Marinette was almost completely alone in class. Lila had succeeded in turning the class against her. Even Adrien fell for her lies again, truly believing that she was a bully. “I can’t be friends with someone who would be a bully. I’m sorry Marinette, but we aren’t friends anymore.” Marinette was completely lost on what to do without her friends.
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She still had one friend. Felix. They had met a little after his first visit to Paris. At first Marinette was cold to him, remembering what he did. But soon they became close friends. Soon after, Juleka and Rose came to her saying that they had realized the truth about Lila. Apparently Lila had said that she had helped Prince Ali with his charity. But when pressed for details, she gave the wrong charity name. Rose knew that the charity that Lila mentioned was actually run by a non-profit in England. Not Prince Ali. She tried speaking to the class, but the only one that believed her was Juleka.
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Now that Marinette had friends around her again, she felt safer and happier than she had in a while. But her friends weren’t happy with things as they were. They decided it was time to take action. They started recording all the lies that Lila said about Marinette and gathering evidence that proved them to be lies. The plan was to get irrefutable evidence for the class to prove Marinette’s innocence. They were a few days into the plan when Marinette let slip about the threats. “I’m glad Lila wasn’t able to completely follow through on the threat.” To say the three friends were shocked and angry was an understatement.
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They got details from Marinette and found out that almost every time she goes into the restroom, Lila follows after her and threatens her. So the group used this information to plan a trap. They went into the restroom and planted recorders and Juleka hid in a stall with a video camera to film everything. They also hid phones around the room to get more angles of the situation.
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Like clockwork, Lila followed Marinette into the restroom at lunch to gloat about turning the class against her. “Well Marinette, I won. The class is all mine. They all believe me and think you are the devil. You’ve lost.” After she gloated a bit more, she left Marinette in the bathroom, feeling victorious. But she didn’t realize that she had sealed her fate. She returned to the classroom to find the class was furious with her. She found out about the video of her conversation with Marinette in the bathroom. It had also bee live streamed back to the classroom, so she couldn’t claim that it was edited.
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Needless to say, that Lila’s time as queen of the class had ended. She ended up transferring to a new school in the hopes of finding a new class of suckers to trick. Marinette never heard from her again. The class apologized to Marinette, and she did accept their apology, but they were never as close as they used to be. The relationships were just too damaged and the wounds to fresh. But they were at least civil with each other. Marinette remained very close with Felix, Juleka, and Rose. After all, she was thankful to them for ending the nightmare that was Lila the liar.
