The Fox and the Ladybug

Part One: Life of a Liar

Lila's POV

11:46 am

I took my books out of my locker, pessimistic about my next class: math. In math, I sit next to Adrien, and he's extremely dull. Sometimes I wonder if Gabriel put some kind of mind control device into his brain to make him only care about fashion, modeling, and... 

Ladybug. The superhero who mom thinks is "so very special". Well, mom, tell me, who failed to save me at school when there was an akuma attack at school last week? Surprise, surprise! I got a broken arm from some bubble freak while Ladybug was flirting with her precious Chat Noir. Speaking of Chat Noir, why does EVERY FUCKING GIRL in this goddamn school think he's the hottest person who ever lived? If the art club paints one more picture of this goon I WILL-

"Lila? Can you please tell the class what 6c(5+t) is?" asked Ms. Bustier.

Embarrassed and not ready to answer the question, I answered in my pitiful voice "Sorry, Ms. Bustier, but my hearing disease is really bad today! Can you please call on someone else?"

"Sure, Lila! Umm, Marinette?"

Marinette recited the answer to the problem with no mistakes in her sentences, no pausing to look at the board, and enough detail that it made me scrape the inside of the desk with irritation. Speaking of Adrien, Adrien also talks about HER 24/7. Like dude, choose your girl and then stick to her! I guess it's kind of what I should've expected from Mr. Popular over here. You might be thinking, why do you  spend your time with this dumbass? Well, its kind of hard to explai-

"Lila, can you come up and write the answer to the math problem on the board?"

After math class, It was time for lunch. I sat down at the first table my eyes saw when I turned away from the lunch line. I guess today I was sitting with Juleka, Rose, Alix and Ivan. I really couldn't care less about who I sat next to because I knew that these people that were treating me so kindly were only doing it because of the lies I offered them.

"Hey Rosie," Juleka said.

"Hey, Juleka!!" Rose said, loud enough to make me wish she was at another table. 

As they kept talking, I felt them slowly forget about my presence. "This is bad," I thought. I wouldn't have any people on my side if I wasn't interesting to them. Quickly, I thought of an idea (not a new one, but an idea nevertheless).

"Hey guys, did you know I went to Mt. Everest on the day I was absent the other day?" I said in my usual sickly sweet voice. This wasn't true, but I guess you knew that already, didn't you? I was absent, but on that day I was sitting watching TV at home with a cold bored out of my mind. I was surprised I didn't get akumatized that day.

Thankfully everyone started talking about my fake vacation, so I guess that problem was solved, for now. I decided to sit next to Adrien as much as I didn't want to, because he was sitting alone, and if I wanted to earn the title of Mr. Model's close friend, this would be a good place to start. After all, isn't sitting with someone when they're alone the perfect way to do that? As I sat down, I saw Marinette walking over from across the cafe before she saw me, which at that point she was already going back to Alya, Luka, and Mylene grumpily. I also saw an identical expression on Alya, while Luka and Mylene seemed like they really couldn't care less.

After getting through that boring conversation with Adrien about fencing and Kagami and modeling and his dad and his bodyguard's action figure collection and his tutor who might be in love with his dad and modeling and fencing and Chinese and his dad and blah blah blah, I got the remainder of the periods I had left over with and went home, even less excited to do my daily ritual of posting I was getting Andre's ice cream or in some place hours away on social media. Believe it or not, today so far was a pretty normal day for me on the boringness scale.