Chapter 7: Alya and...Marco?

Lila laughed as Marinette stuttered in front of Adrien again, before quickly pulling her away, making an excuse about needing to talk to her. They laughed as they walked towards class, arms linked. They sat down at Marinette's desk and Lila looked around, deciding to sit at an empty desk at the back when Alya got there, so she didn't unpack her bag. She sat down next to Marinette.

»Soooo?« Marinette asked her and Lila blinked confussed. »Did you get in?!«

»Oh!« Lila remembered telling Mari about signing into a dance studio. She squeaked. »I did! Can you believe it!« Marinette squeaked back and enveloped her into a hug. »Of course I can! You'll have to show me your dancing sometime.«

»Ahem.« They quickly pulled apart and Marinette squealed as Lila turned around to see a ginger haired girl with glasses standing behind her. Alya. She concluded, giving the girl a bright smile. »Hi! You must be Alya.«

The girl narrowed her eyes. »I am. And who might you be?« She asked raising her eyebrow in question. Lila gulped. »I'm Lila.« She offered Alya her hand, but the girl leaned forward, inspecting her. »Lila. Okay, sure. What are you doing with Marinette, Lila?« Lila gulped. »Umm. Talking? Being friends?« Alya looked her up and down, before turning to Marinette. »Who's this, Mari?« Marinette smiled. »Lila's a new student. The teacher sat her down next to me and we became friends. She's really nice. She writes music, plays the piano and dances, she just got into the dance studio called Alany Huelo, she dances ballet.« Alya was obviously suprised, but nodded. »Okay then. Do you want to hang out with us Lila?« Lila squirmed in her seat. »I don't want to intrude, but I don't know anyone here except Marinette and uh, I...I've heard great things about you from Mari, and uh hope we could be friends...?« She trailed off awkwardly at the end. Alya suddenly smiled. »Of course we can be friends. I'd love to get to know you, I'm sure I'm going to like you if Mari does.« Lila smiled, relieved. »oh I almost forgot. Mari almost fell over in fornt of Adrien yesterday Alya, I wish you could've been there. It was hilarious. I had to catch her and pull her away and everything.« Lila and Alya giggled as Marinette groaned. »Great, two people to make fun of me now.« Alya giggled and squeezed Marinette's shoulder. »Aw. You know we love you Mari.« Lila nodded in agreement as the teacher walked in and she quickly ran to her new desk.

Lila was so happy as she walked to her newest class. You have to pick two optional subjects out of a few organized and then they're your extra classes for the rest of the year. Lila was happy because she was walking to +Arts. She already had an Art subject with her homeroom class, as well as all her other classes, well except her optional subjects of course. She'd picked +Arts and Music. She hadn't had music this week as the teacher was sick, but today was her first hour of +Arts and she couldn't wait. She found her classroom and walked in with all the others, ducking down her head as she found an empty seat near the girls group. The bell rang and she took her seat, letting a few stray strands of her hair cover her face so she wouldn't stand out or be too noticable. The teacher walked in with a stack of large papers and greeted the students. »Hello everybody! Today we'll be starting a new project. You'll be drawing with pencils and we'll be using the anatomy of a human body for help. You'll have to shade your figure and the anatomy has to be realistic. You need to draw human figures in impossible situations. Any questions?« No one raised their hands and the teacher continued. »Okay. So here are your papers. You can get the pencils from my desk and there's sketch paper in the cupboard. Get to work and call me if you need any help or don't understand something.« The teacher put down the papers and everyone started quietly talking as they gathered what they needed. Lila quickly gathered everything she needed before sitting back down and trying to imagine a human in an impossible position. She loved drawing and Arts but...she was horrible at drawing humans and figures. She just couldn't learn it and she hadn't practiced it at all. Now she could draw figures and humans, mind, but it was hard and never came out as she wanted it to. She chewed her pencil as she looked over her newest sketch. She was quite proud, it was a rough sketch of a ballerina on the water in front of the notre dame, her past footsteps retraceable as little whirls of water on the surface. »Well, that's nice.« Lila's head whirled around as she saw the teacher behind her inspecting her sketch, she stared. »Uh, thanks.« The teacher smiled. »You're the new girl right? Lila?« She smiled back. »That's me.« He nodded. »Alright, I hope we'll get along. I like your art. Though this is sketch I would only like to point out that the position of the arms is a bit awkward and her torso is a bit too long.« Lila looked back at the sketch, nodding. »Yeah, I'm great at animals, objects and imaginary stuff, but I'm really bad at human figures.« The teacher nodded before another smile lit up his face. »That's okay. Maybe Marco can help teach you how to properly start and draw a figure, they're his specialty. Marco!« Lila gave the teacher a confussed look, before turning around, her eyes widening. He looked straight back at her, his own eyes widening for a moment, before a smirk crrossed his features as he walked towards the teacher. »What do you need, mister Brown?« He asked, turning to the teacher, his eyes flicking back to her momenterally, before focusing on mister Brown. »I want you to help her with drawing her figure. Lila has some problems with the positioning and proportions. You got this right?« Marco nodded. »Of course I do. It's my thing.« The teacher laughed. »Alright then, I'll leave you to it.« Lila stared after the teacher, swiftly turning towards Marco as he sat down next to her, staring right back at her. They stared eachother up for a few moments before he spoke. »So your name's Lila. I've been wondering what it was...Huh, wouldn't have taken you for a Lila. More a Sarah or Anna or something.« Lila dropped her eyes, puffing out air. »Yeah, well, Marco isn't a genius name either, is it?« He smiled. »And that's where we agree. So what do you need help with?« She pushed her sketch towards him. »I'm really bad at drawing figures. The torso is too long and the arms are positioned awkwardly.« He nodded as he watched the sketch. »Okay, what did you start with.« She thought for a second. »The legs.« He shook his head. »See that's where you went wrong. You need to start with the torso so that you can proportion everything around it and continue with the legs, then the head and finally the hands.« He pulled the sketch closer to himself, turning the paper around so he had space to draw. »You see? You start with the torso, usually cricling it and the molding it, thining and fatening the right parts.« She carefully watched the stroke of his pencil as he drew a torso for a figure. »Now you need to position the legs, correcting the torso so it all fits together. When you're done with those two you need to take a look at the whole picture, rather than concentraiting on a part so that you can see how it looks together.« He leaned back to inspect the sketch, quickly fixing some minor mistakes. »See?« She nodded, as she observed his sketch, it wasn't perfect but the overall composure was amazing for something he'd drawn in a minute or two. »Can I keep it for help?« He smirked. »Depends, are you going to put it into syour diary?« She smirked right back at him. »Joke's on you. I don't have a diary.« She plucked her pencil out of his hand and pulled his sketch closer, inspecting the torso as she tried to imagine it in a different position as she often did with things she wanted to draw. »Alright.« He said as he stood up, looking over to where the teacher was helping another girl. »Just don't ruin that pencil.« She glared at him as he walked away, smirking.

Lila couldn't believe there was already another akuma.

Why couldn't Hawkmoth just relax a little so she could sort her life. Oh, well, she could do this. She'd gotten into a dance studio, she found friends and she was succesfully following all her classes. That boy was still bugging her but that wasn't going to get in her way. She ran into an alley to transform, soon running out, just as Chat Noir was thrown past her. Her eyes glimpsed his staff as it flew over her, before she quickly jumped into the air. Catching it in a spin, her flute attached to her back. She walked towards Chat Noir as he rubbed his head, pouting at her. She giggled as she walked towards him, throwing his staff into the air, letting it spin for a few moments, before catching it on one finger. She giggled again as he gaped at her, she'd known that trick would come in handy when she'd first learned it half a year ago with Aiistra. She threw his staff into the air again, catching it properly and smirking down at his gaping form, throwing it to him. »Need a hand?« Chat quickly recovered his wits, picking himself up, and grinning at her. »Nah I got this.« She shook her head as she ran towards the akuma. The akuma was brightly dressed, whistling to summon winds as she blew away people and whistled again, water rising around her and trapping innocent bystanders. Azeria ran after Chat Noir, glimpsing a red blur besides her as Ladybug joined her. »So what's the plan?« Ladybug looked towards her. »Why do you think I have a plan?« Azerie thought for a moment. »You're smart and you know this job. This is like my second akuma and transformation, remember?« Ladybug nodded, both of them stopping as Ladybug swung her yo-yo to catch a flying Chat Noir. »Okay, I get it i guess. Do we have any idea where the akuma is?« »I saw a save the nature and seas bracelet on her right wrist, she was saying something about no one caring for the planet.« Chat Noir pipped up from behind them, stroting closer with his baton behind his back. »I think that could be it.« The heroines nodded and soon the akuma was beat. Ladybug helped Chat Noir up from the ground as Lila watched the pure white butterfly flutter away. Ladybug walked up to her, putting a hand on her shoulder. »You did good today. I just wanted to tell you that for now you have patrol on Saturday nights, okay?« Lila nodded. »No problem.« With that Ladybug swung away, Chat shouting her a 'goodybe' as he vaulted away. Lila smiled as she jumped into the air to find an alley to detransform in.

As Aiistra dropped into her hands, she already had a caramel out of her bag and gave it to the kwami. Aiistra smiled delightedlly, ducking into Lila's bag as the girl walked to her studio. Selena had given Lila her schedule and Celia told her she could come check out the studio today.

When she arrived she checked in with Selena. »Hi Lila!« She said. »You can check out studios one, three, four and five. Studio four is occupied by our breakdance troup, they're having a small dance off, but you can check it out if you're interested.« Selena smiled at her warmly and Lila returned it. »Thank you.« She walked around checking all the empty studios and equpiment. It really was a nice ballet studio. She hadn't known they had a breakdance troup too. She'd danced hip hop and breakdance in her previous studio. It was why she liked to mix styles. Right now she was in her black leotard as she'd hoped to dance for a few minutes, she stil had her indoor tennis shoes on as she approached the door from which the loud music was playing. She regreted making her hair into a bun, now she couldn't hide behind it. She summoned all her courage as he opened the door a crack, slipping inside. There were people leaning against the walls and watching, cheering. A boy and a girl were having a dance off in the middle and she watched intently. They were both very good, but the boy apparently knew the song better and Lila knew he would win before it was over and he was declared the winner. She watched curiously, not really listening as they called another name, looking over the crowd as someone walked into the middle of the room and the DJ called for challengers. Finally her eyes landed on the boy in the middle of the floor. His eyes were on her and their gazes locked. Marco smirked. »Well, well, well. It looks like we have a classicall ballerina visiting.«

A.N:

Sorry for not posting in a while. This took some inspiration.

Please tell me what you think and review. I'm probably posting chapter 8 tomorrow ;)

Dream on!

Timisa