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"This is Nadia Chamack, reporting live from the airport where Marinette Dupain-Cheng, the former Ladybug and leader of the Miraculous Team have just arrived with her fiancé, Felix Chevailer, son of Bridgette and Louis Chevailer." Juleka
The words draw Alya's attention to the screen in the bar. Marinette was smiling with her fiancé. She never thought that Marinette would give up on Adrien. But then again, she didn't really know Marinette or Ladybug, now did she?
"Hey Alya, isn't that your best friend? Oops, I mean ex-best friend. You believe a liar over Ladybug, and bullied her out of school" Her co-worker, Lian sniggers.
Everyone in the bar turn towards her, snarling and whispering. Alya grit her teeth but said nothing. She can't, not if she wants to keep this job. She needs it to make ends make.
Her family had been in dumps, ever since Marinette was revealed as Ladybug. Nadia was close to the Dupain-Cheng family and know about Marinette's transfers and the reasons behind them. After Marinette left for New York, Nadia had talked to the other classes in the school. They told her all about Lila's lies and how her class had believed them. They told her how they had ostracized Marinette after all she had done for them. They said Marinette transfer classes to get away from them after the design competition, when they had support Lila who had stolen her designs. They had made it clear that Marinette was well known for designing and hating lies in the school, so it should have been obvious she wouldn't do it. Marinette had to transfer schools to get away from them because they kept trying to ruin her reputation. The other classes had tried to defend her, but the stress must have been too much, especially since it was revealed she had been dealing with Chat Noir at the time. This give Madam Bustier's class the reputation as "the class that bullied Ladybug out of school."
None of her classmates have been able to get their dream jobs or even good-paying ones. No one want to hire the bullies that harm Paris' greatest hero or was stupid enough to believe such obvious lies. Some of her classmates like Rose, Max and Ivan left Paris, after their families lost jobs when it was revealed they were family to Ladybug's bullies. Her father lost his job as a zookeeper as they don't trust him to raise the animals well, if he had raised one of Ladybug's bullies. Her mother had been fired by Mayor Bourgeois as he didn't want the "mother of one of his daughter's friend's bully" working at his hotel. Her mother had tried to fight back, arguing that was illegal, but it was her word against the Mayor and the father of Mellona, one of Paris' heroes. Nora had been fine physically, although she had got a lot of whispers behind her back. Their parents had encouraged her to go on to an international school to learn kickboxing, paid for by a scholarship from a tournament she had won before Ladybug's identity had been revealed. Originally Nora had planned to decline so she can stay on Paris. But afterwards their parents had practically forced her to go so at least she can have a bright future and get away from the negativity. Etta and Ella were bullied at their pre-school. The teachers didn't encourage the attacks, but only stepped in before it can get physical. They couldn't get into any good schools as people were wary of if they would be bullies too.
Sighing she went back to work. At the end of the day, she went into her small apartment. She had moved out after people vandalized her parent's apartment. In her bedroom she pulls out an old album. It was from before Lila joined their class. She and Marinette look so happy together. They look as through nothing could separate them.
Lying in bed, she remembered the Audrey Bourgeois' contest. It should have been all the warning she needed but she chose to believe Lila's lie of Marinette secretly alternating her designs. She and the class planned to confront her on Monday. But she had transferred. Her new classmates won't let them near her. They were very creative in how they protect her with any means necessary. Aurore had threated to stab them with her parasol, for example. She had actually whacked Kim with it, when he called Marinette a thief with no talent. Of course, they tried to report it to the teachers, but Aurore merely cried and said she was angry because Kim had insulted Marinette who was already stressed from having her designs stolen. She was just waving her parasol around in anger. She hadn't meant to hurt Kim. It was by accident. Her class had claimed it wasn't. But everyone else claim it was. The rest of the school shout their versions of the story. In them, Kim was demonized for calling Marinette horrible names. Aurore had tried to defend her friend with words. But she had lost her temper and accidentally whack him with her parasol, while waving it around. But didn't Kim deserve it for what he had called Marinette, the sweetest girl ever? The incident ended with Aurore having her parasol confiscated and Kim getting detention for the entire week for slander. The next day, Marinette had brought Aurore a new parasol which she had decorated beautifully. Lila had claimed that Marinette was spread falsehoods about their class and reward the ones who help her. This cause them to turn against Marinette even more. Looking back on it, she realizes Marinette had most likely heard that Aurore had her parasol confiscated while defending her. The parasol was a thank-you gift.
