Mari walked to the center piece and grabbed it; she started walking to the table when it slips from her hands, and it fell to the ground breaking in many pieces. Mari covered her mouth in shock as everyone came in the room hearing something break.
"How did this happen Mari?" Tikki asked surprised.
Mari shook her head. "I don't know how it happened. I grabbed it then it slipped falling to the ground."
"Do you know how much what you just broke cost?" Tom asked irritated.
"I'll pay you back Mr. Tom." Mari said kindly.
"With what money? The money you stole?" Tom asked harshly.
Sabine sighs. "Tom please."
"Wait who have I stolen money from?" Mari asked confused yet defensively.
"I can't go back I need to marry Edward." Elsa said softly.
"I don't think so." Michael looks straight at her eyes.
Elsa looks down. "The invitations are already out the reunion is organized the wedding dress is made."
"That's observed invitions reunion what about us?" Michael asked gently.
"Don't listen to him Mari look-" Sabine started.
"To not listen to him? He's saying that I stole money." Mari was mad now. "So you know I never stolen money from anyone. I stole the milk for the orphans because they starve all the time. The flowers of Mrs. Snow were for Jesus. Never money because they taught me that it's better to starve than to steal because food brought by stolen money rots your stomach!"
"If it's money food or flowers doesn't stop being a crime." Tom said harshly.
"Maybe for you but not me! You're worst for yelling and being rude. I have only taken stuff for others!" With that, Mari storms to her room.
Sabine took Tom to their room to have a private conversation. "Did you see how she insulted me?"
"You called her a thief." Sabine replied.
"Because she is plus irresponsible." Tom added. "With how much you loved that centerpiece and look now its in pieces because of her."
"It was an accident it slipped." Sabine said defending her.
"And she said she would pay it back." Tom said sternly.
Sabine sighs. "Don't be unfair Tom, she didn't say it in that tone the contrary, she said it humbled, and if you didn't interrupt her; she would say she would pay it back by working."
"By the way, the money-" he looks where he left it.
Sabine picks up the money from the table. "Here it is see how you are thinking wrongly of who you shouldn't?"
"She most likely didn't have time to steal it, but I'll leave it there sooner or later she'll steal it." Tom replied putting the money back on the table.
"Poor thing she's probably suffering did you see how she went to her room crying?" Sabine asked sadly.
"She's acting wait you'll soon be convinced of what kind of person she is." Tom replied emotionless.
Sabine shook her head before walking out of the room and straight to Mari's room. She knocked softly before entering the room. "Mari?"
"Come in Mrs." Mari said her tone sounded like she has been crying. She was sitting on the bed not facing the door.
Sabine walked up to her and faced her. "Forget about what happened with the centerpiece, I know it was an accident. I'll buy another one and problem solved."
"Tell me how much it costed. I'll pay you back with work and please stop giving me a monthly allowance." Mari replied wiping her tears away.
Sabine smiled. "I knew that you would tell me that dear, but it's not necessarily for you to work or for me to take your monthly allowance away."
Mari hugs her. "I promise you that I have never stolen money."
Sabine hugs back. "I know."
The next-day Tom was about to head out when Isabella walked inside from her morning walk. "Are you leaving now?"
Tom nodded. "Yes but I'll be right back I'm only going to the bank."
"You set the trap with Sabine knowing right?" Isabella asked curiously.
"Yes but she hasn't fallen yet." Tom replied.
"She'll fall don't doubt it." Tom nodded and walked out of the house. Once gone Isabella heads to the room. She turns the corner and saw Sabine, who was just leaving the room. "Sabine."
Sabine smiled. "And Lila?"
"At the pool." Isabella answered.
"And Mari?" Sabine asked curiously.
Isabella shrugged. "I haven't seen her. I have only seen Tom, who just left."
"I'll go to the kitchen with everything that has happened, I haven't even ordered what would be served today." Sabine heads to the kitchen.
Isabella makes sure she is gone before going into the bedroom and takes the money from the table before sneaking back out with a smirk.
"I wish I died when my mom abandoned me." Mari said to Fu who was visiting her. They were currently in the back garden.
"Don't say that." Fu said surprised at her.
"Everything wrong seems to happen to me." Mari replied sadly. "I don't know what happened, I had it tight, but it slipped right away the Judge calls me a thief. Mrs. Sabine says it was because he was mad, but I think he was reminding me of the bottles of milk. I thought I was winning him over, but I guess not."
"Did the Mrs. also lecture you?" Fu asked curiously.
Mari shook her head. "No she told me that I should forget it. I could see that it pained her that it broke, but she said it didn't matter."
"You know that Isabella told father Carlos that the Judge didn't want anyone to visit you not even him. Plus Mrs. Sabine wants the same thing." Fu said sadly.
Mari shook her head. "From the cruel Judge, I believe it but not from Mrs. Sabine. That's why I want to convince Adrien to take me to his house."
Sabine entered her bedroom and stops in her tracks as she noticed the money on the table was missing. She sat on a chair in disbelief.
Tom walked in at the moment. "I didn't take long there were few people in the bank." Tom goes over to her and kisses her head before noticing the look she had. "What's wrong Sabine?" He looks over at where she was looking at and noticed the money was gone. "And the money?"
"Its not here." Sabine replied softly.
"She already stole it." Tom sat on the chair across from her. "Now you won't have a doubt that she's a thief."
Sabine shook her head. "I'm not sure it was her."
"You're going to doubt our employees knowing their honesty and loyalty for all these years? Isabella and Lila are out of the question who else? Only Mari. This time I'll accuse her." He stands up and heads to the door.
Sabine quickly stood up. "No Tom wait you have no proof that it was her."
After Fu left Mari went over to the pool where Lila was sitting on a chair. Mari sat on the chair next to hers facing Lila. "Hay." Lila just waved as she continued looking through a magazine of wedding dresses. "I wanted to know if you really liked the gift I gave you." Lila nodded. "I'm paying Ruby back little by little she paid it with her credit card." Mari noticed what Lila was looking at. "You're already looking for your wedding dress?" Mari goes next to her and looks at the magazine giving her some suggestions.
"I should be the one who should decide don't you think?" Lila said a bit sacasted.
"Of course, you are the bride. You know something Lila when you marry Adrien, I'm going to live with you guys." Mari smiled.
Lila looked at her in disbelief before asking harshly. "What did you say?!"
Mari's smile grew. "The thing is that I told Adrien that I want to live with him, but he said no but I really want to go so I wondered if you could help me to convince your boyfriend."
"You do need to leave but not to Adrien's house. Why don't you go back to your world? Why don't you just disappear already!?" Lila grabs her hand harshly and pushes her to the ground. "I can't tolerate you anymore!" Mari backs away as Lila stands up and walks toward speaking with every step. "Have you not seen yourself in a mirror?! You are ordinary you are clumsy. You are an idiot! You don't have education you don't know how to behave around civilize people. Go back to your world go back to your neighborhood! Because no one cares for you here no one!"
"Edward I have problems with Mari." Adrien said as they walked to the gym. "She wants me to take her back to my house, and I can't do that. I took her out because I can't have her near me. I need to be as far as possible from her."
"Than tell her no." Edward replied.
Adrien shook his head. "She asked me with so much sweetness. She's like a pleading puppy with those eyes of hers. How can I say no when she asked me from the bottom of her heart?"
Edward sighs. "Than tell her yes."
"I can't have Mari in my house. I can't have her sleeping under my roof. It's a big temptation, I need to push her aside." Adrien said sighing.
Mari stood up. "Mrs. Sabine does care for me." She said defensively.
"That's what you think? My mom deals with you because she has no choice! Because she pities you! But you are a vague street rat! Vague just like the hideous gift you gave us!" Lila pushes her.
Mari got mad and pushes her too. "Be quiet!" Lila falls back into the pool.
At that moment, Sabine walked to the pool and covered her mouth as she saw Mari pushing Lila. "Mari what did you do?!" Lila just floated in the water. "Lila! How is this possible Mari?" Lila gets conscious again and coughs water out as she swims to the edge of the pool.
"She started it; I didn't want to Mrs. she pushed me and insulted me." Mari replied defensively and desperately.
"She's lying." Lila said weakly as she sat on the edge.
"No you're lying!" Mari replied.
Sabine goes over to Lila. "Stop it Mari! I saw you pushing my daughter you can't lie to me anymore. Go to your room right now."
Mari runs to her room and slams the door closed as she leans back on a wall and slides down crying as Teddy goes to her side. "Lila started doing drama and Mrs. Sabine believed her and not me who was telling her the truth. If she goes against me too what will happen to me in this house?" Mari buried her face on her lap as she hugged her legs and cried.
Later that day Tom was in his study when Isabella and Lila walked in. "Can we come in?" Isabella asked softly.
"Yes come in." Tom closes his laptop as the woman sat on the chairs at his desk. He noticed the sad look on Lila's eyes. "Is something wrong dear?"
Lila stays quiet. "What we have to tell you is delicated. Lila doesn't dare to tell you but I do. Your daughter noticed that Mari is trying to take Adrien away from her." Isabella replied for her. "She gets near him too much."
Tom nodded. "I have seen them hugging but do you think Adrien would be capable of such a thing?" He looks over at Lila.
Lila shugged. "I don't know...Adrien is a man."
Isabella nodded. "Yes Adrien is a man and she knows that that's why she's seducing him."
Mari was bathing Teddy when Sabine walked in the bathroom and stood against the door. Mari looked at her. "You are mad at me for what happened right?"
Sabine shook her head. "Not mad but it was still something unpleasant."
"I don't want you to be mad at me, please forget about what happened." Mari said softly.
"Its not so easy Mari." Sabine looks at her sadly. "Finish bathing your puppy and try not to make noise so that Tom doesn't hear you and please don't cause me anymore problems." Sabine walks out of the bathroom and out of the room heading to her own room when Plagg walked over to her.
"Mrs. Mr. Tom wants to see you; he's waiting for you in the study." Plagg said softly.
Sabine walked to the study. "Plagg told me that you wanted to see me."
"Yes come in and sit down." Tom was sitting on the couch of his study. Sabine sits down next to him. "Lately we have had to talk about the bad behavior of Mari. The little saint is seducing Lila's boyfriend Adrien Agreste."
Sabine couldn't believe that so she stood up and left the study heading to Lila's room she knocked before entering the room. Lila looked at her and smiled walking over to her from doing her makeup. "Hay mom I'm getting ready for a dinner with Adrien and his friend Edward, he's getting married tomorrow. We got him a wonderful gift."
"Dear Tom told me that you noticed that Mari has certain interest in Adrien." Sabine sits down on a chair.
Lila sighs sitting on her knees in front of her and starts to tear up. "Yes mom I'm ashamed for you guys to know, but I have seen things that hunt me for a while now. That hurt me and I have been suffering in silence. Adrien says that she does it innocently, but I know that she's seducing him that she's constantly provoking him, and I'm afraid mom after all Adrien is a man. Mari wants to go live with him again, and she'll do anything possible to get it mom even things to separate us help me mom." Lila wipes her tears away.
Once again, Mari was leaning on a wall crying. A knock was heard before the door was opened, and Sabine walked in. Sabine walked over to her and bended down next to her. "Why are you crying?"
"For nothing." Mari replied softly still crying.
"No one cries for nothing you must have a reason." Sabine said softly. "Tell me."
Mari looked at her. "Why if you won't believe me, you don't care for me. You are right no one cries for nothing. You know what I cry because everyone in this house is against me. Nothing happens here without me being blamed, and no one let's me defend myself or believe me not even you."
"Mari are you sure that you don't have guilt at all?" For some reason, that made Mari think of her tragic pass. "You need to look deep in you confess your error and ask for forgiveness." With that, Sabine stood up and walked out of the room.
.Later that night Sabine walked in Lila's room. "Are you looking for the necklace?"
Isabella nodded. "Yes it doesn't appear anywhere, and I'm tired of looking."
"It couldn't have just disappeared it has to be somewhere." Sabine said softly.
"Sabine this is delicated. The necklace has been stolen, and I'm sorry but I'll tell Tom this isn't a game, I think that he needs to know." Isabella left the room. Sabine stayed and looked around a bit more before leaving the room. When she got to her bedroom, Isabella was finishing telling Tom the situation.
Tom stood up. "Sabine tell Mari to come."
"I'll go, I know that Sabine is shy about this situation." Isabella walked out of the room and went to Mari's room. She walked in without knocking. "Tom wants to talk to you."
Mari looked at her. "What did I do now?"
"You should know." Mari sighs and got up following Isabella to the master bedroom.
"Where's the necklace?" Tom immediately asked when Mari entered. "Tell me where the necklace is?" He walked closer to her.
"What necklace?" Mari asked confused.
"Lila's you stole it." Tom replied.
Mari was fed up with this. "No I didn't steal anything!"
Tom put a hand up. "Never lift your voice on me again. You have the necklace you stole it just like how you stole money from me."
"I DIDN'T STEAL ANYTHING YOU ARE A LIER!" Before Mari knew it, she was slapped on the cheek by the Judge.
"Tom!" Sabine cried going over to him.
"She disrespected me; you saw how she fronted me Sabine." Tom said angerly.
"Mari go to your room." Sabine said desperately. Mari walked away to her room.
"I'll call the police." Tom said sternly.
"No." Sabine quickly said.
"No don't call the police we first need to be convinced that Mari has the necklace. We can search her room, or anywhere we will find it. Tom you need to wait until we are sure that she has the necklace then you can put her in prison." Isabella suggested
Mari was sitting on her bed looking at the picture of Adrien. "Why did you bring me to this house Adrien? Why?" Mari sighs then she remembers about what Tikki told her a while ago about not trusting Isabella because she was her enemy. "And Lila." Just then Mari got an idea.
It was the next day, and Elsa looked at herself in the mirror wearing her wedding dress and veil plus holding her banquet of flowers. Her mother smiled standing next to her. "You look beautiful dear."
A knock on the door was heard, and a maid walked in. "The car that is going to take Miss. Elsa to the church is here."
"I'll tell your father to hurry." Her mom said as she, and the maid walked out of the room.
Elsa starts to think about Michael, and tears start to fall. In a sudden rage of anger, she threw the bouquet of flowers on the bed along with her veil and grabbed a marker before writing something on the mirror. She left from the back entrance of her room and ran to her car. Once inside she started the car and drove to Michael's house. After what felt like an eternity Elsa finally arrived and knocked on the open door. When Michael noticed it was her he quickly stood up and extended his hand to her. She ran to him and hugged him.
Meanwhile, Elsa's parents walked in her room and called out to her. Ciel noticed the bouquet and veil on the bed and started panicking worried for her daughter. That's when Christopher saw the message on the mirror, he called his wife over and when she saw the world 'escaped ' she fainted and Christopher barely caught her in time.
Adrien and Edward greeted the guest along with the Dupain family. They decided to wait with them for the bride. Edward checked his watch. "Elsa is half an hour late."
"Don't you worry many brides arrive late to cause a scene." Tom said reasonably.
"Here comes my Uncle Christopher." Adrien said spotting his uncle walking up to them. That's when he noticed the sadish look on his face. "What's wrong uncle is everything alright?"
"And Elsa?" Edward asked curiously.
"She isn't coming my daughter escaped there will be no wedding." He replied feeling sorry for Edward.
Mari walked up to Tikki, who was cleaning the dining table. "What happened to the house it feels like a graveyard like no one is here."
"No one is here they all went to a wedding." Tikki replied.
"Really?" Mari knew that this was her chance to unmask Lila. "Thanks Tikki." Mari runs to Lila's room and searches everywhere for the necklace. In the drawers, in the closet, under the bed. Mari was losing hope when she saw a picture frame but instead of a picture, it was like a crystal in the middle. She went over to it and took it out it was easy since it was only connected by hooks she turned it around and saw that it had an opening and inside it was the missing necklace. Mari smiled and took it out. "Like I imagine everything was a lie to frame me."
