Adopted By Zoella

Chapter 11

I woke up to the sound of my phone ringing loudly on my bedside table. Not bothering to look at the caller ID, I answered straight away thinking it would be Bella.

"Hello?" I answered groggily.

"Daisy, my dear how are you?"

I immediately recognise the voice. "How did you get this number?" I whisper coldly.

"Why? Am I not allowed to have my daughter's number?" She says sweetly.

"I am no longer your daughter and you are not my mother!"

"Well, you see Daisy I would believe that to be untrue. To me, you are not adopted. I did not give my permission for you to be adopted so therefore I don't believe you to be adopted."

"Well I don't think of you as my mum, you never acted like it so fuck off out of my life and don't speak to me ever again."

-

"Who was that you were talking to you on the phone this morning?" Alfie asked me over breakfast this morning.

"Oh just a friend." I say dismissively.

"It didn't sound like a friend." He said, sounding suspicious.

"Yeah, it was." I try and convince him.

"Oh okay then."

"Where's Zoe?" I ask.

"Oh erm, upstairs." He says but it didn't sound like he was telling me the truth.

What was going on between the two of them and why were they hiding it from me?

-

That night, I decided to conduct some research. The first thing I wanted to find out was whether they still slept in the same room or not and it was very easy to find out. I waited up in my room until they started coming up the stairs then looked through the keyhole in my door to see where they went. Zoe went into their normal bedroom whilst Alfie went into the room opposite. Frowning, I began to wonder why they weren't sleeping together anymore.

Perhaps they're splitting up and you'll have to spend weekdays at Zoe's and weekends at Alfie's.

I brushed the thought to one side, it was too painful to think about.

I didn't sleep well that night, something which was clearly obvious in the morning.

"Are you okay, Daisy? You don't look very well." Zoe asked me.

"Yeah I'm fine, just a bit tired."

"Are you sleeping okay?" Alfie asked me. It was the first time the three of us had been altogether in weeks.

"Yeah it was just one rough night that's all."

"Are you sure?" Alfie continued.

"If I don't sleep well tonight I'll let you know." I said as a compromise for him to leave me alone.

"So, how's school?" Zoe asked me.

"It's stressful catching up." I admitted. "But it's good, I've made quite a few friends."

"That's good, you'll have to bring them round some time so we can meet them." Zoe said.

"Can Bella come round today?" I asked hopefully.

"Of course, if that's fine with her mum."

"I'll go and ask her."

I ran to my room and called Bella straight away. She picked up on the third ring and I asked her straight away.

"Do you want to come round?"

"What, now?"

"Yeah."

"Okay, text me your address and I'll be there asap."

"Will do."

I immediately texted her my address once we had hung up.

I ran down the stairs and found Zoe baking cakes in the kitchen.

"She's allowed, Zo!" I said happily.

"I'm baking cakes to go with the tea."

"Can I help?"

"Sure."

Bella arrived twenty minutes later.

"I hope you're okay with dogs."

She was looking into my house slightly confused.

"What's up?" I asked her.

"I just thought... it's nothing don't worry."

I lead her through to the kitchen where Zoe was getting some tea ready.

"Bella, this is my mum Zoe."

"Hi Bella." Zoe said whilst turning round and dusting off her hands.

"Oh my God! No way!"

"What?"

"Your mum is Zoella?!"

Well, crap.

[an: sorry for keeping you waiting, I lost my phone!

anyway, results day was today. If you went to pick up results, comment what you got! I got five As, four Bs, two Cs and an E lol ]