The next few days after going to the hospital with Zac went by in a blur for me. I mainly slept and cried. Justin tried to get in to see me but my parents had stopped him. I had convinced my parents not to press charges against him. I just wanted Justin out of my life.
"Jess, you awake?" I heard Grace's soft voice ask me. I opened my eyes and shook my head. Her, Zac, Taylor, Isaac, and Agneline were all standing around my bed. My parents were home, getting me some things I needed as I would be in the hospital for another few days. I shook my head and smiled at my friends.
"Yes Grace, I'm awake." I said. Grace smiled and stepped closer to my bed. I reached out for her and hugged her. "What are you guy's all doing here? Angie, Grace... shouldn't you guy's be in school?" I asked.
"We took the day off" Angeline said, shrugging her shoulders. I smiled.
"What about you guys? Shouldn't you be getting ready to go back on tour?" I asked Isaac, Taylor and Zac.
"So we took a couple of hours off to spend time with you... no big deal" Isaac said, grinning at me. I smiled back at him. It was great to see my friends. I watched as Taylor put his arms around Angeline in a hug and felt a sudden loss. I had really loved Justin and felt very betrayed by what he had done. Allthough, I had Zac. I now knew how he felt about me, thanks to Grace. Suddenly Zac cleared his throat.
"Uh guys.... now that Jesi is fully awake, can I just have a few minutes alone with her please?" He asked.
"Why?" Taylor asked.
"Because I need to talk to her about something and I don't need you guy's listening in" Zac said, sounding irritated. Taylor was about to say something else but Angeline pulled on his arm.
"Come on... you can buy me something to eat" She said, smiling.
"Hey, that sounds good.... Ike?"
"Ok Gracie.... what do you want?" I heard Isaac say as the four of them walked out of my room (I had a private room) and down the hall. I looked at Zac. I smiled at me and then pulled a chair over to my bed.
"So, how you been feeling?" He asked me as his eyes scanned over the bruises on my face.
"As good I can after I've been beaten up by my boyfriend" I replied.
"Ex- boyfriend" Zac corrected me. I nodded.
"Yep... ex"
"Jesi, you know I've always loved you right?" Zac asked, taking my hand in his. I nodded silently. "Well... I'm actually in love with you. Ever since the day I saw you with Justin that first time, I knew that I loved you... Grace even picked up on it" He said, smiling a little. My heart was pounding. I was finally hearing this from him.
"Zac I-"
"Excuse us but may we come in?". A voice interuppted me. Zac turned around and I looked past him, we both stared at the two adults standing in my door way.
"Um, sure" I said.
"Thankyou" The woman replied. She held up a badge. "I'm officer Jacobs and this is officer Martin... we're looking for Zac Hanson"
"That's me" Zac said, standing up.
"Zac? What's going on?" I asked, looking from Zac to the two police officers. Officer Martin spoke.
"Zac. we need to ask you a few questions about Justin Haywood"
"Justin? what's all this got to do with Justin?" I asked.
"We really need to talk to Zac Miss, if you wouldn't mind" Officer Jacobs said to me. I decided to keep quiet.
"Justin Haywood is charging you with his assult last night" Officer Martin went on.
"What?"
"He claims that you assulted him when he was leaving from his work place late last night"
"That's crazy! I don't even know where Justin works"
"So you know Justin?"
"Well, yeah... he's the one who did this to Jesika" Zac said, pointing at me.
"Zac!" I cried, knowing that the police officers would want to take it further. They did. They asked me endless questions about what happened to me and then asked Zac endless questions about him and Justin. FInally they left, leaving me and Zac alone. I was furious. We sat in silence, Zac looking down at the floor while I glared at the wall across from my bed. I couldn't even look at him.
"Jesi I can explain"
"Get out Zac. I don't want to hear it." I said.
"Jesi, I want to explain to you what happened-"
"I know what damn well happened! You beat up Justin because he beat me" I yelled.
"So what if I did? Look at what he did to you Jesika! Do you expect me to just let him do that to you and get away with it?"
"You've just gotten yourself into trouble now! Justin wont leave this alone! He'll get every cent he can out of your family and he'll make a huge deal out of it because your're famous. And guess who's gonna get dragged into the middle of it all!? Me!"
"He deserved everything he got" Zac said
"You promised me that you wouldn't do anything Zac... I remember telling you to leave Justin alone and then you turn around and do this... you broke your promise to me..." I said, looking at him for the first time with tears welling up in my eyes.
"Jesi, don't cry-"
"Get out Zac..."
"What?"
"I said get out.... I can't stand having you here right now...."
"Jesi, I'm sorry-"
"I SAID GET OUT!" I yelled. Reaching over, I shoved Zac's arm for him to get off of the chair. Zac didn't say a word, he got up and walked out of my room. I promptly burst into tears.
Chapter Thirteen
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