Chapter 28 Good Friend

It was nobody else but her best friend, Zia. Zia was her good friend when she was in high school, and she was also her classmate at university. Zia was good-looking, fair skinned and smart. She began to read the criminal law when she was six years old and enjoyed the fierceness in fierceness on the fiercest fight in the university when she was ten and wanted to be a lawyer at the age of 15. After junior year, she went abroad to study. She just came back from abroad. It was not until then that Ethan lent the lawyer team to her when she remembered Zia. She called her immediately. They made an appointment to meet at the coffee shop the next day. Marilyn had planned to arrive there earlier, but she didn’t expect that Zia was already there waiting for her. "Why are you here so early?" When she saw Zia, she held her arm intimately. "I came early when I asked my client out. I’m used to it. You are here so early, aren’t you?" Zia replied. This was the nature of good friends. Even if they hadn’t seen each other for a period of time, they would not be alienated when they met again. They could still talk a lot as they had just met yesterday. "Let’s sit down and talk. What do you want to drink?" Zia handed the menu to her best friend, Marilyn. Marilyn took the menu and ordered two cups of cappuccino. "How was your life abroad? After you went abroad, we haven’t seen each other for a long time." "Maybe I’m tired. I always read books and prepared for the exam every day. After I pass the exam, I’m ready for the next one." Zia replied. "You must be happy to do what you like." Marilyn comforted. While they were talking, Zia suddenly looked in the direction of the door of the coffee shop. Following Zia’s eyesight, Marilyn saw Vivian coming in from the door. "Wow! What a coincidence, Vivian!" Zia greeted Vivian first. Seeing that Zia and Marilyn sat together, Vivian smiled awkwardly. Then she sat beside them. "Zia, when did you come back?" Vivian asked Zia, ignoring Marilyn. "I just came back. You don’t care much about me. Marilyn especially asked me out when she knew that I was back." "But it’s also fate. How about we have dinner together later? It will be a reception for me." With years of observation, Zia found that there was something wrong between Marilyn and Vivian, so she tried to ease the tension. Vivian knew that the reason why Marilyn asked Zia out. She felt restless. If Zia helped to get a divorce with Leon, she was worried that Leon might not be able to get the family property of Marilyn through Zia’s tactics. She hooked up with Leon only for money. If in the end, Leon couldn’t get anything, what should she do. But in front of Zia, she didn’t show her true feelings. She was still happy to talk about the old days with her. The three girls had been good friends since they were still in college. Although Zia had gone abroad when she was in her third year in college, the three girls had always played together when they were in junior year. The day before Zia went abroad, they went to see the stars. It was a middle summer night. The stars were shining in the sky, and the wind in the night was not as hot as that in the daytime. When the wind blew on people, they felt comfortable for a while. Under the stars, they lay on the lawn and saw different stars as soon as they looked up. At that time, they were still young. They didn’t know about the daily supplies and salt, as well as the hardships of life. They seemed to be very happy everyday, as if they had left something every day, or nothing. Time had changed. Zia went abroad and became a lawyer. When Marilyn married Leon, she was intercepted by her bestie, Vivian. They had been good friends for many years, but now, they began to be strangers to each other. Marilyn and Vivian didn’t expect that their relationship with each other would be like this. Vivian also recalled the past and sighed. Things were not the same as that between her and Marilyn. In her nightmares, she was not afraid of lying to anyone; when she saw that Leon was going to hurt her friend, she could not fell guilt. But now, when she thought about the past, she could not help but sigh. Her thoughts were brought back to the present. She saw how Zia cared about Marilyn, and how she asked about her best friend. From the moment she knew Marilyn, Marilyn had been the apple of her eye. Everyone loved her, doted on her and took good care of her. She stood beside her bestie, like an ugly duckling, reminding herself that she was blessed with good family background and excellent academic performance, while she had to take great efforts to be on par with her. But it was easy for her to get what she dreamed of. Gradually, Vivian began to understand that there was a great gap between her and Marilyn when they were born. She was not convinced, so she dug a corner in Marilyn’s wall to seduce Leon. Vivian felt that she did nothing wrong. She just wanted to prove herself. Zia left her seat to washroom. On the table, Marilyn and Vivian looked at each other once again. The latter couldn’t sit still anymore and got up to leave. The moment she stepped the washroom, she saw Zia was washing her hands. She handed her a tissue and smiled at her politely. Zia took the tissue from Vivian, but didn’t say anything. "After you went abroad, you should keep in touch with Marilyn, shouldn’t you?" "Not bad. At the beginning, we often contacted each other, and then we have our own businesses. We are not so close to each other before." Zia threw the tissue the trash can and asked, "how about you?" "You have been in the same city with her, so it’s convenient for you to contact her." "As you know, I’m good friends with her. But there are many things we can’t talk about," she continued with a wry smile. "What do you want to say?" "In fact, Marilyn didn’t tell me about it herself, but I know that she doesn’t like me from the bottom of her heart." "At that time, she said that she bought me lipsticks, in fact, just because she gave me charity, which made her look decent and care about me as a friend." she seemed to be very sentimental. "Actually, I don’t want to tell you this. I feel like eating in and out, but I am angry about it." Vivian said to Zia. "Zia, you just asked me if I had any contact with my girlfriend these years. To be honest, Marilyn didn’t contact me at all. She even turned a cold shoulder to me. As I just said, I shouldn’t have said anything like that since I had her by my side. But there are some things that I don’t want to reveal to you only because I meet you." "Marilyn is not a patch on me. As the eldest daughter of the family, she can have whatever she wants and do whatever she wants. I’m just playing a joke. How could she be my best friend? I was so stupid to be fooled by her and make a fool of myself. She just wants me to took her as my savior." "Why do you think she doesn’t treat you as her friend?" "Zia." Tears welled up in her eyes as she spoke. "You don’t know." "Marilyn, she robbed my boyfriend," Vivian began to accuse the Marilyn first as she confounded right and wrong. "Believe it or not. To tell you the truth, I still can’t believe it myself till now." Said Vivian. "When you left that year, I got to know a boy. His name is Leon. although we are not passionate, our relationship has always been stable, and the relationship between us is also very good. I wanted to bring my boyfriend to my best friend, so I made the biggest mistake in my life." "I want to introduce Leon to my best friend, Marilyn. Do you know what kind of thing she did to make Vivian marry her?" As she spoke, her tears fell naturally. "When I heard it, I was shocked. Leon is my boyfriend, right? Why would he marry my good friend? Later I learned that Marilyn used her family power to force the Lin family to marry her. "I’m the one he really loves," she said in a choked voice, tears streaming down his cheeks "I don’t know what else I can do. I was born like this, how can I fight with her in her?" Vivian cried and said, "Zia, you know what? I’m so sad. I have nightmares every night and I dreamed to have an umbrella in my hand. There’s only one umbrella left in the heavy rain. But Marilyn suddenly got out of the nanny’s car and tried to grab my umbrella." "No matter how I begged her, she didn’t listen to me. I said it was the only thing. I could get wet without an umbrella. But my friend didn’t listen to me. She burst laughter, saying that she knew that I only have this umbrella so she wanted to grab the umbrella from me. People like me deserved the rain. She took my umbrella and I could only cry in the rain, helpless and sad. " She told Zia about her nightmare in a sad voice. "Don’t be sad. It’s just a dream." "No, it’s not a dream. I knew it was not a dream since Leon married her. My friend, Marilyn, is going to take away everything from me. The umbrella is just a consolation. In fact, she wants me to die in the rain alone.". "Zia, you can believe that this is my friend. Is she my good friend? " As soon as she finished her words, Vivian couldn’t control herself anymore. She cried hard on Zia’s shoulder, keeping the crocodile tears in her eyes. Zia patted on her back and said, "what happened to her? How did she become like this?" "I don’t know. I don’t know." Vivian still cried. "Don’t worry. I will get even for you." Zia said to her.