Angel (H.S AU)

Chapter Three

"Are you excited for next week honey?" My mother aks, in reference to working at the health clinic next week. I look over at her, to see if she is actually serious. She knows how I feel about this, and she knows I don't want ot do it. It's friday now, so I have this weekend left and I start on monday, unfortunately.

"What do you think, mum?" I say, sarcastically. I get up from the couch. "Alexa." My mother says. I turn back to her and see a frown set in place on her forehead.

"What mum? You know I don't want to this!" I riase my voice, recieving a hurt look from my mother. "I'm going to bed." I mumble, going to my bedroom.

"Sweet dreams!" I slam my door shut for what feels like the hundreth time this week. I never should've come home, if I stayed at my house this week, would they have made me do this? Probably not. That'd be right though, I've been so lucky with everything I've done for a while now, it was about time for some bad luck to come along.

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"Wake up, Alexa! Work starts today!" My mother says, shaking my shoulders. I open my eyes to find both of my parents standing above me, huge smiles covering their faces. Today is monday. I start at the clinic today. I pull the covers over my head, avoiding getting out of bed.

I hear my parents laugh, and they pull the covers off. "Come on, you need to get up!" What would happen, if I simply don't get out of bed? I feel my mothers hand grab my wrist, pulling me up. That's what will happen.

I stand up, rubbing my eyes. My mum has laid an outfit on my bed. A plain t-shirt and light coloured jeans. Lovely. I turn to my parents, and they are just standing there, smiling. "Aren't you excited, Alexa?" My dad says.

I look at them as if they're crazy. "No..?" They roll their eyes. "Get dressed then come down for breakfast. You're going to have a great day." I nod, and they leave my room. I put on the clothes laid out for me and examine my appearance in the mirror.

I look... like a nurse I guess. Not falttering, just boring. I sigh, and put my hair up. I add a necklace and the outfit slightly improves, but hardly. I grab my phone to check the time, and see a text from Megan.

*Hope your day goes alright.* I smile, and reply with a simple thankyou and then go downstairs for breakfast. The fact that my parents are treating this like some huge day in my life makes me sick. I can just tell what they're thinking, 'Alexa finally has a real job, she's finally doing something with her life.'

I slump down in the chair and a stack of pancakes are put on my plate. I put syrup on them and try to eat as much as I can, but my appetite is not high today. I feel sick literlaly just thinking about everything. Firstly, I don't want to do this. Secondly, I am nervous as hell, because I nothing about Mental Health. I am a model, what on earth made my parents think I could do this?

"Thanks for breakfast, I'm going to go now." I say, putting my plate in the sink. I grab out my phone and put the address for the clinic into the directory. "Have a great day." My mother says, giving me a hug. I try to smile, but I am honestly not in the mood.

"I'll try, Bye." I head out to my car and get in. I sit in the drivers seat and take a deep breath. This is actually happening, this is crazy. I have literally no idea what I'm going to be doing, I just know that one of my mothers friends works there, and will be helping me out. I was a little more relived to hear that, but I'm still freaking out nonetheless.

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"Hi, I'm Alexa." I say to the lady at the front desk. She smiles, "Oh, Alexa! Lovely to meet you. I'm Natalie." She comes out from behind her desk, "If you come with me, I'll take you to Mrs Jones office." That's the lady who's freinds with my mum. I nod and follow her down a long white hallway.