After two weeks of Lila’s lies, Marinette is near the end of her rope. She rants to Alya about her frustration, and Alya isn’t much help, since she suspects that Marinette’s anger has more to do with Lila’s closeness to Adrian. She is known to get jealous, and often takes things too seriously – remember her first impression on model boy?
Marinette insists this is different, and Alya tells her it doesn’t matter, because the class likes Lila. While Marinette might insist that Lila is fake, they haven’t seen any reason to disbelieve her. Like it or not, the class - Alya included – believe everything that Lila has said.
She expects Marinette to growl or groan in frustration. Possibly throwing up her hands and starting another thousand-words-in-thirty-seconds vent her way regarding Lila. What she doesn’t see coming, is Marinette freezing in place, her eyes wide in revelation. When she asks if Marinette is okay, the girl starts laughing, saying something about why she hadn’t realised it before. She can’t possibly handle Lila, but their class can.
Before Alya can question this, Marinette shakes off her episode, and asks Alya if Lila has any allergies she knows about. At the negative, she runs out the school gates, insisting there’s something she needs to do.
After lunch, Marinette goes up to Lila, and apologies for not welcoming her to the class properly. As class rep, it’s her responsibility to make sure everyone’s needs are met, and that’s what she’s going to do from now on. And as an apology, she went to her parents bakery and got an assortment of treats for the whole class.
Everyone is delighted Marinette has finally decided to bury the hatchet (although Alya and Adrian are very confused). Lila doesn’t know what’s gotten into her, but she’s certainly not going to back off just because Marinette has suddenly realised she can’t win. She says she’d love to try something, but she’s deathly allergic to certain ingredients. In reality, just being this close to them is very dangerous for her, and could Marinette please take them away?
Everyone is horrified, and Marinette puts the tray outside, but Lila is surprised to see something other than anger and frustration in Marinette’s eyes when she returns.
She apologies for not knowing about her allergies, because when she’d asked Alya, she hadn’t mentioned any. Lila – realising Marinette had been smart and covered her gesture – has to frantically cover and admit she doesn’t like to mention it as she just takes allergy medication to recover.
Marinette merely asks for a list of anything else Lila is allergic to – because she has other options from the bakery and would like to know for future reference. Lila rattles off a handful of ingredients she knows are in baked goods, and Marinette makes a point to write down everything Lila says she’s allergic too ‘for future reference,’ before taking the pastries to be thrown out.
Lila doesn’t know what to make of it, and while everyone is kind of irritated at being offered baked goods only to have them removed because Marinette ‘should have asked Lila about her allergies,’ she goes to lunch feeling smug. Right up until she goes to the cafeteria, and the lunch lady refuses to give her what she orders, ‘because of her allergies.’
Turns out, when Marinette went to throw out the treats, she did it by the cafeteria, and when they’d asked why she was throwing them out, she told them all about ‘poor Lila’ and her allergies. She was so sweet to take their food without complaint, no doubt she had to use an epi-pen every day. But now that they know, they’re going to make sure Lila has a perfectly safe meal. Of course, the number of things Lila can eat with her ‘allergies’ means she’s currently stuck with little more than plain white rice. She can’t counter it without admitting she lied, so she’s stuck with it for now.
