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Chapter 25

Lila was traveling by bus back at the hotel, where she's staying with her father. She observed the Seine, which was next to the road of the bus' line. Her phone beeped, as she received a message on her communication app. She took the phone and he saw, that it was from Kim. She opened the message and saw, that he wrote it in the group chat.

"She's going with me to the prom!" Wrote Kim down.

Another message came, which was from Max.

Max-imunity: Congratulations

DJWifi: Who's the lucky girl?

Hesthefastest: Aurore Beauréal, the girl, that lost at the weather girl competition.

DJWifi: Wow, congratulations

Lila stuck her phone back in her jacket and sighed.

"Wonder, who's the guy, who wants to ask me out for the prom," Said Lila and her phone beeped again. She took her phone out and it was from Chloè.

She opened the message and saw, that she sent a picture of Nathaniel in front of a florist looking at flowers.

Queen_of_Paris: Wonder, who he's going to ask out.

Chloè wrote with a laughing emoji on the end of the sentence.

TheArabianSkatergirl: Definitely not you!

Hesthefastest: Hahaha

Replied Kim with three laughing emojis.

PinkyPieLover: I know, who the lucky girl is, but I won't tell it anyone,

No1LBFan: He can be a real cutie pie when he wants to.

TheArabianSkatergirl: Yeah

Replied Alix with a red heart behind her word.

Hesthefastest: You got a crush on him?

TheArabianSkatergirl: No, but I like guys, that can be this cute

No1LBFan: Who knows, maybe you're the lucky one

Said Alya with an emoji winking at the end of the sentence.

TheArabianSkatergirl: With who are you going to the prom, Nino?

DJWifi: Sure

No1LBFan: But you haven't asked me yet.

DJWifi: But I will.

No1LBFan: Really?

DJWifi: Wanna go with me to the prom?

No1LBFan: I expected, that you would ask me personally.

DJWifi: I still can do that

Chloé sent another picture of Nathaniel leaving the florist with only one rose.

Queen_of_Paris: Somebody should lend him some money. With only one flower, he's not going to land on somebody.

DJWifi: Maybe on you

TheArabianSkatergirl: Come, stop this. He's just doing that to ask somebody out. It's not like he's needing it for a wedding.

No1LBFan: You don't need to know that Chloè. He doesn't correspondent to you anyway.

Queen_of_Paris: I don't need your life advises. I can go it my own way.

No1LBFan: I know and I don't need to know about it

Queen_of_Paris: See…

Lila kept reading the comment thread in the chat and the bus announced the next stop.

"Quai de la tournelle" Announced the recorded voice.

Lila put her smartphone away and walked to the exit of the bus. She left the bus walking towards the big tower entering into the building. On the other side of the road, where the Seine is, stood Nathaniel with Rose and Juleka. Nathaniel holds a rose in his hand, which was unwrapped by a piece of paper.

"She just entered into the hotel" Said Nathaniel looking at the girl.

"Now you just have to go after her and then you see, where she lives" Said Rose.

"Then you ask her out" Said Juleka.

"And she says yes and everything will go fine" Said Rose excited. "You will make it Nath!"

"But….I already know, where she lives"

"Well, then you still follow her, knock on the door…."

"Ask her out and she says yes!" Said Nathaniel along with Rose.

"Yes, she will say yes!" Exclaimed Nathaniel running towards the streets, almost hit by a red car, which honked loud after doing an emergency brake.

Nathaniel ran into the building and made it quickly into an elevator, filled with guests of this hotel. Nathaniel grabbed his phone and wrote a quick message to Rose.

"I'm inside the elevator."

"Great" Replied Rose.

At the outside, Rose looked at the building after getting the message.

"You're going to make it Nathaniel. We believe in you" Said Rose, though we wouldn't hear that in anyways.

Back at Nathaniel he was still in the elevator and the door opened and he left it following the corridor along. After a while, he saw Lila standing in the middle of the corridor along with a blonde guy. Nathaniel stopped and tried to exacerbate his eyes to see if he knew this guy. This guy wasn't somebody from his school, it was XY, Chloè's favorite singer.

"You're probably one of the most gorgeous girls, that came along my way in this hotel," Said XY to Lila, making her blush.

Nathaniel sighed as he saw her with XY and let his flower fall down. He turned around and walked away, with his head down.

"Really?" Asked Lila. "Do you think so?" Asked the Italian.

"Well, not really," Said XY and walked off.

"Hey, I didn't want to incommode you, but can I at least have an autograph of you or a picture?"

"I think about that, I need to go to my stylist and make my hair and maybe a new…..I see about that later, doll...adios….or however your Irish girls say it…." Said XY leaving Lila back.

"Grrr gosh" Growled Lila. "He's much worse than he looked to be" Said Lila walking the corridor away, passing by Nathaniel's rose.

Down at the Seine Rose and Juleka were waiting for news of Nathaniel.

"Wonder, if she said yes" Said Rose looking at the building.

"Maybe he got lost in the hotel" Said Juleka.

"Could be a possible" Said Rose. A few people ran out of the hotel screaming around.

"Huh?" Asked Rose as she saw the people running out. "What's going on?"

"Somebody call Ladybug and Cat Noir!" Exclaimed one of the humans, running out of the hotel.

"Oh oh" Said Rose.

"Come, let's go away from here" Said Juleka pulling her away.

"But what about Nathaniel?" Asked Rose and both looked at the hotel.

Inside the hotel, people were running around and behind them walked the Evillustrator with a pen and a smartphone on his arm, which substitutes the tablet, from his first time as Evillustrator.

The Evillustrator created on his phone a few cages on there, which appeared in real life, closing all the people in there. All the people were scared of the Evillustraor, which looked at all the humans there.

"Where's XY?" Asked Evillustrator.

"He is up in the 48th level, room 689," Said the receptionist, which was inside the cage too.

"Good, thanks a lot" Said Evillustrator walking towards the elevator.

"Who's this guy? What does he want to do with him?" Asked the agent of the singer.

Up at the suite, Lila sat inside her room watching TV. Suddenly it changed to breaking news and showed, the hotel, where Lila was.

"Somebody has been akumatized and is threaten the guests of the hotel at the 55th avenue." Said the reporter at the TV.

"Oh oh," Said Lila as she watched the news.

"The villain seems to listen to the name Evillustrator. A villain, which stuff he draws on his little screen on the arm, makes them appear in real life."

"Wow," Said Lila and somebody knocked on the window of the room, making her jump.

"Ah!" Cried Lila and then she saw Cat Noir standing at the balcony along with Ladybug.

"Oh," Said Lila and ran at the balcony, then opened the door to let both heroes in.

"Hi" Greeted Lila.

"Hey" Greeted Cat Noir and Lila looked neutral at Ladybug and she smiled awkwardly at Ladybug.

"Uhm Hi Lila" Said Ladybug. "Well, I know you're not happy to see me and…."

"I'll be going" Said Cat walking towards the room.

"I know," Said Lila looking down. "I'm sorry, that I lied about being friends with you," Said Lila. "You know, I was new in this school, I….I have been moving many times from place to place, I...sort of never had the chance of making friends….and as we landed here, my father somehow inspired me to made up a few lies, to make friends and I...well, started to go too far with them."

"I have also to say sorry, I should actually be an idol to many people in Paris and show them the right way, not just plumping in and...abuse from my power when it's unnecessary."

"Alright, I forgive you too," Said Lila and Ladybug showed Lila her hand.

"Friends?" Asked Ladybug and Lila gave her the hand for a handshake.

"Friends," Said Lila smiling at Ladybug.

"Hey I found something," Said Cat Noir and Ladybug and Lila left the hotel room, going to him in the corridor. He was on his knees next to a rose, which was unwrapped by a paper.

"I think our guy got his heart broken" Said Cat Noir taking the rose.

"And I think we fought him once" Said Ladybug taking the rose and removed the paper away and read, what it was. There was a drawing of Nathaniel holding a bouquet of flowers to a girl, who was a bit taller, than him and had long hair with two bangs on the side of the face.

"Is that Nathaniel?" Asked Lila looking at the picture.

"And I think that girl must be his crush" Said Cat Noir and Lila looked at the girl, realizing that it was her.

"He wrote there something look," Said Cat pointing down of the picture at his writing, which was rather unpleasant, than his drawing.

"Dear Lila. I wanted to ask you if you would like to go with me to the prom this year? I promise I'll do everything to give you the most amazing night ever. Will you accept?

Yes O or No O?"

"Not bad" Said Cat Noir looking at Lila, which was smiling at it.

"Aww, he was the one, who wanted to ask me out," Said Lila hugging the note of him.

"And something caused him to transform into the Evillustrator" Said Ladybug.

"And how do you know that?" Asked Lila.

"We fought him once, just on that time, he wanted to get revenge on the girl, who made fun of him" Explained Ladybug.

"But why did he get akumatized?" Asked Lila. "I didn't even talk to him today. Today like, we didn't have any fight or anything"

"Maybe he got jealous of somebody?" Suggested Cat Noir and Lila though on what happened today.

"Ahhh!" Screamed XY running through the corridor of the hotel. The three looked at the blonde singer coming towards them.

"Ladybug help me!" Exclaimed XY and hid behind her.

"Is Evillustrator behind you?" Asked Ladybug.

"I don't know, but he can erase things and draw things in real life!"

"Yep, that's our guy," Said Cat Noir looking at the end of the corridor. The Evillustrator stood there in front at the corridor looking at the four.

"Nathaniel, come leave him alone" Demanded Ladybug. "Come we can talk about this" Said Ladybug and the Evillustrator drew something on his phone and in front of him appeared a few flying boxing fists flying towards the gang. Cat jumped in front of them and protected them by spinning his baton around.

"XY, quick as we were talking with each other before, was somebody else watching us?" Asked Lila.

"Only some ginger holding a rose in his hand, looking at us," Told XY. "What happened next, I didn't see" Responded XY and Lila looked neutral.

"I think he got akumatized because he was jealous of him," Said Lila to Ladybug. "He had called me, that I was beautiful and maybe Nathaniel thought, we were...well"

"Hey, I got an idea" Said Ladybug and looked at the Italian girl. "Try to seduce him"

"What?" Asked Lila.

"Try to tell him, that you like him and then steal his pen and throw it at us," Said Ladybug and Lila gulped.

"Don't worry, he will not hurt you" Said Ladybug.

"How do you know?" Asked Lila.

"He trusts you," Said Ladybug and Lila looked at the Evillustrator and took a breath and walked towards him. Evillustrator looked angry at the others, then he saw Lila coming towards him.

"Nathaniel," Said Lila. "It's me Lila," Said the brown haired girl walking at him. The Evillustrator, which was looking angry at the others, started to look at Lila surprised.

"Lila?" Asked the Evillustrator and she nodded, smiling at him.

"Why did you ran off?" Asked Lila looking at him. "Why didn't you approach me and ask me, to go out with you?" Asked the Italian. The Evillustrator looked down with a sad face.

"Were you thinking, that I would reject you?" Asked Lila passing her hand on his purple face. The Evillustrator lifted his head up looking at her with his blue eyes.

"I'm sorry. I thought that you liked him and so I left you back so that I wouldn't get more hurt"

"Oh," Said Lila and hugged him. "I'm sorry, that I've hurt you"

The Evillustrator placed his arms around her hugging him.

"Evillustrator, let her go, now!" Demanded Hawk Moth through the telepathy.

"Never" Replied the Evillustrator and Lila wide her eyes.

"What do you mean?" Asked Lila and suddenly he let her go and he started to scream in pain.

"Ahh stop it!" Cried the Evillustrator shaking.

"What's going on?" Asked Lila shocked.

"I think it's Hawk Moth. He's trying to control him" Said Ladybug shocked.

"What?!" Asked Lila in panic.

"Help me!" Exclaimed the Evillustrator in pain. "Ahhrg!"

"Lila!" Yelled Ladybug. "The akuma is in the pen, break it!" Demanded Ladybug.

"Noooo!" Shouted the Evillustrator letting the pen fall down. Lila stamped on the pen, breaking it, looking panicked.

"And now?" Asked Lila looking at the pen.

"Huh?" Asked Ladybug.

"Maybe it's on his tablet," Said Cat Noir pointing at the small smartphone on his arm.

"Arghhh" Cried the Evillustrator.

"Quick, he's suffering!" Yelled Lila and the Evillustrator tried to take his smartphone away from his arm.

"H...he...help….."

"I...wait..." Said Lila looking at his smartphone. She took it away from it throwing it towards Cat Noir.

"Cataclysm!" Yelled Cat Noir activating his power. As he catches the smartphone, he wrecked it, so that the Akuma could get out of it.

"Aha," Said Cat Noir and Ladybug activated her yo-yo.

"Time to de-evilize!" Shouted Ladybug catching the Akuma to turn him back into a butterfly again. She released the butterfly telling him goodbye. She threw her yo-yo in the air to activate her miraculous power.

"Miraculous Ladybug!" Shouted the super heroine and everything around the hotel was restored back, including the Evillustrator was turned back into Nathaniel. Nathaniel lied on his knees and arms, then stood up looking at the others.

"What happened?" Asked Nathaniel looking at the others.

"Thank god you're okay!" Said Lila giving him a tight hug.

"Huh?" Asked Nathaniel rolling his eyes at her. Ladybug and Cat Noir walked towards them. Ladybug had Nathaniel's cellphone on her hand and Cat Noir the rose with the note.

"Here'" Said Ladybug giving him the phone. "I think this belongs to you," She said with a smiled. He smiled at her and took it away from her.

"Thank you," Said Nathaniel and Lila let him go and looked at the two heroes.

"And here," Said Cat Noir giving him the rose with the paper. "I know you can do it"

"Uh..." Said Nathaniel looking at the rose. He looked at Lila and she smiled at him, nodding at him to do it. Nathaniel took a breath and gave it to Lila.

"This..is...for you," Said Nathaniel feeling nervous about it. Lila took it and opened the letter reading it. She smiled and looked at him.

"Have you got a pencil?" Asked Lila and he looked around to see, then Cat Noir gave him a golden pen, in which then Nathaniel gave to Lila.

"Where did you get that pen?" Asked Ladybug.

"I took it from XY" Responded Cat Noir. "I'll give it back to him then," Said Cat Noir earning a flirty look, followed by a head shake from Ladybug.

"Yes" Responded Lila putting a cross on the letter of Nathaniel. She gave the paper to Nathaniel back but kept the rose. Nathaniel blushed about it looking at Lila, which holds the rose close to her heart.

"D...did...you like it?" Asked Nathaniel and she nodded. "G….great..." Responded Nathaniel and Lila stood up, then helped Nathaniel in getting up too.

"Come, they are expecting us down there" Said Ladybug to Cat Noir, then looked back at the others.

"Come" Said Lila pulling his arm behind her back and placing her other free arm behind his back so that she could help him go further.

"Can somebody tell me, what happened?" Asked Nathaniel.

"We explain it to you later," Said Ladybug.

"Okay" Said Nathaniel and looked at Lila, which leaned her head on his face, tenderly, making him blush like a tomato.