#Chapter8

Zach didn't contact me since then and that was more than 4 days ago. Can't deny it but I hated that he hadn't spoken to me again. Rumours were out that Zach and Dani broke up but they're rumours you never know what the actual truth is do you.

My head wasn't hurting anymore all I had was a faint bruise on my head that I managed to cover up with foundation and concealer. Praise the lord for makeup.

I made myself busy and went the gym a lot, my dad's gym to be exact. Luckily Zach was nowhere to be found but in reality, I did want to see him but I feel as though he's probably busy with other things.

I had work tonight and it would be my first shift since the incident but I promised Beth, my boss that I will be fine. Regarding my attacker, he was arrested and questioned. Shockingly he admitted to committing the crime and agreed to pay for the damage to my car.

I was never planning on paying for myself.

He's going to be in jail for a few months since I wasn't adamant on making him suffer, he's not a bad guy he just wanted the extra money.

I made my way into the club at 7.45 I had about 15 minutes until my shift started so I grabbed a drink hoping to lighten up my mood since I've been a moody bitch lately.

I barely had time to take a breath before I saw Ade walking up to me. I've never seen him in here so I was shocked, even more that he was walking straight towards me with that beaming smile of his.

"I need a favour," he says as soon as he reaches the bar. Not really what I was expecting but from the look he was giving me now I knew I wasn't going to like it. He set himself up on the stalls.

"no hello?" I say leaning over on the bar. He simply just grinned back at me before placing an envelope on the table. I scanned it with my eyes and noticed the formal writing covering it.

"I need you as a witness for his case and even though Zach would kill me if he knew what I was doing right now" he rubbed his temple, he looked stressed. Being the great bartender, I am I poured him a drink and placed it in front of him.

Slowly I grabbed the envelope and opened it up. There were multiple pictures inside they were dark but I could see the contents.

"he doesn't want you involved but sooner or later the police are going to bring you in for questioning, we need to beat them and bring you as a witness" he explains to me as my eyes scan over the pictures.

There's pictures of me on that night helping Zach out of the building. My face isn't visible but it doesn't take a genius to realise that it is me in those pictures.

"can't they just question me, I can tell them the truth and this way Zach doesn't have to see me," I say annoyed. I can fully understand where Ade is coming from but why doesn't Zach want me to be a witness.

Surely its better than being arrested.

"it's not that he doesn't want to see you Imogen he just doesn't want you involved" isn't that the same thing. I could tell part of me being annoyed was down to him not talking to me since then.

"Fine, when do you need me," I ask him shoving the pictures back into the folder so nobody sees what were looking at. The club was starting to fill up with people setting up for tonight, it's a student night so its going to be busy.

He smiles weakly before mumbling "tomorrow morning" I stare at him, tomorrow! couldn't he have told me sooner that's barely time to mentally prepare.

"Be at the court before 10 Imogen" he says quickly after paying for his drink. I stared at his retreating back as he left the club.

I suddenly felt sick to my stomach I am not ready to do this, I've never been to the court before I swear at times like this I wished I left with my parents to travel the world.

Figuring that work would be able to distract me I started to make drinks for the night. By the time I finished my shift I had a banging headache, the night turned crazy when masses of students came filing in.

£2 entry was honestly the worst news I got all night, the number of drunk teenagers that were here tonight made it hard to even concentrate.

Stumbling my way inside my room I couldn't wait to close my eyes, since it was just turning 4 I would only be getting a few hours of sleep since id have to be up around 8 so I could get ready and arrive at the court at the right time.

Once I removed my makeup and removed my clothes I snuggled into the bedsheets and let sleep take me away from all this drama.

I woke up at 8 just like I planned and quickly rushed into the shower. I already started planning my outfit in my head so when I finished I went straight to my wardrobe.

I don't know what came over me but I knew I had to be confident today. This shit was serious and even though I'm annoyed with Zach at the minute I know that I could really help him with this case.

I debated on wearing converses with my outfit but instead the black heels that I just bought recently popped into my head. I ran downstairs carefully watching the time and opened up the box that the heels were in.

It was worth the money for sure.

I grabbed my car keys and checked myself in the mirror before rushing out to my car. It was 9.20 which gave me about 40 minutes to get a coffee, drive to the court and meet Ade.

Luckily the Starbucks that I went to was pretty much empty which meant that I could quickly head out straight after ordering.

Following the satnav, I finally made it to the court. I nearly died when I saw the amount of people standing outside the court. I dug around the pockets in my car and thankfully I had some sunglasses in there.

Checking the time, I had about 10 minutes left until I had to literally be in the court room. I stepped out the car and braced myself for the unwanted attention I was going to get but surprisingly they didn't notice me.

That's a punch to my ego.