Why him? - Montgomery De La Cruz

Chapter 52

After walking out of the cafeteria and leaving an extremely confused and upset Montgomery behind, Ella had decided to grab her skateboard out of the back of montys truck and then rode down to the courthouse to hear the rest of Zachs hearing. Ella had wanted to go to it but she knew she shouldnt be missing school and if her father had found out then he would go ballistic, she was hardly ever home, being able to find places to stay all the time but she knew if he found out about everything going on then all hell would break lose for her. But she didn't care at this point anymore, she just wanted to be there for one of her best friends and besides, he was their for her trial.

Ella was now sitting in the back of the courtroom and Zach and her continuously shared eye contact but he had to break it everytime he was asked a question and when he was answering the question, though as soon as he saw her walk through those doors it was like an entire weight had been lifted of his shoulders until he realised that she would be hearing everything that he had done. all the stuff that she didnt know about him and all of the stuff that he didn't want her to know about him. He was dying to know what she would think of him after this, would she hate him? would she ignore him for the rest of their lives?

"Zach isnt it true that hannah also reached out too you to talk about her feelings?" Sonya asks the boy who sat nervoucly up in the stands, his breath was shaky and he wanted to roll up into a ball at all of the attention that had been placed on him, though only one set of eyes really mattered to him

Zach looked at ella and she sent him a reasuring nod and then he continued to answer the question "um, yes"

"and did she write a note to you? A note that was not annonomous?"

"Yes, yes, she wrote me a letter explaining... how sad she felt about everything. How she felt really alone a lot of the time" Zach admits, not going into a lot of detail, though Olivia couldn't help but feel angry at the boy as he sat there, admitting that he knew that hannah had felt alone and upset

"So you told no one at liberty high that hannah wrote you a note telling you how alone she felt" Sonya asks 

Zach looked into the warm blue eyes and expected to see that the girl looked mad or disapointed with him but instead she just sent him a soft smile and mouthed the words 'its okay' which seemed to calm the boy down a great amount

"I didnt know how too" Zach replies

"But isnt it true that you did reach out to her off campus?" Sonya asks

"um..." zach mutterd out

"the summer after sophmore year, the summer after the note. Did you have contact with her?" Sonya ask

"Yes" Zach replies 

"And isnt it true that you saw her more than once that summer" Sonya asks and Zach didnt want anything more than for Ella to get out of the court room because he didnt want her to know about any of the stuff that happend that summer and why he hung out with Hannah.

"Um yeah, last summer was slow and most people were out of town..."