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~Later that Day~

"Chloe," Sabrina said as she ran a nail file along blond friend's perfectly manicured nails.

"Yeah Sabrina?"

"Should we be concerned about the fact that we're probably going to get Lila akumatized again?" she asked, grabbing the bottle of clear nail polish from beside her.

"Oh, I'm sure Ladybug and Cat Noir will have that covered," Chloe said, waving her free hand dismissively while Sabrina cleaned up a bit of nail polish that had gotten on her friend's cuticle. Her phone buzzing on the table beside her, making her sit up and take one of the cucumbers off of her eyes to see that Nathaniel had sent her a text:

Hey, I appreciate you sticking up for Marinette earlier in class today. But we have a different problem now.

"You have got to be kidding me!" she shouted at her phone.

"What's going on?" Sabrina asked.

"Lila's putting up a fight," she said, calling Gabriel's number, and putting him on speaker as she put her phone back on the table and used her free hand to wipe off her face mask with a towel.

"Hello?" Nathalie answered.

"Oh, good. You picked up," she said, taking her hand back and blowing on her nails once Sabrina was done painting them with the clear shiny polish. "Listen, one of my and Adrien's classmates is probably going to show up at your house in the next ten to twenty minutes claiming she's pregnant with Adrien's child. Don't listen to her. She's lying through her teeth, and wouldn't be the first time she's done it either."

"HE DID WHAT!?" Gabriel yelled in the background.

"Thanks for warning, Chloe. But if you'd excuse me, I have to keep my boss from murdering his son when Adrien gets home," Nathalie said in a hurry before hanging up.

"I cannot believe she stooped to that kind of a low just because you called her out," Sabrina said as she switched over to Chloe's other hand, and hung up the phone.

"You better believe it," she said. "And now it's personal."

"Please tell me we're going to take the high road, and just tell her parents on her," Sabrina said.

"No, I tried doing that before Marinette left. And her mom screamed at me saying that she was the perfect little angel," Chloe said, taking her hand back once Sabrina was done painting her nails. "If she's going to drag Adrien's name through the mud just because I called her out. We're making sure she can never do that again."

"Chloe, you said we wouldn't stoop to her low," she said.

"Call Aurore and Mireille. See if either of them will be willing to do an acting gig for us."

"Chloe, you're-You know what? Forget it. I'll call them and have them meet us at the library tomorrow morning if Adrien's not already pulled out of school."

~Meanwhile~

"Oh, come on Marinette. Cheer up," Theo said as he cleaned the windows in the bakery. "So what if your friends all turned on you? You'll make new ones at your new school."

"Yeah, but it's not the same," she said, slumping against the counter. "I've known all my other friends since kindergarten. What if no one at my new school likes me?"

"Marinette, you're one of the kindest, most genuine and friendly people I've met. And I've only been working here for a week," Theo said to her. "Trust me, you're going to be just fine."

"Thanks Theo," she said as the door to the bakery opened, and Lila stepped in. "What do you want?"

"How about that chocolate cupcake that's front and center in the display case?" she said, making Marinette give her a dirty look before she went to get a to-go box from the shelf. "So, how's life at your new school? Make any new friends yet?"

"No," Marinette said, putting the box together and getting one of the cupcakes furthest in the back.

"Oh, that's such a shame," Lila said. "Well, I think you'd be glad to know that no one at school misses you. And Adrien and I just started going out. He says I'm so much better than you. Better yet, he and I are actually expecting soon."

"Marinette, no!" Theo shouted, wrapping his arms around Marinette's waist to keep her from jumping over the counter and attacking Lila as she walked off without paying for her cupcake. Marinette screaming all sorts of profanities after her as Theo slipped in the cake batter Tom had spilt on the floor when he went to help him restrain Marinette, and accidentally pulled her down with him. "Ow."

"Marinette, stop it," Tom said, grabbing his daughter by the shoulder to keep her from going after Lila.

"Yeah, you already know she's lying," Theo said as he got up and brushed the cake batter off of his shirt, the door opening again as Jalil came in to pick up a cake for his dad. And laughing his ass off when he saw Theo covered in cake batter.

"Shut up, Jalil," he said, pushing a wayward strand of hair out of his face while Tom went to get the cake.

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