Betrayed

Chapter 3: Unlikely friends

DDIIINNNNGG!!!

The doorbell loudly rang.

"Coming!" Marinette yelled as she ran down the stairs. They were here! She opened the door.

" Hey guys! Come in!" Chloe, Isis and Felix all walked in.

"OMG girl! I haven't seen your place in ages!" Chloe told Mari as she grabbed a croissant to eat. "Also, the pastries are delicious."

 "Thank you for inviting us to come to your house." Felix politely told Marinette.

 "You don't have to be formal when speaking to Marinette. She's a friend." Isis scolded Felix. Marinette was jumping on the inside. Someone actually thought of her as a friend apart from Chloe!  This was huge! 

 "Come on guys! My room is upstairs! Let's go!" Marinette called from halfway up the stairs. They all charged up the stairs like an angry herd of rhinos. They all climbed up to Marinette's bedroom in the attic. 

 "First, Chloe this is Felix and Isis. Isis and Felix, this is Chloe."

 "Hi!"

 "Nice to meet you! "

After everyone had greeted each other, they started to talk about the real reason why they were here. 

" I've got a thousand questions running through my mind!" Marinette exclaimed " First of all, what is going on between you and Felix?"

Felix turned bright red. " Well, he and I are good friends for a long time now. About four or five years." Isis clarified.

" Ok then, next question. do you know Lila or have any connection with her?" Marinette queried.

"Well, I suppose I can trust you. Nearly no one knows this, but me and Lila go way back. Before she became the lying monster she is now. We were young, about six or seven when she changed." Isis sighed when she said this. "First, she started distancing herself from me. Started hanging out with the 'cool kids'. Then, she began plotting. She would target each person individually. Singling them out of the rest. And she always picked the supposed goody two shoes. Then, she would slowly ruin them one by one. Most put up with a week, before telling the teacher but that didn't work. They just told the child to stop lying as they knew Lila was a good, hardworking student. Eventually, she pushed one to suicide. She was found to be dead on the spikes on top of the fence that surrounded the school. The girl's name was Esmerelda. Before Lila joined, Esme, as most of us called her back then, was lovely, happy, bubbly student with high grades. Do you know the saddest thing about all of this?" Isis turned to look at us all. "This happened when we were all eleven." Isis stopped to take a breath, ready to cry. " I tried talk to Lila, but she blanked me, gave me the cold shoulder. With that she had turned on me, and she got me expelled. So, I moved to a new school and that's where I met Felix. And he became my real best friend." 

All of them just sat there in shock. They expected a small backstory. This was much more horrific.

"I didn't know that. " Felix looked hurt. " I thought as best friends we told each other everything."

"Felix if I'd told you before, you would have hunted for Lila and not stopped till she was dead." 

"True..."

" That was much worse than what we were expecting!" Marinette was still trying to get over the initial shock when she heard a knock at the balcony window. 

"Coming!" She flung the window wide open only to see Cat Noir standing there looking smug.

"Hello my purrincess. Can I come inside?" 

"Sure, but you better behave!"

As Cat Noir entered Marinettes room, he was so shocked he almost fell. Felix was sitting in his princess's room along with Chloe and Icy or whatever its name was.

" Oi! Cat! It is a her! And my name is Isis not Icy."