Drugs&Money

12-forced

Isabelle's POV!!

When Zoe walked in, my hand was still buried in Christians and although we moved apart, I still felt closer to him than I ever had before.

"Okay. now!" Zoe said, holding open the door as everyone rushed in.

"Clear?" Jordan asked laughing a little. Zoe nodded and then everybody turned to face me.

"If I'd have known it was a gathering I would've gotten a little more dolled up." I joked and everybody chuckled.

"The doctors were saying we couldn't all join you so we said fuck em" Jesse played which made me laugh.

Yes, I was smiling. But Nora was still in a hospital bed right now. Alone.

"Is she okay?" I blurted out, cutting off mitchel as he spoke about...whatever mitchel speaks about.

Everybody's smiles had now dropped and my tears almost started again. It didn't look good. It looked bad.

"Is Nora okay or not?" I repeated. I didn't intend of being rude to them but the way i felt right now was killing me.

Zoe Let out a sigh. A huge ass sigh.

"Doctors say she either took a load of pills or somebody gave them to her and forced them into her mouth." Zoe elaborated.

Forced?

Pills?

"Hold up, forced?!" Christian said as he rubbed his face trying to comprehend it.

"yeah, they came back to us whilst you were in here." Clinton said.

"Fucking hell man." He said. He was now pacing around the room and I just laid there. Silent again.

Why would somebody force her to take pills? Nora doesn't hang-

The realisation i just had made me sick to my stomach.

"Behind the beachbar strip club." Was all that came out of my mouth but nobody had a clue what I was talking about.

"Isabelle?" Zoe spoke knowingly.

"Nora. She used to..."

Christian was now beside me again holding my hand just as tight as before.

"She used to go all the time and there would be a bunch of people pretending to be her friend when really all they'd do is pay her to taking drugs so that they could... take advantage. She was about 17 at the time." I explained but I couldn't say anything else so I looked over to Zoe for help.

"One time, she refused to take the drugs but they had already given her the money for it so she ran. She ran as fast and as far away from them as she could." Zoe continued for me.

"She was young. She didn't know what she was doing. Since then, they never found her again. They moved locations a while ago but there's a possibility that they could be back."

It was true. Me and Zoe still lived in London at the time and didn't know Nora at all. She had told us this story a bit after we first met her.

It was the only encounter she ever had with drugs. They would have her take every drug in the book of goddamn drugs for money.

"So you think they could be back?" Clinton questioned. He was angry. We all were. If it was them who had done this to her, Id kill them myself.

I nodded but everybody went silent as a doctor walked in and stared at us all.

He just shook his head. "Nora is awake."

~

Me and Zoe were now sat in Nora's room. The doctors had let me get out of bed since I was fine now. She was laying in the bed silent although her eyes switched between us both.

"Nora you've got to tell us what happened." I gently rubbed her arm to comfort her a little. I didn't particularly want to force it out of her but we needed to know.

"I swear I didn't mean to do it Izzy." She whispered. My heart sank for her. The first thing she had decided to do was tell me she didn't mean it.

"Didn't mean what, love?" I questioned, whispering too. I didn't want to interrogate her but I had no other way of finding out.

"I went back." She breathed and I instantly knew I was right. I knew it was them.

"But Nora-" Zoe started but I cut her off.

"Don't Zoe. Nora take your time." I said as continued to rub her arm.

She let out a deep breath and decided to continue. "I was getting paid enough at work to give back their money. They never contacted me but I was anxious about everything I did that I just needed to feel better and pay them back. So I did. But when I got there, they didn't want my money. They fooled me into thinking they were not the people from before and then they force-"

And then she stopped. She didn't want to push herself. She didn't want to continue. She must have already relived the moment In her head a million times and I one hundred percent understand why she stopped.

For the rest of the night, I sat in the chair talking to her about whatever I could think of to take her mind off everything else.

Everybody had gone home except me and Zoe but I promised I'd call them all if anything happened.

I know for a fact that Nora would've wanted me to keep my anger bottled up and leave it all alone unless something happened again.

But I didn't know if I could.

It had only been a few hours since she told me and I was already ready to kick down their doors, smash every window in their houses, Break their necks, and murder their families.

a little psycho but they deserved it.

However, I promised her I'd keep calm and so did the others so I guess I wouldn't be doing any murdering anytime soon.