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~The Next Day~
"Come on. How long does it take for you to talk to them?" Chloe muttered as she waited in front of the school's library for Sabrina. Seeing her tangerine haired friend come hopping up the stairs smelling like a skunk's behind, making her gag. "Why do you smell like a skunks rear end?"
"Aurore and Mireille both say no to helping us," she answered simply as Chloe spun her around and started pushing her back towards the stairs. Dragging her by her wrist into the locker room, and digging through her locker until she found a spare change of clothes for her so she wouldn't go walking around smelling like that. Pushing her into the bathroom, and into a stall to change as she tried not to vomit at the stench.
"Does Aurore keep a skunk in her locker or something?" she asked.
"No, she sprayed me with her new perfume," Sabrina said from the stall as Chloe rushed to wash her hands because her fingers smelled like it from touching her. "And I thought Rose's perfume smelled bad."
"Now what are we going to do?" she asked as Sabrina came out of the stall looking like an orange haired copy of the blond queen bee.
"I don't know what to tell you, Chloe. I already knew they weren't going to listen."
"Wait, you knew they were going to believe Lila over me. And you didn't tell me?"
"Chloe, you barely listen to me when I tell you simple stuff like brush your hair or fix your shirt. I saw no point in telling you," she said as they went back out to the locker room. "Plus, you've stooped to some pretty extreme lows just for the sake of being the center of attention. And flat out revealed your superhero identity on live TV for the city to see. Did you really think they were going to take you seriously, and not assume that you're just whining because Lila took your spot."
"You still should have told me," Chloe pouted as she opened up her locker. Finding a bag of chocolate candies that had been in there since Valentine's Day last year, and were all melted and looked like someone with explosive diarrhea had taken a shit in the sandwich bag they were being kept in. "Ew!"
"What?" Sabrina asked, poking her head around the row of lockers because hers was in a different spot from Chloe's.
"I had a bag of chocolate candies in my locker from Valentine's Day last year, and they melted. It's all over the bag."
"Gross," Sabrina exclaimed before she got an idea. Because the only good punishment in Chloe's book for talking any sort of slander on Adrien was public humiliation. And she had just the way to humiliate Lila. "You might want to hang onto it though."
"What are you up to?" Chloe asked as Sabrina shut her locker and went to Aurore's to pick the lock.
"Just trust me," she said, opening Aurore's locker and stealing her perfume.
~Meanwhile~
"Good morning, Adrien," Nathaniel said as he and Marc sat down at Adrien's table at the library.
"What do you guys want?" the blond model asked, already done with everyone in the school because he hadn't been there for five minutes, and already he was being bombarded with questions about Lila and their 'baby'. "And don't ask about Lila's fake baby. I don't care if you're being sarcastic or not. I already got that question a thousand times before I came in here."
"Hey Adrien, I heard you got Lila pregnant," one of the more heavily religious students said, making Adrien's eyebrow furrow as Nathaniel rolled his eyes. "I just wanted to let you know. I'll be praying for you. And I'll be praying for you two as well, Nathaniel. God doesn't like sinners."
"Well then you better pray for yourself and ask forgiveness unless you want the entire school finding out that you gave Jean Duparc head in the locker rooms last week," he said casually, turning back to his sketchbook as the student got really flustered and offended at his statement. "Have a nice day now."
"Now that wasn't very nice," Marc said once the girl was out of earshot.
"Hey, the girl's been shitting on my beliefs since kindergarten. I deserve to get a few words in," he said as Adrien rubbed his temples in frustration. "Speaking of words. Did you talk to Marinette yet?"
"No," he said. "I knew Lila was lying since the beginning, and didn't say anything. What makes you think Marinette would want to listen to a word I said when she thinks I took her side?"
"Well, because it's you," Nathaniel said. "Adrien, I've known Marinette from back when we were toddlers. And when I tried to apologize to her last night, she slammed her bedroom door in my face. You might have better luck."
"I don't think so," Adrien said. "She already hates all of us for turning against her. I don't think I'm going to make any difference."
"Adrien, she's not going to hate you," Marc said. "If anything, she's going to forgive you right on the spot because she has a ginormous crush on you."
"Wait, she does?" he asked. "Since when?"
"Since you popped up out of nowhere and joined our class last year," Nathaniel said, rubbing the bridge of his nose in frustration. "And seeing as how you're just finding out about this now. I think it's also safe to assume you haven't had that talk with your dad yet."
"What talk?"
"This is just sad," Marc said, shaking his head as Nathaniel laid his head on the table to try and contemplate Adrien's density in social situations.
~Later that Afternoon~
"I don't know what I'm going to do, Tikki," Marinette said as she gave Tikki a cookie that was in her lunchbox. Sitting all by herself at lunch with just her sketchbook full of designs sitting in front of her like she had been for the last two weeks because no one at her new school bothered to sit with her, and avoided her like the plague when she went over to talk to hem. "It seems like no matter what I do, I always end up sitting by myself."
"Don't worry about it, Marinette. You're going to be just fine," Tikki reassured as someone started walking in their direction.
"Hey," a girl with long, dark cherry colored hair, and stunning blue eyes said, making Tikki dart into Marinette's jacket. "You're the new girl, right?"
"Uh...yeah," Marinette stammered before she put on a friendly smile and stuck her hand out. "I'm Marinette."
"Sadie Ku-Kilowitz," the girl stuttered, making a face as if she was kicking herself for saying or doing something stupid before she turned back to Marinette with a stone hard expression. "And I'd wipe the smile off your face if I were you. I don't know if you've already noticed this or not, but no one here is going to give a shit that you're the new girl. New students don't last long at this school. So don't count on making any new friends here."
Oh, great. This girl had to be her school's version of Chloe.
"Take it from me, blue. You're better off on your own in this joint," Sadie continued as she eyed the cookies Marinette had in her lunch and took one into her hand. "Making friends here is pointless."
Seeing Sadie walk off with the cookie in hand, Marinette scowled and turned back to her designs with Tikki patting her on the shoulder. Of all the people she had to have her first interaction with at her new school, it had to be the school's queen bee who already didn't like her. And in the typical Chloe Bourgeois fashion too.
"What do you think, Scara?" Sadie asked once she was far enough away from the cafeteria to speak openly with her kwami without anyone judging her. "She our girl?"
"Yes, she is. I could feel her kwami. She is Ladybug," the blue scarab kwami said, nodding her head vigorously.
"Perfect," she said, taking a bite of her cookie.
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