Jonny, Scott and I walk out of 'Hall of Justice' and into the car.
"How are you feeling Zoe?" Scott asks me.
"Better, I feel safe now, thank you so much," I say.
"Where are you going to stay?" Scott asks.
"I told her she could stay with us," Jonny exclaims.
"Okay, at least you're somewhere safe."
Once we get home Scott goes into the study and closes the door. Jonny and I walk into the lounge room and he turns on the TV. A show called 'Grimm' is on, Jonny says it's his favourite show and I must admit from what I've seen it's pretty good.
What seems like hours later, Jonny and I have finished watching 5 episodes of Grimm, the show is really good and my favourite character from it would be Hank, because he's just a funny guy.
Jonny switches the TV off and we walk into the kitchen, it is 6:30pm.
"You wanna order some pizza?" he says.
"Is pizza the only thing that runs through your mind?" I ask laughing.
"Maybe," he says and winks at me. He opens a draw and takes out a little notebook. "This is all the names of really good places to order from," he explains. Jonny dials a number into the phone and calls. I walk down the hallway and into the study, to see Scott working on something.
"Did you ever go to school?" he asks me.
"No, I home schooled myself, since I couldn't really afford school," I explain.
"What do you like? I could try get you into a good school to help you focus on that one topic, along with English and maths of course," he says.
"Well, ever since I was young, I've loved clothes. I love designing them as well,"
"So fashion?"
"Yeah, I guess,"
"There is a school not far from here, it's a design school, they focus on fashion, furniture and a lot of other stuff too," he explains.
"What's it called?" I ask curious.
"Dan's Design School and they have a competition for each category. The winners get to go to France to promote their item,"
"Sounds good, when their term starts?"
"In 3 weeks, but I could get you in if you like,"
"You wouldn't mind?" I ask.
"Not at all, besides you deserve this," he says. "Their information night has already passed, but I can print out the forms, you can fill them out and tomorrow we can go down there if you like,"
"Sweet,"
"There's only one thing," he says.
"What's that?" I ask worried.
"It's an on campus school only, so to go there you basically have to live there," he says.
"I don't mind," I say. "It has good security though yeah?"
"Yes, and you will be sharing a room with someone there to, so you won't be alone,"
"Okay, great." I say. Scott writes down something on a piece of paper and prints out the forms.
"These are the forms, you just have to fill them out and then some of them I will fill out to," he says passing them to me.
"I better get started then," I say looking at how much forms there are. Let's just say, there was probably over 20.
I take the forms with me upstairs and begin to fill them out.
"The pizza's here," Jonny says sticking his head into my room. "If you want I'll bring up some for you so you can keep doing this," he says.
"Yeah that would be great thanks," I say. Jonny walks downstairs and within minutes he is back with slices of pizza.
"Just in case you were really hungry," he says and sets the plate down on my desk.
"Thank you," I say, he walks out and I spend the next hour filling out the forms and munching on the delicious pizza.
*
Once I fill all the forms out I check the time and see that it is 8pm. I take my plate downstairs to wash it. I go back upstairs and into the bathroom take a shower. I grab my phone and put it on my shower playlist, once I strip my clothes off I step into the shower and feel the cool water sprinkle down my body. The first song comes on and it's 'Pompeii by Bastille', one of my all-time favourite songs. The lyrics start and I being to sing to the song;
"Eh-eh-o eh-o
I was left to my own devices
Many days fell away with nothing to show
And the walls kept tumbling down
In the city that we love
Great clouds roll over the hills
Bringing darkness from above
But if you close your eyes,
Does it almost feel like
Nothing changed at all?
And if you close your eyes,
Does it almost feel like
You've been here before?
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
We were caught up and lost in all of our vices
In your pose as the dust settled around us
And the walls kept tumbling down
In the city that we love
Great clouds roll over the hills
Bringing darkness from above
But if you close your eyes,
Does it almost feel like
Nothing changed at all?
And if you close your eyes,
Does it almost feel like
You've been here before?
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
Eh-eh-o eh-o
Oh where do we begin?
The rubble or our sins?
Oh oh where do we begin?
The rubble or our sins?
And the walls kept tumbling down (oh where do we begin?)
In the city that we love (the rubble or our sins?)
Great clouds roll over the hills (oh where do we begin?)
Bringing darkness from above (the rubble or our sins?)
But if you close your eyes,
Does it almost feel like
Nothing changed at all?
And if you close your eyes,
Does it almost feel like
You've been here before?
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
If you close your eyes, does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?
Eh-eh-o eh-o," I finish my shower just as the song ends.
Once I'm out of the shower I wrap the soft blue towel around me and look at myself in the mirror. I look the cuts on my wrists and a tear rolls down my cheek.
"Stay strong," I whisper to myself. "You're safe now."
I dry myself and then put on some pyjamas, I go downstairs to see Scott and Jonny watching TV.
"I'm gonna go to bed," I tell them.
"Goodnight," they both say at the same time.
"Goodnight," I say and walk up the stairs.
I crawl into bed and roll around until I get comfortable.
Then finally I fall asleep.
*
The next morning I wake up and its 8am, I get changed and go downstairs to see Jonny and Scott having breakfast. I pour myself some cereal and sit at the table with them.
"So today, we are going to hand in your application forms," Scott explains.
"Sweet," I say putting a mouthful of cornflakes in my mouth.
"Is the school going to be on or off campus?" Jonny asks.
"It's on campus," I say taking another mouthful of my cornflakes.
"Oh," Jonny says with a sad look. "When are you leaving?"
"In 3 weeks," I say.
"Oh," is all he says, Scott gives him a firm look but I brush it off thinking it's nothing. Once breakfast is finished we all pack up in silence. I go upstairs to brush my teeth and come back down stairs to see Scott and Jonny ready to go. We make our way to the car in silence.
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A/N: Hope you guys liked this chapter! Spoiler// next chapter is gonna be in Jonny's POV so stay tuned! I will try update as soon as possible!
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