The Fox and the Ladybug

Part Three: Mystery Girl

Lila's POV

7: 13 am

I walked to school today with a pomegranate in hand. Today was the day we would be assigned a partner to work on our ancient civilization poster. Ms. Bustier was the sappy type who loved the sickly sweet idea of people getting along and becoming best friends or whatever, so there were a few unsaid rules I figured out she followed. For example, no picking two people for a project twice. I've noticed she also likes to put people who hate each other together. How do you think Alix and Kim became friends?

I checked my watch and realized I got to school pretty early today so I decided to head to the art room. I lie about a lot of things but art is the one thing I do even when it won't help me manipulate someone else. I walked in and looked around for the red and green paints. I liked mixing these colors together for some reason; the brown shade it resembled my hair without fail. I looked around the room to see a girl with short blue hair and a red plaid skirt. She was sketching what looked like a model of Adrien. Great. Another Adrien fangirl.

Before I could turn around and walk out she looked up at me.

"Hello, I don't think I've seen you anywhere before. Who are you?" she said.

Wait a second. I looked at her mysterious brown eyes and realized I've seen her before. She was the girl in the that picture with Adrien when I went to his house. Noticing her and Adrien knew each other, I knew I had to pull the two apart them in some way, so I started building trust.

"Hey, I've seen you before! Are you Adrien's friend?" I smiled.

"I'm his ex-girlfriend, but I'm not interested in him anymore."  she replied. "Let's just he say he... was distracted." She smiled slighty.

"Your drawings are amazing! Y'know, I won the contest for best sculpture last year, so I-"

"No, you didn't. I won that." She looked at me closely and then spoke again. "I just recognized you. You're the girl who lies to people and is obsessed with Adrien, aren't you?" This doesn't happen often, but when people figure out the truth, they don't act so... calm.

"No, I don't lie, why would you say th-" I tried to say before she stopped me. 

"You should know I'm an expert at lying. You can't fool me." She said blankly.

"Why do you say that?" I ask, genuinely curious and forgetting my true motives.

"When Adrien and I were together, I had to lie to my mother to spend time with him. I was an expert by the time I broke up with him," she answered, sipping a vanilla iced coffee (my favorite Starbucks drink).

"Hold up- YOU broke up with HIM? No one every breaks up with Mr. Agreste! Girls AND guys want to date him, and even Aurora is head over heels for him!" I said louder than I meant it to be.

She spit out her iced coffee onto a painting and laughed like a maniac. I smiled at this. Nobody ever laughs at my jokes that hard. Or ever, for that matter. Once she calmed down, she said, "I know, but I felt like he really isn't all that he's cracked up to be. He never asked me once during our relationship anything about me!"

"Wow, that's so surprising," I said sarcastically while rolling my eyes. She laughed again, spitting out iced coffee on another painting. 

"I don't know how you put up with him for how long you dated him," I admitted.

"Well, I don't date him long; about a month," she said. "You would think in a month I'd be able to tell you something about him other than he's boring, but..." she trailed off right when the bell rang.

"Better head to class, liar girl!" she said. "By the way, I'm Kagami. Here's my number." She pulled out a piece of paper.

I thanked her, and walked out of the room to my homeroom, checking my watch and realizing forty minutes have passed. Did I just make my first friend?