Marinette shifted from foot to foot nervously. Her gym teacher was late to class, if you could call it that.

Her entire class was waiting outside the gym because the doors were locked.

"Isn't there a rule that if a teacher is more than 10 minutes late, we get a free period?" Alya said, bored.

Marinette rolled her eyes. "That's only happens in College, Alya. Besides, we just had a free period. I'm sure the teacher is coming any minute now."

"You spoke too soon." Alya mumbled as the gym doors slowly opened.

The gym teacher was standing, a smirk on his face.

"Welcome… to the first ever Francais-DuPont lycee obstacle course competition!"

"..." The students looked at the teacher as if he had 2 heads.

"Don't look at me like that. The person who completes the course the fastest wins and as a reward, they get a 'get out of detention' card."

This caught only some students' attention.

"Oh god." Alya muttered. Marinette was suddenly interested and with her bad luck, it wouldn't end well.

"And, may I add, get to pick which game to play during the next gym class."

Now Alya was interested. She could pick dodgeball over some stupid game anyone else picked that was for really athletic people like Kim.

"So, I will test 8 this morning and 8 this afternoon. So for the first 8: Alix, Chloe, Kim, Nathaniel, Alya, Nino, Adrien, and *sigh* Marinette. Good luck."

Adrien, Nino, and Alya were all worried for Marinette. Not that she was bad or anything. She was just the most likely one to fall and seriously injure herself. At least she was going last.

So Alix went first. Her size was both an advantage and a disadvantage. Sure she was lighter than most, but she was also a little too short and ended up missing one of the gymnastic bars completely and falling.

Chloe just threatened the coach to skip the contest.

Kim made it halfway through before losing balance while landing a jump between platforms.

Nathaniel KOed within the first 5 seconds, definitely not caring.

Alya simply forfeited the match and NIno followed suit.

The coach got frustrated and decided that no one else could simply forfeit the match.

Adrien wasn't going to, though. It was time to impress Marinette.

He made it through the first 2 or 3 'levels.' He had adopted his Chat Noir abilities, being as graceful as an actual cat. The final level was pretty hard though. It consisted of four wheel looking things that hung on metal poles from the ceiling. The gap between each one was large and proved to be challenging. But, Adrien managed to make each one, amazing Marinette. Of course, in order to win, he had to 'stick the landing' like a gymnast. As he was preparing for the final jump, the gym doors burst open.

"ADRIEN GET DOWN FROM THERE!" A voice shouted. It was Natalie. Cra;.

"I am sorry, but Mr. Agreste has prohibited you from participating in this joke of a gym class. We have a photoshoot tomorrow and we cannot risk you getting injured." She said formally.

Adrien had no choice but to comply. The gym teacher helped him get down unharmed.

"Honestly Adrien, you should know better." Natalie chastised.

He hung his head as he sadly said, "yes ma'am."

"Very well then. Please continue." Natalie said before walking out, her heels making clicking sounds on the floor.

Everyone stayed quiet for a few seconds before the gym teacher cleared his throat.

"WIth that aside, good job Adrien. I'm sure you would have finished it if you hadn't been interrupted. Anyways, our final contestor for the morning is Marinette." He said, sighing. This was gonna be a quick one.

Alya felt a little pity after seeing Marinette's determination in her eyes, but that didn't stop her from making a bet with Nino and Adrien.

"$50 says she gets out first round." Alya whispered.

"I say she'll get out within one jump," NIno argued.

"Have a little faith in her. I think she'll get to the fourth round, but then fall." Adrien said.

"Oh yeah? And how much Agreste money are you willing to bet?" NIno hissed. THe boy had too much faith.

"200 even." Adrien smirked.

Alya was already planning what she would buy with her new fortune.

When the coach blew his whistle, Marinette was off, flying through each course.

Alya just stared as Marinette expertly swung from each gymnastic bar, seamlessly flying past the first two checkpoints.

"How?" Nino murmured.

As Marinette was making it through the third round, she was smiling, almost carefree. She gracefully was jumping between platforms.

Finally it was the fourth round, and Alya and Nino were missing their money while Adrien was feeling guilty for hoping Marinette would slip.

This was harder for Marinette without her yo-yo, yet she managed. Finally she was at the final jump and her classmates were in a state of shock, especially the gym teacher.

She bent her knees and was about to jump when Adrien panicked. There was no way he would lose any money. He had to play dirty.

As she was about to jump, he shouted, "I LOVE YOU MARINETTE!"

Marinette yelped as she slipped and fell, losing the match.

She groaned as she hit the floor. How had she lost? Oh yeah. Some idiot had yelled that he loved her? Who?

As she got up, she saw Alya and Nino glaring at ?

"So close," the gym teacher whispered. "WHO PLAYED DIRTY?" He shouted, furious. The girl was sooo close to finishing.

Adrien meekly raised his hands as the felt the glares of everyone hit him.

"Whoops?"

Marinette fainted on the spot. Adrien loved her?

She had a nice dream in which she was defeating an akuma when she was shaken awake. She instinctively punched the culprit.

"Ow! Well, I guess I deserved that." The voice said.

Marinette opened her eyes to see blond and green.

"Adrien?" She mumbled.

"Yeah. Sorry about that." He said.

"You love me?" Marinette was beating around the bush.

"Um, about that…"

Marinette's heart sunk. Of course he didn't mean it. It was stupid of her to get her hopes up.

"I do and I understand if you don't want to be my friend anymore, bu-"

Marinette covered his mouth with a finger and smiled. "I love you too!"

Adrien smiled and suddenly remembered what he was supposed to tell her.

"Oh! Coach said that since we got the furthest, we won. So we can choose together."

"That's great! What should we choose?"

"I've narrowed it down to three choices: Basketball, Dodgeball, and Speedball."

Marinette's grin turned evil as she made the decision.

"Speedball it is." She whispered a she looked up at Adrien. They were going to beat the crap out of everyone.