Really, not all days were numbered by a large level of happiness and good things, and on those days, you really did need to reach out for what you could get of that happiness, counting every single blessing, every last one of them. Don't forget one, because they'll bring a smile to your face when nothing else ever seems to, and they make you happy for any number of seconds or minutes.
"So, Adrien, you rock at Ultimate Mecha Strike Three, and I don't, but want to play it anyway?" Alya carried a bag of what could be a number of yummy goodies or fun games to play or music or just anything.
"Sure, if you don't mind losing." Alya wasn't nearly as good at the game as Adrien was, but he was just glad that she came by here everyday that she could. Nino shown up very often too, and Marinette shown up at least three times a week whenever she could find the time or work up the confidence or anything like that.
He still wasn't sure that he deserved this kind of love and support or even unfailing trust, "I don't mind losing, really." Alya grinned and set the bag down on the table.
"What's in it?" Adrien reached towards the bag as Alya had a tendency of bring delicious sweets or fun games or just random stuff to do lately whenever she visited.
"Don't peek." Alya swatted his hand away, "You'll find out later."
After about forty five minutes of mostly beating Alya at Ultimate Mecha Strike Three as she appeared to have been practicing or at least getting better when she usually lost to him, she finally gave him the option of figuring out what was in the bag.
"Since you aren't on your model diet anymore..." She teased as she carefully removed a couple containers of ice cream that Adrien just hoped that she'd had a way of keeping them from melting.
"Ice cream?" Technically, Adrien was still supposed to be following his model diet though with his father currently facing trials for his crimes as Hawkmoth and the business still being in limbo and the suspicions by the court that Adrien might have been an accomplice, he wasn't really allowed to model anyway or at least not right now.
"Yep. I even packed a few other goodies for later. Do you want to watch the old action movie tonight that you've been 'dying' to see? I brought that too, just in case." Alya admitted as she offered him a spoon.
Adrien was positive that he'd done nothing to earn friends like this, who still supported him, and trusted him more than anything, friends that dropped everything to look after him. He felt unbelievably lucky to have the close friends that he did.
"I'd love to." Adrien admitted, and threw 'normal' manners aside and ate out of the ice cream containers with a spoon, alongside Alya while sometimes sampling her flavor of ice cream too.
Already, his friends made terrible days way better by telling him in the quietest, most there way that they could, 'I'm here for you' or in other words, 'We're here for you, Adrien.' His heart swelled with love for them, and he just knew that he couldn't have asked for better friends anywhere in the world.