UNION COUNTY, N.C. – A seat at the Monroe High School graduation is apparently the hottest ticket in town.

So hot, there’s an illicit counterfeit ticket market.

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Aimee Bell, Monroe’s student body president, says she was removed from the graduation line at the last minute because she admitted to printing out two “fake” tickets for family members.

“I had family from Colorado and we only got four tickets so what could I do with four tickets,” Bell says, according to WSOC. “You could have purchased two more but it would have been $20 and you had to get up at 6 a.m. in the morning.”

Each senior is given four free tickets. They must pay for extras.

“I was really upset,” Bell tells WBTV. “I was distraught by the whole situation. I couldn’t believe it actually happened.”

The 3.3 GPA student says she was confronted by the principal moments before walking across the stage.

“‘Aimee, what’s going on with these tickets?'” she claims the principal told her. “I said ‘what tickets?’ He said ‘the fake tickets.’ I said ‘what are you talking about?’ He said ‘somebody said you gave them fake tickets.'”

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“I said I printed two fake tickets for my family,” Bell says she responded.

That’s when she got booted from the line of students waiting to cross the stage to receive their diploma.

“I feel like if I got kicked out of the line there should have been about 25 others that got kicked out of the line as well,” she says. “It’s not right.”

But administrators dispute that notion.

Union County school district leaders tell WBTV “there was no evidence” others were involved and Bell was “the only one with counterfeit tickets.”

Administrators told the student she could pick up her diploma from the office on Monday.

“If they really wanted to give her a consequence they could have just let her walk across the stage and handed her a fake piece of paper and told her she had to come pick up her diploma on Monday,” Bell’s sister, Shirley Thompson, tells WSOC. “We would have understood.”