lila tells the class marinette is bullying her
threatening to turn the class against her, cornering her in the bathroom, basically everything SHES done to marinette
the class doesn’t want to believe marinette would do that, but why would lila lie?
they send alya, nino, and adrien to talk to her about it
they find marinette in the bakery after school and try to gently persuade her to be nicer to lila
marinette seems hesitant but eventually agrees to “give her a chance” (adrien gives her another high road chat under the guise of helping her get snacks)
the three leave thinking that everything will be fine from there
the day after that lila says that marinette attacked her again and has bruises as proof (makeup)
the class is shocked, but they believe her because what kind of person would fake an injury, right?
they decide to confront marinette a bit more aggressively because obviously the nice way didnt work
as they’re planning how to go about it lila subtly brings up the idea of vengeance
an eye for an eye as they say (adrien still hasn’t spoken up in marinettes defense by the way)
it wasnt as subtle as she thought though because now the whole class is looking as her as if shes crazy (“woah thats a bit excessive luv x” type beat)
sweet, generous, kind lila suggesting that they attack marinette?
they cant believe what theyre hearing
lila tries to brush it off but the seeds have been sown
this is really suspicious behavior to them so they start looking into lila. maybe something happened to her? in the process of looking for an explanation they realize the only information about lila online is from the ladyblog
they realize lila is a liar. how could she have done al these amazing things without there being a single trace of it on the internet.
at this point marinette walks in to class
the conversation goes a little like this...
marinette: i’ve been knew
class: *shoked pikachu faces* why didn’t you say anything??
marinette: i tried but alya asked for proof and adrien told me not to keep trying to expose lila.
alya: girl, i am SO sorry! wait.... adrien knew about this?
marinette: yeah, he said i should just take the high road and lila was threatening to turn you all against me if i spoke up so i gave up.
lila: and it was working up until today...
the class realizes that all those tales of bullying were actually what lila was doing to marinette
they profusely apologize to marinette and are pretty upset woth adrien for allowing them to be played like fiddles
marinette forgives them but says it’ll take time for trust to rebuild
mrs.rossi gets called once everyone realizes that if lila wasn’t in achu she was just being truant
that’s all i’ve got guys! it could go multiple ways from here (lila has to retake the grade, moves back to italy, school board comes down on bustier and damocles for not catching it, etc...)