Marinette doesn't seem to like Lila? Oh dear.

"Well, I wanted to see Paris! I've always wanted to live in a big city, and you lot have had a lot of exciting things happening in the news, lately. My parents told me I could study abroad if my grades were good enough and I handled the logistics, so I talked my aunt into letting me stay with her in exchange for some help around the house, and here I am!" She smiles, like this is a perfectly reasonable thing for a fifteen year old to have done.

Wait, children's hospital? !!Healing!! She turns to Marinette suddenly." Oh! I would love to talk to Rose about that!"

Wait, Rose? "Who's Rose?" 

And here is their chemistry teacher!

"Rose is our classmate!" Marinette says, pointing at a couple of girls who are holding hands and whispering. It's unclear if Rose is the tiny blond or the taller goth. "I should get back to my seat, though. I'll try and introduce you to everyone during lunch if you don't live too far away?"

"I have a bit of a commute and was planning on just eating here, but would love to meet people! Talk to you more then!" She turns back towards the front of the class.

Ooooh, chemistry! She likes chemistry. She puts her grammar notes into her color-coded tab for grammar (very dark navy blue) and pulls out a new sheet of paper.

The teacher starts on a chemistry lecture right away! She's moving fast, but she stops every few minutes to answer questions and make sure everyone is following.

And next to Musoka, Lila is crying quietly.

Oh no!!!

Musoka quietly tears off a scrap of paper, scribbles "what's wrong? :c" on it, and passes it to Lila once the teacher's back is turned.

"S-sorry." Lila whispers, "just- that Marinette girl really doesn't like me and I don't understand why! I've only ever tried to be nice to her! She turned the entire class against me and now I don't have any friends! I really hope they're nicer to you than they were to me!"

She did what? UGH. Why can't people just be nice? 

Furious scribbling on another scrap paper. Passed note.

"You don't have to be sorry! I'm sorry she's been being so mean to you, that's really messed up! Do you want to get lunch together? Would you like me to try and figure out what her problem with you is?"

"I don't think it would help anything. I think she's just jealous, which is a shame because if she would just talk to me I'd be happy to introduce her to Prince Ali or whoever it is that she wants to talk to. Anyway, I would love to get lunch together!"

scribblescribble pass. "Alright. Um, will it bother you if I let her introduce me to people before we eat together? I do want to meet everyone in class."

"I shouldn't have said anything! I don't want to bother you on your first day! Of course you should go meet everyone, I'll be fine alone while you do."

scribblescribblescribblescribblescribble pass

"Don't worry, you aren't bothering me. All you've done is answer my questions and be nice to me. I'll see you at lunch, okay?"

There's a very low quality doodle of two girls with their approximate hair types sitting together and smiling.

Lunch arrives eventually and brings with it: a Marinette delivered right to her desk! As well as a few other classmates who introduce themselves unprompted -- the boy sitting right behind her is named Nino and the girl with colorful dreadlocks is Myléne, apparently.

Marinette waves Rose and her seatmate over as they head out of the classroom. "Musoka, this is Rose and this is her girlfriend Juleka." Juleka is the goth one and the Rose is the blonde, "Rose, Musoka wanted to hear more about Prince Ali's hospital."

"Oh! I go sing and play with the kids on Saturdays before band practice! Do you want to come see?" Rose says, "Or were you wondering about Ali? He's busy this month, but he said he'll probably have time to visit again next month if you wanted to meet him!"

Musoka waves hi and reintroduces herself to everyone, smiling and waving and shaking hands as appropriate. She compliments people on their outfits or hairstyles, when she can think of something to say. (She loves Myléne's dreadlocks and chats a bit about hair )

"Hmmm, when is band practice on Saturdays? I would love to come along some time when I can, I just have a wonky time off schedule because I really like going to local sporting events." (She sounds mildly embarrassed about this). "Meeting Ali sounds cool too! How'd you get involved with volunteering at the hospital?"

Rose looks at Juleka. "We're practicing at 5 this week?" Juleka nods and Rose repeats the answer more confidently to Musoka.

She looks a little embarrassed. "I actually got akumatized and kidnapped him," Rose admits, "but he was really understanding and told me about it after. I told him I thought it was incredible how kind he was and how I would love to be able to make a difference like that and he asked if I wanted to volunteer!" 

(Musoka shows an obviously increased interest when Rose mentions being akumatized, but manages to avoid asking about it directly within 2 minutes of meeting her. They'll be time for that later!)

"Gosh! That sounds like it must have been a pretty overwhelming experience. I'm glad he was so kind about it! Sounds like things worked out really well overall."

She pulls out her phone and pokes it a bit. "Ah, there's a game I really want to catch this Saturday -- local football, it's supposed to be a close game and people are really excited -- but I tag along next weekend, if that's ok with you?"

"That would be wonderful!" Rose says.

"Oh, Alix and Kim are our two biggest sports fans. I wonder if they're going to the football game too." Marinette says, "Alix! Kim! Are either of you going to the football game this Saturday?"

A tall, muscular boy looks up from where he's arm-wrestling with a short, pink-haired girl. The girl takes the opportunity to pin his arm and cheers, then says, "I didn't know there was a football game this week. I have a race."

"I was gonna go with Ondine. Why?" says the muscular boy. 

"Well, Musoka was planning to go too." Marinette says, "You probably don't want a third wheel on your date, though."

"Nah," Kim says, "We're going with a bunch of Ondine's friends. It's fine. You wanna come too?"

Oh god they're going to find out she's a fake sports fan that sounds like a problem for future Musoka! Present Musoka is making friends and plans :DDD 

"Oh, that sounds great! I'd love to join you." She calls out her social media contact info to him (with the hopes that other people in earshot will also hear and add her) and tells him to message her plan details.

(She spares a moment to glance at Lila. What's she up to?)

She's talking to Alix about something! She looks annoyed about something, but apparently not annoyed enough to stop having the conversation.

A few people friend Musoka or promise to friend Musoka later. Kim adds her to a group chat with a mix of people from their school and another nearby school that is apparently where most of the football game coordination is happening. Alix is apparently in the chat -- as are their other classmates Nathaniel and Max -- though Kim is the only one who can make it to this game in particular. Kim introduces Musoka and the chat starts pinging insistently as people send hellos.

Musoka friends people happily and messages the group conversation with a "Hey, great to meet you all! :D" shortly followed by "Looking forward to the game Saturday!", then gets distracted by a notification and is dangerously close to getting pulled into giggling at all the memes in the backscroll of her Spanish friends groupchat before Mom 2 reminds her that she's at school, and indeed in the middle of meeting people. She hurriedly puts her phone away and looks back up, smiling at everyone before trying to make eye contact with Lila and give her an inquisitive "you ready to eat?" look.

Lila is now talking with Chloé and doesn't notice Musoka.