When Jaiden arrived at the school a few students were gathered outside with more arriving. Jaiden decided to check out the library but when he got to the door someone called out his name, it was Alya. 'Of course.'

'What did you expect, you're in the same class.'

'I know.' Jaiden sighed as Alya climbed the steps to the door.

"Don't be so disappointed to see me Jaiden." Alya playfully pouted.

"Sorry, I didn't get much sleep last night." Jaiden said as he absently brushed a strand of hair off of her face. It took a moment but they both blinked at each other as they processed what he just did. "Sorry, I am," Jaiden started "I am so out of it today." He didn't want to tell her the real reason he looked for an excuse to touch her skin with his, she didn't need to know how weak he was.

"What kept you up last night?"Alya asked with a concerned look on her face, "hopefully I didn't do anything."

"No, it's not you." Jaiden let out a long sigh. "Ever since I left Mexico I've been having nightmares." Jaiden left out the part that the nightmares were his reality.

"Do you want to sit by me today, I'm sure Marinette will be fine for a day." Alya started walking towards the classroom, Jaiden followed.

"No, I won't ask to separate you two. I went for a run this morning and the sun does wonders for my mood." Jaiden smiled but had to force it.

"If you say so. Do you want to join us for lunch?"

"I'd like that." Jaiden looked away as his cheeks started to turn red because someone cared about him despite not really knowing him, it was nice.

The first half of the day passed uneventfully but before they got to break for lunch they had gym class, and the teacher decided to see where everyone was at by having them run what Jaiden guessed was running a mile. Most of the class groaned but when the teacher said this was all they had to do and once they finished they were excused. That got everyone somewhat excited at the possibility of more time to go get food. The teacher gave the instructions and once every one was ready he counted down and they were off.

The first few laps flew by and everyone was feeling good, except Chloé but everyone seemed to enjoy passing her on the 3rd lap around. The pack was lead by Kim and Alix as everyone expected but Marinette and Adrien were up there with them. Jaiden and Alya has fallen into a rhythm of their own and were making good time. Around the 8th lap most people had lost their momentum and were lapped by the six in front Alya was running out of steam when she tapped on Jaidens shoulder.

"Think you can run faster than the four of them and finish first?" She said panting.

"Probably, why?"

"Because I want to see what you can do." Alya gave him a devilish smile.

"Alright, but you asked for it." Jaiden said with a confident smile. They only had 5 laps to go and most people were down to little more than a jog. Jaiden broke into a dead sprint passing the leading four effortlessly, the look on their faces showed they didn't expect anyone to try and pass them and in a flash he was gone he used his long legs to stride large swaths of distance in a few movements. Marinette saw this and her competitive side won out and she bolted after him, after Adrien's shock wore off he started chasing the two of them closing the distance between the two and all three of them were within a few paces of each other but Jaiden kept his lead. When the three of them finished their final lap Alix and Kim still had 2 laps to go. The teacher was pleased with them and he asked Jaiden why he decided to speed up at the end.

"Alya wanted to see if I could do it, so I did it." Jaiden said as if that was enough explanation. Marinette and Adrien just looked at him dumbfounded that that was the reason they pushed themselves so hard.

Jaiden and Adrien retreated to the locker room to change and get ready to go get lunch once Alya and Nino finished their laps. Adrien spoke first, "Jaiden so why did you decide to sprint the last 5 laps?" The disbelief in his voice was very obvious.

"Like I said Alya asked if I could do it, so I proved I could. Why did you and Marinette feel like chasing after me?"

"I can't talk for Marinette but I just wanted to keep up with her, she's so nervous around me and she can barley say anything to me before freaking out, but when she's competitive she doesn't have that problem and I just like being close to her when she's more like herself."

"Are you dating anyone?"

"No, why do you ask?"

"Let me finish, is Marinette dating anyone?"

"I don't think so."

"You should fix that then."

"You lost me what?"

"You two obviously like each other, you might as well see if anything develops."

"But," Adrien started to mumble, "I like someone else."

"I'm sorry I couldn't hear you."

"I like somebody else." He repeated.

"Have you asked her out?" Jaiden asked curiously.

"Yes, but she keeps turning me down."

"Adrien, I know it's hard but it's not the end of the world if you like two different people, date one and just be content to be in the presence of the other."

"You sound as if you've been in my shoes?"

"Yep, and I regret losing both of them from my inaction."

The sound of voices filled the hallway as the rest of the guys finished their laps. "If you need to talk more I'll listen but just ask her to go get ice cream after school, it's hot nobody would turn that down."

"Alright." Adrien agreed. They finished changing and met Marinette who was waiting for Alya in the hall. Jaiden gave Adrien a shove in Marinette's direction, he overheard their conversation, if one could call it that and noticed that Marinette was turning red and looking for an out.

'Hey Quetz ask Marinette if she wants to date Adrien.'

'Wasting my talents but fine.' A moment passes. 'Yep she wants to but can't seem to move.'

'Tell her to say yes and don't stop until she does.'

'The things you humans do for sex.'

'Quetz.' Jaiden diverted his attention back to the two horribly in love teens and he noticed Marinette getting more and more annoyed until she nearly yelled "Yes Adrien I will go get ice cream with you after school today" Adrien was taken back by this but glad he got an actual answer out of her, they can work on inside voices later.

'Quetz, what did you do?'

'I just kept saying, say yes say yes say yes, over and over until she got more annoyed with me than she was embarrassed in front of Adrien.'

'You're an ass, but that's exactly what I told you to do so thank you.'

At this point Alya walked up to Jaiden, "what's with Marinette?"

"Adrien asked her out for ice cream, she said yes."

"How did you manage that?" Alya said stunned.

"Magic." Was all Jaiden replied. "By the way, what do I get since I did what you asked."

"You get to take me to lunch." Alya said with a smirk.

"Alright Fine, one second though." Jaiden walked up behind Adrien "you two should get some lunch, you both ran hard." The two of them suddenly knocked from their stupor agreed with him and tried to follow Jaiden as he walked away. "No you two, alone. I have my own lunch date." Jaiden wrapped his arm around Alya's waist and the two walked away.

Nino walked up to Adrien, "holy crap he's smooth."

"You're telling me." Adrien replied holding his arm out and Marinette locked her arm into it doing her best to not freak out as they walked away.

After a moment a thought occurred to Nino. "Shit, they left me." Juleka and Rose, having saw what just happened invited Nino to eat lunch with them, which he was extremely grateful.