Chapter 13
Phoebe's POV
(I have slightly redone chapter 12, the only difference is at the end)
I decide to get up when light starts flooding into my room. I wince as I swing my legs off the bed, I ache so much.
I find a towel and get into the shower. The hot water on my muscles makes them feel slightly better.
I dress in a pair of jeans and strappy top that Aunt Mia bought me with a jacket over it.
I guess its time for breakfast. I think about waking Tasha up but figure she'll get up when she's ready and go to breakfast without her.
We have a choice of having something that slightly resembles porridge, toast, tea, fruit or cereal. I choose cereal thinking
that can't be too bad.
Less people seem to be staring at me today but the ones that are don't even try to hide the fact. I know that I'm Phoebe Grey, the daughter of The Christian Grey of Grey Enterprising but seriously, don't they have manners?
I eat my breakfast as quickly as I can and then get out of there.
"Hey, why didn't you wake me?". Tasha is coming down the stairs as I am coming out of the dining room.
"Sorry, I figured I should let you sleep".
"I didn't get much sleep anyway, did you?".
"Not even a little bit. I feel so rough".
"Me too. I'm going to get breakfast, you coming?".
"I've already had breakfast but sure, got nothing else to do".
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The morning goes pretty quickly. Me and Tasha spend it in the living room and are left alone, much to the both of our appreciation.
Even at school neither me or Tasha spoke to many people outside our little circle of friends and it wasn't going to be any different here.
Just after lunch Angela called Tasha into her office but Tasha insisted that she didn't want to talk about it but I could tell whatever it was wasn't good because Tasha was snappy for the rest of the night.
The evening dragged on, I started feeling more and more ill. My stomach began feeling like a washing machine and it felt
like a elephant was trampling on my back.
I decided to head to bed at 8pm and hoped I could get more sleep than last night. I tossed and turned for a few hours before eventually falling asleep.
I woke up a few short hours later and it was pitch black. My whole body was soaked with my sweat and my throat felt like
it was going to combust.
As I got out of bed to get myself a glass of water and clean pyjamas my whole body protested at the movement and made
me feel like my limbs were being torn from my body.
I made my way slowly to the bathroom, I was so dizzy. I filled up a cup with water and tried to get back to bed but my legs had different ideas and collapsed beneath me as I left my bathroom, spilling the water all down me. The cold water was nice though.
I dragged myself back to my bed by grabbing onto things as I went and fell onto the bed no longer caring about the state of my pyjamas. My chest felt like it was going to explode.
I didn't get anymore sleep that night and was left laying there with my own thoughts.
I'm going to fast forward a few days to when Phoebe and Tasha have to start adhering to their schedules. Both girls spent a few more days feeling ill but as the time came for them to start schedules they were both feeling better, not quite right, still achy but a bit better.
Phoebe's POV (still)
I woke to my alarm going off. I had been given a white, plastic alarm clock because I had overslept the past couple of days.I still wasn't sleeping much but way more than I had been, I had gotten about 4 hours the last couple of nights.
I got out of bed and got dressed in a pair of shorts, halter neck top and a pair of flip flops. I hadn't wanted to look too dressy before but I had learnt over the past week that the girls here treated the place as a constant fashion show.
I met Tasha in the hallway and we went to breakfast together.
I was really nervous about starting this schedule I had been given, I have never been one for doing as I'm told but I really want to try here.
"I forgot my watch. I'll see you at breakfast k" I said to Tasha.
I ran back to my bedroom and put my watch on and then made my way to the dining room.
Tasha was sitting down with her breakfast already so I grabbed mine and sat with her. By the time I got there Katelynn was sitting there harassing Tasha.
I sit down and glare at her and she soon goes away.
"I hope that other people aren't going to be as friendly as her".
I laugh and agree.
I just want to get this month over and done with and leave. I've been here a week and its already tedious.
We chat as we finish our breakfast.
"I have refurbishing class now, what do you have?" I ask Tasha while look at my schedule.
"Same".
"Cool, shall we go?".
"Sure".
We eventually find the room that Refurbishing Class is in as the teacher is beginning the class.
"Phoebe and Natasha?" asks the teacher.
She has long, red hair and looks pretty young. She's wearing a pair of paint splattered trousers and a white top but is quite pretty anyway.
"That's us".
"I'm Sandy, which one of you is Phoebe and which is Natasha?".
"I'm Phoebe".
"Well nice to meet you. This is Deanna, Megan and Kiara. Girls please say hello to Phoebe and Natasha".
All three girls said hi and went back to what they were doing.
Refurbishing class sucks, me and Tasha have to paint the backs of as many chairs as we can and then the other girls put mew cushions on them. It is the most mind numbing thing ever.
I am so glad when Sandy says that we can clear up and go but then I remember I have counselling in half an hour
"What do you have now Tash?".
"Free time until 10.15 then counselling, you?".
"Same but I have counselling at 10".
"Fun stuff eh, what do you want to do till then?".
"Hide, run away, emigrate".
"Funny, lets go sit for a bit".
We head back to the living room and take a seat as far from the other girls as we can get.
"Phoebe, you should go, its like two minutes to ten".
"See you later I guess".
I head out and towards the counselling room, I am really not looking forward to this. At the boarding school everyone had to see the counsellor a couple of times a year and when anything big happened in people's lives and I hated it then and I'm sure hat I'm going to hate it now.
I knock on the door and hear the call to come in. I push the door and see a guy sat there. He looks like he's in his early 20's, with short blonde hair and blue eyes.
"Hello Phoebe, I'm Kaleb. Please take a seat".
I sit on the chair in front of him. I had been expecting a couch or something that I would have to lay on.
Kaleb asked me how I was, if there was anything I wanted to talk about, my parents, my family, my old school, my friends and what seemed like anything that popped into his head.
"Okay Phoebe, that's it for today. I'll see you tomorrow".
I said bye and walked out.
I had a gym session in 10 minutes so I went and got changed into a pair of yoga pants and a vest top, tied my hair back and headed back down to the gym.
"Phoebe, hi" Andy said as I walked in.
"Hey".
I looked around, this was one cool gym. There was every kind of machine you could think of. Treadmills, rowing machine, bikes, weights, various other machines designed to cause you maximum amount of pain by the looks of it.
"Okay, to start with I want you to do 20 sit ups and then 10 push ups".
"Seriously?".
"Yeah, go on. Make sure you use the mat over there though".
I roll my eyes and walk to the mat and make a start on the sit ups. By number 6 though I was struggling.
"You can do better than that surely" Andy said mockingly after I gave up on number 8.
"If its that easy you do it".
"I don't need to, I can do 40 in a row. Now come on, you have another 12 to do" he said kneeling down by her feet and holding her feet down. "Better?".
"Yeah".
I somehow managed to do the next twelve and then collapsed back on the mat convinced that I was dying.
"Oh my god you are a sadist".
"Haha, yeah. Come on, up. You still have to do the ten sit ups".
" ".
He gave a chuckle.
"There's still ten minutes left. How're you finding things here?".
"Its okay. A bit weird really".
"Its bound to be, you've been here a week now right?"
"Yeah".
"Anyway you should probably go and get changed because you kinda stink".
"Thanks for that, see ya".
I left the gym and went back to my room for a shower and a clean pair of clothes.
The rest of the day went pretty quickly after that. After the group session I was out at the stables for horse riding with Andy. I didn't get to rid a horse though, he showed me how to tack a horse up and then got me to brush one of the horses.
No one's POV
Phoebe didn't see Tasha again until dinner time.
"Hey".
"Hi".
The two of them sat in an awkward silence while they ate and then took thier plates back to the hatch.
"You okay? You seem a bit quiet?" Phoebe asked..
"I'm fine. Just hate being here with nosey counsellors".
"Ah, didn't go well then".
Tasha just glared at Phoebe.
"Okay, I'll shut up now. I have to go wash some dishes now anyway".
"Have fun" Tasha said with a snort.
Phoebe rolled her eyes at her friend.
She walked into the kitchen and there was another girl in there.
"Um, hi. I'm meant to be washing the dishes".
"Your late so you can dry. I'm Louise by the way".
"I'm Phoebe" she said grabbing a dish cloth.
"What are you in here for then?".
"Um, what do you mean?".
Louise laughed.
"I mean what were you taking to wind up here".
"Oh, well quite a bit really. Heroin, cocaine, amphet, weed, acid, pretty much anything I could get really but I'm here
because of the heroin".
"Wow, that's quite a few drugs. I'm here for heroin too. How old are you? You look pretty young to have been taking all of those".
"I'm 14, you?".
"17. I'm sure your father loved you taking all of that".
"Excuse me?"
"Your Dad is Christian Grey right?"
"Yeah, but he didn't know I was taking drugs".
"How could he not know?"
"I was at boarding school".
"Ah, that explains it I guess. How are you doing here? You haven't been here long right?".
"Been here a week today. Its okay, better that my friend Tasha is with me though".
"Was she at boarding school with you?".
"Yeah".
"So I'm guessing she's here for the same reason as you then?".
"Yeah".
"Well that's the washing up done. I'll see you around Phoebe".
"See you Louise".
Sorry for taking so long to post a new you for all of the reviews. Glad to know that you guys like it. I'm not really sure which direction to take the story in now so any ideas will be much appreciated. I'm not going to be writing about every day in full from now on and thinking of jumping ahead to when Phoebe and Tasha goes home and talk about the clinic in flashbacks and conversations between the two girls, what do you think?
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