Hungry

Ch.3 Grounded

Early in the morning around six o'clock my mom woke me up abruptly. She looked a lot like my brother with wavy golden hair and blue eyes. Her scrubs were still on. She was a nurse at the local hospital and sadly had to take on the night shifts.

"Phoebe your brother told me about last night are you okay?" She gave me a big hug and squeezed me tightly.

"I'm fine mom."

"You're grounded for a month! No leaving this house unless you're with your brother!"

"Mom! Seriously?"

"I also told your father, so you should be getting a call from him tonight." My dad worked with a record company and traveled a lot looking to make deals with new singers. So basically my brother and I raised our selves with mom always working at night.

"Ugh mom, you had to tell dad."

"Yes, your father should know! He's agreed with me about you not going to any parties until your eighteen like Kaleb.

"That's in two years! Mom that's not fare!"

"Life's not fare Phoebe."

She kissed my forehead and went to get ready for bed.

She left my door open and right across was Kalebs room. I chucked one of my pillows at it. His door didn't open.

I took one of my bobby pins and opened his locked door. He was under his thick black covers.

His room was a mess with clothes covering the floor and empty beer bottles scattered along his dresser.

"Kaleb you snitch!" I jumped on him and he grabbed my legs making me collapse on him. He put me in a head lock and I could feel the blood rushing to my face.

"Okay! Sorry!" I barely choked out. I tapped on his arm indicating I give up. He let me go and I got up away from him.

"You jerk!"

He chuckled and turned over in his bed.

"Phoebe go back to sleep. It is way too early!"

"I can't when Summer hasn't called me back or texted me. I'm worried, can you give me Ryan's number?"

"Pheebs can we please handle this later?"

"Ugh fine!"

I stormed back into my room and slammed the door causing a scene.

My weekend was going to be boring without Summer. Today was a pajama day. I didn't change out of Ryan's shirt and I sat watching TV. Eventually when it was about to set my mom left for work leaving Kaleb in charge. Kaleb came running down the stairs and sitting on me squishing me into the couch.

"Get off fat ass!" I yelled.

"No can do sissy."

"Don't call me that!"

He got off me and walked into the kitchen.

"Dillon and Ryan are coming over to play COD so you have to go play dolls in your room."

"I'm not five!"

"Well find something else to do. You had the TV all day and take Ryan's shirt off!"

I left upstairs to go take a shower. The warm water felt good on my skin. I hoped the water would wash off the filth I did last night. I couldn't believe I was about to lose my virginity. The guy was a player, but popular. I figured it would make me popular too if I slept with him. I wonder what Kaleb and Dillon ended up doing to him.

After my shower I got dressed and applied makeup. I could hear the boys down stairs playing their stupid video game. I turned on my radio in my room blasting oops I did it again by Brittany spears. As quietly as I could I opened up my window and started climbed down the water drain.

"Going somewhere?"

I looked down and saw Ryan, Dillon, and Kaleb all grinning up at me.

I rolled my eyes and jumped down. I expected slight impact from the ground, but arms wrapped around me gently so my feet never touched the ground. I looked up to see Dillon had grabbed me. He gently set me down. I noticed Ryan was glaring at Dillion.

"You're grounded, now get back inside." Kaleb said.

"Yes dad!"

"Ohhhhh" Kaleb's friends said in unison.

"Don't encourage her." Kaleb said. I felt Kaleb's strong grip on my shoulders pushing towards the inside of the house. Once inside Kaleb sat me down on one of the kitchen chairs and Ryan and Dillon duck taped me to it and put a piece over my mouth. They moved me into the living room and put me right in front of the TV. They forced me to watch them play COD and I squirmed trying to break free of the tape, but it was no use.

Somehow the noises of gun shots put me to sleep.

I woke up to my mom shaking me.

"Phoebe? Did you honestly stay on this couch the entire day?"

I looked around, the chair and tape were gone and I was on my couch with a fuzzy blue blanket wrapped around me.

"That little jerk! Kaleb taped me to a chair the whole night, forcing me to watch him and his friends play video games!"

"Phoebe calm down. You're probably just tired. Did your father call you?"

"What? No! You're seriously going to defend him?"

"Phoebe phone! Now!"

I looked at my phone that was on the side table. I had one missed call from my dad at eleven. My mom made a mad face and held out her hand. I gave her the phone.

"Thank you. Now you will get this back when you learn to listen, your brother told me he caught you sneaking out."

"Mom! I just wanted to see if Summer was okay. I feel like something bad happened to her."

"Phoebe I'm tired and your tired, get your butt up those stairs and get some sleep, before I ground you for two months."

I rolled my eyes, but listened.