Chapter 86 The girl he likes is Lana

Rachel's POV

I thought sleeping was going to be impossible after everything that happened yesterday, but I fell asleep the moment my back touched the bed.

I guess crying for a long period of time had its benefits, as well as its curses because right now, I am having a migraine headache.

" Argh..." I groaned sitting up on the bed while holding my head which felt like it was pounding.

I knew crying for hours was going to have it's effect, but I didn't think it would be this bad... I could hardly open my eyes because of how much my head hurt.

" Hey, you don't have to get up. Actually you shouldn't get up... You just got out of the hospital and now..." Marina complained coming in was a cup with steam coming out of it.

"Is it tea?" I groaned peeping into the cup.

Marina rolled her eyes setting the cup down on the bedside table. " What else would it be? Do you expect me to bring coffee? " She asked sarcastically and I no pouted.

I was sick, both emotionally and physically but yet she wasn't still going easy on me.

" Drink up. I'll just go get you your food". Marina said handing the cup over to me before walking out of the room and coming back a few minutes later with a tray.

I held the cup in both hands taking a few careful sips from it as Marina placed the tray beside me.

I glanced at the tray before looking back at Marina. " You made this?" I asked gawking at the plate suspiciously.

The Marina I knew had no idea how to cook, but in her defense we were apart for years, she might have changed.

" Did you see anyone else in this house?" She asked back and I shrugged picking the plate up while opening the cover.

" Just asking because since when do you know how to cook?"

Marina was a heiress. Even though she didn't show it that much so was stinking rich, but she left her family's business to pursue her passion which was producing and directing films.

She had never touched a kitchen equipment in her life, at least that was what I thought.

" Since when do you cry over men?" She asked back raising one of her brows at me.

I scoffed remembering David's betrayal. It didn't at all when I remembered seeing David and Lana on the same bed than seeing Ethan drunk with Lana's hands wrapped round him.

" Since I got dumped by my husband because of Lana". I answered opening the plate.

Noddles?

What was I expecting?

" And since I started a career that my parents didn't approve and I began living on my own with no friends at all".

She said it so nonchalantly but I could hear the pain in her voice.

It was my fault, I listened to the wrong people, I followed the wrong crowd.

"Whatever, we both have gotten over it". She said with a shrug.

I nodded, picking up the fork as I dug into the noodles and began eating it.

It actually tasted good, really good.

" So..." She began taking a seat beside me on the bed. " When did all of these start?" She asked.

"All of what? " I asked back with my mouth full.

You never know how hungry you are until you start eating. And right now, I was starving. I didn't have dinner last night because I was waiting for Ethan to come home.

Marina sighed coming closer to me. " Everything, about Ethan and you... " She trailed off wiggling her brows.

I rolled my eyes swallowing the food in my mouth before dropping the fork.

I wonder why she was so excited about this, it's a sob story remember. I wanted to tell her but I just let her be.

" He found me after David dumbed me and I wanted to kill myself, then he brought me to his house..." I began reminiscing everything that had happened since Ethan came back into my life.

"... Then after my mum said that to me, I came up with this plan to make Lana jealous once she sees me and Ethan together and it would make her want to take him from me since that's what she lives for now, taking say everything I hold there. But I didn't believe was that Ethan was going to fall" My voice turned quieter towards the end and I looked down inhaling deeply, and exhaling softly.

" Maybe Ethan didn't fall, maybe he was just still in your act". Marina said after a while and I shook my head.

" The plan was to make Lana jealous and try to take him away from me, but she was meant to fail because he was not going to give two shits about her, not that he would he would go drink with Lana in a bar and get drunk!" I shouted getting even more angrier as I spoke.

" But maybe..."

" You think I didn't think of that? But what was Ethan doing in a bar with Lana if they didn't have something between them". I scoffed blinking back my tears "This is all my fault anyways". I muttered.

" No it's not." Marina comforted giving me a side hug. "It's not your fault Mia". She said and I shook my head.

It was really my fault.

" There was not supposed to be any feelings involved in this, but I went ahead and fell in love with him even when he told me he was in love with someone else". I said more to myself than Marina.

" He told you that? " She asked in surprise and I nodded. " He said he was secretly in love with someone"

" Then why did he go ahead with the plan since he already had a girlfriend? That doesn't make any sense ". Marina said her voice filled with confusion.

I gently pushed her away and coughed to clear my throat. " She's not his girlfriend".

"The girl he likes, she's not his girlfriend. He likes her but she doesn't know it yet and he's yet to tell her". I explained feeling the pang in my heart as a thought came to me.

" What if, just em... What if the girl he likes is Lana?" I asked thinking out loud.

" What?"

"The girl he likes, she's not his girlfriend. He likes her but she doesn't know it yet and he's yet to tell her". I explained feeling the pang in my heart as a thought came to me.

" What if, just em... What if the girl he likes is Lana?" I asked thinking out loud.

Marina shook her head immediately. "No, that's impossible".

But the more I thought about it, the more real it sounded.

" It's not impossible, actually it's very possible... It could be it. "

Marina pinched her nose completely disagreeing with me. " Rachel you can't think of Ethan like that. "

I jerked my head towards her and raised my brows. " How else do you want me to think about it, Ethan didn't give me much options". I shouted in frustration.

It was killing me to think that Ethan and Lana could actually have something together but that was just how it was.

" Ethan just came out all of a sudden and said he wanted to help me, just after Lana practically destroyed my life. He agreed to my plan without any complains, and now that I think of it maybe he only did that to please Lana". I said all at once and suddenly began to hyperventilate.

" Rachel... "Marina panicked slowly patting my back. " Breathe girl, breathe ".

I inhaled sharply before exhaling ever so slowly, after doing the same thing for like five times I began breathing normally, but my heart still hurt.

" Rachel you can't be so sure about this, Ethan might still hate you because everything that happened back in highschool, but Lana was not a saint to him either. "