CHAPTER 23

"UNTIL YESTERDAY, I HAD EVERYONE IN THE WORLD AGAINST ME. Literally everyone...and now, I just decided to suddenly go on Twitter and boom! The whole world is in love with me again..." I blurted and she looked at me like I was talking gibberish.

"What? Am serious don't give me that look. Everyone wanted me to retire yesterday and today they're all on my side?" I still couldn't believe it.

It was definitely rocket science. Definitely because I couldn't think of a point of where to start from. Adam wasn't even so powerful to the point of changing messages online. Yes he was a renowned and well known remarkable artist but this just wasn't his part. He couldn't even call a meeting with the publications director.

"Did you meet up with Elroi? Maybe him or someone from the company is helping..."

"Do you think am so cheap to meet up with Elroi? No! I didn't....and I don't think Star Records would do this....." I immediately objected.

"Well.....I must say there's someone behind the company that's controlling the trend....obviously there's someone who's attracting the public against you and towards Natalia...." Lauren explained and she seemed excited as though she was teaching a toddler how to hold a spoon.

"What?? What do you mean exactly???" I asked totally confused.

I had a hypothesis at the back of my head but I needed her to confirm it first.

"Watch this...." She said taking the bowl away from me and placing her laptop on my lap.

She clicked on a video and pressed play.

I immediately placed my hands on my mouth. It was a backstage recording of the day after my so called suicide scandal. Natalia was scolding me badly and I remembered just how I wished the ground to swallow me that morning. Then, the next video was of the day Adam made breakfast for me.

It was shot right from the start to the point where my breakfast got ruined. All her words were coming at me like spikes aiming to year me apart.

The third video was of what actually happened at the filming site. I clearly saw it happen too. Natalia literally ran over to me, slapped me and pushed me against the one of the metal bars. All this while I thought it was the force of the slap but she actually pushed me! Why was she like that?

"This is....terrible....." Was all I managed to say after I watched it. I was completely traumatized and I couldn't believe it had actually happened. Now I understood it all clearly.

Natalia was exposed and the entire world was against her after seeing her true colours.

"She's such a bitch and she got busted. That's her nickname now.... busted-bitch....." Lauren laughed and I didn't.

I still didn't know who did this.

"Are you for real?" She leaned back against the couch and looked at me. I shook my head in disbelief. Did I already know who did this for me? Hearing her world's I fell into silence. Who is it that was always by my side helping me the entire time?

Then, like thunder, a thought immediately clapped into my mind and I said it out loud.

"Drake...drake Anderson. It's him right???" I asked and she nodded.

Of all the people I knew, only he was the one I qualified to have the ability to reverse a comment online in a short period of time.

I was a very famous person and a day might not have been enough yet in two days it was all clear.

Drake. He was the only rich person I knew who would afford all this.

I had to talk to him. To thank him?

"That playboy prince is hitting on you hard...." she wore than sly hot-gossip look and I gave her a sharp stare.

"Get talking before I knock one of your lungs loose...." I demanded and she laughed.

"Like you would....anyway....Drake Anderson has a crush on you..... believe it or not.....it's like he's obsessed by you...." she claimed and I buried my face in my hands.

She had completely gone insane.

"Okay...what else did you want to talk about? I need to call Drake and thank him...." I changed the topic and began looking for my phone.

"Eleanor! Trust me.... Why would drake go through so much trouble just for you???" She asked and I don't know why but her question rendered me silent.

I looked at her and I got in what seemed like a hypnotic state for a moment.

I thought about what she just said. Why would he really go through so much trouble just for me??? He beat up Natalia and opened a court case in my name against her. He stopped a movies production for a month and he said he was with me overnight as my guardian at the hospital.

He even went as far as saying his father's company was willing to open an agency special for me. And now, he just switched comments on social media as if it as easy. He made it seem like simply flipping a pancake.

What was going on here??

But Drake knew I was in love with Adam. He knew very well I couldn't imagine anyone else other than Adam.

After what happened at the shoot am sure every guy would doubt the chances of ever making it work with me.

I clearly showed that I was an egg filled with Adam and I'd only bleed him if broken.

"Heey...miss DeLaRue....what are you thinking about?" she asked and I shrugged.

"Does Drake really have feelings for me????" I asked in shock.

This was a huge mess. How was I supposed to act with him knowing he had feelings for me? Worst still, we were cast as husband and wife. This was ridiculous. Very ridiculous. Then...

"Arg! Stop planting these thoughts in my mind. Why would Drake have feelings for me? I feel stupid to even think of that..." I ran my hands in my hair expressing just how disturbed I was.

"You know...I have a history with bad men that's why I suspect any other man so forgive me but seriously....I think he feels it for you...." she concluded and shoved a fork red onion into her mouth.

"Ain't your husband a lucky man...." I commented resting my head on the chair's head.

"He sure is...." she winked at me and I shook my head in amaze. I reached for my bowl so that I could finish my salad and to my surprise, there was none.

I frowned after I realised she had eaten all my salad.

"So... what's the next hot topic you wanna talk about???" she asked quickly changing the subject. I chuckled at her silliness and sat up to talk to her.

"Someone sent me something today....." I said standing up and slipping my hand beneath the cushion, taking out just the tiny card that came earlier with the salad.

"What is it???" she asked receiving the card and reading it.

'I know you're on a diet but you can at least have this. You need energy to smile...'

"Wow...." she gasped turning it over and her confident demeanor disappeared. "A red lotus...."

"Yeah.....he's back....."