You can never assume when it comes to other people's lives. What goes on behind closed doors? How do people really act when no one is watching? People you may think have perfect lives don't and others do.

There are signs of course, but there are also good actors. Even when people notice the signs it's hard to look past your own life and into another's long enough to know for sure. People tend to care less when they are not directly affected.

Secrets are secret for a reason.

Hi I'm Marinette! Most people know me as the clumsy baker's' daughter. The fashion designer with a plan. This is true but I have a secret… well two secrets.

I'm Ladybug, Paris' resident heroine along with my partner Chat Noir. We fight the villain Hawkmoth and his akumas to keep Paris safe. I haven't been doing it very long but so far we've done a really good job!

We get our powers from our miraculous and kwamis. Basically tiny friendly gods. It sounds really weird I know, but you'll get used to it. My kwamis name is Tikki. Isn't that so cute just like her!

I don't know the name of Chat's kwami you see we don't know who the other is in real life. Maybe we will someday, but for now we work better this way.

Enough about my super hero life tho. In my normal life I go to Collęge Françoise Dupont. I'm my classes class president. My class is really cool with lots of nice people, except Chloe that is. She the bully of the school just because her dad is the mayor. Oh well what can you do? I really feel bad for Adrien. She is obsessed with him alway hanging off him. My poor sweet gorge- well he doesn't deserve that.

I may have a bit of a crush on him. Ok a big crush with borderline stalker tendencies. He's just so perfect I can't help myself. Alya is always teasing me! Oh yeah, Alya is my very best friend ever since we met! She's dating Nino who's Adrien's best friend. Me and Nino have been friends since we were toddlers. Together he and Alya know everything about me. Well almost.

Remember how I said I had two secrets? Well secret one was obviously being ladybug, but secret two is not nearly so fun. I call this my normal life because getting to escape and be Ladybug is such a fantasy it doesn't seem real. My normal life is a nightmare. I'm not the same girl people see me as at school, but that's good. I don't want them to see the real me.

The real me is abused. Abused by my parents. They just stopped loving me one day. I don't understand it. I wish I did.