Oh, God. He was a mess.

Adrien hadn't been sleeping well. Blame it on the busy week of exams. Or your frequent Chinese, piano, dance, singing lessons. Interviews, photo shoots or perfume and clothing advertisements.

This was chaos and added to his night patrols, how would he rest between one period and another?

It was impossible.

"You look like hell. You sure you've been sleeping well, man?" Nino approaches him after saying goodbye to his girlfriend and touches his shoulder in concern.

"I'm fine. Just too busy." He is vague in his answer. As always.

Being Adrien and maintaining his identity as the bearer of the Black Cat Miraculous was quite a challenge that he faced from the beginning. It was a little difficult to explain his absence at certain gatherings with friends or how he always seemed to disappear into the middle of nowhere.

The worst part was perhaps hiding the secret from his girlfriend. God, his head hurt just thinking about coming up with another excuse for him injuries when she came to visit him.

The blond tried to pay attention to what his friend was rambling on about, but it was difficult. His attention was completely lost upon seeing a familiar figure absent-mindedly on campus before he quickly said goodbye to Nino and went up to her, coming up behind her by surprise, wrapping his arms around her waist.

"Lost, darling? I can help." He whispers with a teasing tone almost akin to a playful purr. Not even he admitted that his personality seemed to be molding itself more and more into that of the black cat every day.