"I told you that you shouldn't have gone." Sabine told Tom back at the house. Mari was with them too.
"I had to go. You saw how Lila reacted backing down from her confession." Tom replied. "But she'll get what she deserves for what she did to you Mari. Lila will pay for it I promise. You should have seen how your mother defended you. I never seen her with that engery before. All because of how much she loves you."
"I know and I'm grateful to have you guys with me." Mari replied smiling.
Soon it was dinner time and everyone was having dinner at the dining room as Sabine was feeding Adrienne. Once dinner was over Mari was helpful to go to her room since her room was in the second floor of the house where there was a second living room and the rooms that the employees slept at. The second floor was actually below the main floor since the house was built on a small hill and from the outside it just looked like a one story house. Mari's room was the second biggest and the only room that had a glass slide door that led to the garden there was a couch against a wall and her bed was in front of it with a baby bed with railings around the edges next to it for Adrienne. There were two comfy chairs facing each other near the door and the walk in closet that was basically another room was by the door as well as the bathroom was by the closet and she also had a half circle built in desk with three mirrors for her to get ready in a corner of the room. Next to Mari's room was a playroom that was set for Adrienne and next to it was Fu's room.
"I found daddy crying today in his study but he wouldn't tell me why." Maya told Emilie sadly.
"He must feel ashamed around you since parents are supposed to be seen as brave and strong around their children but it's healthier for him to let out his feelings." Emilie stated.
"Can I do something to help him?" Maya asked.
"I doubt it dear your daddy is most likely suffering a lot." Emilie stated. "Now you should go to bed it's late."
"Can't I stay here with you? I feel very sad." Maya replied.
"You can't stay here but I'll take you to bed." Maya smiled as Emilie took her to her room and tugged her in to bed before kissing her forehead and waited until Maya fell asleep before disappearing.
Mari gently laid a sleeping Adrienne in her bed. "Sweet dreams Adrienne...if only I could see you sleeping...I should just accept the fact that I will stay blind forever and that I'm useless. My mom has to do everything get you dressed feed you bathe you...if only Adrien was here but he doesn't care about me anymore just you...strange that he hasn't come to visit you yet."
Sabine walked in the room. "Dear I came to tell you that you were called to declare at Lila's trail tomorrow."
Mari slowly nodded. "Alright if I have too..."
"I'll be taken back there today." Lila said to herself as she was sitting against a wall the next day. "It will be another test and my idiot lawyer doesn't let me get involved. As if I don't know what I'm doing and if I just let him do everything I'll be sent to prison for many years. Years locked up years without being able to do anything. Without being able to go wherever I want. I'm going to become crazy..." Lila suddenly stood up. "Crazy?..." She smiled. "Crazy."
"I'm telling you that you can't accompany us Tom." Sabine told Tom trying to prevent him from getting up from the bed.
"It's important that I go. Marinette has to declare today and I don't want to leave her alone for anything in the world." Tom replied.
"I know that it's not the same I know but I'm going to accompany her." Sabine stated.
"It's not the same love. I'm a man and judge at the same time." Tom replied.
Sabine crossed her arms. "Look Tom you went yesterday and you got ill. Your doctor came earlier and lectured you from going out. We won't risk something more serious happening to you. You'll be here waiting for us and that's final."
Tom sighs. "Why do women always get their way."
"We'll see you later and don't get up." Sabine stated before walking away.
"Crazy...crazy." Lila giggles and spells out the word crazy on the wall with her fingers. "Crazy...the lawyer says that I'll be discovered if I pretend to be crazy. Could it be true? Would I be discovered? No I know how to pretend well. I know that I can do it. I know that I'm going to achieve it because I'm very intelligent. No one will lock me up no one! Today will be a big day. Mari is declaring today. You'll see what I have prepared for you." Lila laughed.
"Well luckily I convinced Tom to stay." Sabine told Mari as she was brushing her hair. "The doctor came to see him earlier and he gave Tom a big lecture but when we left the room he said it was only to scare him since thank goodness he found Tom well." Sabine put the brush down. "Let's go dear."
"Do I really have to go mom?" Mari asked standing up.
"Yes dear you were the victim you need to say how things went." Sabine replied.
"But I don't know anything." Mari replied.
"They will ask you questions and you'll have to answer them. I know that this is pitiful and I wish I could avoid you from going though it but it's better that we go though this now and get this over with." Sabine stated.
"I would rather wait here with Adrienne but you're right it's best we get this over with as soon as possible." Mari replied.
Soon they were at the trail and Sabine helped Mari go to the chair she was going to declare at. "I'll be close dear because of your state I was given primission to stay just like yesterday with Tom."
"Thanks mom." Mari replied.
'There is my enemy. She came to get her revenge. To destroy me but I swear that she won't achieve it. I'll show you who Lila Rossi is street rat.'
"Do you swear to tell the truth just the truth and only the truth?" The secretary asked Mari.
"I swear." Mari replied.
"Please take a seat." The secretary stated helping Mari sit down before walking away.
Mike who was Mari's lawyer in this case walked over to her. "Mrs. Dupain-Cheng since you weren't physically well at the root of the incident which you got injured from, it wasn't able for us to get your declaration of what happened so I ask you to tell us what happened. With as much details as possible."
Mari nodded. "I can't say much that isn't already known. That day I went to the rehearsal for the new play that was going to be aired. At that time it wasn't suspected of what was going to happen. We started rehearsaling the first Act-"
"In the play your character was going to be shot by another character correct?" Mike asked.
"Yes sir that happens in the second Act." Mari replied. "When that moment happened we marked the movements the director told us to do. I ran where the stairs was going to be at and I pretended to ran up the stairs...that's when I heard the gunshots and I felt like something burning in my head. It was like fire or a hit...when I woke up I was at the hospital."
"What else do you know?" Mike asked.
"I was told the rest that I know." Mari replied.
"But are you aware that it wasn't an accident but an attempt of murder?" Mike asked.
"That's what I was told but who knows." Mari replied.
"Do you know who the responsibile one is? Is she here can you point at the guilty one?" Mike asked.
"I'm sorry sir but I can't see her...I'm blind." Mari replied.
Soon it was Lila's lawyer turn to interrogate Mari. "I see that you won the compassion of everyone in the room about your condition nevertheless based on the information of the doctor that operated you, you should've gotten your sight back by now. Are you sure that you're still blind?"
"Are you implying that I'm faking to be blind?" Mari asked in disbelief.
"It would be a good way to drown Miss. Rossi even more. Don't deny that you hate her." Lila's lawyer stated.
"You guys should decide if she should be punished or not and no I don't hate her it's her that always hated me." Mari replied.
"Tell the truth! Say that you hated me that you were jealous of me!" Lila exclaimed. "She took the man I was going to marry! Then she wanted me to be kicked out from the house that recieved me with love! She hates me. She harmed me. She always goes after me. She desperates me she's going to turn me crazy! You see an angel but in reality she's a monster! She's evil!"
Fu was with Adrienne in Mari's bedroom when Tom walked in. "Good morning Mr. Tom how do you feel today?"
"Better...I was thinking that this used to be Lila's room." Tom replied.
"Yes but at least things changed for Mari. She's here as how she should be. The room turned out just how Mari would like it...it's a shame that she can't see it though." Fu stated.
"She'll get her sight back one day she just has too." Tom replied.
"She was going to go to prison." Lila continued. "She was an ignorant nobody and she hated me because I was an innocent woman. She took my boyfriend my parents. They are my parents they loved me! Mom defend me tell them the truth. Adrien...Adrien come!...my dad...my dad is the judge Dupain he'll do justice. Sentence her! Lock her up! I'm a victim! Help me from this woman that took everything from me! She's evil help me! I'm innocent!"
The trail had to end early because of Lila's outburst. She was taken back to her cell and her lawyer was allowed to go in with her. "Congratulations you did a big comely. It was a great scene but it was everything against what I told you to do. Everything was impactfull and convincing. Do you think you can convince a psychiatrist? The act is over."
"I want to leave." Lila replied.
He sighs. "Miss. Rossi-"
"No! My name is Lila Dupain-Cheng." Lila looked around. "What am I doing here? Open the door I want to leave!"
"If it wasn't for the fact that I have to declare against Roland and Lila I would have taken you to the ranch by now." Luka told Kagami.
"You'll take me when it's possible. How do you think the trail is going? We haven't really been involved in keeping up with it." Kagami stated
"I imagine the trail is very ahead by now though I ignore if there's anything new in the case. I'll call Adrien to ask him about it." Luka replied.
"I also want to know how his sentimental problems are going along. Is it possible that Adrien and Mari solved their problems and now they are together?" Kagami asked.
"It's an order open the door!" Lila exclaimed.
"You're doing it so they believe your act?" Her lawyer asked.
"I'm the daughter of judge Dupain. I'll make my dad sue them. Go away and don't bother me! You're an idiot of a lawyer! My dad will come to take me out from here. Why do you have me locked up. Open up!" Lila exclaimed.
"It's absurd everything she is doing." Tom stated after Lila's lawyer told him what she was doing.
"She's been acting strange during the trail. It seems that she wants to impress everyone present in the last interrogation she basically had a nervous attack. Obviously fake." The lawyer stated.
"My wife told me something about that. She said that Lila started to yell nonsense." Tom replied.
"It seems like she's determined to continue that act. Even when we are alone in her cell she acts." The lawyer stated. "I wanted to talk with her frankly about what's going on to save my responsibility and name. I don't want anyone to think it's my fault."
"Don't worry this won't affect you plus she won't achieve anything. It will be proven that she's lying." Tom replied.
"That's what I told her." The lawyer stated.
"The trail needs to continue. Tomorrow her aunt Isabella is going to be declaring plus action against Roland will be made." Tom replied.
Roxie was with Eddie who was laying on the couch when Roland walked over to her. "What are you doing here how did you get in the house?"
"From the back door." Roland replied.
"You know that I don't want to see you what are you doing here?" Roxie asked.
"I didn't come for you I came for my son." Roland replied before pinning her against a wall. "Did you really think that I was going to let you marry that idiot and let him regonizeed my son?"
"You never cared about Eddie before." Roxie exclaimed trying to get free from his grip. "I won't let you take him you have problems with the law you'll be sent to jail thanks to Adrien. You can't hurt me even if you wanted to."
"I have rights to visit him and to take him out. I have the atherization to do so." Roland stated. "You thought that you won but you were wrong!" Roland threw her to the ground picked up Eddie and ran off.
Roxie quickly stood up and ran after him. "Return my son Roland. He's mine not yours!"
Roland got in his car and was about to drive off but Roxie got in the car from behind just before the car drove off.
Sabine was reading a book in her room when Plagg walked in. "Mrs. Sabine...Mrs. Isabella is here and she wants to talk to you. Do you plan to receive her?"
"Does Tom know that she's here?" Sabine asked standing up.
"No I didn't tell him anything." Plagg replied.
"We need to avoid him from finding out. It will stress him out and that's not good for him right now." Sabine stated.
"Of course what do I tell Mrs. Isabella that you can't recieve her?" Plagg asked.
"No I'll see what she wants." Sabine stated before leaving the room. Sabine walked to the main hall where Isabella was waiting for her.
"Hi Sabine." Isabella said softly.
"I never thought that you would have the value to face me again." Sabine stated.
"I doubted a lot before coming here." Isabella replied.
"What do you want Isabella?" Sabine asked.
"You know the situation that I'm in. Everything bad I did fell on top of me. I had to leave my house because I couldn't pay it." Isabella replied.
"Are you here to ask me for money?" Sabine asked in disbelief.
"No please don't misinterprete me." Isabella replied. "I'm telling you everything happening to me so you feel compassion for me and so you know I was punished enough. I beg you for the accusation against me to be taken down. You can convince Tom he always does what you tell him to. In the name of that friendship that once united us."
"Did you remember that friendship when you came to me with that lie and took advantage of my pain of my lost daughter? You brought a stranger to this house to make me think that she was my daughter. All you wanted was to take advantage of our position and money. Both of you made fun of Tom and mine love while harming the one that actually was our daughter." Sabine said sternly. "Of whom Tom and I should have protected and loved. No Isabella don't count on me for anything."
Tom walked over to Lila's cell and when she saw him she went over to the bars. "Dad you came for me."
"I'm not your dad or came for you. I came to see Detective Kurtzberg." Tom replied.
"Please dad you need to take me out from here." Lila pleaded. "I don't like this place I want to go home. Be in my room and go to the pool and be in the car that you gave me. It's almost my birthday what will you give me?"
"Stop faking it Lila!" Tom said sternly.
Detective Kurtzberg walked over to Tom. "Judge Dupain I was just informed that Roland Rople is trying to run away. He's headed to the airport with a woman and a baby. Don't worry a police car is after him now and more will join him."
"You're being chased Roland just stop!" Roxie exclaimed. She was in the passenger seat holding Eddie as Roland was driving over the speading limit to escape from the police cars. "You don't have an escape."
"They won't catch me you'll see." Roland stated. "They might lock up Lila but not me."
At that moment in an intersection Roxie saw a track and at the speed that Roland was going..."WATCH OUT!" Roxie bend down coving Eddie and the last thing Roland saw was the truck crashing into his car.
Adrien went to visit Adrienne and he walked in her playroom where she was playing and Mari was next to her but she didn't notice Adrien being there. Adrien sat in front of Mari and started playing with Adrienne but Mari didn't look at him at all...obviously because she didn't know that he was there or could see him but Adrien didn't know that.
After a while of Mari seemingly ignoring him Adrien got up and quietly left the room and the house but Sabine went after him. "Adrien why are you leaving like that?"
"I have nothing else to do in this house Sabine." Adrien replied.
"I think that there's many reasons for you to stay." Sabine stated.
Edward quickly went to the hospital after Roxie called him. She was waiting for him in the waiting room holding Eddie. They were fine Roxie just had some buises but nothing major. "What happened."
"Thank goodness nothing major." Roxie replied. "But It was terrible Edward I thought we were going to die." Edward hugged her.
Adrien walked in his house to find Kagami waiting for him. "Kagami?"
"Luka and I came earlier to visit you but you took so long and Luka had to go back to the hotel room to make some calls. Natalie told me about your plans of going on a trip. What's that about?" Kagami asked.
"I want to go far away for a while to get out from this circle I have been trapped in for almost three years." Adrien replied.
