Chapter 29

Marinette's P.O.V:

"Marinette! Are you okay?" Chloe asks me as I meet back up with the class.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I was only stuck in the bathroom for like 20 minutes." I shrug. "Are we still going to finish the tour? What exactly happened?"

"Yeah, the tour is still on. Apparently, the people who tried to rob this place never even made it inside. Gotham's heroes stopped them all at the front door." Kim said excitedly. "I wish we could have seen it."

"Could you hear the gunshots from in the bathroom?" Alix asked.

"Yeah. Totally scary." I said.

"I wonder what they were after?" Max questioned. "There must be a lot of valuable things in this museum."

"Who knows?" I shrug.

"It's a good thing those heroes were here to stop them." Adrien added as the tour started again.----------"Oh yes, I've met Batman before. I once saved his life." Lila was spewing her lies again while we were all on our lunch break.

I rolled my eyes.

"You did? That's totally awesome, girl." Alya jumped excitedly. "How did you do that?"

"Well it was last year with the Joker and Harley. Batman had his back turned and he didn't see them coming. They were going to shoot him but I pushed him out of the way in time." Lila grinned at all her friends. "He was so grateful that after he sent them away to prison, he gave me a ride back to my hotel in his Batcar."

"Ridiculous." Chloe shook her head. "Utterly ridiculous. That bozo couldn't tell the truth even if she wanted to."

"The Batcar?" Max looked thoroughly offended. "How can she mess up that badly and they not notice?"

"And Harley hasn't been with the Joker in over 2 years." I laughed.

"Has she ever heard of google?" Adrien asked.

"Apparently not. I'm not sure any of them have." Alix joked.

"And don't they send them all to Arkham and not a prison?" Kim looked at Max.

"That is correct." Max nodded.

"Class" Madame Mendeleiev got everyone's attention. "It's time to continue our tour. Everyone clean up after yourselves and line up."

While I was on the second half of the tour, I received a group chat invite with all of Bruce's sons. Not really caring about the tour anymore, I joined the group and read the messages.***Jay: pixie-pop made the headlines!

Dick: wait really?

Tim: yeah I see that too. shes even trending on twitter. #ladybird

Mari: I AM? HOW?

Jay: people heard about u from the museum thing earlier 2day. a lot of articles r already out about u and they love u

Damian: How could they not? Only an idiot would hate Angel.

Jay: I hate to do it but I agree with demon spawn

Dick: did you see the headlining pic for her? everyone is commenting about it

Mari: what are they saying?

Tim: just that you are bringing a little bit of cheer to gotham

Dick: and that you now have a lot of admirers. your fanclub is growing fast cupcake

Jay: some of them are even talking about wanting to marry you

Damian: Absolutely not going to happen.

Dick: do you actually think that mari is going to agree to marry a stranger on the internet, baby bird?

Damian: No. I'm driving now so I will not be responding.

Jay: someone is a little defensive.

Tim: I have to go too. Bruce is yelling at me for being "too distracted"

Mari: I just cant wait to get out of this place and away from lila. Shes starting to even lie about how she saved batman once.

Dick: that's actually kind of funny. Wait till Bruce hears that one***"Marinette" Adrien gets my attention. "We are getting ready to leave. Who are you texting anyways?"

"I'm in a group message with Tim, Jason, Dick and Damian. We were just talking about what went on here today." I put my phone away.

"Students." Madame Mendeleiev spoke up. "I know that nothing bad happened today but I will be calling everyone's parents once we get back to the hotel. I would suggest texting them or calling them right now so they aren't caught off guard by the news. I would hate for more of you to be sent home."

All of us took out our phones to text or call our parents.

"Hello?" My mother answers the phone.

"Hey, maman. I was just calling you for a heads up. Madame Mendeleiev will be calling you in a bit about an incident that happened earlier today."

"What happened?" Mother sounded worried.

"Nothing bad." I sighed. "We were in the Gotham Museum when someone tried to break in and steal something. Nobody got hurt and the people never even made it in. Gotham's heroes stopped them before they even had the chance."

"Who's on the phone?" I could hear my father faintly say.

"It's Marinette. Apparently, there was another incident but no one got hurt."

"Hey, sweetie." Father spoke up, now clearly talking into the phone. "Are you sure everyone is okay?"

"Yeah. I'm looking at everyone right now. The only thing that really happened was that the building was on lockdown for maybe 20 minutes. It was hardly an inconvenience and worse things have happened in Paris."

"Well if you are okay..." They line went quiet for a moment. "Are you sure you want to go to University in Gotham? That place seems kind of dangerous and you know we would love if you stayed in Paris."

"I actually really like it here. I think this change will be a good experience for me." I look over at my teacher who seems to be patiently waiting for everyone to finish. "Madame Mendeleiev needs to take everyone back to the hotel now but I figured I would fill you guys in."

"Okay." My Maman responds. "Call me again before you go to bed."

"I will. Love you, Maman. Love you, Papa."

"Love you too." They say in unison.

After another minute or two the class finally quiets down and the teacher leads us out to get on the bus. I noticed the police tape and reporters were already gone and it was business as usual outside. I looked around for Damian's car and caught sight of it just now pulling in.

"I see that your ride is here." Madame Mendeleiev looked over at the sleek car. "We will all see you on Monday at Gotham Academy. Enjoy your weekend."

"Oh man. We aren't going to see you until Monday?" Adrien looked upset. "That blows."

"I'm sorry. Maybe I can invite you over." I looked over at Damian who was just now getting out of his car. "I'll ask Bruce."

"That would be awesome!" Kim said excitedly.

"Well I got to get going." I hugged each of my friends. "I'll see you guys later."

"Bye!" All of my friends waved to me as I walked away.

"Hello, Angel." Damian opened the door for me as I got closer.

"Hey, Damian." I reached up on my tippy toes to kiss his cheek before getting into the car.

Damian smiles at me then shuts the door and makes his way to the drivers' seat. "I see that your class liar has learned her lesson." We both look over to the girl in question and see her mean mugging us from where she is standing by the bus.

"No." I shake my head. "She's still a liar but I think she realizes that she can't win you over. You are in the same boat as me now."

"This boat is far more preferable than the one she wanted me in." He smiles over at me as he starts the car.

"You're right." I say, I watch the class get smaller and smaller through the rearview mirror as Damian drives off, "Let's go home."