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The class was in chaos. Everyone shouting at each other and blaming each other for believing Lila's lies. They were trying to coerce Marinette into forgiving them. You might be wondering what happened to the class for them to finally realize their mistakes. Well, let me rewind and tell you the whole story.
(5 hours earlier)
Madame Bustier's class had experienced many things, especially with Akuma's being a normal factor in Paris. They had seen, heard, and done many strange things. But nothing would ever prepare them for the horror that they encountered when they walked into the school that day. They saw Felix Graham De Vanily smiling! While that was odd, it was even odder who he was smiling at. He was smiling at Marinette Dupain-Cheng! The girl who was a bully to poor Lila and had been jealous of her relationship with Adrien. But when Adrien broke it off with her and started dating Kagami, Lila started dating his cousin, Felix. At least that was what Lila said. So when they saw Marinette talking and laughing with Felix, they automatically thought that Marinette was trying to take Felix away from Lila and was using him as a rebound now that she knew that she couldn't have Adrien.
When Marinette looked up to see the class glaring at her, she lazily asked, "Is there a reason you all look like you want to burn me alive with your eyes?"Before anyone could answer her, Madame Bustier walked through the door signaling everyone to sit down.
As she sat down, Lila realized that she could use this situation to her advantage. So she released some not-so-subtle tears which caught Alya's attention. Alya being the dumb-sheep that she was also started comforting Lila, "Oh Lila, it's okay. We'll expose Marinette for the bitch that she is in front of Felix. You have nothing to worry about, you are so much better than her."
Alya was talking so loudly that the rest of the class's attention was directed to hers and Lila's conversation. When they heard what Alya said, they automatically started agreeing with her and reassuring her. Lila then put on a fake smile and exclaimed, "I'm so happy to have friends as great as you!" Everyone gave Lila compliments back which made Lila smirk. What the class didn't see was Felix shooting Marinette a look and her rolling her eyes at him.
At lunch, the class was prepared to quickly take Felix away from Marinette before she could make him believe more of her fake lies about Lila which she was probably doing based on the number of looks he had shot Lila after Marinette said something. But what surprised them further was Felix shouting at Marinette, "Hurry up, Netta. We're supposed to go to my house for lunch and I don't want to be late. Especially if it means yelled at for "not honoring the Agreste family rules". Even if I'm not an Agreste."
Marinette scoffed, but she had mirth very obvious in her bluebell eyes, "Yeah I'm coming Fe. Honestly, you tell me you're not scared of your family, but then you contradict yourself when you say things like this."
Felix rolled his eyes and opened the door for her, "After you, my fair lady."
Said ravenette let out a tinkling laugh, "Why thank you, my good sir."
Once they left the class, Alya slammed her hand down onto the table and looked at Lila. "It's worse than we thought. She is really trying to take Felix away from you, girl. But don't worry, once they come back we'll fight them." The class murmured the agreements and went off to lunch.
When Marinette and Felix came back to the class along with Adrien, it was only then that everyone realized that Adrien hadn't been present for the first half of the school day. Nino went up to him giving him a fist bump and asking, "Hey dude! Where were you this morning?"
Adrien looking positively exhausted deadpanned, "Where do you think I was?! I was at a photoshoot that my dad scheduled. Now leave me alone."
Most of the class recoiled looking shocked at the sunshine incarnate's answer. Marinette and Felix on the other hand looked used to his mannerisms and even sympathetic. Marinette held up a large cup of coffee that made everyone try to figure out where she got it from. She gave it to Adrien who was looking at it greedily. When she saw the curious eyes of most of the class and the angry eyes of others, she explained, "This happens a lot with Adrien. He tends to get snappish after photoshoots because of how tired he is. And he didn't sleep well last night which makes it even worse, that's why I always keep a cup of coffee for him along with my own supply."
They watched as Adrien collapsed at a desk in the back. Felix and Marinette sat in their regular seats which were across from him. The class talked waiting for Madame Bustier to start the class. They suddenly heard a loud, slightly sluggish voice say, "I swear if I see you two act like a goddamn couple saying all these cutesy things to each other I will kill both of you. Kagami and I are bad, but we aren't this bad."
Curious, the class looked to the back only to see a sleepy blonde looking over at Felix and Marinette who were flushed red. Said blue-eyed ravenette whined and hid her head into the shoulders of her seat partner who was still trying to recover from Adrien calling them out.
It was then that the words of the green-eyed blonde registered into the rest of the class's brains making them glare at the supposed couple. Lila said that she was dating Felix! Not Marinette! Alya stood up glaring at the two, "Marinette, why the hell are you taking Lila's boyfriend! You couldn't have Adrien so you used Felix as a rebound!"
Her words made Felix see red, but before he could say anything, Adrien, still half asleep, spoke up, "Oh, I know that Marinette used to like me. But we came to terms with just being friends after I started dating Kagami. Oh, and if Lila said that she was dating me she's lying. We never dated. She's also not dating Felix. Why would she? Felix despises her." He paused there leaving everyone gaping at him. They were about to speak up and try to defend Lila when He spoke up again, " Lila's a liar also. I don't understand how none of you could figure it out before. You could literally search it up and find out that she's lying. I mean Jagged Stone has never owned a cat and Ladybug doesn't interact with civilians. Prince Ali works with hospitals, not the environment. She always changes what ear she had tinnitus in, a napkin cannot gauge out an eye, and you need a brace for a wrist. Also, Felix is dating Mar-"
That sentence made Marinette wake up from her embarrassment and she hissed to the blonde beside her who most suspected was her boyfriend, "Stop your idiotic cousin from talking Felix before I jam something down his throat." But it was too late. Everyone had figured out that Felix was dating Marinette. They all started shouting at her.
Felix fed up with the way that everyone was shouting at his girlfriend yelled, "Remember the rule a tired person has no filter and no secrets!" That made everyone pause because they knew it was true. How many times had they told someone else a secret when they were sleepy or said something that they "didn't" mean but really did? They looked over at Adrien who was for sure trying to fall asleep. But if the rule applied to him, then that meant that Lila was a liar.
Alya pulled out her phone as everyone kept an eye on a visibly pale Lila. Alya searched up Lila Rossi and nothing came up except for what was posted on the Lady blog. She searched up Jagged Stone's cat. She searched for Prince Ali's projects. She searched up each of the tales that Lila had told. Yet, the result each time showed that Lila was a fake. The class got paler and paler as Alya searched up more things. But yet, each time they found no proof to back up any of Lila's stories. The whole class had the same thought, what would they do now that Lila wasn't going to be their ticket to fame or fortune. They could see Felix and Marinette watching them from the back of the room.
Most of the class, including Alya, opened their mouth to apologize to Marinette, but Marinette cut them off. "Don't. Don't say something you don't fucking mean. Only a second ago you were willing to tear me apart for Lila. Now you see that Lila is a fake. That she won't give your ticket to fame. That she won't introduce you to famous people. That you will actually have to work hard like I did to achieve something."
At that, everyone scoffed. What did Marinette accomplish other than being the daughter of bakers? Seeing their disbelief in her words Marinette raised an eyebrow, "What don't believe me? My parents own the best bakery in Paris. My great-uncle is the greatest chef in the world. I babysit Manon who is the daughter of a famous reporter. I am the honorary niece of Jagged Stone. Clara Nightingale also supports me. Gabriel Agreste and Audrey Bourgeois have both supported me in the past. I am dating a member of the Graham De Vanily family, not that I care about his money, but he is a very influential person mind you. And not many people know this, but I am the biggest upcoming designer, otherwise known as my famous alias MDC. So I have so many connections with famous people, I myself is a famous person. But I worked hard for that. I spent endless, sleepless nights designing clothes and bringing them to life. I have stabbed myself with a needle millions of times."
Alya then said something that set off Marinette, "Okay, so you are a famous person big deal. You probably don't do anything but design clothes, which is easy for you to do."
Marinette glared at Alya, "I run a worldwide business. I am the class president and single handily plan trips, parties, and more. I babysit people. I help in the bakery. I go to school and do homework. I take martial arts classes. I do more than all of you combined. Never underestimate me."
Marinette then stood up dragging Adrien with her and Felix following. Once the door closed that was when the yelling started.
Outside the door, Marinette leaned into Felix and sighed, happy that Lila had been called out, even if her relationship that was supposed to remain a secret was also called out.
(Once Adrien wasn't a literal zombie)
Adrien pouted as he heard his girlfriend laughing at the story of him revealing Lila to their class. "Oh, come on, Gami. I didn't mean to do it, love. Please stop laughing." But she didn't stop which made him huff, but he smiled and kissed her forehead.
Felix rolled his eyes at their antics and kissed Marinette on the lips making her flush. "Well, at least we no longer have to keep our relationship a secret at school. I love you, Netta, and I want you and everyone to know it." This made Marinette smile before she was kissing him once more.
Adrien scowled, watching the two interact with Kagami by his side. "See, past exhausted me was right. You two do so many cutesy things it makes not killing you hard."
Marinette pulled away from the kiss, opting to lean against Felix. She scowled back at him, "Like you are any better with Gami, Adrien. Plus, might want to be careful what you say. I have a half mind to still maim you for doing what you did in class. And you do not want a scary Parisian-Asian woman out for your blood."
Adrien gulped and nodded. He didn't want to angry her because he knew she could and would kill him. He hid behind Kagami snuggling her. Marinette snuggled into Felix once she saw that Adrien wasn't going to argue. Who knew that all her problems would be solved by Adrien calling them out? Oh well, all's well that ends well.
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