Miraculously Reincarnated

Lie-la The Fox

"Okay, today's the day, only have one chance to get this right," I mutter to myself while taking in the school in front of me. I come here every weekday, why does it suddenly look so intimidating now?

This isn't a special day, there isn't a celebration or festival going on, but it is important. My legs felt like jelly as I walked up the front stairs. Why was I so nervous? Oh yeah, because Lila's first appearance is today. Better known as Lie-la thanks to the Miraculous Ladybug fandom. And how I convince Marinette to deal with Lie-la, also has a major impact on the future of my life. Like, having Lie-la join Hawkmoth and needing to be aware of the secret spy in my mist.

As I walked up the stairs, I hear story after story about Lie-la. Like how she has a bunch of connections in Hollywood, or how famous singers have written songs for her. Or how she is friends with royalty and other bull.

My nervousness slowly fades as I roll my eyes at every single piece of news I hear while walking up the stairs. By the time I passed the doors, I was more annoyed and in disbelief than nervous.

I walk up to Alya and great her with a dead-pan face. "Morning."

"Hey, girl-! Why so gloomy today?" Asked Alya.

"Oh you know, had to stay up last night to finish the homework Miss Mendeleiev gave. What about you? Why so pumped up today?" Not like I already know everything.

"Okay, you're not going to believe this but, wait for it..." She quickly tapped her phone a few times before shoving it into my face. And I thought we were already over that. "Look! I got an exclusive interview for the Miraculous Blog with Lila this morning cause Paris' superheroes saved saved her life once! Watch!"

Laughter plays from the video.

"Uh, she's just laughing. Are you sure you got an interview, and not a demonstration on how to laugh 101 from Lila?" I am genuinely confused here.

"Lila?" Asked Marinette, hurrying over to us.

"Yeah," answered Alya. "She just started at our school! She even gave me an exclusive interview for my blog. Ladybug, Chat Noir and Silver Moonrise saved her life before, how cool is that? You came right on time, I was just showing Yin the video!"

Alya re-played the video and showed it to Marinette.

"Who is this girl, and what kind of hypnotizing power does she have?" Exclaimed Marinette.

She then saw Lie-la dragging Adrien into the library and turned to me. "Look, she's trying to steal Adrien away from Yin! Yin, we have to go stop them!"

I will have to admit, seeing Adrien and Lie-la together, gave me this...weird feeling in my chest. I don't know what it is, but I don't like it. I don't like how there's a little voice in the back of my head telling that it's jealousy that I'm feeling either.

"Marinette, you're over reacting! Lila isn't 'stealing' Adrien away from me, he's not even mine. I don't have control over who Adrien falls in love with. If he likes Lila, then he likes Lila, it's his feelings," I said, shaking my head at Marinette and ignoring the little jab of pain I felt in my chest as I said so.

"Yeah, Marinette," agreed Alya. "You need to chill out. Yin's not even mad, why are you so worked up? My Miraculous Blog has the highest number of hits after that Lila interview!" Alya walked off and headed to class.

"Wait, what interview?" Marinette asked, turning to me. Guess she didn't hear all of Alya's jabbering. Lucky. 

I looked at Marinette's confused face and sighed. "Don't get mad, but it's about how Ladybug saved her life."