After gym Marinette found herself dragged to her house, only the have to scarf down her measly lunch before Alya was attacking her eyes with what looked like a torture device.

"Alya!" the girl said coming out of her daze," what is that!" she pointed at the sliver glinting object, with its weird tong like handles and rubber guillotine top," doing near my eyes?" she asked.

Alya chuckled," it's an eyelash curler girl," she smiled," we can't do anything too drastic because then lover boy will find it weird," but that doesn't mean we can't add a little bit of make-up!"

"Alya! I still have to go to science; I can't go to class as a Barbie doll after Adrien asked me to work with him! He'll find it weird and then won't want to work with me never want to talk to me and my life will be over because he hates me! "She said picturing the reaction of the aforementioned blond boy, his green eyes would widen and then he'd notice and tell her she was too much like Chloe and ignore her for the rest of the year and probably life. The blue haired girl slumped in her seat melodramatically.

"Girl chill," Alya smirked rolling her brown eyes," I'll just put enough on you to make him notice you look a little different. Not enough to ruin your life like Chloe's hack job has for her."

Marinette nodded weakly smiling," just don't attack me with that torture device!"

Alya looked at the strange instrument and chuckled before the two girls started to burst out laughing.

Marinette felt a spark of hope flutter in her chest and allowed her best friend to dress her face up.

Fifteen minutes later Marinette looked at her reflection before spinning happily, "you were right Alya! You did a great job! "She said appreciating the slight make-up on her face that accented her eyes in a way she'd never imagined.

"What are friends for?" she asked with a smirk.

"Oh," Marinette gasped," what about you?"

Alya looked at her confused," I'm not the one going on a date with Adrien."

"It's not a date," Marinette hissed," I meant that don't you want to dress up for Nino?" she asked wagging her eyebrows slightly.

"What? Why would I do that?" the tan girl asked her darker completion almost covering up her blush, almost.

"Come on Alya," the Parisian girl said," I'm not blind, klutzy, but not blind. I saw how you two looked at each other after Lady bug locked you up in a cage because of Animan," the bluenette said feeling slightly out of place for mentioning herself in the third person.

"I don't know what you're talking about, besides you were completely M I A, during that attack," the girl said dragging out the letters, obviously trying to distract from her feelings for the DJ.

"Didn't mean I didn't talk to you guys after the fact!" Marinette teased.

"I swear girl, I'll never know how you can be this super confident girl with me but a stuttering mess around your lover boy.

Marinette sputtered," I-I-I, h-he- we- it's- not-"

"I know girl chill, let's just get to class alright?"

"Okay," Marinette agreed opening her trap door.

The two began their long strenuous journey to the hellish nightmare they were forced to endure, otherwise known as third period.

The journey started surprisingly silent, at first it was comfortable but then Marinette began to find the silence uncomfortable and awkward. The silence was weird to her while next to Alya, the bluenette looked over to her blog running friend, the girl was lost in thought as she looked to the paved ground, seemingly enthralled with the cracks and grass that peeked through certain parts of the sidewalk.

"Hey Alya," Marinette said nudging her friend," you okay?"

"Huh," the girl looked up her glasses reflecting the light but not distracting from her conflicted expression. "Yeah, yah sure, just distracted!" the girl said with a smile.

"Alya," Marinette said looking at her friend," what's wrong?"

Alya huffed," Nino! That's what's wrong!"

Marinette looked at the girl very confused," what do you mean?"

"I-I thought I understood how I felt about him but then we got locked in the cage and it's all moving so quickly," Marinette looked at her friend in shock as she complained to her.

Alya was normally so confident and outgoing, Alya rarely ever second guessed herself. Her the brunette blogger who'd selflessly charged into a battle scene to record her favorite superheroes, her the girl who stood up to Chloe before the rest of the class could get up the courage, she'd been the new girl who became friends with everyone in class (except a few choice individuals) before the end of the week.

"Look Alya," Marinette said," I get that this is probably scary, but the guy does like you, a lot from what I can tell."

Alya let some of her normal flair show as she rolled her eyes at her friend," yeah sure, you can tell," she said pushing her friend slightly.

"I can," Marinette protested," I'm not entirely oblivious," she said shoving Alya back a bit.

"Sure you're not," Alay teased her old spark returning," you sure I have a chance with him?" she asked.

"More than I do with Adrien on any given day," Marinette laughed, as they reached the school.

"I can agree with that dumpster trends," Chloe scoffed, as she sashayed past the pair, Lila was following Chloe with her binder in her arms, a frustrated expression painting her face. Sabrina was also a short distance away," here's what I have so far Chloe," the two friends heard her say before Lila cut her off and went off on Chloe.

Marinette and Alya shared a confused look," do the damn work yourself Chloe," Lila shouted at her," but I'm telling miss Bustier how lazy you've been in just the first twenty minutes of the project!" the two friends looked at the new girl impressed with her courage.

"Excuse me," Chloe said hands on her hips," but I have done plenty of work organizing thi-"

"Bull!" Lila shouted using some choice terms that Alya and Marinette would never repeat.

The two girls stared each other down, mayor's daughter and new girl, liar and liar, bottle blonde and brunette. Two bullies, one a long time tormenter, and one the newest at the playground.

Before suddenly Chloe laughed at the girl," do you know who I am?" she said cutting off the strange eye contact.

Lila smacked the girl," yes a bit-"

"Miss Lila!" Mrs. Bustier cut her off walking out from the building, "watch your language," she turned to the two girls on steps, steps that as they'd argued they'd gone up to try and appear taller than the other. "Both of you come with me to the office."

Sabrina went to follow," no, not you too Sabrina," Mrs. Bustier said," these two have plenty to sort out by themselves without you.

Alya and Marinette shared a confused look, neither of them liked Lila very much, in the two months since her original akuma transformation, the girl had lied to get close to everyone and freaked out when the others found out, on top of that she'd single handedly destroyed the school twice more in secondary akuma attacks after her initial one. Whilst additionally bullying kids and causing two other attacks from others.

"What's got her panties in a twist," the pair heard Nino say behind them, Marinette noticed that Adrien was next to him in a daze, but she was more distracted on her main thought.

Things were about to change.