On Sunday night, everyone from Mari's apartment complex was hanging out together in the main hall waiting for the movie premiere. As the minutes went by the excitement of everyone grew and so would the nerves of Mari. Mari was nervous about how the people of Paris would react, and she hoped that she wouldn't let down everyone in the hall since they were all exited.
Meanwhile, Marlena was in her apartment getting the snacks ready for those that would watch the movie at her house when she saw the announcement of the movie starting in a few moments on her T.V. She quickly went to the main hall. "Hay everyone the movie will start soon!" In a split second, everyone went straight to their apartments as Mrs. Lahiffe Nino Alya Father Carlos Fu and Mari followed Marlena inside her apartment. Nino stood behind the couch as Fu Mrs. Lahiffe And Father Carlos sat on the couch. Alya and Mari sat on the chairs beside the couch. Marlena went to get the snacks then came back setting everything on the coffee table before joining the rest of the older adults on the couch.
The movie starts showing the blue sky with a few clouds, and the words MIRACULOUS LOVE appeared in big bold red letters and soon the scene changes showing a flower shop and zooming into Mari, who was putting flowers in a basket as the words 'With Violet Ladybug' appear in the bottom middle part on the screen. Everyone started cheering as Mari blushed and smiled shyly. As they cheered for her, they missed the names of the other main actors of the movie.
Mari walks out from the flower shop when a guy in a tux runs into her making her drop her basket with flowers as he goes past her. "Hay watch where you're going! You made me drop my basket of flowers." She exclaims as she bent down to put the flowers back in the basket.
The guy turns to face her. "Sorry I'm in a hurry." He runs off.
"You could've at least helped me pick them up! I hope you rot jerk." Mari calls after him.
A woman and a young lady stands beside her. "Don't be bad mouthed girl my son did it by accident." The woman said sternly.
Mari looks up at her. "Oh he's your son?" Mari put her hand out. "Then pay me the flowers they don't give them to me for free you know."
The woman ignores her walking past her as the young lady laughs. "Excuse me? We won't pay you any flowers not even in your dreams." With that she walks away.
Mari stands up with the basket of flowers and walked over to another guy in a tux who Liam was playing as. "Would you like to buy flowers from a poor girl who doesn't have enough to eat?"
"Why do you lie? I have seen you giving change to those that buy from you." Liam replied with an amused look.
Mari smirked. "Well aren't you noisy?"
In the Dupain-Cheng household, everyone was in the movie room watching the movie. "Mari looks very pretty." Sabine stated as she looked at the T.V screen.
"That's just a disguise Sabine." Isabella replied.
"Well I think she looks beautiful. What do you think Lila?" Sabine asked.
"Nothing out from the ordinary but you always see everything great about Mari." Lila said with an irritated tone since so far there was nothing she could make fun of about Mari, she was doing a great job, and she did look beautiful, even if she was dressed like a girl from the streets.
"What do you think Tom?" Isabella asked.
"Well she is the leading role, and she's doing it well so far it doesn't seem like she'll be a bad actress." Tom replied honestly.
"Well it doesn't cost her anything she's acting as herself." Isabella replied and she plus Lila held back a laughter.
"When I'm done with you, you can go back to your home." Liam stated sitting on his couch and looking up at Mari.
Mari puts her hands on her hips. "Look here buddy you can't treat me like this." With that she walks away.
Mari quickly stands up from her seat when she sees Adrien near the open-door frame. "What are you doing here?"
"I came to see you." Adrien replied.
"I'm busy." Mari said crossing her arms.
"That's okay I can wait." Adrien stated.
"I'll always be busy from you so just leave." Mari replied. Adrien just stares at her, and she sighs. "Fine even though I'll be missing part of the movie." She walks out from the apartment with him. "You better forget where I live after this."
"We need to talk Mari." Adrien responded.
"Didn't you tell me everything last time? What else do you want?" Mari asked.
"It's just that-" Adrien sighs. "Seeing you with Roland upsets me that's it, but I was wrong about you."
"No you weren't wrong about what you told me. I'm an ungrateful who declared against you so Maya would be taken away from you. Plus I'm a thief and everything your kind wants to say about me, but I don't want to see you again." Mari said sarcastically before walking back to the apartment. Adrien sighs and walks away.
"What I want is to go get a taxi and go around town so my old friends can see me now that I'm living in this mansion." Mari said to Liam with a smile.
"There's no need for you to separate from your friends." Liam replied.
Mari sighs sitting on a chair. "They really weren't my friends they always treated me badly."
Lila looks over at Sabine who was tearing up. "C'mon mom don't be ridiculous."
"Lila don't speak like that to your mom." Isabella said sternly.
"Sorry but why is she crying?" Lila responded.
"I can't help it I keep thinking about how badly I-we treated Mari while she lived with us. Life makes you pay for what you do and Mari isn't paying anyithng most likely because she doesn't need to." Sabine replied.
"Fine just tell me what time I should go. I'm only doing this because you been so kind to me." Mari told Liam with a soft smile.
Roxie tears up as she stares at the screen. "Roland will get his way and my child won't have a father."
Mari walks over to Liam with a new clean outfit. Liam looks up from his phone and smiles. "It's seems like a lie what a good bath can do."
Mari smiles. "Well anyone would want to take a bath with warm water soup that is soft to the touch and let's not forget the soft towels. No wonder the rich woman are always clean with their clean clothes and wearing perfume. They wouldn't like bathing where i'm from."
"This is unbearable." Lila said as she played with her hair.
"I'm surpised how good she's doing her role." Tom stated.
"Straighten your back." Liam said as he was behind Mari. She did as she was told but it was hard for her to stay still. "Good now slowly walk."
Mari turns to face him. "That's enough I can't deal with this anymore."
"You're not reformed yet now listen." Liam said as he turned Mari back around.
"You have to catch me first." Mari said running off and Liam went after her.
Maya giggled seeing the movie as Teddy barked at the T.V seeing Mari on the screen.
Mari stood in front of Liam wearing a red stapless dress and Liam smiled taking her hand. Mari smiled too. "I wasn't born for this kind of life Ricky please understand."
"I do understand Bridgette and i'm willing to change for you." Liam replied.
"Than when will our wedding arrive?" Mari asked.
"Whenever you want." Liam stated.
The movie ends with them sharing a kiss and everyone started clapping and cheering. Suddenly everyone was hugging and congulating Mari. Fireworks were heard outside and when she looks outside she sees a party made by the nighborhoodd as everyone is cheering for Mari. Mari blushes seeing everything that they did for her.
It's such a revelation." Tom said after the movie ends.
"Wasn't it great Tom." Sabine added.
"Its incredible I can't believe it. How can a girl like Mari do that? She was being herself at first but then when Bridgette is reformed, She does a great job as if she herself was reformed." Tom replied.
"I think that Mari has talent as an actress." Sabine stated.
"Well I have heard enough I'm going to bed have a good night." Lila said before standing up and leaving the room.
Sabine sighs. "Lila is upset."
"You need to understand her after what Mari did to her its logical for her to be upset watching the movie only too please you guys." Isabella stated.
"You should do a T.V show dear." Fu said once they were at the party.
"Yes so we can see you on T.V everyday since you have great talent plus you earn a lot of money." Marlena added.
"I don't know what I'll do since I won't be able to do it soon." Mari replied.
"Why not Marinette?" Father Carlos asked.
"Uh I don't know I just think so. I'll be right back." Mari said before walking away from the crowd and to her apartment sitting on a chair. "Adrien came and he was different with me...yet I treated him the same way..."
"I want to thank you for being fair with Mari. For putting your hatred for her aside and to see her valve." Sabine said to Tom once they were alone in the movie room.
"Its not hatred. I'm strict I see the bad, but I also see the good. I'll be honest if Mari acted like the way she did in the end of the movie, I would've seen her as our daughter." Tom replied.
Roland walks into the apartment from the open door and goes to Mari hugging her. "We did it Mari, we did it." He let's go of her. "You won't believe who called me after the movie ended the press critics another director of the channel friends. Let's go celebrate with the others from the movie."
"I don't feel like it." Mari replied.
"Fine oh and tomorrow we'll see the success of the movie with the ratings." Roland stated.
Mari looks at him confused. "The what?"
"Its a method to see how many people saw the movie." Roland replied before leaving the apartment.
Adrien walks into his house and sees Lila standing in the main hall. "I knew you were here I saw your car outside"
"I came to see you. Where were you?" Lila asked.
"Out." Adrien replied.
"So you didn't see the movie?" Lila asked once more.
"No I did half way." Adrien replied.
Lila nodded. "With Edward? you know what it doesn't matter. Did you like it?"
"I'm surprised, I didn't think Mari was capable of such a thing." Adrien stated.
Lila crosses her arms. "She probably memorized the script by heart and doesn't remember anything she said."
"Actually, I saw her with the right expressions' sweetness also with pain love. Either Mari is a natural actress or the director is a genius." Adrien replied.
The next morning Lila was in the garden looking through her phone when she saw that everything being shown is all about Mari. "The street rat is everywhere is there nothing else interesting in this city!" She yelled irritated.
Sabine walked over to her and saw what her phone was showing. "They're talking about Mari? The movie must've been a success. Anyway dear I'm going to the orphanage to help with a fund-raiser and to talk with the other volunteers and finally to see Father Carlos Glass." Lila nodded with a fake smile.
"What? 25 million in rating?!" Roland exclaims over the phone. "Great for an actress no one knew about. Thank you." Roland hangs up and starts doing paperwork when there was a knock on the door of his office. "Come in." The door opens and when he looks up, he sees Adrien Agreste standing in front of his desk. Roland stood up with a smile. "Did you came to congratulate me? What did you think of the movie?"
"I came to ask you what your intentions for Mari are as an actress or as a woman." Adrien replied.
"I don't need to answer you anything." Roland stated.
"Mari is still my wife." Adrien said sternly.
"You sound like a broken record." Roland replied. "But to answer your question what if I told you both ways?"
"As an actress do what you think is best but as a woman don't even think about getting near my wife." Adrien said sternly before leaving the office.
Lila stands near the front door seeing Sabine leaving. Isabella walks over to Lila and saw the worried look on her eyes. "Lila?"
Lila turns to face her. "We're in trouble mom told me that she was going to the orphanage then to see father Carlos Glass."
Isabella got worried too and they quickly made a plan and quickly headed for the church with Plagg telling him they were going to visit a fashion designer when Isabella pretended to feel pain and Lila told Plagg to stay with her, so she could get help. Isabella told her to go into the church near by since she knew the priest, and he could help them. Lila nodded and went to the church then walked inside the church.
She was relieved to see that Sabine hasn't arrived yet and went inside the church and knocked on the open door of the office. "Can I talk to you Father Carlos?"
"Did you see everything being said about you?" Roland asked Mari as they walked around the studio.
"Yes though I feel strange seeing the pictures and everything being said about me...well about Violet Ladybug." Mari replied.
Roland hands her a credit card. "Here this is yours now I know you never had one before, but this is a credit card which you can use to buy things with. I'll show you how to put money in and take money out if needed and how to put your own pin since right now its one I did. Your first payment is in here already." Mari starts thinking about using the money for the orphanage and smiles. "I need you to buy an elegant dress."
"Why elegant?" Mari asked.
"Because this time you'll accept my invitation for dinner." Roland replied. "Its to celebrate your debut and the success of it."
"Alright but only if it's just casual." Mari replied.
Roland nodded. "Do you want me to go with you to buy the dress?"
"Yes because if I go alone I'll just buy rags." Mari stated.
"Alright you need to buy a dress for tonight and for the interview with the press." Mari nodded.
"You look familiar." Father Carlos said looking at Lila.
"I'm Judge Dupain's daughter." Lila answered.
Father Carlos nodded. "What brings you here?"
"My aunt Isabella and I came to see a fashion designer but my aunt suddenly felt ill she remembered you and told me to come get you." Lila replied. "Please come with me. She's not too far from here." Father Carlos nodded, and they started walking out the door. Lila was ahead of him and when she opened the door, she saw Sabine's car and quickly turned around. "Let's go to the other door its closer." Lila said leading him to the other door.
"Now tell me which dress you like best." Roland told Mari once they were at the boutique.
"This one." Mari said pointing to a beautiful pink dress.
"For someone who wears rags all the time you have a great sense of fashion." Roland stated with a smile.
"They are nice but expensive who would buy dresses so expensive when there are more important things plus looking at it, it would be easy to just make it yourself with the right material." Mari replied.
"Not everyone has talent for that, but it seems like you might." Roland responded.
Mari shrugs. "I guess I almost always had to sew my clothes."
"I'm sorry Mrs. Father Carlos just left to help a young lady, and I don't think he'll be back soon." A lady told Sabine. "Do you want to leave him a message?"
Sabine nodded. "That Sabine Dupian-cheng came to see him thank you."
Father Carlos and Lila walked over to Isabella and Plagg. "Aunt Isabella I brought Father Carlos."
"Thank you for coming Father, I feel so bad." Isabella said weakly. "I can't even walk."
"I'll get a doctor from the clinic near by, I'll be right back." Father Carlos said before walking away to the clinic.
"Mom is already there so we need to distract him as long as possible." Lila whispered, and Isabella nodded.
Soon Father Carlos and the doctor arrived. The doctor checked Isabella. "You have a high pressure Mrs." Isabella and Lila looked at him surprised since it was supposed to be a lie. "With this medicine, you should feel better." The doctor said writing a receipt.
Lila took it. "I'll go get it, please stay with my aunt Father." Lila said before running of. She goes to the church and sighs in relief when she doesn't see Sabine's car.
