Turn Around - An Adopted By O2L Story

Chapter 36

Zoe Franta

"Zoe, get down here right now!" I heard Connor's voice yell. 

"One sec!" I called back, putting my laptop onto my bed and running downstairs. 

Once I got there, I saw Connor, Ricky, Kian, Jc, Trevor, Sam, Eva, and Hayes, all looking at me with eyes filled with hatred. I was a little nervous now. Did I do something wrong? Connor moved closer to me, and then all of a sudden slapped me right across my right cheek. I stumbled back and looked at him shocked. 

"Why did you do that?" I asked him. 

"Because you are a disgrace to me. Go die." He spat at me, kicking me. 

"I was just pretending to be your best friend, who could be friends with someone as worthless as you?" Eva then spoke, pushing me. 

"Did you really think we would love you?" Ricky asked. 

I said nothing, watching as everybody came closer to me. This couldn't be happening. Hayes walked up to me and slapped me hard, shoving me down to the ground. Everybody then started beating me. I started choking on my tears as I tried to tell them to stop. 

"Stop!" I cried out finally. 

They said nothing, just kept on hurting me. I knew this was probably going to be the end. I looked at my badly bruised and bloody body as I started going in and out of consciousness. I then finally blacked out as I felt something sharp dig into my stomach. 

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I jolted up in my bed, screaming and crying. Connor was next to me, trying to calm me down. I jumped up and tried to get away from him. I was scared to be near anyone right now. Eva, now up, also tried to calm me down, but I just moved over to the corner of the room and got into a small ball. 

"Get away from me!" I screamed to them. 

Connor looked hurt, along with Eva, but Eva grabbed my wrists and looked me in the eye, saying,"What is wrong? I'm not going to hurt you."

"You did!" I screamed back at her. 

Eva let go of my wrists, turning the light fully on. She rubbed her temples, before looking at Connor and telling him something incoherent. I was still sobbing into my knees as Eva went to lay back down on her bed. Connor came up to me and sat down next to me. 

"You don't have to tell me what's wrong, but remember I will always care about you." Connor said. 

"Then why would you hurt me and tell me to die?" I asked. 

Connor looked confused at first, until he looked at me with sad eyes, saying,"You dreamed that?"

"Yeah. And everyone was there, and I died." I said, crying harder. 

Connor didn't say anything, just pulled me closer to him. I cried into his shoulder, still shaking a little bit with fear. There was no way I was going to be able to go back to sleep after that, and I wasn't going to keep Eva up. 

"I c-can't g-go back t-to sleep." I stuttered, trying to calm down.

"Come with me." Connor said, standing up. 

I did what he said and followed him. He turned off the light for Eva and closed the door, opening his door, and turning the light on. I went over to his bed and sat down on one side, pulling out my phone and unlocking it. 

"I'm sorry for waking you up." I said, upset now. 

"It's fine." Connor answered, pulling out his phone and laying down on the other side of the bed.