AN: I was going to make this all super long and detailed, but I would rather have them out in the world for y'all to read, so here's a less detailed version, and hopefully someday I'll come back and flesh them all out lol.

CHAPTER 2

Sabrina wins a scholarship to study abroad, and leaves quickly. Chloe is upset that her "best friend" has chosen to leave her, and spends a week being meaner than usual to everyone. Her actions cause a few kids to be Akumatized, but that just gives Chat Noir, Flying Fox, and Ladybug time to get to know each other better and learn how to work as a team. Ladybug has finally accepted that Flying Fox is one of the good guys, and has been trying to learn all she can about where she came from, but lately their fights with Akumatized people have been taking so long that there's not much time to chat after they're done fighting, and before they transform back into their regular selves. A week after Sabrina leaves, Chloe seems to finally have had enough of not having a specific person to worship her everyday, and announces that she is holding "auditions" for a new best friend. At this point though, most people in their class are completely fed up with her, and no one shows up to the audition, leaving Chloe to sit alone for several hours, waiting for the crowd of "fans" she thought would come. Angry and slightly embarrassed, she storms out into the school courtyard and demands to know why no one wants to be her BFF. Tired of Chloe's shenanigans, as well as the extra evil fighting work her tantrums have caused, Marinette finally snaps.

"You're a terrible person and none of us want to be around you!"

She snaps, shocking everyone around them into silence. The crowd turns to see Chloe's response.

"What? You're just saying that because you're jealous! Everyone loves me!" Chloe crosses her arm and tosses her hair.

"No, they love your money!" Alya chimes in, stepping up next to Marinette.

"Half the people here wouldn't have put up with you this long if they hadn't wanted to go to your stupid parties."

"T-that's not true!" Chloe snaps back, but her eyes are wandering the crowd, as she begins to look unsure.

"Raise your hand if you wouldn't have gone to Chloe's parties if she wasn't rich." Marinette challenges the crowd, raising her own hand to encourage the others.

Chloe watches with wide eyes as nearly everyone's hand in the room goes up. She sees that only the new girl, Emmy, and Adrien have not raised their hands.

"Adrikins, you love me for me, right?" Chloe pleads.

"Well," Adrien says, looking awkwardly around the room, at anyone but Chloe.

"It is really hard to be your friend, when you're constantly putting others down, making fun of people, lying, using your dad to get everything you want, bullying our classmates, stealing."

Adrien had finally met her eyes as he listed everything that she did wrong, and Chloe was mortified to feel her own eyes starting to sting with tears.

"So what are you saying?" She asked him.

"I'm saying no one here really wants to be your friend, since you never seem to learn your lesson after hurting us all so much."

Chloe looked back around the room, at all her classmates staring at her and nodding in agreement with Adrien. Since when had they all turned on her? Before she could say anything to defend herself, the bell rang to signal the end of the school day, and she took that as her cue and ran out of the building.

"Maybe we were a little harsh."

Adrien said, standing in the small group that remained. Nino, Alya, Marinette, and Emmy were all looking around at each other, only some of them feeling guilty about what they had just seen.

"Someone had to say it, I wasn't going to sit through another week of her tantrums."

Marinette said, crossing her own arms defensively as she now felt all her friends slightly judging eyes on her.

"Should someone go after her though?" Emmy suggested.

"She might get Akumatized on her way home and cause even more trouble for us."

"Fair point! Nino, let's go see if we can catch a glimpse of Ladybug or Chat Noir going after her!"

The two of them rand off then, leaving just Adrien, Marinette, and Emmy looking at each other awkwardly.

"I've known her the longest, I could go." Adrien offered.

"You're also the one who said the most about how awful she is."

Marinette pointed out.

"She might not want to see you right now."

"Well you're the one who started it!" Adrien replied.

Both of them looked at Emmy.

"She barely knows me! I don't know what to say to calm her down!"

Emmy said, raising her hands. Marinette heaved a deep sigh.

"Alright, she probably doesn't want to see me either, but at least I've had experience talking with her when she gets in these moods. And if she does get Akumatized I can-"

Marinette stopped talking quickly, and looked nervously between her two friends.

"I can call Ladybug, yeah, I'll do that."

And with that, she was off running out of the school.

"She's friends with Ladybug?"

Emmy asked Adrien, who shrugged and ran a hand through his hair.

"You never know when it comes to her. But hey, while she's dealing with that, do you want to hang out?"

"Sure."

Emmy smiled back, and the two of them walked off together.

Marinette goes to confront Chloe, and finds that an Akuma has slipped into her room and is heading straight for Chloe. Marinette talks quickly though and has calmed down before the Akuma can reach her. This leaves an Akuma fluttering around in the bedroom with no one to possess. Marinette desperately tries to keep Chloe too distracted to notice the dark butterfly, while trying to find a chance to slip away and transform into Ladybug so she can use her purifying powers. Chloe ends up catching her in Ladybug form however, but instead of making the connection between her and Marinette, Chloe throws herself in the arms of her favorite super hero and asks her advice, for how to get people to actually like her. Ladybug is flustered and tongue tied, but eventually suggests that Chloe should try to be more interested in other people, and that eventually she might make some real friends that way. Chloe is grateful for the advice, but Ladybug flees the scene as she's about to transform back, and doesn't have a chance to follow up with Chloe until after the weekend.