Agreste-Wayne?

18

Paris was understandably in shock over Gabriel's former model and her behavior. There had been some fans who had been saddened to see her replaced. Her fandom quickly began to diminish when others began to link the blog to her fan sites. It was worse when the creator of the blog, Adrien Agreste, and Marinette Wayne tore into her on television. Their sadness and faith had turned to rage and hatred. They ripped her posters off the walls, deleted fan pages, they unfavorited and unsubscribed. They realized they had stood up for someone that had hurt the Gabriel brand. Almost immediately, Juleka's fans began to grow in numbers.

Not soon after the broadcast, Lila began to feel the weight of what she had done. Karma had finally come back to haunt her. People recognized her from her years as being a Gabriel model. Suddenly, her once peaceful job had become a war zone. The customers she served either asked for another table or would ignore her until they were ready to speak to her. People began to leave STALKER ALERT as a tip on her receipts, instead of money. It was becoming harder for her to save up. Her boss merely laughed off her concerns when she said she was being harassed by the customers. He said it was her own fault. She complained she wanted it to stop or she would quit.

"Then quit." he stated, "I'm not going to fire you. You're bringing in more customers. They all want to see the model that fell from grace; the model who was really a devil in disguise."

To make matters worse, her mother had called her, screaming about the fact that she had become a joke at work.

"Everyone at work is asking why I haven't had you institutionalized! They are calling me an unfit mother and my job is being called into question! Why did you lie to me? What did I ever do to you to make you think you had to lie so much to get attention? From here on out, don't call me! You're twenty-five years old; you're an adult. You can handle your own problems!"

Lila couldn't stand it anymore. She could hear the whispers behind her back. She couldn't help but wonder if this what she had put Marinette through during school. She went into a beauty supply store and bought hair dye. Lila bleached her hair and looked at the money she had saved up. She had 5000 euros.

'Adrien doesn't want you. He told everyone on TV how he hated you. He wants to put a restraining order on us. He told everyone we were a liar! No one trusts us. No one wants to help us. Not Mama, not the people at the café, not even your friends.'

Before she could change her mind, she looked up housing in Italy and put a down payment on a small studio in Milan for 700 a month. She would have no privacy, but it was better then being in Paris. She deleted everything she had on Gotham and set up a one way ticket for Milan in three days. Lila braided her hair and cut her hair under the hair tie; her hair was now shoulder length. She looked at the mirror and shut her eyes, feeling the tears run down her cheeks. She grabbed the midnight black dye and soaked her hair.

Lila looked in the mirror and whispered, "It will be okay. We can change our name in Italy and it will be like none of this ever happened."