There are absolutely no characters under the age of 18. All sexual acts take place between adults over the age of 18 years.
Jack and Phoebe 11
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"Pip Pip Pip, Good morning, it is seven am on Thursday the 28th of September, and you're listening to BBC Radio Four, the headlines today are."
Slap!
Jack rolled out of bed and grabbed his towel. He showered, uneventfully, dressed and went downstairs for breakfast. Maggie was sitting at the kitchen table picking at a slice of toast and staring out of the window.
"Morning Maggie!" he said, in his usual chipper tone.
Maggie ignored him and continued staring.
"Okay," he added, "morning Mum!"
"Morning Dear," replied his mother, "you sound like you had a good night's sleep!"
"I did, thanks!" he replied, "slept like a baby!"
He laughed and picked up a slice of toast, covered it in too much Marmite and then, toast in mouth, headed for the front door.
"Bye Dear!" his mother shouted after him, "have a good day!"
He waved his hand in the general direction of his mother and then closed the front door behind himself. He arrived at the bus stop and five minutes later his bus arrived. Very soon he found himself standing at the front door of the Harrington family home. He rang the doorbell and Phoebe answered and ushered him inside.
"It's just us here," she said, her tone flatter than he was used to, "we have some time before we have to be at school, let's sit down."
Jack was confused, Phoebe was not behaving in the manner he was used to when they found that they had the house to themselves. He looked at her and noticed that she had done the buttons on her blouse up wrong, she'd skipped the button just under the collar button and so it hung wrongly. Her tie was crooked and the thin end hung lower than the thick. Her hair was definitely not in her usual impeccable style, it appeared to be on the verge of escaping her hairband and Jack was not entirely sure she'd brushed it at all. Jack felt a wave of anxiety overtake the happy contentment he had felt since waking up, he suddenly felt like something terrible was about to happen to them.
Phoebe directed Jack to the sofa and sat beside him, she took his hand, pulled it into her lap and sandwiched it between her hands.
"Jack, we need to talk," she began, "I've been up all night thinking about what happened yesterday."
Jack was confused, he had no idea what she was talking about. He racked his brain for something he might have said or done that could have upset her, but he came up blank. He felt his heart start to race, he knew what she was about to say.
"I'm sorry!" he blurted out, desperate to get ahead of whatever she was about to say, "I'm sorry!"
Phoebe looked at him, taken by surprise by his outburst, thoroughly confused by it and as a result lost her train of thought. She looked at him, saw the way his eyes were wide, and felt his pulse in his hand racing. Phoebe leaned across and kissed his cheek gently.
"It's nothing you've done, Jack," she said with a small smile, "it's my fault."
Jack's fear was not assuaged, and his grip on Phoebe's hand tightened involuntarily.
"I don't care what you've done, Phebes," Jack pleaded, "it doesn't matter to me! Anything you've done, we can fix - I can fix!"
"It's not like that Jack," she replied, kissing his hand, "I lied to you yesterday. I did catch up with Aria at lunch, I spoke to her and she said some things."
"What did she say?" asked Jack, confused as to how any of this mattered.
"She demanded I do something, something strange."
"Oh?"
"She demanded that I kneel down and kiss her feet."
"That's weird."
"I know, I was thoroughly confused by it, and left her before it got any weirder."
"Why did she want you to do that?"
"I don't know, but..." Phoebe looked away from Jack, her eyes downcast, fixed on the floor in front of the sofa, "I, um, I think, I think I wanted to do it."
Phoebe pulled her hands away from Jack's and covered her face.
"I don't know what has happened to me, but when she demanded that I kneel in front of her, I hesitated for a fraction of a second before refusing. I remembered what we did, how thrilling it was on Saturday, when you and Stephanie tied me to the bed and how overwhelming it had been to give control over to you two and for a second I wanted to feel that way again."