Musician Payback [Hiatus]

What's On Your Mind?

"Little Lady, what's on your mind?" asked Jagged looking over to Marinette who was working on another design for his new album,
"Huh" replied Marinette looking up from her sketchbook, anyone who knew Marinette could tell she was seconds away from breaking down,
"You're stress, I can tell from a mile away," said Jagged moving closer to Marinette,
"I'm not-" but Marinette was cut off by Jagged,
"You can't trick someone who has broken down from stress multiple time before because of concerts, What's wrong?" Jagged asked again but in a soft tone unlike his usual energetic tone of voice.

"Everything I've been doing lately seems to be going wrong" sighed Marinette leaning back in her chair, "I just first Adrien now dating Kagmi which I know I shouldn't be mad at them for because it's not like he had any romantic feelings for but it still hurts and then Lila whose basically turned the entire class against me whenever I point out her lies, lies that could be disproven by a quick google search and then there's hawkmoth and Chloe revealing all of the miraculous users, now me and Chat has to find different users for them so the original ones are in danger and it's my job now since I'm the guard-shit" Marinette had fallen into her usually quick rambling she did with Tiki when she had been frustrated so didn't catch herself until she revealed her superhero persona.

"Stop that, stop panicking right now, little lady, you are a teenager so it was understandable you would slip up especially with the stress of saving Paris and second can you get back to the lair turning you class against you" responded Jagged with a chuckle,
"You don't care I'm Ladybug" exclaimed Marinette,
"Of course, I care considering you're a teenager putting yourself in danger constantly but I doubt you wanted to do it in the first place and it anything to me it just makes you cooler, little lady" replied Jagged ruffling Marinette's hair as she gave him a nervous smile, "now before I talk to you more about that can of worms, can you tell me about this Lila chick"

"Lila Rossi, she first came to our class about a year ago and tried to get close to Adrien during studying and I will admit what I did was bad but when I spied on then I saw her steal Adrien's father book and then later when she met him in the park she threw it in the trash and then started to claim she was a better superhero than me and had a fake miraculous and I know what I did was bad but I regret it fully now, I called her out in front of Adrien which caused her to get akumatised into Volpina and then she left" explained Marinette as she took a sip of coffee that she had brought when Penny had called her to meet Jagged,
"Did Adrien get his book back?" asked Jagged,
"Uh yeah, I brought it back to Mr Agreste" answered Marinette before she continued, "but then she came back spouting more lies, like her having tinnitus just so she could sit at the front with Adrien which wouldn't matter but the entire class had decided before telling me and pushed me straight to the back of the class on my own".

"Did you try to tell them that you were unhappy?" asked Penny who had come into the room to hear Marinette explaining who Lila Rossi,
"I tried but they just came to the conclusions that I was jealous insted of being made that they had pushed me to the back, alone" answered Marinette recovering from the shock of Penny appearing out nowhere, "then she started to claimed she sprained her risk making other's take her notes while she sat back and did no work and when I tried to prove it wasn't true by throwing a paper napkin ball at her in lunch she caught it instantly but then put on the act that she was in pain and claimed that it could've gouged out Max's eye, a paper napkin" Marinette continued getting more frustrated by the second.

"Isn't that the kid who created an AI?" questioned Penny,
"How-" started Marinette,
"I tried to keep an eye on Paris Akuma problem when we were first coming to Paris just in case it gets too dangerous so when looking at the lady blog I saw Alya mention it when the robot got akumatised" Penny explained,
"Oh, that makes sense" responded Marinette "well after that incident she followed me to the bathroom and when I told her to drop the act, she threatened to take all my friends away but insted of just that she decided to get me expelled as well by making it look like I stole test answers even though I'm known to get top scores and then framed me for stealing her necklace that was put in my lock which takes like a minute to break into, she also framed me for pushing me down the stairs", after every example Marinette gave she could see that Jagged and Penny were getting angrier by the second.

"Did you're school not check the security footage?" questioned Jagged,
"At this point, I'm pretty sure they don't remember that we have cameras around the school" sighed Marinette, "anyway I was expelled but only let back in after Lila lied about having a disease that makes her lie which doesn't exist and even if it was true, the rest of the class weren't informed so they think everything is true"
"So you're saying insted of giving you something like a suspension while they did an investigation, they just took the word of one girl and easy to fake evidence and expelled you" questioned Penny,
"Yep" replied Marinette,
"The school should have been punished in some way by the school board at least" concluded Penny.

"Sadly, I have a feeling they make sure that stuff like bullies or wrongful punishment hidden from the school board" sighed Marinette before she looked at the time on her phone, "I got to go",
"Oh right this is the time you're parents asked you to be back by, right" replied Jagged,
"Yeah," answered Marinette as she finished packing up her stuff, "I'll send you the final designs over the weekend",
"Ok but don't run you self ragged," said Jagged as she left.

"Right, so what do we do, Penny?" asked Jagged as Penny opened up her laptop,
"First we find out what this girl has actually been lying about then we see if we can help Marinette's parents get this info to the school board" answered Penny as she looked through the Lady blog,
"I'm wondering if her parents actually know or have they fallen for that girl's lies as well" wondered Jagged as he stroked Fang who had curled up by his legs,
"Well, then we probably should enlighten them" replied Penny.