Unexpected Friendships

Prologue

As Lila entered the classroom, everyone turned to look at her. While she usually enjoyed being the centre of attention, this was not one of those days. Some random jogger had captured a video of Ladybug exposing her as a fraud in front of Adrien and released it on the internet. Following that incident, all the people who she had charmed into believing her ludicrous tales had checked whatever she had been saying and concluded, albeit correctly, that she was a liar… And she couldn't exactly blame them… She had lied, but she had no idea that it would have become so big or that she would get caught. She had just wanted some friends!

Alya sniffed on seeing her and turned her head to the right so fast that it was a surprise it didn't fall off. The girl with pigtails winced and looked down. Adrien gave her a sympathetic look.

Others in the class either glared at her or didn't make eye contact with her.

She was everything she had feared she would be, and the irony was that her desperate attempts to prevent it had caused it to happen… She was alone, friendless… a social pariah.

She looked down as she climbed the stairs to reach her seat at the back of the class, only to trip over something and fall hard. She winced as her head throbbed with pain. She heard giggles.

Lila turned her head to see Chloe withdraw her leg behind the desk quickly but still smirk at her.

"Did you really fall or was it another one of your acts, Lie La!" She snarked.

"Chloe!" Someone admonished. Lila looked up to see the pig-tailed girl stand up from her seat and approach her. To her surprise, she helped her up.

"Are you okay?" She asked.

Lila nodded disbelievingly, trying to remember the girl's name.

"Thank you…"

"Marinette." The girl said with a gentle smile as she led her back to her seat. Nathaniel tried to shirk away but Marinette glared at him and he stopped, though he didn't make any attempt at pleasantries.

"If you need anything, you can call me. I am the class president." The girl said calmly, as if she was not unaware of what she had done… Which would be improbable considering that the local news network had shown her clip on their channel multiple times not to mention the various fan sites.

"Okay…" She said slowly.

The girl beamed at her warmly before heading back to her seat but Lila couldn't stop thinking about her.


Hope you guys like this story and please review.

I hate canon Lila with a burning passion but fun fact, during the hiatus between seasons 1 and 2, I had made myself believe that Marinette had made friends with Lila as atonement for publicly exposing her and that the whole class had got to know about her lies. So I was genuinely confused when the Chameleon episode aired and I had to go back and see the Volpina episode.

This story is going to be a AU season 2 onwards and my way of exploring a possibility where Lila wasn't as bad as she was in canon. So I am going to ignore everything she did post her debut episode. I know not everyone is going to love this story and I get why, but I will be very happy if you give this a chance. :)