Chapter 45

Marinette's P.O.V:

"So, what did Bruce want to talk to you about yesterday after training." I asked while on my ride to school with Damian. "I wanted to stay up and ask you but I was just so tired that I fell asleep instantly after my shower."

"Nothing important." He kept a neutral face. "Just some... helpful suggestions."

"You would think that with you training with him for so long that you would practically know everything he has to teach. He's a very wise man."

"Yes." Damian nods. "Wise."

While stopped at a red light, I caught a glimpse of a flash in the corner of my eye. Looking over, I saw a small group of people with cameras pointed at me. "I thought people didn't care about seeing Damian Wayne around town." I turned my attention back to my boyfriend. "Why are they taking pictures of you?" I looked back to the small group of people.

Damian follows my line of sight to see that none of them seem to be paying attention to him. Instead, they were watching me. "Word must have gotten out. It was probably my class." He drove off when the light turned green again.

"Word about what?" I asked confused.

"About us. I'd imagine that if anyone dated a member of my family it would be big news."

"Okay. Makes sense. I do remember seeing something about Selina awhile ago." I went quiet for a moment. "Didn't you say that Dick had a girlfriend? I've never seen anything about her before."

"That's because she is very different and could attract some unwanted attention. It's best for everyone if she stays out of the spotlight." Damian informed.

"What do you mean by that?" I asked confused.

"She's an alien." He shrugged like that was the most normal thing. "You may know her as Starfire."

"What? How cool. Why haven't I met her yet?" My eyes lit up with excitement.

"Remember me telling you that Kori was out of town?" He asked as I nodded my head. "She's actually off world. She has some business to take care of on her home planet. Kori is royalty where she's from and she has to periodically go back for her royal duties."

"Dick is dating an actual real-life princess?" I raised my eyebrows in shock.

"I believe she is queen now. Although her sister still fights with her over the throne." He says casually as he pulls into his parking space.

"Dick's girlfriend just got a whole lot cooler." I stepped out of the car and met up with Damian to hold his hand when we met each other at the back of his car.

"I think you two would like each other." He smiled at his me being excited. "You are both very happy and bright people."

"Hey, Marinette!" My friends waved at me as Damian and I approached.

"Hey, everyone." I gave each of my friends a hug. Looking around, I found Alya ignoring me again. "You all ready for day number two?"

"I hope we aren't doing anymore introductions." Chloe rolled her eyes. "The guy I sat with was completely distracted by 'the Ice Princes' girlfriend."

"Yeah, mine too." Juleka whispered.

"So, it was more than just one of them." Damian had a stern look.

"What do you mean?" Alix asked.

"He thinks that word got out about us because people were taking pictures of us at a red light earlier." I said.

"Who knows what lies they spread about us." Damian scoffed.

"Okay, students." Madame Mendeleiev spoke up. "Time for us all to head to class. Follow me."--------Both classes found that class today is a lot more boring than it was yesterday. We were stuck doing a science project that Madame Mendeleiev made. Science wasn't my strongest suit but I found it to be very easy with the help of Damian. We were both finished way before anyone else and we found ourselves just talking to each other again minutes before the lunch bell ever rang.

"Mr. Wayne, Miss Dupain-Cheng, why are we talking instead of working like you are supposed to?" Madame Mendeleiev asked. "I would hate to split the two of you up.

Damian deadpanned at the teacher. "We already finished."

"Really?" She raised an eyebrow at the two of us. "Let me see your work then."

I handed over the lab paperwork with a smile. "Here you go."

The teacher looked over it for a moment before nodding. "Okay then. Well done you two."

Just then, the bell rang for lunch. "When you come back, make sure you keep your voices down. People are still working on this." She handed us back our paper with a smile.--------"Do you really think she wants to sit all by herself?" I asked while sitting down at lunch with my friends. "I hate that Alya looks so lonely."

"She did this to herself." Nino shrugged. "She knows how much of a forgiving person you are but she still won't admit her own wrong doings to even try and make things even a little bit better. She's being unreasonably stubborn."

"I still think she will come around." Rose still seemed hopeful. "She just needs more time is all."

"You're too sweet, Rose." Alix shook her head. "I wish we all had your positivity."

"Honestly, she's not even worth all this trouble, Marinette." Chloe scoffed.

"I know, but she was once my best friend." I said sadly.

"Exactly." Kim nodded. "And she threw that all away for a liar."

"Maybe she can give up her journalist idea and swap it out to be a best-selling fiction writer." Adrien joked.

"Adrien!" I tried to keep a stern face but ended up busting into laughter. "That's not nice."

"I don't know. He's kinda got a point." Max agreed with a laugh.

Alya's P.O.V:

I was sitting by myself at lunch just thinking. When a table was bubbling with laughter and I looked up and found myself looking back at all of my old friends. I couldn't help but let sadness come over me.

"Hey, you're one of those bully girls, right?" A GA student sat down next to me. "Why did you do it?"

"I'm not a bully!" I snapped .

"Right..." The student didn't look like they believed me.

"I though she was the bully." I looked down at the food I haven't touched yet.

"So that makes your actions okay? You like to fight fire with fire?"

"No, I..." I was at a loss for words. I didn't know what to say.

"She seems like such a genuinely nice person." We look over to Marinette's table. "I even heard them saying that you were once her best friend and for some strange reason she still cares about you even though you have clearly treated her like shit."

"She ruined everything I have worked so hard for. Because she exposed Lila, she ended up exposing all of her lies and the stories I wrote about them. I'll never be accepted into journalism school now."

"It sounds to me like you didn't check your sources. This has nothing to do with her." The GA student said.

"What do you know?" I scoffed.

"Okay then." The student got up and started to walk away. "I hope that one day you can see through all this rage and think clearly." She said over her shoulder before walking back to a group of her own friends.