Lila had no shame hiding the great smirk on her face. She tricked her class again with the tinnitus story, this time claiming she needed a hearing aid to help with her disability.
Her hearing aid was an AirPod.
Lila turned down her volume to the lowest level possible, blissfully listening to XY's latest song and put her phone in her bag without anyone seeing.
Almost everyone.
Plagg peered from Adrien's designer backpack. He saw Lila quickly hid her phone, the bright yellow colour of her new phone case caching his green eyes.
"That's not a wheel of Cheese but looks just as good!" Plagg said happily.
The kwami zipped over to Lila's school bag. She literally had no books. Nothing but magazines, makeup, a purse, a picture of Adrien inside a red heart and-
"My cheese!"
He grasped the bright yellow phone and chomped down on the corner. Almost immediately, Plagg pulled away, disgruntled.
"This isn't cheese!"
He inspected the phone, the screen displaying XY's song. His big head was inches away from the screen, his nose firmly pressing on the surface. Then he turned his head, turning up the volume in the process.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!"
Lila screamed her head down, jumping up from her seat and throwing off, sending it flying across the room.
While the kids tended to Lila, Ms. Bustier picked up the hearing aid. XY's voice singing, caterwauling, more than loud enough for her and everyone else to hear.
"Lila, this isn't a hearing aid. It's an AirPod!"
Everyone looked to Lila, who was holding her throbbing head.
"I lost my hearing aid! I had to use that!"
Even with a headache she still conducted a lie.
"An AirPod can't aid your tinnitus." Max said. "It's designed to broadcasted sounds, not engineered to hear its surroundings."
"How are you able to hear without an aid?" Alya questioned.
"I can read lips!" Lila lied again.
"Then why do you need a hearing aid if you can lip read so well?" Marinette asked innocently from behind Lila.
The Italian girl turned around and glared at Marinette.
"Shut up, Marinette!"
"Marinette was right behind you." Adrien defended, standing in front of Marinette. When he did so, Plagg hid in his pocket. "You can't read lips when you can't see the person."
"You're not even deaf! You never had tinnitus!" Rose accused.
"I do!"
"My grandmother is deaf." Nathaniel revealed. "She needs an aid to hear. Without, she can't hear anything."
By now, the class was angry and disgusted at Lila's true colours. Apart from Marinette who was just confused.
The teacher was beyond angry.
"Lila Rossi, you lied about having a disability so you can skim off others' kindness!" Ms. Bustier shouted. Then she went deadly quiet, scaring Lila. And then she spoke in a low voice. "Principal's office. Now."
With a squeak, Lila ran out.
As she followed the girl, Ms. Bustier sighed and laid a hand on her stomach.
"I hope my son or daughter will never turn out like her."
Marinette was walking out of the school to go home when she spotted Lila being dragged by the ear by her mother to their car.
"At least karma caught up to her." Tikki said, hiding in Marinette's pocket.
Marinette tilted her head. "I wonder how the volume on her airpod got blown up in the first place..."
"It was you?"
Behind a wall, Adrien grasped Plagg in his hands, shocked at what the cat kwami had confessed to.
"I thought it was cheese!"
"That's what you said about Chloe's bracelet! And my toilet paper! Now Lila is in trouble!"
"You're worried about her? She's the one that lied! You should be thanking me. I exposed the liar!"
"I guess that's a good thing..."
"Kid, accidents happen. Stop worrying about it. Liar-cheeks is getting the punishment she needed. Now gimme cheese! Real cheese!"
"Lila Maria Rossi, you are in so much trouble! I have never been so humiliated! And by my own flesh and blood! You're grounded until you're 30!"
Lila huffed, wiggling in her seat as if she wanted to dig herself in a hole. Which she does want.
"Give me your phone!"
Lila snorted but nonetheless handed her phone to her mother. The woman looked closed at the device, raising an eyebrow.
"Young lady, why is there a bite mark on your phone?"
