist, as if ensuring that he wouldn't be able to get away. Nathaniel's shoulders creaked with how hard they were being squeezed together.
"Don't you worry a single thread on your little red head." Nathaniel gulped audibly, what was with this week? Everyone acting weird, people shaking hands, people flirting with each other. It was like a bad movie. And he had just been thrust into the protagonist role.

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