There were a few simple steps to cheer up a Nino, Alya knew.

He had had a bad day, hadn't slept enough and had gotten back a bad grade which he had to shown his parents. Alya had seen his shoulders sagging and his smile disappearing and it had broken her heart.

Despite Adrien's attempts of cheering him up, offering his help and treating him lunch, Nino had stayed demotivated throughout the day. The dark rings under his eyes had only gotten darker and his shoulders had stayed so down that Alya had feared his bag would slip right off.

It broke her heart to see him like this.

She had thought back and forth with Marinette, trying to find a way to cheer him up or at least soothe him a little, but no matter what they thought of, a study session, a day in the park with his friends, a game night this weekend, a surprise sleep over, nothing had seemed to be right.

Alya sighed as they sat in the last class for the day, literature with Miss Bustier.

She watched her boyfriend sunken down on the desk, his head resting on his heavily propped up arms and his shoulders so loose and hanging she thought if he didn't watch out his headphones might just slide off. Adrien tried animating him to join the lesson, to participate in any way because he knew Nino liked the topic, but he couldn't bring his best bud to react.

Marinette exchanged a shrug and a halfhearted smile with her best friend before turning back up front, concentrating on Miss Bustier's explanations.

Once again, Alya's gaze found back to her boyfriend and she sighed, reaching to the front to bury her fingers in his hair. A small sigh escaped his throat and he leant back against her, letting her fingers work through his hair and her fingernails scratching his scalp.

He swiftly took off his cap and leant against her hand, his eyes drooping and closing at her ministrations. She felt him relaxing under her hand and looked up to the front again where she saw Miss Bustier's slight smile when she looked over to them.

Her teacher had always been a sensible person and she had known Nino for way longer than her. Alya smiled back and listened to her again, knowing both Nino and her would be able to concentrate a lot better if she soothed him like that.

Adrien threw them a little jealous gaze and Alya saw that, grinning over to Marinette who was completely busy with taking notes of the lesson. Of course, she as her best friend knew that she was totally daydreaming about scratching Adrien like that. And Alya knew for a fact that he'd like it, after all she had done it a few times already.

Just that Adrien tended to curl up against the person scratching him like a cat, disabling him from following the lesson anymore. Nino groaned quietly and Alya sighed.

She wanted to cheer him up, she really did.

When Alya had gotten his message that he was grounded for a week her mission was clear. Without much discussion Trixx let her transform and jump over to Nino's house, armed with a thermos full of Hot Chocolate and a few cookies in a bag she had slung over her shoulder.

From afar she already saw his windows, lit up in the dim, soft shine of his nightstand lamp. Apparently, he had gone to bed early, probably because he didn't feel well. It broke her heart all over again but she continued making her way towards her boyfriend's apartment, they liquid sloshing around in the thermos.

With a last jump she landed on the windowsill, light as a cat would be. Her feet found enough room to rest on and she held her balance easily, so she could lightly knock on his window. A glance inside told her that he really was in bed, listening to music and staring to the ceiling so of course he couldn't hear her.

She knocked again but harder, which resulted in him getting startled and jumping out of the bed to open the window, Wayzz flying right behind him.

Alya gave him an awkward wave to which he responded with a slight smile, stepping to the side to let her out of the cold air. Alya slid in and came to a silent halt on the floor, with her feet not even making a sound. Nino's eyes flew to her bag as he closed the window but he didn't make a remark, probably waiting for her to tell him.

"Hey, Alya.", he whispered and she grinned, standing on her tiptoes to press a little kiss to his cheek.

"Hi.", she breathlessly responded, then she detransformed and Trixx vanished together with Wayzz in the direction of Nino's desk, probably to munch some of the sunflower seeds Nino kept for his Kwami.

The detransformation revealed Alya with comfy jogging pants and a shirt of Nino's, an older, faded out version of the shirt he liked to wear the most, which reached to the middle of her thighs. She silently congratulated her for her choice of clothes as the corners of his mouth pulled up into an adorable little smile.

"What're you doing here?", he asked in a hushed tone, watching her put down her bag with the hot chocolate and the cookies.

"I'm here to cheer up my girlfriend. We're having a sleepover.", she clarified before changing her tone to a dictating one, "One the bed now."

With a quiet chuckle he complied, sitting down on the bed and his eyes following her hips as she went to the desk to get his laptop and charger, before grabbing both the thermos and the cookies out of the bag and sitting down between his legs, putting all the things down.

"We're gonna watch a movie and eat cookies and drink hot chocolate and you're gonna feel better after sleeping with your girlfriend in your arms, understood?"

Nino laughed silently, not to alarm his parents.

"Aye aye, girlfriend.", he grinned, his arms already sneaking around her waist and his chin coming to a rest on her shoulder, "Which movie?"

She giggled.

"You have Netflix and wifi. We can decide on one."

"Netflix and chill then?", he asked with a smirk and she reddened slightly while smacking his shoulder.

"I'm trying to make you feel better, stop assuming things."

He shrugged and closed her lips with a soft kiss, closing his eyes as she melted against him, allowing herself to relax against him.

"… Thank you…", he finally mumbled, pulling her against him, "… And I wanna watch a kids movie."

Alya smirked.

"Dork. I love you."

"I love you, too. And now please gimme some of that hot chocolate already, I can't remember the last time I had some."