**Harper’s POV**
Once all my belongings are in my room, Archie leaves to go unpack his stuff while I unpack mine. A large white envelope, with my name scrawled across the front, is on top of one of my boxes.
Inside, I find my academy issue phone and some information booklets with a campus map, class schedules, and more importantly, dining hall opening times. My stomach nimbles as I look over the sample menu. I haven’t eaten since yesterday and I still have two hours before the dining hall opens for dinner.
The moment I turn on my phone, it dings with multiple notifications. Most of them are welcome messages, my personalised timetable and a guide on how to use the phone. I’m please to see that it’s already loaded with contacts and I quickly scroll through the list of names stored there. It appears to be not only academy staff, but students too. Which is confirmed when I find Dillon’s contact information. I click on his contact card and then hit the message button.
Harper Marshall: Hey handsome.
I text, but I know he will still be in class, and won’t be able to respond. I find Demi’s contact and message her too, apologising for leaving her and wishing her and her new bonds well.
Next I search for Sage’s contact, but she is not listed. I guess I’ll have to wait for her to contact me. I hope she is not angry with me for what happened.
With a sigh, I toss the phone on my bed and start with the task of putting my clothes away. The wardrobe is a walk in one that doubles as a dressing room.
I hang most of my clothes on the rails provided and I shove my pyjamas and socks into the drawers. A flush of embarrassment washes over me as I look at my underwear. My panties are all plain cotton. Are they acceptable for my age or will my bonds expect something more raunchy?
I hid the underwear under my pyjamas, just in case anyone comes snooping around in here, and then I reach for my personal phone to ask my mum for underwear advice, but then I cringe. I don’t want to talk to her about underwear to impress my bonds. Instead, I message her and ask how I get new clothes.
Previously, I have bought all my stuff on shopping trips with her, but this feels like something I need to do alone. I’m just not sure how I’m supposed to fund such things. I’m aware the academy supplies everything, but surely they don’t provide our underwear too.
“Almost done in here?” Archie calls from the doorway of my room and I quickly slam the underwear drawer shut and shove my phone into my pocket.
“My clothes are done, but I still have my other stuff to unpack. Have you finished already?”
“Yeah, I didn’t bring very much,” he shrugs as I walk out of the wardrobe.
“My bedroom at home is being given to Bella, so I brought everything I own.”
“I figured.” he nods towards the stacked boxes he’d helped me carry in. “I read in the welcome pack that we are supposed to go down to the uniform shop to collect our uniform. Do you want to go now?”
I look around at my belongings that I still need to put away and shrug. They can wait until later. “Sure, let’s go.”
We walk down the stairs and find the communal area almost empty now. My mum and Luke are nowhere in sight, and I assume they have gone to assign rooms elsewhere.
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Chapter 327
“According to the map, the uniform shop is close to the dining hall,” Archie says as we walk out of the front door of our building.
We find the main building easily and then follow our noses towards the dining hall. I’m not sure what they are preparing for our dinner, but it smells amazing and my stomach grumbles loud enough that Archie hears it.
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