It was a new day and Lila had a newfound confidence in her ability at acting. So far she had been doing really well in pushing away her feelings and just being great friends with Nathanael.
It had helped that she had only two classes left with him yesterday, History and then Music. The rest of that day she had stayed at home, doing schoolwork and then either mindlessly scrolling through social media or reading. She did text Nathanael but it was easier texting than speaking in real life.
Their first class was English with Miss Bustier who was the only teacher Lila liked so far well Miss Bustier and her drama teacher Miss Taylor.
She stopped short when she saw Sabrina walking around and muttering to herself, her teal eyes glued to the ground.
Lila narrowed her eyes wondering what the ginger-haired girl was up to.
"Sabrina, you okay?" Lila called out.
Sabrina jumped and turned around with wide eyes looking like a deer caught in the headlights.
"Oh…Hi, Lila, I'm fine" Sabrina said with an anxious chuckle.
"You sure?" Lila asked walking closer to the girl.
Sabrina sighed "Well, I don't have the English book for next class
"Can you not share with Chloe?" Lila asked.
Sabrina shook her and anxiously replied "Uh well Chloe is actually borrowing mine and she doesn't like sharing"
Lila rolled her eyes and muttered "I should have guessed"
"What do you mean by that" Sabrina said, a ferocity in her voice.
Lila placed her hand on her hip "I mean that Chloe is quite possibly the worst person I have ever met and I have met a lot of jerks and Bullies in my time"
"Chloe is not a bully or the worst," Sabrina said.
"Fine, tell me some good things Chloe has done for you" Lila smirked.
Sabrina gulped as she tried to think of some nice things Chloe had done for her.
"She gave me this lovely brooch," Sabrina said pointing to the brooch on her sweater "And she gave me her very stylish beret…she sometimes lets me come to fancy parties with her and…and she lets me borrow clothes if I do her homework!" Sabrina finished with a proud smile.
"I know you think that's all nice but from what I hear Chloe's just lording her money over you to make you be her willing slave, you should get some better friends Sabrina," Lila said with a rueful smile.
Sabrina glared "I don't have to listen to what a Liar says!" she crossed her arms and raised her head looking away from Lila.
Lila smiled. She had been called a Liar so much the past weeks that it didn't really affect her as much as it usually would have.
"So I'm guessing you wouldn't want to borrow a Liar's book" Lila reached into her bag and grabbed the book.
They were reading Candide by Voltaire. Lila had been secretly reading on not because she was enjoying the book sure it was alright but it wasn't really her style of novel. No, it was because though she could speak fluent French with only the occasional mix up reading French was a little harder she could do it but it took her longer than others to grasp onto meanings.
She was getting better at it though so she was pleased with herself. Reading on in the book meant she could understand what was happening without making an embarrassment of herself if she was asked a question.
She held the book out to the ginger-haired girl who looked at her in surprise.
"Why are you holding your book out?"
"To give it to you, duh" Lila responded
"You are willingly lending me your book…how are you going to read in class?" Sabrina asked.
"I'm sure Nath will share his book with me unlike Chloe he isn't selfish," Lila said.
Sabrina smiled and took the book "Thank you"
"Hey, Lila you coming to class" Nathanael called over from the stairway.
"Yeah, I'm coming," Lila said turning her head to look at Nathanael. She glanced back at Sabrina with a smile "Good luck on making some better friends" then she walked away. Catching up with Nathanael to walk to class together.
Sabrina watched them walk off thinking about Lila had said.
"Hey, Nath can I share your English book with you," Lila asked as they walked down the corridor to class.
"Of course" Nathanael answered "What happened to yours? Did you lose it? That's typical of you" he teased.
"No, I loaned it to Sabrina," Lila said
Nathanael went quiet. Lila glanced at him wondering if something was wrong.
"I don't know what you're helping her out for, she's as bad as Chloe you know she helped Chloe in many of her hateful schemes, such as locking Juleka in the bathroom," Nathanael said.
"No way!" Lila said.
"Yes," Nathanael said.
"Still it's not her fault her best friend is a bully I'm sure she's sorry for the things she has done to help Chloe," Lila said.
"I never had you down for someone with such a forgiving heart…I think you're spending too much time with Rose" Nathanael chuckled "She's a bad influence on you"
They walked into the classroom together.
"I'd hardly say Rose is a bad influence" Lila giggled.
It was later in the day and they were walking to drama class with Miss Taylor well Lila was walking while Nathanael was dragging his feet he didn't want to go.
"I don't know why you don't like drama class it's the best class!" Lila exclaimed, pulling the unwilling Nathanael to Class.
"Uh maybe it's the fact I can't act, I get stage fright and I end up embarrassing myself!" Nathanael said, a sarcastic tone in his voice.
Lila rolled her eyes at his whining. They had reached the classroom and walked inside.
Lila sat eagerly waiting what drama activity they were going to do. Nathanael lied with his head on his desk, he was not sleeping though he wished he was maybe then he wouldn't have to do stupid drama.
Miss Taylor walked into the classroom. Miss Taylor was a woman of small height, she was dark skinned and had bright amber eyes as well as dark curly hair.
She was probably the most laid-back and fun teacher in the school. Letting the students do what they want as long as it didn't get her in too much trouble with Mr Damocles. She tried to make sure everyone took part in activities even the shy kids wanting to help grow their confidence so there was no way of Nathanael getting out of doing drama.
She clapped her hands, bringing the attention of the rowdy class back to her. "Okay, Class today we're going to do a paired activity today"
Some of the class whispered "yass" and some of the class let out groans.
Miss Taylor shook her head at the class "Now come on, it'll be fun!" she walked to her desk and sat upon it, she had a fondness of doing this. Lila had concluded she must do it so had a sense of being taller.
"So I'm going to sort you into pairs" Miss Taylor continued on.
"But Miss Taylor we usually pick our own groups" Alya shouted out.
"Yes we usually do but if you remember correctly that didn't work out so well" Miss Taylor chuckled.
Some of the class looked down at their desks sheepishly.
"Okay so shall we sort into a pair first" Miss Taylor looked over the class her amber eyes falling on Lila.
"Lila how about you and…" she scanned the students and finally decided "Sabrina pair up"
"Oh okay," Lila said, slightly upset she had hoped to pair up with Nathanael.
Sabrina glanced back at the Italian girl as Chloe muttered about how she was glad it wasn't her.
Miss Taylor nodded and continued on with pairing people up for the activity.
In the end up, Rose was paired with Nathanael, Juleka with Marinette, Adrien with Alya, Kim with Nino, Ivan with Max and Mylene and finally Alix and Chloe were paired together.
Chloe hadn't been too pleased about that but she wasn't really pleased with much so Miss Taylor had just told her to be quiet.
"Okay class, get in your pairs and then together you must create a drama routine…we probably won't be able to perform it today so I'll get you guy's to perform in tomorrow's class"
As Miss Taylor was saying this the class was scraping back chairs and going over to who they were meant to pair with.
"I'll go over to Rose…We all know Chloe won't get up for you" Nathanael said.
Lila smirked "Yeah"
Sabrina came timidly over to Lila, holding Lila's English book.
"Lila I never gave you this back yet, thanks," Sabrina said holding out the English book.
"Oh, No problem," Lila said accepting the book back. "So are you going to sit down?"
Sabrina, who had been standing there anxiously shifting from foot to foot blushed embarrassed "Uh yeah" she sat down on the seat still seeming tense.
"So what shall we do for our drama routine," Lila asked opening out her black notebook to write down notes.
"You're going to write?" Sabrina asked in confusion.
Lila laughed "Yeah unless you wanted to…I don't really care"
Sabrina shook her head "No, it's okay…it's just I usually wrote down the stuff and um make up the stuff…Chloe would sit there and do nothing"
Lila glanced over with a glare at the blonde haired girl who was currently chatting or well Complaining away to Alix who looked like she wanted to be anywhere else but sitting beside Chloe.
Lila turned her attention back to Sabrina who was looking at Lila through her glasses with Large Round eyes.
'She reminds me of an owl…I like owls, not as much as foxes though' Lila thought to herself.
"Er Lila, you okay?" Sabrina asked.
Lila blinked and came out of her thoughts "What…Oh, yes I was just thinking" she smiled "Anyway you needn't worry about doing all the work yourself because this will be a team effort"
Sabrina smiled "that sounds nice"
"Great, so any ideas?" Lila asked.
Sabrina put on a look of concentration as she began to think of some ideas for their drama routine.
While Sabrina was thinking of ideas Lila began rambling with her ideas "I was thinking maybe we could do an act about a rebellious princess…no, no that's too cliché um maybe…"
Sabrina cut in excitedly. "I have an idea!" she exclaimed.
Lila looked at her in surprise.
"Sorry…" Sabrina muttered, looking down at her hands.
"No, it's okay, so what's your idea," Lila asked.
"I thought we could do a duologue of a girl breaking out of a toxic friendship," Sabrina said with a bright grin.
"That's a good idea…How'd you come up with it?" Lila asked she had a suspicion she already knew.
Sabrina blushed and looked down at the table. Wringing her hands underneath the table "Uh I" before she had to explain a fight broke out.
It seemed Alix had had enough of Chloe. Lila and the rest of the class's attention had turned to the two of them.
"As if I'm going to be bossed around by someone who's makeup looks like a clown put it on!" Alix shouted.
"At least my hair doesn't look like a birds nest" Chloe retorted.
"Girls, what is the matter?" Miss Taylor said coming in between the two girls.
"Alix is not co-operating on my idea for the act" Chloe whined, stamping her foot.
"I'm not acting as your slave!" Alix roared, fiery anger in her eyes.
"Girls, Girls please quiet down we don't want to wake the dead!" Miss Taylor chuckled anxiously.
"Miss Taylor, tell her I don't have to play the part of the slave" Alix whined.
"Miss Taylor, tell Alix that we are not doing her ridiculous idea of being spies from the future imagine the damage it could do to my hair!" Chloe exclaimed, once again using her hand to flip her ponytail.
'She makes me think of an arrogant pony flipping that ponytail so much…maybe a Shetland pony I've heard their vicious' Lila thought.
"Girls enough of this, outside now!" Miss Taylor said pointing towards the door.
Both girls looked at Miss Taylor in shock but she glared at them showing she meant it.
Both girls grumbled and walked out of the classroom.
"You guys keep on working on while I sort this out" Miss Taylor said as she walked out of the classroom after them.
There were a few minutes of silence before the class started being noisy again.
"Alix's idea was actually good maybe we should do it if she's not," Kim said to Nino.
"We're not stealing her idea unless you want to be punched" Nino sighed.
"Maybe I could fake my death that way I don't have to do this shit" Nathanael muttered.
"It's not that bad, Nath" Rose giggled.
Nathanael just collapsed his head on the desk, apparently sleeping was the next best option to death.
"I'm not sure I'll be the best option for the mysterious sorceress," Juleka said
Marinette looked at her in confusion "Um why do you think that?"
"Because nothing about me is witchy it could confuse people," Juleka said.
"So I was thinking that if I'm playing a reporter that you could be Chat Noir!" Alya said excitedly
Adrien went pale "W-what?"
"Yeah, I could get Marinette to make you a mask to make it more realistic"
"NO!" Adrien exclaimed.
Alya looked at him in shock.
"I mean no that won't be necessary," Adrien said with an anxious laugh.
"Um okay," Alya said a suspicious look in her eyes.
"So if my predictions are right, which I'm sure they are, our play will not only be most entertaining it will also be most educational," Max said pushing his glasses up.
Ivan and Mylene shared a confused look.
"You really think a play about an evil scientist will be educational?" Ivan asked.
"Yes," Max said as he began to write up another script for Mylene.
Mylene smiled and shrugged her shoulders "Well as long as it's not scary I'm fine"
"So how'd you come up with the plot for the play" Lila asked.
Sabrina pulled on the sleeve of her white shirt as she looked at the table avoiding Lila's keen gaze.
"Uh well I know that Chloe isn't the best person to be friends with…not that it's all bad, sometimes if she really tries she can be really great fun to be friends with but um sometimes she can get really nasty…" Sabrina said in a rush.
Lila smiled ruefully "Why don't you try and be friends with others in the class?"
Sabrina looked up and blinked her eyes owlishly at Lila "Chloe's my only friend…after the things I've done helping Chloe there is no way people will want to be my friend"
Lila bit her lip as she remembered Nathanael complaining about the things Sabrina did along with Chloe. If Nathanael, who was normally a very forgiving person was holding a grudge against the girl then Sabrina's chances of gaining new friends weren't very likely among the class.
Still, Lila knew what Sabrina was feeling like and she knew it wasn't a nice feeling. She reached across and grabbed Sabrina's hands in her own.
Sabrina looked at her in confused shock.
"I want to be your friend," Lila said with a bright smile.
"Really?" Sabrina asked.
Lila nodded with a Laugh "Of course, do really think I would lie to you"
Sabrina looked at her with wide doubtful eyes and Lila instantly knew what she was thinking of.
"Besides that time but we don't mention that, okay"
Sabrina nodded "Okay"
Then the bell went for the end of Class. Lila let go of Sabrina's hands and stood up collecting her books and putting them in her bag. She was about to go up to Nathanael and Rose so they could walk to next class together when she felt Sabrina tug at her jacket she looks at the girl wondering what was wrong.
Sabrina blushed "Um I was wondering could we meet up in the library at break so we can finish our script for the play if that's okay with you?"
Lila smiled gently "Of course, sounds great" then she walked fast to catch up with Nathanael, Rose and Juleka who were already leaving the classroom.
"Nathanael, wait up" she called out.
Nathanael stopped at the door and looked over his shoulder at the approaching Italian.
"Why didn't you wait for me?" she pouted as she caught up and they resumed their walk to next class together.
"Didn't think I needed to, you and Sabrina looked like you were having a great time" Nathanael responded, Lila thought she could hear a hint of bitterness in his voice.
She smirked, "Is someone Jealous?"
Nathanael rolled his eyes "Whatever would I be jealous of?"
Lila pouted and frowned as she looked down at the ground, sure it wasn't nice to want someone to be jealous but at least if he was jealous it let Lila know that he might possibly have feelings for her but it looked like he didn't so Lila was upset.
"So what are you and Sabrina doing for your drama act," Nathanael asked.
That Question was enough to brighten Lila up. "We're doing a play on a girl breaking out of a toxic friendship, it was Sabrina's idea. She comes up with really good ideas don't you think?" Lila was rambling, which usually happened when she was excited about something.
"If you say so," Nathanael said
"So what are you and Rose doing?" Lila asked.
"You mean what is Rose doing," Nathanael said with a smirk.
"huh?" Lila said confused.
"I've decided to fake my own death and you're going to help me," Nathanael said.
Lila started laughing "you want to…" she had to pause due to her laughter "Fake your own death to get out of doing drama"
Nathanael nodded "yes, that's how much I hate it"
"I'll try not to take any offence," Lila said with a grin.
"Why would it offend you?" Nathanael asked as they were nearing the classroom for science.
"Because I love drama and you're insulting it don't hear me insulting Art, do you?" Lila teased.
"Ah but that's because you love art" Nathanael smirked.
"Who said I loved art?" Lila asked.
"Me," Nathanael said as he walked into the classroom.
Lila rolled her eyes as she followed him in. She was content to let Nathanael keep thinking she loved art.
Lila was walking out of the science Classroom with Nathanael when someone grabbed her arm, she looked in surprise and saw Sabrina. Who was smiling at her with bright eyes.
"Oh hey, Sabrina what's up?" she asked.
Sabrina's smile fell a little and her eyes became clouded "You said we could go to the library now to write up our script"
Lila gasped and nodded her head "Oh right, yes I did, sorry I forget for a bit there"
Sabrina giggled "That's okay, good thing I reminded you" Sabrina was about to drag Lila to the Library when Nathanael got in her road.
"Lila, what's going on?" Nathanael asked.
"I have to go with Sabrina to the library so we can write up our script" Lila explained.
Lila observed as she watched Nathanael look at Sabrina with, was that a glare. Lila shook her head a little at that why Nathanael would be glaring at Sabrina for, Lila had no idea.
"But we usually go to the park with Rose and Juleka," Nathanael said.
"We have work to do, she can miss out on going to the park with you this once, can't she?" Sabrina asked with a glare at the redhead.
Nathanael just glared back "Fine, but it's no problem if I come with you two" he looked at Lila his gaze softening.
Before Lila could say it was alright with her Sabrina quickly spoke up.
"No, it's not, we don't need any distractions" she hissed, before quickly pulling Lila away before Lila could protest or Nathanael could say anything more.
Nathanael glared after the ginger-haired girl who was currently stealing his friend away from him.
"Hey, Nathanael," Rose said then she saw the frown that was on his face. "What's wrong?" she asked.
Nathanael looked at the petite blonde and tried to remove his frown "It's nothing…"
"Obviously something has annoyed you," Rose said.
Nathanael sighed "It's just Lila seems to be having more fun hanging out with Sabrina than she does me…I shouldn't be annoyed after all she's allowed have more than one friend…I suppose what I'm actually worried about is that Lila will forget all about me now Sabrina's hanging around"
"I'm sure Lila won't forget about you," Juleka said, she had come up to the two of them while Nathanael had been talking.
"Yeah, I for one know for certain that Lila cares for you a lot," Rose said, then she gasped as she realised what she had said.
Nathanael and Juleka looked at her in confusion.
"Ahh, I mean she cares for your friendship a lot" Rose corrected herself with an anxious laugh "Yeah, your Friendship"
This seemed to fool Nathanael who nodded with a small smile "I guess and it's just until tomorrow after they do the drama routine I'm sure Sabrina will go running back to Chloe"
Rose nodded with a bright smile "Yeah, so shall we go to the park?"
Nathanael nodded "It's safer than me going to the library I'm sure if I went there I would get my throat ripped out by Sabrina"
Rose laughed. Soon her, Juleka and Nathanael were walking to the park.
Lila sat down on a seat in the library. They were sitting way down the back of the library so they could have privacy and peace while they wrote their script.
Sabrina sat beside Lila and quickly reached into her bag taking out a purple notebook. She started to talk excitedly
"So I was thinking of some ideas and other stuff we could and I wrote up some examples. I was thinking you could be the bad friend and I could be the friend who is fed up with the other"
Sabrina looked up and was met with a scowl from Lila.
"Uh do you not like the idea I can change if-"
"No the idea is fine it's just the fact you were quite rude to Nathanael," Lila said.
"Oh, I didn't mean to sound rude" Sabrina lied.
Lila continued on "Well you did and there was no problem with Nathanael coming with us, he's usually quiet anyway he would have just sat and drew something in his sketchbook"
"You're right, I'm sorry I'll be more considerate," Sabrina said, though she didn't seem to bothered "Now back to our Script"
Lila nodded deciding to let it go this once.
Nathanael, Juleka and Rose had arrived at the park and Juleka and Rose sat down at a bench while Nathanael sat down on the grassy lawn. He got out his sketchbook and sat quietly as Rose and Juleka chatted away.
It was exactly like the days before the group had befriended Lila. Nathanael flipped through his sketchbook and came to many drawings of Lila. He sighed. He missed her.
He felt silly for missing her when she hadn't even left him alone that long ago but still Nathanael decided he would go and find her. He didn't really care about Sabrina and her rude attitude.
He closed the sketchbook and stood up. Rose and Juleka looked at him.
"Where are you going?" Rose asked.
"Uh I forgot something back at the school" Nathanael lied.
"Oh okay, see you later," Rose said.
Juleka gave him a smile of encouragement knowing that he wasn't exactly telling the truth.
Nathanael walked off back to the school.
"So what do you think?" Sabrina asked as Lila handed the finished script back to the girl.
"Yeah, it's really good, I hope you don't mind the line I changed up a little" Lila said
"No, It's good, I'm glad we're working together, we'll have the best performance," Sabrina said happily.
Lila laughed "Yeah"
Nathanael walked down the school corridor and came to the library door, he slowly pushed it open and came into the Library he looked around the library and finally spotted Lila sitting down in a corner with Sabina. She was laughing at something Sabrina had said.
Nathanael sighed. She looked so happy he didn't want to interrupt them. He turned to go.
Lila looked up and saw Nathanael who was leaving the library with a sad look on his face.
'I never noticed Nath was here, wonder why he's leaving?'
Lila stood up to go after the boy. When Sabrina stopped her.
"Where are you going?" she asked.
"To get Nath, he just left without saying anything," Lila said pointing to the door.
"If he wanted to see you he would have come over," Sabrina said "So just forget it and sit down" she demanded a frown gracing her usually delicate features.
Lila looked at her with a mixture of confusion and anger. "Nathanael is my friend and he looked upset about something so I'm going to see him, I don't care if that annoys you!" she said, grabbing her bag and storming out of the library leaving behind a shocked Sabrina.
Lila left the library and looked about the corridor with her keen green eyes in search of Nathanael. She finally spotted a flash of red hair turning around a corner.
'That's the direction to the Art room so that must be Nathanael' Lila thought as she rushed to catch up with the boy.
She turned the corner and finally saw it was Nathanael ahead of her.
"Nathanael" she shouted to catch his attention.
Nathanael paused and looked over his shoulder his wide eyes conveying his surprise.
"L-Lila what are you doing here?" He asked as she walked up to him.
"I saw you leaving the library, you looked sad," Lila said.
"No, I'm fine" Nathanael lied "You should head back to Sabrina…I wouldn't want to keep you from your best friend" Nathanael was surprised to hear the sharpness in his voice he hadn't mean to sound so mean but it appeared he couldn't help his feelings being obvious.
Lila raised an eyebrow also sensing his negative feelings. "Nathanael, you are okay, right?"
Nathanael said nothing instead he looked at the walls avoiding Lila's suspicious gaze.
"If something is annoying you then you can tell me," Lila said.
"Nothing is annoying me!" Nathanael said his eye's flashing with annoyance. He didn't want to admit he was feeling pushed out and possibly a little jealous.
'Lila was allowed to have more friends after all but I feel like she's forgetting about me'
He sighed "I have Art to finish for the final exam," he said turning and walking away. He was surprised when Lila fell into step beside him.
"I'll come with you then," she said.
Nathanael stopped and glared at the girl "No, you don't need to"
Lila smirked "I know I don't, I want to"
"Sorry, but I don't need any distractions," Nathanael said as he walked off leaving Lila behind in shock at his uncharacteristic rude behaviour.
Her shock soon turned to annoyance and then to anger "Fine, be that way!" she shouted after him.
She turned around quickly her hair flying over her shoulder before finally settling gently as she quickly walked back to the library. Anger radiating from her.
Nathanael felt awful. He couldn't concentrate on his art after the way he had behaved to Lila. He had taken his annoyance and anger at Sabrina out on Lila and now he was sure she would never want to be friends with him again.
Lila collapsed into the chair beside Sabrina, a scowl on her face.
"Lila you're back, Thank goodness," Sabrina said a happy grin on her face. She had been afraid she had lost her chance of having a nice friend but it appeared not.
Then Sabrina noticed the angry glare that was in Lila's eyes, she looked like she wanted to kill someone. Sabrina gulped.
"Um, Lila is everything okay?" Sabrina asked cautiously.
"No, it appears that nobody is nice even the ones you think are nice!"
Sabrina was confused "What?" she asked.
Lila looked at her it seemed the anger was slowly disappearing "Nathanael he's being unusually rude" Lila looked at the table with a thoughtful expression.
Sabrina felt a wide grin spread across her face. If Nathanael and Lila were fighting then that meant she would get Lila all to herself that way she was sure to get a great best friend.
Lila looked back up and Sabrina quickly replaced her grin with a look of empathy.
"I'm sorry to hear that" she lied "At least you know what he's really like now, it saves you getting hurt in the future"
Lila shook her head "But he's not usually like that I know for certain he's usually really kind and sweet and thoughtful…" she trailed off realising she was going on a bit. She blushed hoping Sabrina hadn't caught on about her crush on Nathanael.
"Um what I mean is that it's unlike him to be so rude…he's been acting strange ever since…ever since we were paired together for drama!" Lila exclaimed.
Then she blushed and looked at the ground when the other people looked at her somewhat annoyed she was being so loud while they were trying to read or complete work.
"You don't honestly believe Nathanael is being rude because you're spending time with me instead of him, do you?" Sabrina asked.
Lila sighed "I don't know, he's kind of sensitive"
"Sensitive" Sabrina said with a laugh "More like childish!"
Lila glared at the girl, sure she was still kind of angry at the red-haired artist but that didn't give Sabrina to be rude about him.
"Sabrina, don't be mean," Lila said.
Sabrina looked at Lila with wide eyes "But you're annoyed with him"
"Just because I'm annoyed with him doesn't mean you have to be rude," Lila said.
Before an argument could happen between them, Lila decided to end the conversation.
"So how about we head to class…the bell will soon anyway"
Sabrina nodded.
Lila and Sabrina stood up and headed for the door. Sabrina linked her arm through Lila's as they walked to class. This surprised Lila but she said nothing and just smiled.
"You don't to worry about Nathanael, if you wanted to I can sit with you so he doesn't annoy you," Sabrina asked with a smile.
Lila smiled "Thanks but I'm not that annoyed I would make him sit beside Chloe…no offence"
"None taken," Sabrina said.
Sabrina's teal eyes narrowed in concentration as she tried to think of a way to make sure Nathanael didn't sit beside Lila. She needed to make sure Lila became her best friend.
Nathanael already had loads of other friends while Sabrina had none except Chloe so she didn't feel guilty about stirring up a fight. Nathanael had Rose, Juleka and Ivan as friends. Sabrina gasped to herself as an idea came to her mind.
"Lila, I know you said no the different seating arrangement but Ivan has an empty space beside him so can't Nathanael sit there?"
"Sabrina I appreciate that you mean well but really there's no need for anyone to move," Lila said as they approached the classroom they were in next.
"Oh okay," Sabrina said with a sad sigh.
Lila walked into the classroom and then gasped.
"What's wrong?" Sabrina asked.
"I forgot the script in the library! I'll go get it!" Lila said removing her arm from its link with Sabrina.
"Oh I'll come with you," Sabrina said.
"No its okay," Lila said already rushing out of the classroom to get the forgotten script.
Sabrina watched her run off. She looked up to the seat Lila and then at the seat she usually sat at with Chloe.
'Well, Chloe's off for the rest of the day she said she wasn't coming back after that traumatising time with Miss Taylor shouting at her' Sabrina rolled her eyes at the words Chloe had used for getting a telling off.
'I can sit beside Lila just this once if Nathanael complains well…he can just find a new seat after all he's being rude to Lila!' Sabrina thought as she walked up the small steps to the desk Lila sat at.
She placed her bag on the desk and slid into the seat Nathanael normally sat at. That was when Nathanael walked in. He saw Sabrina sitting in his seat and a look of confusion appeared on his face.
"Why are you sitting there?" he asked.
"This is my seat now," Sabrina said with a sweet smile.
"No it's not, where's Lila?" Nathanael glanced around the room hoping to see Lila.
"She had to go somewhere not that it's any of your business," Sabrina said with folded arms.
Nathanael sighed "Fine, when she gets back you'll have to move"
"No, I won't!" Sabrina exclaimed "Lila isn't friends with you anymore, she doesn't want a loser like you near her" Sabrina lied.
"W-what, Lila would never say that," Nathanael said, his eyes clouded over and hurt could be heard in his voice.
"She did!" Sabrina lied a grin on her face. "So I suggest you don't even talk to her"
Lila walked back to the classroom the script in her hand. She hoped Nathanael came early so she had a chance to sort out his weird behaviour. She was reaching the classroom when she heard Sabrina talking to someone.
She reached the door and stopped when she heard what Sabrina was saying.
"She doesn't want a loser like you near her"
Lila wondered who Sabrina was talking to and who it was about when she heard the next voice and gasped quietly. It was Nathanael!
Fury built inside her as she heard the lies Sabrina was coming up. Really, she had given Sabrina a chance and now she was telling awful lies.
'At least when I told lies it wasn't to hurt anyone or to ruin friendships…I swear she's the same as that blonde brat…I understand why they were friends now'
Lila stepped into the classroom just as Nathanael was saying something.
"So Lila said she doesn't want to talk to me?" he asked.
Sabrina, not noticing the brunette girl standing in the doorway with her hands on hips and a fiery anger in her eyes answered Nathanael with yet another lie.
"Yeah, she said that there was no way she would speak to a jerk like you"
Lila decided to finally speak up "Really, I don't actually remember saying that which is funny because I'm not usually forgetful"
Sabrina gasped fear appearing in her eyes "L-Lila I-I didn't See you t-there!" She laughed anxiously as she stood up.
"Obviously!" Lila spat.
Nathanael looked between Lila and Sabrina more confused than ever "What's going on?" he asked.
"I'll tell you what's going on!" Lila exclaimed walking up closer to Nathanael and Sabrina. All the while glaring at the frightened Sabrina.
"Sabrina here has been telling you lies! I never said any of that…I was annoyed with what you said but we're still friends so I would never say any of that hateful stuff!" Lila said.
Nathanael nodded and looked at Sabrina "Why did you lie?"
Sabrina looked down at her shoes, avoiding the intense glare of the Italian and the confused gaze of the artist.
Lila glared at the girl and repeated Nathanael's question. "Why did you lie Sabrina? C'mon tell us!"
Sabrina looked up with tear-filled eyes "I just had to, Okay!" she grabbed her bag and ran out of the classroom just as the bell went.
Lila sat down in her seat anger still in her eyes "Can't believe I offered to be her friend" she muttered.
Nathanael looked back in the direction Sabrina had ran away in and then back at the angry Italian.
He slid into his seat "do you think one of us should go after her?" he asked.
Lila let out an annoyed "hmp"
"Lila, she was crying," Nathanael said.
"Don't care, she was lying" Lila said.
Nathanael gave Lila a look.
Lila glared at him "Don't look at me like that, I didn't lie to hurt anybody!"
Nathanael nodded "true but still…" he trailed off.
"You can't honestly expect me to go find her she's…well she's… a friendship pirate!" Lila finally settled on a term for Sabrina.
Nathanael laughed "Friendship pirate" he repeated.
"It's not funny…I can't believe your acting so calm about her telling you lies"
"I'm just glad they are lies…I was worried you actually were angry with me…I am sorry for how I acted" Nathanael said with a sheepish smile.
Lila smiled gently "It appears I can never be angry too long at you…after all you're too cute to be angry at"
Nathanael blushed and looked down at the desk.
Lila giggled at his reaction.
Nathanael glanced back up at her "So you going to go find Sabrina?"
Lila sighed "I suppose I should before Miss comes to class" she stood up and went rushing down and out the door and passed Rose and Juleka. Who looked surprised as she nearly crashed into them.
"Sorry" she called over her shoulder continuing to run on in search of Sabrina.
Rose and Juleka walked in and looked up at Nathanael "What's Lila's rush?"
Nathanael smirked "it's a long story"
Lila walked the hallways and when she saw no search of Sabrina. She sighed.
'Where could she be?' she thought then as she was walking back to class her eye fell on the girl's toilets. She hadn't checked in there yet.
She pushed open the door and walked in. she heard sniffles coming from the last toilet on the row.
"Sabrina" she called out. The sniffles and sound of crying stopped.
"I know you're in there please come out"
"What so you can shout at me some more?" Sabrina asked.
"No, I promise I won't," Lila said.
Sabrina said nothing and made no sign of coming out.
Lila sighed "Sabrina, I just want to know why you lied can you at least tell me that?"
"I don't know…I felt threatened" Sabrina answered.
"Of Nathanael?"
"Yeah, you two are so close…you guys aren't dating are you?"
Lila felt her face heat up and was glad Sabrina was behind the toilet door so she couldn't see her blush.
"No! Of course not" she laughed anxiously "just friends"
"Oh…" Sabrina said. Then Lila heard her turn the lock in the door and she came out of the stall.
She wiped her tear stained face and looked down at the ground in shame "I'm sorry about lying…it' just you're the first one who's offered to be my friend and I didn't want to lose your friendship"
"Seriously, I was the first?" Lila asked.
"Well Marinette was kind of a friend but she kept avoiding me and then she acted just like Chloe…she doesn't even speak to me much anymore!" Sabrina said.
"Okay," Lila nodded "So you thought ruining my friendship with Nathanael would make us Best friends?"
Sabrina looked at her with guilty eyes "I didn't really think, I just thought if you didn't have Nathanael as a friend you'd become my best friend"
"Sabrina, you can have more than one friend, you know," Lila said. "I suppose I can forgive you this once if you promise never to lie or start fights between me and my friends again"
Sabrina looked at her in surprise her eyes brightening "Really?"
Lila smiled "Yes, I can't fully hate you for lying…I do kind of have a history of it"
Sabrina gasped and ran to hug Lila. "Thanks, Lila!"
Lila laughed "So are you ready to go back to class"
Sabrina nodded.
They began to walk out of the toilets and to class.
"Hey, Lila," Sabrina said as she walked beside the Italian girl.
"Yeah" Lila answered.
"Can I sit beside you?" Sabrina asked with a grin.
Lila glanced at her with a warning glare "Don't push it"
Sabrina laughed.
Yay! I'm finally posting and you can expect the next chapter Wednesday or Thursday and I'm most excited for that...you'll see why! hope you enjoyed this chapter.