CHAPTER 5 // JONNY

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My Uncle phoned the police and two officers came straight away. We explained the whole story to them and then they went to Zoe to ask her questions.
"How long has this been going on?" one of them asks.
"Ever since my father left, when I was only 5. He couldn't take my mother anymore, she's an abusive alcoholic and he didn't even bother to take me with him," she says. "He just left me to suffer, for 12 years of my life, I was treated like crap. I was hit by my mother and by the men she slept with. They would do whatever she asked." Zoe explains as the officers write down what she's saying. "I even have the bruises to prove it," she says and pulls up the bottom of her shirt, there are bruises all over her lower abdomen. She puts her top down and pulls up the bottom of her pants, there are more bruises. She points under her eye and there's a scar. "This is from when my mum hit me with a beer bottle when I was only 7 years old," she explains.
"Zoe, what we are going to do is place a camera in your this necklace. You will keep this necklace on, the camera will record everything that happens. The doctors say you are able to go home tomorrow,-"
"She can't go back home!" I say. "She's just going to get even more hurt!"
"We need more evidence against her mother. The bruises could be from anything, we need video recordings of it. Your mother won't know.  Once she does hit you, you are to message Jonny, he will come to your house with his Uncle. You are to go out the window and into their car, they will drive you to the police station and we will get the evidence off the necklace. Once the evidence is put onto a USB, pictures of the marks on your body will be taken, these plus the video recording will be used as evidence against your mum, so she is sent to prison, we will use these at the court." He explains.
"I will be your lawyer for the case, the judge will ask you questions, you will have to be as brave as possible," Uncle Scott says.  "Will you be able to do this?"
"Yes," she says. "If it means no more torture for me, then I will do it," she says.
"Here is the necklace," the officer says and passes Zoe a yellow necklace, he presses the button on the back and it goes red. "This means it is on, at the moment it is recording," he explains.
"Jonny, could you put the necklace on me please," she asks. I grab the necklace and carefully clip it around Zoe's neck. "Thank you," she says.  A doctor walks in and faces Zoe.
"If you feel up to it, you can go home tonight, but as soon as anything happens you have to call Jonny okay. Your body can only take so much," he explains.
Zoe gets off the seat and walks towards the door.
"Hopefully this works," she says.
We walk towards the entrance of the hospital. The officers walk towards their car but then turn to face us.
"Good luck Zoe," one of them says.
"Be brave," the other says and they step inside their car. Zoe takes a deep breath as we walk towards the car.
"I'm ready to go home," she says. Once we get inside the car, we drive to her house and park in front of it.
I step out of the car and open the door for Zoe, she steps out and looks at her house then faces towards me. I wrap my arms around her, hugging her.
"Be safe," I say. "I'm only a phone call away,"
"Jonny, you are the most amazing person in my life and I owe you so much," she says.
"You owe me nothing, just stay alive," I say. She leans in and my heart skips a beat. She kisses me cheek and then walks to the side of her house; she climbs up the tree and into her window. I step back into the car and Uncle Scott and I drive off.
"We better not go too far in case something happens," he says.
"Where should we go then?"  I ask.
"Let's just stay at a café nearby or something like that," he says and starts to drive. 
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A/N: Sorry this chapter was really short guys! I'll try make the next one really long!
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