“We all know about the infamous confrontation between Marinette and Lila in the bathroom when she returned to school.”
“But in this timeline, Lila decided to kick the hornets' nest… more than usual, I mean…”
“I can’t prove it, but I know for a fact that you don’t have tinnitus, that your wrist is fine, that you don’t know Prince Ali because you’ve never even stepped foot in Achu, and despite what you got Alya to write on her Ladyblog, Ladybug has never saved your life!” Marinette declared.
“I only tell people what they want to hear,” Lila replied.
“It’s called lying!”
“And how would you know that?” Lila asked mockingly, “How would a clumsy little baker's daughter know whether or not I had been saved by Ladybug? How could you know anything? You’re a little nobody with a pathetic little crush on someone way out of her league…”
As Lila continued to belittle her, Marinette saw red.
“...you’re dumb little friends are so easy to manipulate, and frankly, Ladybug is overrated anyway.”
“What?!”
“She’s just a meddling do-gooder who should mind her own business.”
“You made it my business when you lied about me!”
They both froze, Marinette covering her mouth in horror and Lila frowning in confusion.
“Lied about you? I didn’t…”
Her eyes widened in realisation, “You!”
Marinette bolted.
Marinette found a place to hide.
“Marinette!” Tikki exclaimed, “What were you thinking?!”
“I wasn’t! It just slipped out!”
She began to panic, “This is a disaster! She’s the worst possible person to learn my identity!”
Tikki flew to her, “The situation is… unfortunate, but she has no proof. This is still salvageable.”
At that moment, Lila was putting a butterfly into her earring.
