AFTER Watching Miraculous

Chapter 17: Lila Rossi

Lila Rossi looked out the window of her room. The streets seemed quiet. She shut her curtains that way she wouldn't be bothered by the outside. She walked over to her bed and sat down with her legs crossed.

A few moments later, there was a knock on the door.

"Yes?" Lila asked. A tall, slender woman showing some sort of resemblance to Lila walked in the room.

"I was just checking on you. Are you alright? Do you need anything?"

"Yes, mother. I'm alright. I just wish I could go back to school," Lila said, lying.

"The school is still closed down?" Her mom asked.

"Sadly yes. It is still too dangerous to be at the school. All because of those alumas," Lila lied, again.

"Really? Then why do I keep hearing around town that the identities of Paris's superheroes have been revealed because your school was shown a television show?"

Lila was taken aback at what her mother had said. "I'm sorry. What?"

"Not only that, but apparently you were also in this show," her mother brought up.

"I was? What did I do in the show?" Lila asked, trying to play off her non-existing innocence.

"You were lying about knowing Ladybug. You were lying about having a miracle," her mother shot out.

"I believe it's called a miraculous," Lila said, still trying to play coy.

"Never mind what it's called. You have been lying about everything ever since we've moved here! You are in so much trouble, young lady! You are grounded until further notice!" Her mother exclaimed.

Lila still tried to save herself. "But mother, I-"

Her mother held up her hand. "Don't even start. You are going to sit here until you decide you are going to start telling the truth and nothing but the truth!" Her mother then walked out of the room, shutting the door behind her.

Lila stares at the door for a while before getting her phone that her mom forgot to take out from underneath her pillow. She immediately looked up Ladybug and Cat Noir to see if what her mom said was true. As soon as she hit search, she couldn't believe her eyes.

She screamed and threw her phone in rage after seeing who the two superheroes were. She especially turned red with anger when she had read about their new relationship. She slammed her head onto her pillow and stared at the ceiling.

"Whoever showed that television show is going to rue the day," Lila decided.

She looked over at her phone on the floor across the room. She got up and picked up her phone. She then searched something else.

"There you are, Hawkmoth." On the screen was an article about how Gabriel Agreste, or otherwise Hawkmoth, was being held in custody at the police department being questioned. "Don't worry. We'll both get what we want. I just need to get someone first."

Lila took off her sheets and blankets to her bed and tied them together to make a homemade rope ladder. She threw one end out the window and tied the other end to a leg on her bed. The bedsheet and blanket ladder was barely long enough to reach the bottom of the building. Lila had to jump off the end of the rope ladder in order to reach the concrete sidewalk.

She looked around and started walking off like nothing happened. She pulled out her phone and looked for the address of the police station. She had a plan.