Look What You Made Me Do

I Will Dance On Your Tilted Stage

(AN: The class is getting ready for the trip and people are seeing that Marinette is changing. Marinette holds a Team Miraculous meeting. Lila has tricks up her sleeve but so does Marinette.)

"Miss Dupain-Cheng will you please read the third paragraph on page twelve?" M. Marabelle asked.

Marinette looked up from her sketch book. To help get ready for their trip to Gotham their class their class was had to attend additional Englis lessons after school. Lila had gotten out of it by explaining that as the daughter of a diplomate she was already fluent in English and that her time would be much better spent attending to one of the MANY charities she was apart of. When that was allowed Chloe pointed out that both of them already knew English because of their parent's businesses. Mme. Marabelle shut that down by telling her just because she knew how to order in an English speaking resturaunt or shop didn't mean she was fluent in the language. The old Chloe would have threatened to call her father over the insult. The current Chloe just huffed about things being utterly ridiculous.

Neither Chloe or Marinette really paid attention in class since they didn't need to. Marinette would usualy sketch ideas for outfits she wanted to do for herself and Chloe.This was one of her throw away sketch books. Which meant if it got destroyed it wasn't the end of the world. When she got home she would take the pages out just to be safe. She had learned not to have a sketch book with anything truely important. No designs that could be stolen and if any 'accidents' happened it wouldn't be the end of the world. Chloe usualy worked on her nails during the lesson.

"Chlo?" she asked softly.

"Third paragraph page twelve." the blonde answered not looking up from filing her nails.

Marinette nodded looking down at her work book. She scanned the paragraph and read it without any trouble.
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Bernadette Marabelle pressed her lips together in irritation. She knew full well that Miss Dupain-Cheng had not been paying any attention to the lesson. Miss. Bourgeois wasn't much better. At this point she knew both girls were indeed fluent in English. But she didn't want to admit to it. That would be embarrassing. It had never occured to her that just a quick and simple test on the first day could have told her like Lila the girls didn't need to be in this class. There were others who were struggling.

But what she found strange was that Miss Dupain-Cheng was doing nothing to help out. She was normally such a sweet and helpful girl. Yes she was aware of some....disagrements between Marinette and the other students. But usually she rose above such things. When Marinette had first come to her at the begining of the year Bernadette had told her that if she didn't give in and get upset then the incidents would stop. If they were really happening at all. It was hard to believe some of the stories Miss. Dupain-cheng had told her. Miss Rossi and her friends had always behaved in her class and when she saw them around campus. She had also told Miss Dupain-Cheng that soon she would be out in the real world and needed to learn how to solve problems. After all if you didn't like a coworker you couldn't just run to your boss and complain!
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When class was over Marinette was not surprised to be asked to stay behind with Chloe. She packed up her things and went to stand in front of their teacher's desk. "Girls why were you not paying attention in class today?!" Mme. Marabelle frowned.

"Uh...because we don't need to?" Chloe replied. "This class is to help students learn or improve their English."

"We know English." Marinette pointed out.

"Everyone can improve their English." Mme. Marabelle said with a little huff.

"Look we answer the questions in class and pass all the assinments. This is an afterschool lesson. What more do you want?" Chloe asked with a huff. Marinette was pretty sure she was fighting off the old urge to threaten to call her father.