I woke up by Matilda lightly shaking my shoulders, her head in the corner of my eyesight as I slowly blink from my sleep.

"I heard yesterday that the headmaster wanted to see you this morning, didn't know if you had set an alarm" she says gritting her teeth in hopes I wasn't mad that she woke up.

"I didn't even think of an alarm, thank you" I say sitting up from my bed, I pull off the covers and stand up,

"Would I be able to borrow some more clothes again?" Now it was me who was gritting my teeth as I wait for a reply, I didn't want to be a hassle.

"Girl my wardrobe is your wardrobe, use it whenever" she spoke waving her hands about as she walked away,

I walk over to her wardrobe, or should I say mine and I pick out a pair of leggings and a long sleeve top, I walk into the bathroom that we all share and lock the door.

I quickly get changed and come back out into the room.

"We have a little bit of time for breakfast and then I'll take you to Mr Whitlock's office and do the tour afterwards, sound good?" She asked,

I nod and we both walk out together with Frankie and Adira following closely behind. The digital clock in the hallway read 7:25am and we head down the spiral stair case and past the quiet room.

I could smell the food cooking already, it smelled delicious. Better then anything I've ever smelt before.

As we walk into the kitchen, I notice Axel and Flynn making the food, it was only us that was up yet, everyone else outside of the group must still be in bed.

Flynn was standing by the stove top, frying up what looked to be eggs and axel was placing cooked bacon on each plates, Frankie came over and looked overly excited about the food. It was cute.

She pulls out some hash browns from the freezer and goes over to the stove top with Flynn.

When I was in the basement, I had this tiny TV I was given when I was thirteen, and when I say tiny, I mean really small, I was chained up most of the time I was in the basement so the only thing I could do was sit there and watch, I mean I had nothing else to do. I couldn't exactly move and try to escape.

My father never gave me the remote so it was stuck on one channel my whole life, no sound but the subtitles on. That's how I know a bit more then I should considering I was never let out of the basement, never cooked my own food, never did anything but just sit there.

It consisted of some cooking shows, hence why I notice a little bit about the food but really not much, it's hard to know what they're doing when you can't hear anything. It also showed some romantic comedy shows but nothing over the top but I knew about sex, but just like food, never tried it. I felt dumb. To put it simply.

About fifteen minutes later, all the food was ready to eat and served on white circular plates, we all take one and sit on one of the big rectangle tables in the living room.

I spot two chairs next to each other were free as everyone else already sat down, so I chose one and sit down with my plate in front of me. I wonder why there was one chair free, but then I notice...

That boy wasn't here, you know the brown eyed ridiculously hot boy.

Shut up Octavia, what are you thinking

But Flynn was there too look at, and I wasn't complaining at all, he was lovely to look at.

Again Octavia, shut up

That was until I saw him walk into the room, swiftly taking a seat in the spare seat next to me with his food. Once he sat down, he looked at me with furrowed eyebrows and a disgusted look on his face.

I simply ignore and look down at my food. So much food on my plate, I've always felt so under nourished but I don't think my body is ready to eat a full meal yet, especially since rationing food while I was in the basement, I never had a full plate given to me.

I take a bite out of the bacon and my mouth waters, delicious.

About fifteen minutes pass and everyone is done with their plates, everyone ate all their food but me. Great.

People start getting up and putting away the dishes in the sink,

"Alright you ready Octavia?" Matilda asks me in the kitchen,

"Yeah, let's go" I say,

"Where are you going?" The brown eyed boy asked Matilda and Matilda only, which I pause at, surprised that he actually speaks, his eyes stayed on Matilda,

She looked a bit taken back by his question but she quickly spoke, "Mr Whitlock wanted to see her and then I'm taking her for a tour of the facilities"

He nodded, picked up his plate, "I'm coming" he says quickly and sorta quietly, he stands up and puts his plate in the sink.

"What?" Both myself and Matilda ask looking at each other,

"It's not like I want to, he wants to see me as well" he spoke harshly, god what's up with this man, did he wake up on the wrong side of the bed or something.

"More the merrier" I say sarcastically, knowing Matilda enjoyed my snarky comment, but he certainly didn't, he paused what he was doing, his face even angrier.

"Oh so she does speak" he says folding his arms and raising his eyebrows slightly,

"Could say the same about you" I reply back quickly, I don't know where this was coming from, it just sort of happened.

Ha, we're leaning how to socialise, how fun?

He just sort of grumbles at my reply "we going or staying here all day?" He says grabbing his stuff he left in the kitchen and starts to head out.

Matilda just looks at me and smiles, and we say goodbye to the group and we both walk out of the common room.

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Authors note:

Deeply apologies cuties for the lack of chapters, had an extremely busy weekend and had no time to write!

Hope you enjoyed this chapter xx

- A