I don't own Miraculous Ladybug. I want a story in which Marinette just plain don't want to get involved in Lila's drama and persuade her parents to transfer her. Parts are inspired by salt stories I read online or tumblr posts.

Marinette wasn't surprised when her "friends" started to isolate her due to Lila's lies. She may have been friends with them these past years, but she never opens up to them. She had been friends with some of them before Chloe arrives. But they had abandoned her with Chloe's bullying and threats. After the first few times they didn't invite her to a class event, she decides that she had enough. She was out.

Taking advantage of an akuma that Alya causes, when a student from another class points out one of Lila's lies causing the liar to burst into crocodile tears, she went home crying about how scary the akuma was. She cried to her concerned parents about how her class was acting. She was getting scared with how they treated others and how many times they have been akumatized. The teachers weren't doing anything. She wants to transfer, before she gets akumatized too! Her parents agree, especially since she had hinted previously that the reason for her bad grades were because of the constant attacks distracting her.

She persuades them to let her go to an online college, while she looks for a new school. She wants to find one where she could pursue fashion designs. Going to online school in the meantime was good enough for her parents to let her transfer in the middle of the semester. Her improved grades prove to her parents that her bad grades were the cause of the constant akuma attacks that occurred in the school. She also managed to avoid dealing with her former class, by claiming she was busy with her designs and schoolwork. Eventually her parents got the hint that she didn't want to deal with them. What she didn't realize at the time was the reason for her parents' quick acceptance of that was due to the stories and warnings they had heard the other classes tell each other about Bustier's class while shopping at the bakery.

She didn't realize at when she transfers out with her parents pulling strings to make it happen quickly, she was removing the barrier that protects them from the school's disdain for the "akuma class." Lila was elected the new president with Alya as her deputy. Marinette didn't realize that the only reason the other classes were nice to her class was because she was always willing to help them. Without her protection, the other classes no longer feel the need to be nice to the akuma class in return for Marinette's kindness.

The other classes didn't invite them to any events outside of schools. School council meetings considers of the other class presidents planning it within a certain time in which Lila wasn't invited. The official meetings were just them telling Lila what Ms. Bustier's class had to do, always the simplest thing. Lila of course lies and claims she was too busy. This leaves the rest of the class to do it.

Lila pushes the majority of the work on to Alya. Alya wasn't very good at planning field trip or fundraising. Marinette was good at planning fundraisers, especially bake sales. Marinette's parents usually supply the goods at no cost. But after Marinette decide to go to online school, Marinette's parents stop. When Alya stops by for the pastries Sabine made it clear that the bakery wasn't providing them anymore. When Alya throws a big fit and asks if it was because Marinette hates Lila, Sabine told her honestly that Marinette never even mentioned Lila. A few other students decide to get revenge on Marinette's behalf and also for themselves. They have had it with Alya calling them bullies when they point out Lila's lies. They throw insults about her and all the things she and her class had done. Sabine was horrified. How could her daughter's former friends have done this? Was this why Marinette had wanted to transfer so desperately? When Alya tries to claim Marinette had slapped Lila, Sabine have had enough. Her daughter had been in the bakery helping at the time. She got her bread paddle and started to shoo Alya out of the bakery to the cheers of the other students. When Alya asked (demanded) who did she think she was, Sabine screams "I AM SABINE DUPAIN-CHENG THE MOTHER OF THE GIRL WHO YOU CLAIMED WAS BULLYING A LIAR WHEN SHE WAS WORKING AT THE BAKERY AT THE TIME! YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS ARE BANNED FROM THIS BAKERY!" That night, Sabine hugs Marinette and asks about what happens before she transfers. Marinette told her about Lila's threat and the isolation. Sabine was furious. Afterwards she insists on getting Marinette a new phone number. This cuts Marinette even further from her former class.

The only reason she receives any news of her former class at all is through Luka, Kagami and Chloe. Luka came into the bakery at the end of the semester crying. He had been kicked out of Kitty Section, because Lila persuaded the others, she would be better as a guitarist and it would be weird for someone older than them to be in the band. Marinette comforted him and help him formed a new band who would eventually catch the attention of Jagged stone.

Kagami came to the bakery to ask her about the situation with Lila. Lila had lied about knowing her mother and being close to her family. She had corrected Lila, but Adrien had scolded her for calling Lila out. He had compared her to Marinette. This was why she had come to her for information. Marinette told her what she knows, Lila's threat, Adrien's response and what she had heard from the other classes. Kagami broke off her friendship with Adrien and started spending time with Marinette when school ended.

Chloe had lost Sabrina to Lila. She had come to apologize to Marinette for bullying her in the past. Marinette forgive her. She was the main source of information on Bustier's class despite transferring to another. Chloe details how Ms. Bustier's class bullied the other students. It was worse than anything she had done to Marinette. Ms. Bustier did nothing to stop it, telling the victims they should set a good example.

All this information builds up inside her. After another akuma attack at the College Dupont, Ladybug voiced her concerns about the school to Nadja.

"I am worried about the amount of akumas coming from this school. Queen Bee, who attends this school, have brought up her concerns about bullying and the response of teachers to it. As a former student of this school, I must say I agree. This school is horrible at dealing with bullies." And with that she swings off.

Not long afterwards, an investigation was launched after Ladybug's words. The results shock the city. Ms. Bustier was founded to have her teaching license revoked due to the fact that her students were found to have problems later on in life due to her methods of minimizing the victims' feelings and cuddling the bully. Damocles was found to have been bribing people to look the other way at previous investigations and give the school its good reputation. Not to mention he threatened the teachers who wanted to help bullied students to act as through the problem didn't exist.

Marinette's parents had hugged her as they watched Nadja's news report. Nadja was reporting about some of the lives of Ms. Bustier's students after they had graduated. She was professionally ignoring the fact Damocles was begging for her to stop. They couldn't believe it. The only reason they hadn't transferred to another school during Chloe's bullying was because of the school's good reputation and teachers, both of which turns out to be fake.

"This is outrageous!" Tom thunders when Nadja asks for his opinion as his daughter used to go to College Dupont. "The only reason my wife and I put up with Chloe bullying our daughter is because that school said to be the best. I can't believe it was all a lie! If we have known, we would never have sent Marinette there in the first place."

Nadja asks "What do you plan to do in regard to this for your daughter?"

"Well, first we are sending Marinette to therapy to deal with any emotional damage she has. Then we are suing the school for this."

Nadja nods in agreement. "What about her schooling?"

Tom scowls "At the moment, Marinette is doing online schooling due to the fact the constant akuma attacks were hindering her grades. She was looking for a new school for next semester. However, after this mess, my wife and I feel it may be best if she does the next semester online too. I don't trust the education system anymore."

"Good choice." Something a lot of parents in College Dupont agree on when they yanked their children out and have them do online schooling.

The therapy really helps Marinette's self-confidence. This really helps as Chat Noir become pushier after she reveals she used to go to College Dupont. He keeps trying to persuade her to transfer back, so he can be with her. She refuses. That was only the beginning. He keeps pushing her for dates, but she had meet Charles Roi during a design contest and started dating him. She told him she had a boyfriend. Chat Noir throws a big tantrum. She had a date and left barely a few minutes into it. She didn't realize that Chat Noir's tantrum had been recorded on video along with her statement of having a boyfriend. Chat Noir stopped coming to akuma attacks. Not long after, Feline Knight arise.

During the break between semesters, Marinette went to China with her parents. She taken the Horse Miraculous just in case of an attack. When she returned, she went to a design contest with Sabine. She couldn't enter because she was in China and the design contest requires designers to register in person. She was enjoying looking at the different designs, when she spots Lila with her former class. Her eyes widen at the dress Lila claimed she designs. It was gorgeous even if the colors don't work well, but that wasn't the reason for her shock. She knew that dress and its designer wasn't Lila.

"Marinette, isn't that?" Sabine asks in shock, having also recognized it.

Marinette nods. She takes out her photo and zoom in on it. Founding what she was looking for, she takes several pictures of it and the entire dress and then sent it to her friend, along with a text explaining the situation. She receives a text back with an angry emoji and asking where she was. Marinette sends the location. After receiving confirmation that her friend was on her way, she makes her way over to Lila.

"You stole that design," she accuses.

Lila gasps and bursts into crocodile tears "Marinette, how could you accuse me of stealing your designs? I know you were cruel, but this…" She sobs into Alya's arms. The crowd glares at Marinette.

Sabine won't stand people glaring at her daughter when she was just doing the right thing. "Don't you dare accuse my daughter of being something she isn't." Somehow the petite woman cuts an intimidating figure.

"She is accusing Lila of stealing her design without proof." Alya screams.

"Still as incapable of checking your sources, I see," Marinette jabs. Alya flushes. Ladyblog's popularity had been decreasing even since she posts Lila's interview. Despite Ladybug publicly announcing that she wasn't friends with Lila, Alya chose to believe that Ladybug was merely protecting Lila. "First I never said it was my design. Second, I have proof. I recognize that dress. After all it was the winner in Candyland contest hosted by Paris Academy of Arts three months ago. You can all checked it on your phones if you don't believe me." The crowd did. Their glares now turn towards Lila who shrinks back.

"You didn't steal that design from me. You stole it from"

"ME, RUBY BOURBON!" A red-haired girl with amber eyes stomps in. She then proceeds to show everyone her signature on the dress.

Adrien tries to guilt her to let Lila take credit. "Come on, can't you just let it go? It is just one design. There will be other chances to show your abilities." Other designers who have been drew to the commotion start screaming at him about design theft. Ruby slaps him. Then, she rants on about what horrible people Lila and Adrien were while ripping the dress apart. The other designers prevent Lila and her friends from trying to stop her. When the dress was mere scraps only then did Ruby leave. The crowd dispenses.

Marinette glares at her former friends with disgust. "I want to go home now."

Sabine, with an identical look of disgust, agrees and leads her daughter away.

The next semester passes for Marinette quickly. Between doing online courses, entering design contests, running her online store and spending time with her friends and family, she and Feline Knight were tracking down Hawkmoth. Feline Knight was a genius and tracks the akuma butterfly to Agreste Mansion. She had given her parents Miraculous after telling them she was Ladybug. They defeated Hawkmoth and Mayura who was revealed to be Gabriel and Nathalie. They were handed over to the police. The trial resulted in them both being sent to jail for life. She and Feline Knight revealed themselves. Much to her delight, Feline Knight was her boyfriend. They make out until her parents cough to remind them; they were still there since they had revealed themselves in the Dupain-Cheng's living room. Not long afterwards, both of them got into their first-choice college Her Ladybug's luck was working in their favor since the schools were right next to each other and on the other side of Paris. The two of them plans to rent an apartment together and live together.

On the day, she was moving into her new apartment, her old class, except for Adrien, appears before her. She raises an eyebrow at them. "What?"

"Mari."

"Don't call me that! Only my friends called me that! We're not friends!"

"What do you mean?" Alya asks, laughing nervously. "We are best friends."

"No, we are not. We haven't been since Lila come. To be honest, I am glad. That way I wasn't dragged down with you and subjected to your bullying." They looked shocked. "Do you really I wouldn't know? Chloe told me a lot and I heard a lot from customers at the bakery." Marinette shakes her head in disgust. She couldn't believe some of these things. However, considering how many akuma attacks happen because of them, she did.

"You can't believe anything Chloe tell you. She's a bully!"

"That is the pot calling the kettle black. Chloe already apologizes to everyone and she has turned over a new leaf at her new school. Also, what you did was far worse than what Chloe did."

"We're your friends. "

"No, you are not. You never come back to apologize to me after Lila's lies were revealed and she was arrested. I seriously doubt you apologizes anyone else." The looks on their faces tell her everything. "You are here because you want something isn't that right?"

"We want to know if you are staying Paris for college."

Marinette snorts. Due to their bad transcripts and permanent records, not to mention not doing anything to get to their dream jobs, they couldn't get into any good college. They were stuck going to the community college" I am staying in Paris, but not in this part of the city. I receive a scholarship from Paris Academy of Arts. I will be attending there." A moving truck pulls up along with a limo. "Excuse me, my boyfriend is here."

"B-boyfriend? But you like Adrien."

"Hawkmoth's son? Please," Marinette snorts as she got in. Turning she said "You make your choice. You had the choice of hard work or easy promises and you chose the wrong one. She had come to terms with what had happened, but what they had done disgusts her. Were they always like that and she was too blind to see it? "I have moved on with that part of my life. You should too." Through she knows that they won't be able to. College determines the rest of your life and with the label of helping Hawkmoth's accomplice they wouldn't never succeed in Paris. Oh well, it wasn't her fault that they basically ruined their lives.

Note:

Gabriel is out of Paris for a month-long meeting, so Adrien is still at College Dupont.

Lila forged her mother's signature on the paperwork. The investigation hadn't discovered it yetbecause they are focusing on the staff.

I like the idea of Lila ripping off another designer's design (perhaps even a professional one) and getting in trouble for that. Marinette doesn't have to suffer. Maybe she even takes a liking to this designer and started to date him. Interesting idea.

Weak ending, but I wanted to make so that Bustier's class doesn't get into a good college because of their actions and ruined their lives even worse than before because Marinette isn't there to help them. Her influence left early on.

Amelia took Adrien to London. Also, he is Hawkmoth's son. What did you think was going to happen? That everyone will just forget that. History have showed we hold people responsible for their parents mistake.