Kim knocked on Alya's door exactly at seven o'clock. That probably shouldn't have surprised her Kim gloated about his ability to always be the best so of course, showing up any other time than exactly when they had agreed to meet would be an insult to his reputation. Nino, on the other hand, would have been considered early if he was only running ten minutes late.

"Come in," Alya shouted as she wiped down the windows in her apartment. She had meant to finish cleaning before Kim showed up but she was still on Nino time so she had assumed she had at least another twenty minutes. Kim walked through the door and stood awkwardly on their doormat. "Go ahead and sit down." She said motioning to the old blue couch in their dorm. He did.

"So, what do we do on a fake date?" Kim asked as he shifted around on the couch like he was trying to find a spot that wasn't as lumpy as the others.

"Well, first I text Marinette and tell her I have to cancel our plans tonight. Then we let Marinette do all of the work," Alya said tossing her cleaning cloth on the floor and pulling her phone out of her jeans pocket.

"Is Alya coming or not?" Adrien asked. They only had twenty minutes until the movie started and still hadn't bought their tickets.

"Uh hold on I'll text her," Marinette said. However, when she opened her phone she saw that she already had a text from Alya.

Message from Alya:

Sorry girl I have to cancel. I'm going to hang out with Kim at our place. See you later :)

"Uh, she's not coming. I think she has a date with Kim." Marinette said without thinking. Nino's eyes narrowed and she could see His entire body tense up.

"What?" Nino demanded.

"I uhm I mean I probably not actually a date she just um she said..." Marinette stuttered looking from Adrien to Juleka to Mylène and even Ivan anyone who might be able to save her for help. No one did.

"Let me see." Nino snapped holding out his hand for Marinette's phone. She gave it to him.

"Well, I'll go get the tickets," Rose said completely oblivious to the tense atmosphere around her. "It's just the seven of us without Alya, right?"

"Six." Nino corrected tossing Marinette her phone back. "I'm not in the mood anymore."

" But you were the one who convinced us to go. You have to come!" Mylène protested.

"Yeah, what good is sitting at home going to do you anyway," Adrien asked grabbing Nino's shoulder. He shook Adrien's hand off his shoulder.

"I said no." He snapped. Then he stormed off down the street to buy some bubbles. he always loved blowing bubbles especially when he was angry it made him feel better and if that didn't work he could always pour the bubbles mixture into Alya's shoes. He knew it was a childish thing to do but so was canceling plans you had with your boyfriend to go on a date with someone else.

Alya and Kim had already decided that they had nothing in common. So, they had decided to just sit on the couch in awkward silence for a few hours.

"So, who are you trying to make jealous anyway?" Alya asked.

"Alix," Kim answered. "We are doing the same major so we had a lot of the same classes and she's really cool you know."

Alya nodded. "I thought you had a crush on Chloe though." She asked and Kim made a disgusted face at the mention of his former crush.

"Yeah in high school, then In college I finally woke up and realized how awful she was to me and everyone and I didn't want that anymore." Alya couldn't believe this was the same Kim she had known all through high school. "What about you? Did something happen between you and Nino?" He asked.

Alya wrapped her arms around her chest leaning back against the couch. "I'd rather not talk about that."

"Sure." Kim nodded.

"He cheated on me with Chloe," Alya said not even really sure what made her say it. "I mean I think he did I'm not sure if it would technically be considered cheating but it felt like it." She wasn't even looking at Kim so she was surprised when she felt Kim wrap his arms around her shoulders.

"Everything will be fine." He whispered leaning his head on hers.

Nino couldn't get comfortable. He had gone straight to bed as soon as he had gotten home but he was too annoyed to sleep. The bubbles hadn't helped in the slightest. First, he had stewed in silence for a while, then he had kicked all the blankets off the bed, then he pulled up the sheets because he was too cold without Alya there to cuddle with and now he was back to stewing in anger some more.

Finally, Nino decided he couldn't take it anymore. He needed to know. Nino sat up in his bed and grabbed his phone from his jacket pocket.

Message Sent:

Did you kiss him?

Message from Alya:

Did you kiss Chloe?

Fine. He thought. If Alya wanted to play that stupid answering with a question game he could play the game too. In fact, he could play it better than her.

Message Sent:

Why do you care? Aren't you too busy with Kim?

Message from Alya:

Why do you care if I kissed Kim?

Message Sent:

Because I'm your boyfriend!

Alright so maybe he wasn't as good at playing the game as Alya was.

Message from Alya:

I can't deal with this right now, Nino.

Message Sent:

You don't get to just leave the conversation when you know I'm right.

You know what go ahead and ignore me but deep down you know this is your fault!

Then in a not very Nino like thing to do he threw his phone across the room. He heard a crack as it smashed against the wall of his bedroom. He would probably feel bad about it in the morning but at the moment it felt good to finally not have a constant connection to Alya.

A/N

Disclaimer I do not own Miraculous Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir. I hope you guys like this chapter and thank you for reading my story.