Sorry its been so fucking long, life ya know! Anyway I hope you enjoy!

Lucy sat with the Marinette and Alya on the concrete steps that led into the court yard of the school, while they waited to have their class photo taken. Marinette started gushing over the the fact that she would be in a photo with Adrien. Lucy shook her head and smiled.

"Mari, you have already been in a photo with Adrien, remember? I took one of all of us at the movies." Marinette gasped in realization.

"You're right! I don't think you ever sent that too me! Oh gosh wouldn't it be amazing if we got to stand next to one another in this one!"

"Hehe, oh girl just smile and whatever happens, don't forget to breathe!" Alya said with a grin. Behind them Julika sighed.

"At least you know you you're going to be in the photo." She said sadly. Rose tried to reassure her, telling the long haired girl that she was not jinxed and everything would work out.

"What do you mean jinxed?" Lucy asked, standing with her two friends. Julika went on to explain that every time someone tried to take a photo of her, something would always go wrong.

"Sweetie that happens to everyone sometimes. That why you take fifty of them so you can find the best one." Lucy explained with a smile. Julika gave her a weak smile back but clearly was not convinced.

"We'll do everything we can to make sure it goes right this time. Don't forget to smile!" Marinette confirmed, not wanting her friend to feel jinxed any longer.

When it was their class's turn, the photographer gestured for Max, Alix, Rose, Marinette, and Mylene to sit on the front row bench, being that they were all the shortest. Chloe of course had to poke at her peers.

"Look Sabrina, they're up front in the baby seats! Go on rugrats, don't forget to take your thumbs out of your mouths!" Lucy swatted Chloe's arm, giving her a small glare which the blue eyed blonde returned. Lucy didn't say anything but simply gave Chloe a pointed look which Chloe only rolled her eyes at before turning away with her arms crossed. The next to be called where the middle sized students, who considering there was a bench in the back, all went into the last row so that they taller students wouldn't be cut out the frame. The back row of students called ended up being Nathaniel, Alya, Sabrina, and Chloe.

" Wait just one minute!" Chloe protested. "I'm supposed to be in the middle row, right next to Adrien. Preferably the center. Look, we're the same size!" Chloe waved her hand over her and Adrien's head, only showing that they were definitely not the same size. The photographer was obviously unconvinced and told her she would be standing in the back.

"Do you know who my father is!?" Chloe asked, about to blow a gasket for not getting her way.

"Is he a photographer?" Vincent asked, only to receive an appalled look from the blonde.

"No! He's-"

"That's too bad, I could really use an assistant." Vincent replied with a sigh. "Now go stand over there, or I'll put you up front with the babies." He teased. Chloe huffed before making her way to the back row next to Sabrina. "Now the rest of you boys, go stand in the middle!" Ordered Vincent. Julika and Lucy watched as the Photographer went on about to take the photo. Lucy gaped at him.

"Really man?"

"Huh?" Vincent looked back over to see Lucy and Julika still standing off to the side. "Oh, my bad girls, lets see, you're both nice and tall, how about we squeeze you into the middle row, break up the boy band a bit, yes?"

Adrien smiled as Lucy stood beside him, with Julika on her left. He had to fight the itch he was having to hold her hand. Vincent looked through his camera and frowned. Something was putting the whole thing off for him, a big part of it seemed to be Ivan, who's height next to most made the picture look off balance.

"No matter where I put him, everything is out of whack. Lets see..."

"My spot is unacceptable!" Chloe then complains again, trying to force her way to the middle row, shoving Julika, who had no intention of letting her in.

"Chloe, stop acting like such a child." Lucy scolded.

"Yeah, don't let her push you out of the way Julika!" Marinette agreed, gaining the attention of Ms. Bustier.

"Ms. Bourgeois, behave yourself!"

"Nobody asked you loud mouth." Chloe barked back to Marinette. Adrien placed his hands on his hips and looked at Chloe bemused.

"This isn't gym class Cho."

Vincent looked at the students and pondered a way to make everything work, deciding to play a little tetris and move multiple students around. In the end, the front row consisted of Max, Marinette, Mylene, Alix, and Rose. The middle row of Nino, Adrien, Julika, Lucy, Kim, and Ivan. And the back row being, Nathan, Alya, Sabrina and Chloe.

"Perfect!" The photographer shouted, only to get another complaint from Chloe. He ignored her however, and went to take the photo, only to find his battery had died. Julika asked to go to the bathroom and Lucy could hear Chloe whispering to Sabrina. Lucy whipped around and gave stern look to Chloe.

"Don't you dare."

Chloe crossed her arms and huffed. "I'm not doing anything."

"You look nice today." Adrien chimed, catching Lucy's attention. Lucy's eyebrow perked up and the boy quickly attempted to correct himself before she could respond. "Not that you don't always look nice! But-"

"Adrien," Lucy stopped him. "I think we have had this conversation before. Thank you. I don't think I have ever seen a hair out of place on you to begin with so you also look nice, as always."

Scratching the back of his neck, Adrien chuckled mostly to himself. Not truly understanding how it was possible to sound like such an idiot all the time in front of a single person. Suddenly Chloe was by his side, wrapping her arm around his neck.

"Chloe! What are you doing? Where's Juleka!?" Marinette asked.

The blonde bully scoffed. "Urgh, Who cares? At last, I'm in the right spot!"

The photographer set up his newly charged camera and looked to the group of children. "I want you to flash your best smiles! Because it's the last time we are doing this!"

It was safe to say that not a single student was looking or smiling at the camera except for Chloe, as thy were all much too distracted and annoyed by Chloe's antics. Marinette did her best to tell the photographer that the photo ad to be redone being that Juleka was not present. To be honest, Lucy was surprised he didn't want to take a new one anyway given ow poorly she was sure it came out. However Chloe reminded the principle that time was money and the longer this took the more he would need to pay, making him dismiss the students for lunch. Lucy and Rose skipped lunch and went on the hunt for Juleka, finding her lock in a bathroom stall. Lucy could feel her heart break at the sound of her friends tears on the other side of the door.

"Poor sweet Juleka!" Rose called as she removed the chair from in front of the stall door. Juleka wiped her tears and looked the two girls sadly.

"I missed the photo, didn't I?"

"Another one of Chloe's mean tricks." Rose confirmed apologetically.

"Why should I expect it to be any different? Nobody ever hears me. Or sees me. I'm invisible. Even in photos."

"Juleka stop." Lucy said. "It's just a photo. We can try and get the photographer to retake it."

Juleka shakes her head in frustration. " Forget it. As long as Chloe's in the picture, she'll find a way to keep me out of it."

"Juleka wait!" Rose called out but Juleka had no interest in what either of them had to say.

"Really Rose, forget it. Forget me."

With that she ran off leaving the two girls to look at one another sadly.

"We have to do something Lucy."

Crossing her arms, Lucy bit the inside of her cheek while nodding. Thinking about exactly where she would start.

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Adrien found Lucy scanning the court yard when he decided to approach her. A part of him was almost nervous to do so as he took in the cold look plastered on her features.

"Hey..." He said carefully. Lucy didn't look at him as she continued to scan, only acknowledging she heard him by giving him a slight hand gesture from her crossed arms. When Adrien asked who she was looking for, Lucy gave him a side eyed glance. A look that said "Who do you think?".

"Chloe." Adrien answered his own question.

"Bingo."

A sigh escaped his lips as his hands found their way to his hips. "She's the reason Juleka missed the picture isn't she?" Lucy hummed in confirmation as she continued to look on.

"Lucy...Chloe-"

"Don't" Lucy immediately stopped him. She turned her whole body in his direction and brought a finger to his chest. "Don't do that. Don't make excuses for her. I know you two have some kind of weird lonely-rich kid-friendship but you know good and well how wrong she is. Honestly, between the two of you, you should be the asshole, because up until not that long ago, you practically lived in a bubble with no experience dealing with kids your own age. But Chloe, she has been in gen pop with the rest of us for what seems like most of her life so there is no, none, notta single damn reason I should have to constantly be having this conversation with her. However CLEARLY, the girl has not been raised right, so I'm gonna have this conversation with her. Again and again and again until it sticks, because you don't treat people like that. And you standing here, making excuses for her is not helping. You enable her Adrien and you know better."

Once again Adrien was left feeling like a small child being scolded for doing something he clearly knew he shouldn't be. A part of him felt angry when Lucy did that. Talking to him like he was some little kid. He wanted to tell her she was wrong, that she didn't know Chloe like he did. The truth however seemed that everyone knew Chloe better than he did. Adrien only ever got to know the nice side of Chloe growing up but now observing her around other people, he knew that was a rare commodity for everyone else. The problem was he knew how great she could be. He had seen it. Adrien just wished Chloe would let everyone else see it too.

"She can be better."

"I know she can Adrien. And its your job as her friend to push her to do so. I'm doing my best but Adrien, if you haven't noticed, you're the only person whos opinion she even remotely cares about. It might have something to do with the fact that she is hopelessly in love with you, but it also might be more than that. She was your first friend, I think it's safe to say you were probably her first friend too, but what good is a friend if you're not constantly pushing each other to be the best possible versions of yourselves."

Before Adrien could even come up with a response, Lucy's attention went behind him where Chloe and Sabrina stood on the second level. "Now I'm gonna go push Chloe." She spoke making her way toward the stairs, but not before pausing to clarify. "Figuratively of course." Taking a few steps before pausing again. "Maybe also physically, we'll see how it goes."

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Chloe smirked at her phone as she finished recording Marinette sneak into the principles office. Happy to have the blackmail she needed to get nosey girl to back off and leave their class photo be. The blue eyed blonde groaned as she heard a voice shout out "Hey you!" Not wanting to deal with another one of Lucy's eye-opening pep talks, Chloe ignored her, encouraging Sabrina to do the same, linking her by the arm and pulling her toward the principals office to confront Marinette.

"Hey! YOU! Girl I know you hear me!" Lucy's voice rang out as she closed in on them. With a huff Chloe spun around and glared at Lucy.

"Oh, I'm sorry, are you talking to me? Because last I checked my Name was Chloe not 'hey you.'"

"You seriously don't think about anyone but yourself, do you?"

"What are you? New? Spoiler alert, I'm the only one worth thinking about." Chloe spat back harshly.

"Do you ever actually hear the words coming out of your mouth. For crying out loud it's two steps forward, five steps back with you Chloe, I just don't get it." Lucy crossed her arms and looked at Chloe bewildered, as if she truly expected an explanation from the girl.

"The only one who 'gets' anything, is me, because I know how to make that happen."

"You ruined a girls self-esteem over a class photo."

"The invisible girl was like that way before our class photo. If she really wanted to be in the picture that badly, she should have just moved over so I could have my spot. Instead she fought me on it and what do you know? She lost." Chloe then spun back around with Sabrina as the quickly moved to get to Marinette.

"Bet that makes you feel real good about yourself!" Lucy called out attempting to get under the mean girls skin. Chloe didn't stop walking or turn back as she answered.

"As a matter of fact." She sang out. "It does. Just goes to show, unlike Juleka, I only pick fights I'll win."

Lucy leaned against the railing as she watched the two girls enter the Principles office with a scowl.

"I should have actually pushed her."

As if on cue, an akuma, that Lucy would put big money on was Juleka, flew down from the sky. Looking like some kind of twisted candy clown, the girl claimed her goal was to make everyone look like her. Lucy pinched the bridge of her knows. Great. The blonde girl attempted to run when Juleka or as she was currently calling herself, Reflekta, jumped in front of her, pointing her wrist directly at Lucy.

"So you're going to make me and everyone else look like you?"

"That's correct. Don't worry, its an upgrade."

Lucy tilted her head to the side, squinting at the Akuma. "Is it though?"

Reflekta shot her beam at Lucy, changing her form into that of her own.

"It is." Reflekta then answered before jumping away.

Lucy scoffed. "Rude."

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Lucy and a majority of the other students were hiding in the locker rooms when another Reflekta look alike stumbled in. Their stride was somewhat clumsy and off balance, leading it was either a girl who had little experience in heels, or a boy. Leaning against the wall, Lucy sighed. "Another one bites the dust." The new Reflekta blinked at her before asking,

"Lucy?"

Lucy paused before responding, all of a sudden not being sure who she was talking to. Seeing Reflekta's face but hearing the voice of the true person usually made them easy to identify but this voice triggered two different people in her mind. Before she could think about it anymore, the look alike must have saw her confused face.

"It's me, Chat!"

She blinked at him before shaking her head, trying to arrange her jumbled thoughts.

"Uh, oh, hey, sorry you just-"

"Look just like you." He finished and for a moment Lucy was about to argue when she remembered he did in fact look just like her, as well as most of everyone in the room.

"Right, yeah but-"

"If you want your faces back then listen up, have you ever heard of safety in numbers?" Chat spoke to the crowed. He then proposed the students work together and storm the actual Reflekta. Her power was harmless as a whole, and would have no effect on anyone already changed anyway. The best thing they all could do was try and catch her to help Ladybug. Everyone seemed to agree as they followed Chat out into the court yard where he basically told everyone to charge at the villain, who had Ladybug cornered. They all followed the command but Reflekta quickly hopped up over the students, claiming Ladybug was no match for her and that it would all be over soon before flying out of the court yard.

"Whelp, so much for that." Lucy said in annoyance, her hands on her hips. Some of the other students quickly looked to Ladybug, asking what she was going to do. Ladybug assured them she would figure it out and not to worry when Chat pushed his way through the crowed. Upon hearing his voice Ladybug looked at him surprised.

"Chat Noir?"

As Chat ushered Ladybug away to go talk up a plan Lucy couldn't help but think more on Chat's voice. How it sounded so similar to Adrien's to a point where she wasn't sure who she was talking to at first. She supposed that in retrospect, a lot of voices sounded similar. They don't seem that way side by side but if you think about all the times you have answered the phone and mixed up who you were talking to with someone else just because you couldn't see them, it makes the mistake less odd. Perhaps that was the simple explanation. And yet, Lucy could never be sure.

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It wasn't all too long before everything went back to normal and everyone could carry on with what was left with their day. Lucy approached Adrien while he was speaking to Nino with a look of curiosity. Noticing her in the corner of his eye, Adrien smiled and said hey. Lucy squinted at him for a moment.

"Say my name."

Adrien raised an eyebrow, sharing a look with Nino.

"What?"

"Say my name."

"Why-?"

"Just do it."

"Lucy."

There it was again. That fuzzy feeling she got sometimes making her loose her train of thought.

"Are you alright dudette?" Nino asked, slightly concerned with the small dazed look that suddenly crossed his friends features.

"What?" Lucy asked, blinking at him. Adrien furrowed his eyebrows, his hand instinctively covering his ring as if doing so would somehow fix her. Nino opened his mouth to speak again but before he could say anything more, Marinette appeared beside them with an excited look on her face.

"Guys! Guess what! We get to take the photo again. After school in the park, so Juleka can be in it!"

Nino raised his hand for a high five from Marinette. "Awesome!"

"That's great Mari, does Juleka know?" Lucy asked, her dazed look gone and replaced with a smile.

"Rose went to go find her, I'm just letting everyone know now so we can all be there after school."

"We'll definitely be there Marinette." Adrien confirmed, and Marinette beamed at them before running off to tell the rest of the class. Nino, noticing Alya gave Adrien a light tap on the arm and nodded in her direction to signal his departure.

"That girl is one of the most resourceful people I know, I swear. Just a grade A problem solver." Lucy complimented as she watched after Marinette. Bringing her eyes back to Adrien, Lucy found him looking at her strangely.

"Everything alright?" She asked with a perked up eyebrow.

Adrien quickly smiled at her and nodded. "Yeah...yeah, everything is fine. Just thinking about having to get ready for another close up."

"Right, gotta go re-apply your makeup princess?"

"As a matter of fact that is exactly what I am going to do, I suggest you do the same because this-" He said waving his hand around her face. "Is just gonna throw the whole thing off."

Lucy gaped at Adrien and swatted his arm which he quickly flinched away from before running off. Lucy shook her head and smiled to herself. "What a jerk."

WOOP there is it is. Only took me 4 months. Sorry guys. With work and covid and really just feeling kinda uninspired I had to take some time to come back to this. Hopefully I can start updating again more frequently. I have gotten a lot of positive feedback while I have been away and really want to continue this for those of you who have enjoyed it. As always leave me a comment and let me know about what you are thinking! I missed you guys! Side note, Miraculous New York? I'm guessing that's just a side special or a mini movie? Idk, I saw a short trailer for it and Ive got mixed feelings. Anyway! Chow for now!