Adopted By Zoella

Chapter 13

I felt physically sick. Bella was supposed to be my best friend! How could she do this to me?

I'm stuck in the van for what seems like ages and when I'm finally let out, I find that five hours has passed. Enough time to be so far away from Brighton that no one will ever find me. I think of Zoe sadly, she must be worried sick about me. I then think of how I may never see her again and it becomes unbearable, I put my head in my arms and sob uncontrollably until someone comes into my room.

It's Bella. I can hardly look at her. She puts a bowl of tomato soup and a glass of water on the floor in front of me then starts walking out but I completely lose it.

"How could you?! You were supposed to be my best friend!!" I scream at her whilst pulling her hair.

She yells for help and I hear someone coming up the stairs. I punch her arm then gulp down my cold soup and glass of water as fast as I can before it can get taken away from me. But when I see who comes through the door, it almost makes a reappearance.
My mother.

I scream at her as well, hating her for her neglect, hating her for letting him do that to me. She floors me straight away, kicking me in the stomach until I'm curled up in a ball from the pain. Eventually I pass out, either from pain or from dehydration. I've only had one small glass of water to drink and its evening. When I wake up, it's three o'clock in the morning. I look up at the tiny window in my room and think about climbing out of it. It doesn't open so I'd have to smash the glass but there's nothing in my room to smash it with and I doubt I'm strong enough to smash it with my bare hands. I look around the empty room, trying desperately to come up with some escape plan when I find that they left the bowl from my soup in here. It's worth a shot so I stand on the table, the only piece of furniture in the room, to reach the window and bang against it repeatedly with the bowl. Unfortunately, the bowl breaks first leaving me with several cuts on my hands and still no form of escape. Several minutes later, my mother comes bursting into the room.

"How dare you try and escape!" She drags me off the table by my hair and shoves me against the opposite wall. "Where would you go you stupid girl? We're five hours away from your precious Zoella! I doubt you'd even find your way to the next town!" She comes closer to me and I cower away, expecting her to hurt me. She grabs the broken pieces of the bowl and throws them at my face.

"Why do you need to escape?! I'm your mother! Not her!" She lunges at me, knocking me to the floor again and punches me.

"Maybe you should act like it then!" I manage to shout before she hits me again, knocking me unconscious.

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The day after that is worse, I am constantly abused by my mother often with Bella watching but the real shock is when my father comes into the picture.

"Hello, Daisy. Fancy seeing you here." He says sarcastically with a smirk on his face.

"Stay away from me!" I scream, but of course, no one listens. I am put through what I was forced to go through at home all over again, but ten times worse. The room is awful, I am not allowed to use the toilet or the shower meaning that I stink, my hair is greasier than KFC chicken, I am starving and completely dehydrated with a sore throat. It will be a miracle if I survive to the end of the week.

But one day, it all changes. My parents leave. Bella leaves. I don't actually hear them go, I just assume they have after them not coming in for three days. But there's no hope for me now. I'm too weak to smash the window or break down the door, I can't even move. I just lie on the floor, giving up, expecting to die but then i get another surprise.

On the seventh day after my parents left me alone and the day when I was nearly dead, someone began to break down the door. I would have sat up to see but I literally didn't have the energy. Eventually the person succeeded and the door was knocked to the floor.

"Oh my God." I hear them say. I still couldn't see who it was as my back was to the door and I didn't recognise the voice.

The person lent in front of my face to see whether I was awake.

"Hello Daisy. I'm Linda and I've come to find you. I'm just going to call the ambulance for you okay?" She says in a kind voice, the same voice you'd use for a five year old. After phoning the ambulance she squats down beside me again. "Zoe and Alfie have been worried sick about you. They're going to be ecstatic that we've found you although we need to build up your health again first."

Suddenly you can hear the sirens of the ambulance and Linda goes to show them where I am. They're very gentle with me as they lift me onto a stretcher and put me in the back of the ambulance. Linda holds my hand the whole way to the hospital as one of the paramedics checks me over. As soon as we get there, I'm rushed into a separate room where they take off my filthy clothes and put me in a hospital gown just before I pass out again.