SHE LOOKED AT HIM with disgust.

"What the f*ck are you doing, Kim?" She watched as Kim dangled a worm from above his mouth. After exiting the closet, she had found him, worm and all, standing in the middle of the classroom like there wasn't an akuma on the loose.

Kim's eyes flickered to her before refocusing on the worm. "Fulfilling the dare you gave me, what else?" He lowered his hand a bit, leaving only an inch until it touched his mouth. The worm squirmed in his hand, and Alix shuddered. So that's why he wasn't in the closet. That idiot!

"You're disgusting. I was joking, you animal!" She snatched the worm from his hand and threw it on the ground. It curled into a ball before slithering away. Do worms slither? she thought mindlessly.

Kim frowned. "You hurt it."

Alix rolled her eyes. "We have bigger problems than an injured worm, Hercules." She started shoving him towards the closet. "Your girlfriend caused another akuma, you big ape! We need to hide!"

Kim mumbled something that sounded an awful lot like "She's not my girlfriend," but she wasn't sure, because she was focused on hauling his big self into the closet.

"Geez, how much do you eat?" she asked. She attempted to use all of her body weight and shove him into the compact space, but failed.

Kim shrugged. "I don't know, how much do I eat?

Alix gritted her teeth. "That was a rhetorical question, you moron."

"And so was the one I just asked."

"You-"

A loud crash came from the other room.

"WHERE ARE YOU, CHLOÉ? COME OUT COME OUT, WHEREVER YOU ARE!" the angry akuma shouted. A blast of some sort shattered the windows in the room Alix and Kim were currently in, causing Kim to topple right over and into the closet.

Alix cheered softly and shut the door. The rest of the class sighed in relief.

Kim turned to her in disbelief. "The...the whole class was in here? The whole time?"

Rolling her eyes, Alix said, "Duh! Why else would I shove you in? It's not like I voluntarily saved you, the class nominated me." She regarded him with a snort. "Plus, why would I want to spend an hour or so trapped in a closet with you?"

Kim hunched over slightly. "Uh...right. I don't know what I was thinking." He cleared his throat.

Alix narrowed her eyes in suspicion. "Right..." Shaking her head, she looked at the rest of the class. They were watching her and Kim like some sort of movie.

"No, keep talking!" Nathanaël said earnestly. "I want to know what comes next!"

Nino chimed in. "Yeah, dudes! Does Alix find out that Kim's been harbouring a crush on her for only God knows how long-"

A smack resonated throughout the storage closet, and all was silent. Then, "Nino, you idiot!" Alya looked at Alix apologetically. "Uh, sorry about that. Nino didn't get enough sleep tonight, he doesn't know what he's talking about- do you, Nino?" Alya gave him a fake smile.

Nino looked at her strangely. "No, I'm pretty sure I heard Kim correc-"

He shut up when he noticed Alya's fake smile had turned into a glare.

Alix stared at the ground, unsure of what to say. She knew her class was waiting for some sort of response, but...

She set her nerves aside. "Is that...is it true? That you like me?" Her voice faltered on the word like.

Kim avoided her gaze. "What does it matter? You don't give two sh*ts about me." Luckily, Madame Bustier was out helping other students find a hiding place from the akuma, so he wouldn't be suffering a detention.

The pink haired girl's head snapped up. "What do you mean? Of course I care about you!" she blabbed. "I mean, sure, I hated you first, but then I got to know you and developed a huge crush on you, but of course no one knows about that! Plus, you like Chloé..." She realised with horror that she had said all of that out loud.

Kim's eyes brightened, and she heard Nathanaël shout softly, "More!"

"You...really like me?" he asked hesitantly.

There was no turning back now. She didn't want to look like that girl from the Project Runway show Marinette had forced her to watch. "Well, duh, I just said that, didn't I?" She fidgeted with her fingers, looking down.

She felt a blanket of warmth. "I like you too. A lot," she heard Kim. Smiling, she looked up into his grey eyes. She leaned closer...closer...then-

"Wait, where are Marinette and Adrien?"

"-that's it, Nino, I'm gonna f*cking kill you-"

ML

Yeah. I'll probably tweak this a bit later, because I wrote it all in the car on my phone. Then again, I wrote all of these on my phone.