Welcome back to the forth chapter of the story!

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A special thanks to mystic-wolves-exist for helping me with editing my story so that it makes sense! You are a great friend and have awesome ideas!

Guest 1: I am glad you loved it, but I need to add the cliffhangers or else the story wouldn't flow the way I wanted it to.

TsukiyoTenshi: I hadn't thought of doing a backstory but I might do a special addition chapter on the background of the four characters. I am glad you liked the nicknames.

Guest 2: Thank you for the high praise

Warning some of the events I have mentioned are pretty sad so be prepared!

I do not own Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir or anything else that I mentioned.

"Explain." Felix said, eyes narrowed at Marinette, barer of bad news. What had happened while he was gone that caused three of the most important people in his life to go their separate ways?

Nino and Nathanael looked helplessly at Marinette, silently pleading for her to continue. Marinette sighed but decided to indulge them, she was already on the hot seat, and there was no reason to drag them down with her.

"It didn't start out that way. After you moved we tried to adjust to not having you around, but it was incredibly difficult. That was the worst summer of our lives. We couldn't even get in contact with you because whenever we called it wouldn't connect this went on for a month until we finally threw in the towel trying to reach you through your phone. Facebook was out of the question due to our age and none of us had a email address and wouldn't get one for another two years.

"It wasn't until you left that we realized just how big a part you filled in our group dynamic. Our parents knew that we were still really put out about your leaving so they decided to help us by signing us all up for a course for young talents at a local university. It seemed like the perfect program as it was geared to all of our interests, music for Nino, art for Nathanael, and fashion for me, it even had a theater program that you would have no doubt aced." Marinette said, with a small half smile.

What many people didn't realize was that besides being a genius with the violin, Felix was a gifted actor and dancer. He had even stronghold them all into doing plays with him. They would always agree because it was collaboration of all their interest and it was always a blast. Marinette had actually been cast as the female lead to Felix male on more than one occasion. This was a source of irritation to Chloe who was always trying to get closer to Felix, but the drama director was one of the few not willing to bow down to the girl's whims. It was the start of Chloe's tunnel vision for Marinette's misery. After Felix left they all stopped doing plays because it held to many bittersweet memories. The only reason that Marinette hadn't been able to act properly during the Horificator incident was because Adrien had been playing across from her.

"However like most things that seemed too good to be true, there was a catch. The programs rarely interacted with one another and since the program was nonrefundable, the only time we were ever together when we ate lunch. Afterwards we each had other things going on and couldn't hang out nearly as much as we used too. The only day we could constantly hang out on, without fail, was on Saturdays. The saving grace of the summer was the continuing of our Movie night." Marinette continued her explanation.

Nino and Nathanael winced. Their parents might have been trying to do a good deed, the repercussions of their meddling had been the first step to the deterioration of their bond. The trio had lost a member and had wanted to spend as much time together as possible to make sure that they all got through their loss together. While the Movie nights were a blessing they weren't enough to stop what the program had caused. By the time school rolled around all of them had made it through, but not as a group liked the hoped.

"When school started up again we were grateful that we now had a chance get back into the swing of things and hang out more often. There was just one tiny snag. We had only two classes' together and separate homeroom teachers. We were bummed but we decide to make the most of it, but someone decide to interfere. Three guess who."

"Bourgeois." Felix growled out. He really disliked that girl.

"Got it in one." Marinette replied, a humorless smile adorned on her face.

"She was once again in my class to my dismay and she had gotten the memo that you were gone, even though you had kept it quiet. She was furious that her "Feely-Weely" (Nino and Nathanael muffled their laughter as Felix cringed and shuttered at the repulsive nickname) was gone and that you kept it a secret and worse that I was told but she wasn't. When she found out she decided to make my life miserable by constantly placing large orders at the bakery and since my parents have always counted on me to help out my free time went to almost zero that summer."

"That is harsh and I apologize, I didn't realize the repercussions of keeping my departure secret. Not seeing Bourgeois was the only upside to the move and I didn't think of the aftermath. I got away from the banshee and her ridiculously ludicrous names and that was it. I still don't know how she got it in her head that we were friends let alone compatible enough to go out. I could barely tolerate her and wanted no more than the minimum contact with her." Felix said hoping to lighten his friend's mood up.

"I was amused too, until she upped her antics."

Felix balled up his fist and clenched his teeth. That was the biggest reason that he didn't get along with Chloe. He hated how she always put his first friend down, tripping her up, sabotaging her work. If she hadn't been the Mayor's "little princess" he would have put her in her place a long time ago, instead of just reprimanding her when she messed with his group. However Marinette never had a problem standing up to Chloe so more antics wouldn't have been anything she couldn't handle. So why did he get the feeling that something did?

"At first I acted like I usually did standing up for myself and not letting it bug me. Until one day she pushed me too far and I laid into her, unfortunately in front of our new vice principal. If it had been any of the other teachers they would have let it go with a warning as most know about Chloe's treatment of me and her antics. However this was a new vp was a major brownnoser who tried everything to get on Chloe's good side in hopes of getting into the Mayor's good graces. He favored Chloe in everything and when he saw me yelling at Chloe, I was threatened with suspension if I was ever seen bothering Chloe again. My parents tried to intervene but they couldn't go against the Mayor and they knew that I would never dream about transfering schools, even if it meant getting away from Chloe."

Felix was fuming. How could someone treat a student so unfairly especially if said student was being harassed? Nino and Nathanael weren't doing much better. Nino decide to fill their bud in on why they let the girl fend for herself.

"We hate being reminded of how helpless we were during this back then. We were there when the yelling happened and tried to protest Mari's punishment, but it was in vain. We couldn't get anyone to try and intervene and though we wanted to help her It was shot down. Worse still was when we tried to stand up for our friend afterwards they were told that if they continued doing so then they too would be suspended.

"After that I just stopped reacting to Chloe's taunts. It wasn't worth it and would just put more blame on myself. I retreated in to myself and pulled away from the boys. I could have handled it a lot better I know but I was just at a lost. I might have had my anchors but I had lost my rock. If was a relief when school ended and we began our summer. However life decided it wasn't done playing with us yet."

"What now." Felix asked in exasperation. Honestly he wasn't sure how much more bad news he could take.

This is where I let the first part sink in before hitting you with the much harder 2nd part. Plus I want you guys to hate Chloe as much as possible.

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