She gets to the bathroom, her anxiety attack seems to have returned, she feels like she's in a nightmare, she splashes water on her face to hold back her tears, and tries to breathe calmly, she starts coughing more and more, her stomach churns, she feels like throwing up, but she tries to calm down, she remembers a year ago when she accidentally set fire to the garden of her house, when she was trying to manipulate the fire, in that case it was indeed accidental, but today's episode she is aware of what she was doing, she enters one of the cabins of the bathroom and sits on the toilet, she brings her hands to her head, saying repetitively:
"I'm in the paper, I'm in the paper, I've become a criminal, damn it, what do I do, stay calm Ana, you were defending yourself, but why did you end up in the paper?! Will they find out it was me?"
"And why exactly did I have to see his girlfriend today? Was this punishment for what I did? I used my powers and caused damage, damn it, breathe, breathe, stay calm..."
"Don't cry, this is no time for that, you caused it so just keep it to yourself, it'll pass, and you'll forget about drugs and your Scoot talking about it?
"Damn those idiots, why did I run into them?"
Ana picks up her cell phone and without thinking too much she sends a message to Scoot:
"Scoot, about today please, don't tell anyone, I'll take any kind of deal."
Scoot looks at his cell phone and sees Ana's message, he reads it but he's a bit busy right now, he's gone over to the boys in the gang who work for his family, she's beaten every one of them, to the point where their fists are soaked in blood, he throws his last punch in the face of the boy who supposedly beat up Luke on the day of the fight, he then says:
"I hope it's a lesson, I told you not to mess with that girl, but it seems you didn't listen, you assholes..."
He wipes his hands on one of the boys' shirts, picks up his cell phone and then replies:
"Don't worry darling, it's just between you and me, I already know what I want in return, we'll talk tomorrow, rest well."
Ana reads the message, at first sighing with relief, or not so much relief as she has no idea what he might want in return, something even crosses her mind, because the last two times they saw each other, he even opened his shirt, clearly showing off to Ana, but she tries not to think about it, she needs to get out of the bathroom without looking so messy, she feels a little calmer, her breathing is still a little difficult, but as soon as she leaves the booth she sees the two girls who were with Becker talking, she discreetly closes the door again and tries to hear what they're saying:
"So that's Ana?
"Yes, that's the one, I was told that while she was abroad, she was recruited to the Becker's team, and became very close, especially to Luke, I asked him if they were dating, he said no, that's too bad, that would give me a hard time, since I'm now officially his girlfriend."
They whisper, something she can't hear, then they say:
"Where is she, she said she was going to the bathroom? But I don't see her."
They try to make sure there's no one in the cabins, but they all seem to be occupied. They then leave the bathroom, Ana sighs with relief, she needs to look in the mirror and touch up her makeup at least a little, very natural, just a light foundation, lipstick and blush, to make her look healthy, she calls her mother's cell phone and asks to speak to her friend Davi, she asks him to pick her up from the ice-cream parlor, so that her mother can pay for a cab, she's not doing very well, but she doesn't want to say anything to her mother, and she reminds him to come as her "boyfriend", not as a friend, she goes back to the table, the girls are still there talking, Justin looks at Ana and notices that something is wrong:
"Is everything all right? It took you so long to come back..."
Ana sits down and tries to smile and look like everything is fine, but her voice sounds a little hoarse: "Sorry I took so long, I had to answer my boyfriend's cell phone...cof, cof..."
Ana wipes her nose and coughs some more into her handkerchief, and the handkerchief comes out all black, still with soot that has apparently entered her airways, much more than she felt at the time, she disguises it pretending that everything is fine, but Justin ends up noticing the handkerchief coming out all black, but decides not to ask anything for the moment, Ana now seems much quieter, she was very talkative, but now she is totally silent, Justin gets up from the table and then asks:
"Ana, you don't look well, I'm going to take you home..."
Ana holds his arm and replies, trying to raise her voice:
"I'm fine Justin, thank you, but my boyfriend is coming to pick me up, you're always so kind to me, and you've never been fake."
She left the message for anyone who wants to interpret it, the girls are fake and she overheard their conversation, and now she's even more upset with Luke, but in theory she's not being truthful either, still with the story of having a boyfriend, knowing that this is just to avoid a forced Engagement, as the meeting with the elders approaches, here comes Davi her "boyfriend" he goes up to the terrace and calls for Ana, he's without a cell phone and only has a temporary one since he's just a tourist in the country, he approaches to greet the people at the table, he's very friendly and polite, he looks at Justin and the famous Luke, there's no way he doesn't know who he is, so much so that Ana talks about him, and runs away from a possible forced engagement with him, Justin notices a small detail, but a big one by the way, he asks Davi directly:
"Didn't you wear a piercing? Ana said you had a piercing, like Luke's, or was I wrong?"
Oops... Ana forgot that detail.